Robin, I did like just about all the acting -- and I think Brenda Blethyn did a particularly fine job, possibly because Mrs. Bennet is so hopelessly un-self-aware. She's never trying to be witty, she's comical even when she's serious, and so this production's Extra-Serious Seriousness didn't cripple her performance the way it did nearly everyone else's; Blethyn was grounded and comic at once, and, yeah, nicely connected with her husband.

It just really bugged to see so many fine performances weirdly hamstrung (oh, the poor actor playing Mr. Collins, who did a fine job but who was almost unwatchable -- a Mr. Collins who can't be laughed at is unbearable).

I just saw The Island. It wasn't that bad, actually. For the first half, it's a pretty interesting dystopian cloning movie, and for the second half, a lot of stuff blows up. Win-win!

I agree. I think my ideal P&P would be Blethyn's Mrs. Bennet in the Firth/Ehle production.

(oh, the poor actor playing Mr. Collins, who did a fine job but who was almost unwatchable

Ah, the new dethhppicable governor in PotC: Dead Man's Chest.

JZ just made me so happy that I never saw that P&P.

We saw ''The Good Shepherd'' last night. I really hated it. It seemed so pointless, and it bored me. If I hadn't been with 4 other people, I would have left after the first hour, and I seriously considered going out into the lobby to wait for them a few times.

::goes away to take Pride and Prejudice out of NetFlix queue::

Don't do it! Some of us liked it quite a bit. Well, some of me, anyway. You should at least give it a whirl.

(Of course, I can barely abide Austen's writing style and generally don't feel any emotional interest in her characters, so perhaps my liking he movie should be read as a discouragement to Austen lovers.)

I want to go to a Zeppelin Party!

If it has Keira Knightley and (an uncredited) Alan Cumming in it it can't be all bad.

Even badly done Austin is worth watching. I had lots of gripes but I still watched the film three times (once with the commentary).

I love a lot of bad movies just for the pretty (see Bram Stoker's Dracula, for instance) so I probaby will watch P&P at some point. JZ was so persuasive, though! And one of my biggest peeves is changing plot points for no good reason whatsoever.

I watched part of Elizabeth on cable the other day, and it was just ... for one thing, she knew Dudley was married! She was probably at the wedding! There were so many stupid changes to Actual Historical Facts that it made me very cranky.