Reviews of Pride & Prejudice

casts was so amazing :)

Posted : 1 month, 3 weeks ago on 9 July 2008 09:15 (A review of Pride & Prejudice)

i would really commend the director for picking such a awesome cast for the movie. Matthew Macfadyen and Kiera Knightley seemed like the perfect match. this is one of my favorite movies.

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Pride & Prejudice

Posted : 1 month, 4 weeks ago on 1 July 2008 03:03 (A review of Pride & Prejudice)

Visual romanticism and the story that launched a thousand romantic comedies. Austen's is still the best of the bunch since the characters actually seem realistic, act like real people would, and develop their relationship in a naturalistic manner. Knightley doesn't play Elizabeth Bennett as a proto-feminist, which is good, but does give her a modern and stubborn edge that very obviously shows why any man would be fascinated by her. McFayden might not be classically handsome, but there's something about his unkempt charm that makes him the most swoon worthy Mr. Darcy ever. Let's just be honest here...they're the most sexilicious versions of these characters ever.

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Pride & Prejudice review

Posted : 4 months, 3 weeks ago on 10 April 2008 06:04 (A review of Pride & Prejudice)

Absolutely beautiful, amazing! One of my top 5 favorite videos ^_^

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Oh wow, it was actually not that bad

Posted : 5 months, 3 weeks ago on 5 March 2008 10:30 (A review of Pride & Prejudice)

I had my reservations when watching, I was not all too fond of Keira Knightley and I didn't see it possible for anyone other than Colin Firth to depict Mr.Darcy but I was pleasantly surprised.

Big disappointment aroused from lack of wet shirt Darcy and no bath scene but I suppose that's fine since it wasn't Colin Firth anyway.

At first I was really hating the movie and kept comparing it to the 1995 BBC mini-series but realizing the futility of that endeavor I gave up and started grooving on the movie for what it was. And once I did that I found myself enjoying it more than I thought I would. It wasn't accurate to the original novel in the sense that it was much more "romanticized" but for today's audience that's to be expected and it's I suppose it was alright for them to pander to our fangirlish wants for a bit.

There's alot of beautiful sweeping scenes of Keira Knightley and the scenery(?) which I pleasantly enjoyed, it was very soothing being accompanied by lovely piano music. I much liked this touch.

But, like I mentioned earlier it was highly romanticized and I'm aware that there were two different endings, and the one I watched, the American one that is, did not bode to well for me. It was too cheesy, even for me, and perhaps I felt it didn't really feel like it belonged.

Another gripe is the immense condensation of events, while I must admit that such is necessary for a film adaptation barely even two hours I was a bit annoyed that the whole Lady Catherine de Bourgh's objection to Elizabeth's marriage wasn't ever formally tied up. Sure she told that b***h off but it's just not possible to conceive a notion that a lady as powerful as that was just about to let her nephew marry Elizabeth just after being told off, I mean seriously, you thought she'd retaliate or something. But I suppose they were short on time, while I appreciate them trying to show Darcy's family's obvious reaction to his liking Elizabeth, their half-hearted way of doing so was not pleasing.

But other than that a splendid little adaptation that left me thoroughly, if not a bit too much, satisfied. Probably not my favorite adaptation of the novel but now I can't say I really hate it.

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Yay for skinny girls with no tits

Posted : 1 year, 2 months ago on 4 June 2007 06:46 (A review of Pride & Prejudice)

A lot of people didn’t like this version of P&P. I thought it was good to finally see young people playing the roles of the sisters and to get to see a bit of the shabbier side of the lives of the Bennett family. It was a perfectly fine adaptation and I thought they were very sensible to leave out Mr Darcy swimming cos who could beat Colin Firth in that white shirt?

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