I'm a mutant who isn't all that fond of that version (it's generally everyone's favorite). It has some great moments and it is a lot closer to the book than many others, but it also throws in gratuitous things, like the bit about Darcy taking a dip just before he sees Elizabeth again. It makes that whole scene come across less as "I have learned more about your character and have grown to like you" and a little too "Now that I've seen your package I'm reassessing." It's the best, though, although I have a sneaking fondness for many aspects of the Kiera one.
I like the little bits that the Greer version tosses in of Eliza dinging Darcy (and also the new bit about Bingley setting down his sister for laughing at the Bennett disgrace) but I don't like the unexpected turnabout of Lady Catherine.
I think Kiera makes a good Elizabeth because she's all fine eyes and not a particularly stylish face or figure and that movie did well with showing the different social statuses, but they made an utter mess of some of the scenes that they seem to have reset just because they could.
and I like the singing in Bride and Prejudice, even though the trite lyrics are an utter offense to Austen
*sigh* Basically, my perfect version hasn't been made yet, although I do rather wish I could take all of them and throw them in a blender and pick out the good bits.
And then there was something done in the 80s that managed to get all the words and NONE of the humor at all. *facepalm*
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I like the little bits that the Greer version tosses in of Eliza dinging Darcy (and also the new bit about Bingley setting down his sister for laughing at the Bennett disgrace) but I don't like the unexpected turnabout of Lady Catherine.
I think Kiera makes a good Elizabeth because she's all fine eyes and not a particularly stylish face or figure and that movie did well with showing the different social statuses, but they made an utter mess of some of the scenes that they seem to have reset just because they could.
and I like the singing in Bride and Prejudice, even though the trite lyrics are an utter offense to Austen*sigh* Basically, my perfect version hasn't been made yet, although I do rather wish I could take all of them and throw them in a blender and pick out the good bits.
And then there was something done in the 80s that managed to get all the words and NONE of the humor at all. *facepalm*