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jenrobe
10/12/09

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Please don't tell me we're pretending that the Keira Knightley P&P was anything but horrid. Good casting, but ludicrous directing and completely ridiculous plot changes. It was like Jane let a Bronte sister take over. They find their love! At dawn! In the mist! As opposed to on a walk to Mereton.
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curiousgeorgiana
10/12/09

@jenrobe: I thought we were talking about the BBC remake of Pride and Prejudice.

Though, I'll admit, I love the most recent version. Not really as P&P, but if viewed as a separate movie, it was great.
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JerkoftheMonth
10/12/09

@jenrobe: I'm glad you said it. I HATE, with much venom, the Keira Knightley (gag), Emma Thompson (even though I love her!) atrocity!
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desertbloom79
10/12/09

@jenrobe: But... but... there's a huge difference between staying true to the original material perfectly and staying true to the themes of the story while taking artistic license to make a visually arresting film. I love the book, but the new P&P is sooooo pretty. The use of light, the magnificent long shots (the first scene is *awesome*), and the wonderfully composed soundtrack. I know, I'm just gushing now, and its a matter of opinion, but I love that film from an artistic perspective.
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jenrobe
10/12/09

@desertbloom79: I thought visually it was stunning, but it did not stay at all true to the characters. Plot changes are one thing (and often a necessity) but when you have characters behaving, well, out of character, it just loses all impact. Seriously, the proposal scene where she almost kisses him? Erk.
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jenrobe
10/12/09

@curiousgeorgiana: Hee, I see the BBC one as the one that forevermore will be remade.

Perhaps you're right about viewing the new one as not actually being P&P... it's just a Regency love story.
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laurasaurus
10/12/09

@desertbloom79: I can see that, and artistically it had merit, and thematically yes, but what bothered me was the anachronisms and plain old plot inaccuracies that were just clumsy, like the farm animals running through their house (either make them fallen gentry or farmers, but don't try a weird combination, it seems clumsy), or the corsets (in the Georgian era? Really?), or the part where Bingley says "I've been a complete ass", which never ever ever ever would have happened.
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jenrobe
10/13/09

@laurasaurus: On the corset front, didn't they wear reduced ones under their dresses? Not full Victorian numbers, obviously, but I thought there was a bit of cinching going on.
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Ailatan
10/12/09

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Pride and Prejudice (K. Knightley) was not good, not good at all.
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Rooo sez BISH PLZ
10/12/09

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"And will the soundtrack change?"
LOL'ed so hard I have officially embarrassed myself in public.
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otherginger
10/12/09

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OK, I just read a bit more. Seems Rose will be the Head House Parlormaid (or whatever the female equivalent of Hudson would be) and the show will start in 1936. I suspect we'll cash in on WWII before it's over. Assuming Hudson and Mrs. Bridges are pretty damn old, if not dead, and given how James went out at the end of the original, I assume we will see a lot of Daisy, Edward, Alice, and whatever the littel boy's name was, and perhaps Georgina's children.
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willwriteforfood
10/12/09

@otherginger: Wouldn't the equivalent of Hudson be the housekeeper (which Upstairs Downstairs didn't have)?

On the one hand, I loved this show and would love to see a remake. On the other, it sounds like not so much a remake as a revisitation of the family, just a decade on. I'm not sure how much I want to see it without the original players (Mrs. Bridges and her awesome cooking!) but I do like that someone still appreciates such a wonderful series.

Who's going to be Alistair Cooke, then?
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weakyknee
10/12/09

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Hey now... I like Brideshead Revisited! It's painful, yes, but Jeremy Irons and his voice are in it!* I could listen to him wax philosophic on post-war ennui and sexual longing over a gin fizz for hour after sweet, unending hour.

*this is also the only reason I still watch The Lion King
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BlondeGoddess
10/12/09

@weakyknee: I think you misunderstood. The BR with Jeremy Irons in it is BRILLIANT (yes, it deserves caps). The recent movie adaptation, without Jeremy Irons in it, is not.
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BlondeGoddess
10/12/09

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I was really tiny, but I remenber how I loved it. Georgina was the most beautiful woman I had ever seen! And there was this handsome guy, and didn't he have some sort of tragic lovestory?
As said, I was tiny then.
I hated the butler with a vengeance.
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otherginger
10/12/09

@BlondeGoddess: He could have personified the rise of fascism in England prior to WWII - it was interesting how the characters became iconic as the events of the show changed.

Lesley Anne Down (Georgina) is still very very pretty, BTW.
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BlondeGoddess
10/12/09

@otherginger: To me it felt like he was stuck in Victorian Britain - but I was way too young to pick up on other nuances.
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Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith
06/01/09

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Did I just see a nun on the pommel horse?!
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kityglitr
05/29/09

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Whaaaat? Abysmal? No. This movie is beyond awesome, beyond amazing. I think I've seen it over 100 times, no joke. But, I also think you're right in that we don't need more remakes, we need NEW MOVIES. Even if you're telling me the same essential story, I want it in a new setting with new characters, and I want it to resonate with who I am today, not who I was 10 years ago.
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AuntPenny
05/29/09

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There are a lot of writers and a lot of new ideas, but Hollywood execs aren't buying them. They want blockbusters, not good films. So they keep remaking films that have no business being remade (because they were either 1) perfect or 2) kitschy/dated). I've made the mistake of reading some of the comments on IMBD, and a lot of very young posters will say "So-and-so should be in the remake of Blah Blah." It's like remakes are a part of their lives. It makes me really sad.
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KathrynwithaY loves Joan Collins
05/29/09

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This is just frustrating. Its either remakes or spoof movies these days.

Fine. I'll remake Dance Flick. I know it just came out, but fair is fair. RE-DO.
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EdnasEdibles
05/29/09

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My mom was one of those very "anti-MTV" moms in the 80s and that translated into any movies with modern music titles. So when I finally got to see this she kept trying to teach me lessons during the movie. Like when the party got trashed she said something like "And see? That's not fair because her dad spent a lot of money and now other people are going to have to work late to clean it up and they need to see their families too."

Mom could ruin anything.
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hfree
05/29/09

@EdnasEdibles: And look what they did to his beautiful white hair!
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Hana Maru
05/29/09

@EdnasEdibles: I'm laughing because that's so much like my mother.
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hortense
05/29/09

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I would really like to see SJP in a dance off with Special K from the TKO Crew.
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nyc-caribbean-ragazza
05/29/09

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I'm so depressed.

I don't know why I try. Maybe I should become the Puff Daddy of movies, take mainstream movie and make them "urban".

Terms of Endearment = My Mamma's Sick

Get Shorty = Go Snatch Up lil Man

The Bourne Identity = Junebug Done Lost His Mind
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margareita metermaid
05/29/09

@nyc-caribbean-ragazza: Who's that Girl?= Dam, who is dat bitch? (starring Ciara and Beyonce in the remake).
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nyc-caribbean-ragazza
05/29/09

@margareita metermaid:

I think your and jackiewsu's titles will be in a theatre very soon.

After all the original title for Obsessed was No She Didn't. Seriously.
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Hana Maru
05/29/09

@nyc-caribbean-ragazza: OMG, that's hilarious!
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hortense
05/29/09

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If anyone touches The Legend Of Billie Jean, I will end them. FAIR IS FAIR.
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hippichx sez PEACE PLEASE
05/29/09

In reply to Hollywood Is Out Of Ideas, Part XXXVIII
it's not just the movies either... i heard 90210 is doing so well they are doing a new melrose place? proof that we grew up with such cool shit that they just can't top it for the next generation.

p.s. flight of the navigator was my favorite movie growing up. i guess that makes me more twelve year old boy than twelve year old girl, but i'm okay with it.
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