Yeah, after seeing the trailer, I said outright that I had no plans on seeing it in the theatre. I probably would have been quite content not to see it at all, but a few people (mostly on fandom_wank) accused me of being small minded and unimaginative for stating flat out that I wouldn't see it. So, because I am an open-minded person, and felt there was a possibility that I would be pleasantly surprised, I put it in our Netflix queue.
I have never been so glad that I did not purchase a movie.
The pacing in the theatric version was too hectic -- you don't care about any of the characters! You don't really get to KNOW Lydia, and so you really don't care when it comes out that she ran away. You don't CARE about any of them, Elizabeth included and...
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I just realized they cut out one of my favorite parts of the novel! The bit where Darcy tells Caroline he's meditating on the virtues of a set of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman, and then LATER, when Lizzy shows up all muddy from her walk to Netherfield, Caroline's all, "And what do you think of her 'fine eyes' now?" And Darcy's all, "They were made brighter by the exercise."
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I have never been so glad that I did not purchase a movie.
The pacing in the theatric version was too hectic -- you don't care about any of the characters! You don't really get to KNOW Lydia, and so you really don't care when it comes out that she ran away. You don't CARE about any of them, Elizabeth included and...
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I just realized they cut out one of my favorite parts of the novel! The bit where Darcy tells Caroline he's meditating on the virtues of a set of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman, and then LATER, when Lizzy shows up all muddy from her walk to Netherfield, Caroline's all, "And what do you think of her 'fine eyes' now?" And Darcy's all, "They were made brighter by the exercise."
*cry*