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[froodle]

So, today the vile and filthy Hannah forced me to go see the new Pride and Prejudice with her so that she might indulge her unwholesome lust for Keira Knightley's angry tadpole-shaped eyebrows. And... it was terrible. Oh, don't get me wrong, Judi Dench and Donald Sutherland were every bit as awesome as usual, but Keira Knightley just really needs to be killed, or at least forced never to act again on pain of being killed, and Matthew MacFadyen is less "aloof and aristocratic Mr Darcy" and more "sweet and socially inept Angel". I swear, at one point he actually makes David Boreanaz's patent "please don't seduce me" face. And while God knows I love socially retarded!Angel, MacFadyen doesn't even have the decency to do the Angel dance or turn into a puppet, and therefore it makes me sad.

And that's not even the worst of it. Oh no. Prizes go to Rosamund Pike for the blandest, most insipid Jane ever to make it to film (yes, I'm biased, and yes, I love Susannah Harker and wish to bear her babies, but seriously, Pike is quite possibly more irritating than Keira "Angry Tadpoles of DOOM" Knightley), and to Simon Woods for one creepy-ass interpretation of Charles Bingley. I'm serious, every time he smiles at Jane, he's totally imagining peeling her skin off with a knife and stitching a suit out of it. Not to mention, he has the stupidest hairstyle imaginable and he's ginger.

However, my suffering was not in vain, since I may now force Hannah to go see one movie I want to see that she doesn't. It was going to be Serenity, but after suffering through that travesty of justice, I feel that she no longer deserves Space Pirate Cowboy Opera in the style of Joss Whedon, and am thinking of dragging her to see Land of the Dead. Because zombies are frickin' awesome, and also Serenity isn't out for ages yet.

And now, I go to watch The Importance of Being Earnest and Chocolat. Feel the Judi Dench love!

Comments

[froodle]

Words cannot describe how awful it was. But if they could, they would be words like "rape", "violently" and "with a chainsaw". Oh, and possibly "lava".

Rupert Everett is one of those actors who's always enjoyable, even when the rest of the film is a cesspool of badness. Having said that, I really enjoy the 2002 version of Earnest, strange musical interludes and all.

And also: Stage Beauty icon squee!

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

He's divine as Lord Goring, but I just find his Algernon doesn't quite work. If Parker hadn't been so busy trying to up the sex in that film, it would have been a damn sight better. Wilde is subtle, you can't do him with a sledge-hammer.

Austen with lava. Now there's an idea. I'm still longing for a really good version of Mansfield Park, like the old BBC one only with a production budget of more than £4.50 this time and actors who look young enough for the parts, not to mention children who can act and a slightly less stoned Lady B. Apart from that, it was great, beautiful script, minor characters brought out well, and the incest observed really nicely.

The icon's from poisoninjest, who is the creator of many a marvellous icon.

[froodle]

And you have Death and the Penguin iconage! I think I must marry you now.

Having watched the 1999 movie, I'm convinced that Mansfield Park is Star Wars. Because Lady Bertram? Is Yoda. For serious. "A puppy you shall have, young Fanakin, hmm, yes."

[elettaria.livejournal.com]

I've not seen either the 1999 film or Star Wars, but I am definitely intrigued. I think the old BBC one was portraying her as a laudanum addict, judging from the way she acted. They were certainly having fun with the dodgy stuff beneath the surface, all the weird power relationships and - sorry, I'm back to the incest again, but it really fascinates me in that text. Fanny Price was played as the neurotic weirdo she is, I don't know why so many people think she's a boring perfect creature.

I know I'm bisexual and this isn't meant to matter, but before I consider your proposal of marriage, kind sir/madam, would you mind telling me what your gender is? If you're a gay man, you're in.

The Misha icon I made myself, on the suggestion of, er, someone who quoted suitable bits from the text when I couldn't think of what to put in. A friend of mine has borrowed it and is now on Penguin Lost thanks to that icon, so I feel I've done my duty in the world.