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2
Jan
2010
Sense & Sensibility Mini-Series
I think that part of the reason that this story has always appealed to me, is that I am Margaret Dashwood. I have two sisters much older than me, and I used to ask their boyfriends idiotic questions, like, are you guys going to get married?
28
Dec
2009
Miss Austen Regrets
Oh how infinitely better Miss Austen Regrets was than Becoming Jane. Taking place later in the authoress’s life, she attempts to sort out her past decisions and give love advice to her niece.
28
Dec
2009
Pride & Prejudice 2005 Movie
I’m going to be bold here: There has been no more perfect Mr. Darcy than Matthew MacFayden.
20
Nov
2009
All the Kings Men: the movie
If you recall, I said of the book All the Kings Men by Robert Penn Warren that it was “an epic, character-driven, beautifully-written, philosophical, sad, political, morally-ambiguous, expertly-foreshadowed, thematic,hard to get immersed in, dramatic, ironic, difficult, sweeping book.”
13
Nov
2009
The Jane Austen Trilogy
I give this three DVD set a solid meh. I espied it at the library and thought I’d give it a whirl for the Everything Austen Challenge. Having watched all 180 minutes of it last night, I want at least 120 of those minutes back.
27
Jul
2009
Mansfield Park (the Movie)
If you take Jane Austen’s book, Mansfield Park, take out the heroine, Fanny Price, and insert Jane from the movie Becoming Jane, you get this film version of Mansfield Park. I’m not saying that that’s a bad thing. It just is what it is.
18
Jul
2009
Into the Wild: The Movie
Points of interest: Emile Hirsch lost 40 lbs for this movie. The soundtrack is not entirely Eddie Veddar, for example there is a scene with (German?) tourists (one only in her underwear the entire scene) in which MC Hammer is playing. And that’s about it. Nothing else.
13
Jul
2009
Persuasion
A few nights ago I watched Persuasion for the Everything Austen Challenge. I didn’t know anything about it going in, except that the love interest was in the navy (Stop it Village People! Get out of my head!).
6
Jul
2009
Becoming Jane
Last week I watched Becoming Jane for Stephanie’s Everything Austen Challenge. I’ll be totally candid in saying that if it weren’t for this challenge, I probably wouldn’t have watched it.
