*blech*

[ksmith]

I completely agree with this. Read the nested article as well.

Wasn't Keira Knightley the same actress who played the leather bikini version of Guinivere? Is it her career plan to butcher female icons?

Darcy and Elizabeth kissing? No, no, no...

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[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

More discussion here:

http://justinelarbalestier.com/blog/?p=195#comments

Some folks maintain that while the trailer indeed stinks, the movie itself is good.

I doubt I'll see it. My fave version of P&P is the 80s David-Rintoul-as-Darcy version, and yes, I preferred him to Colin Firth. I like Colin Firth, but I'll take tall, dark, and patrician over blond and slightly blowsy any day. But that's just me.

I also hated the on-the-nose moralizing at the end of the Firth version. We have already figured out how everyone will end up, as well as what marriage means. We don't need it shoved down our throats with a plunger.

Another favorite performance in the Rintoul version was Barbara Shelley as Aunt Gardiner. She defined that character for me--an island of common sense with a voice like warm maple syrup.