I went and saw Pride & Prejudice with my friend Em yesterday. It was quite good, particularly the cinematography. Lots of beautiful scenes.
It was also a bit more romantic than the book. When I first saw Donald Sutherland on screen as Mr. Bennet, I went "huh…?" But he was actually quite good in the role. Brenda Blethyn was wonderfully obnoxious as Mrs. Bennet. (Heh, she has the same birthday as me, except for the year. I’m not quite that old.) Keira Knightley was actually pretty good as Elizabeth. As much as I like Bend It Like Beckham, I was concerned with whether she could actually act. She’s also much better looking as a long-haired brunette.
I was wondering where I had seen the actress who plays Caroline Bingley, Kelly Reilly, before. Turns out she played Wendy in L’ Auberge espagnole, which I even own.
Last night I rented the movie, Trixie, with Emily Watson. Unfortunately, the disc was filthy. My DVD player wouldn’t even recognize the wide screen side. The "normal" side was heavily pixelated during the opening credits but it settled down by the time the movie started. So I settled in to a very quirky little movie. But the worse was yet to come. About 20 minutes from the end, the disc just got stupid. The sound started dropping out, it would pause itself, or it was heavily pixelated. So much so that I was unable to finish watching it. <grrr>
While it is not the best movie I have seen it is nowhere near as bad as the review at imdb.
Emily Watson also plays Lena in
Punch-Drunk Love. I liked her in that, so I wanted to see her in some other films. Thus, Trixie. Trixie is an "eccentric, unconventional woman whose naive aspirations to rise from
her job as a security guard to full-fledged private eye lead her into a
tangled mess." She also has a habit of mangling the English language, primarily by mixing metaphors, for example, "Even if I am between a rock and the deep blue sea, I am gonna fix this thing."
My favorite line from the movie, which has finally clued me in to "what I want to be when I grow up," comes when she is introducing herself to the corrupt Senator. "I’m a private defective."
Hehehe. Private defective. Now I have a real aspiration in life! I’m so very lucky I wasn’t drinking or eating when she spit that line out. Private defective. The heck with knowing how it ends, I’ll rewatch it (from another source) just to hear her say that line again.
Very quirky, but very spotty. I wish she wasn’t chewing gum throughout the movie. She is a very good looking woman, but not with a mouthful of gum.
I took it back today and they politely gave me a free rental to make up for it. I took a real quick look around and grabbed god is great, AND I’M NOT with Audrey Tautou. I’m going to watch that after dinner.
Well, it was OK, but not great. It can’t be all bad seeing as it opened with Ella doing Porter’s "What Is This Thing Called Love."
I’ve watched a few others lately, but they’re all things I already owned.