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[lesbiassparrow]

Last night I gave in and finally watched the Kiera Knightly Pride and Prejudice. I don't have a lot of reactions, beyond that the Bennets were a very grubby family.  I know it is more authentic than shiny clean people, but, still, there was much grubbiness. And pigs in the house at one point.  And I never did work out what Mr. Darcy had done to deserve having that rat take up residence in his hair.

Most of the time I felt that if you wanted to make a gothic love story with the moors and all that, Wuthering Heights is the book you're looking for. Not Pride and Prejudice.  

Despite this I didn't hate it or anything, but it did have the feeling of a film that really hadn't worked out what it was doing at lot of the time.  And Kiera Knightly should be allowed to bash over the head whoever designed the costumes for putting her in some of the most unflattering outfits ever.  

And  tonight I saw X-Men 3

I didn't hate it or anything. And I was actually quite happy that they had put Scott out of his misery. They really never worked out what to do with him in the films, so it was probably best that they got rid of the character.  But that was only the start of an astonishingly high body count - I rather liked that there wasn't anyone you were sure would survive. 

I really liked  Wolverine.  Hugh Jackman has swallowed the series a bit, but I don't have a problem with that, as long as they keep him in leather and have him fight. And I quite liked the fucked upness of the Jean-Wolverine thing that the film had going. But that final scene?  How cruel is it to not have Wolverine's trousers blown off?  And the bit where he was holding her dead body looked like it had been posed using a romance novel cover.  

It also had some great individual scenes and set pieces, but the connecting bits weren't terribly good. And the writing was just awful a lot of the time. People struggled gamely through it, but it was a bit hard not to wince at times.

And thanks, Halle Berry, for responding to Storm having an actual role by managing to 'act'  your way through most of your scenes in much the same way that a rock does. Which is to say, not at all.  

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[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I think they wanted the happy ending without complications? And didn't feel up to the ridicule they'd get for rewriting the Brontes.

But we must be in for a Wuthering Heights soon. There hasn't been a movie one for ages.

[cill-ros.livejournal.com]

How about Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall? There you'd get a happy ending and you'd have an actual, real feminist heroine, so no need to add Extra Feistyness™.
Also, maybe then I can forget the BBC's adaptation. *shudder*

[lesbiassparrow.livejournal.com]

I'd forgotten that one! Was the BBC adaptation that bad? I haven't seen it at all.