Provided it was done well.

'Cause Hollywood has done such a great job with sci-fi short stories in the past. *coughJohnnyMnemoniccough* *coughMimsyWeretheBorogoves* *coughASoundofThundercough* *coughHarrisonBergeroncough*

Rewatched Sense and Sensibility last night (Emma Thompson, Kate Winslet) and just cracked up laughing. I'd forgotten it was Alan Rickman playing The Colonel (I'd replaced him with Colin Firth in my head). And then came Imelda Staunton and she's married to House!

I love discovering old movies with people who are new to me. Plus, I'd forgotten how much I adore that movie.

Hugh Laurie is great in that movie.

"It's not five miles, It can't be five miles. I can't believe it!!"

"Try."

And he TOTALLY has a little crush on Elinor when they're leaving to escape Plague o' Marianne.

And then came Imelda Staunton and she's married to House!

I know, I remembered her from that and Peter's Friends when I first heard she was cast as Umbridge, and couldn't imagine. Her character and House's were married in Peter's Friends, too.

But I'd been fighting with people for four years, since Intro to American Cinema freshman year, about Is He Or Isn't He, so I felt nicely vindicated with the director's cut.

I'm confused, not necessarily with what Raq is saying, but in general. Do people still claim that Deckard isn't a replicant since the last director's cut?

And he TOTALLY has a little crush on Elinor when they're leaving to escape Plague o' Marianne.

Oh, he so totally does! His eyes and voice go all soft in that scene, and I started writing backstory fic in my head in which Mr. Palmer had this great unrequited love for Elinor. Laurie and Thompson are close friends, and I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that they dated years ago, and later settled on being friends.

Thompson later married Greg Wise (the hot younger man who played Willoughby) whom she met on the set, and I think that was not long after Kenneth Branaugh dumped her for Helena Bohnam-Carter (who, incidentally, played her sister in Howards End. British film world is so freakin' incestuous.)

Wow, I have a lot of useless information in my head.

I hear Ang Lee's new movie, Lust, Caution, is not very good, which is sad-making. I'll of course go see it nevertheless, because it has Tony Leung.

Naked Tony Leung.

The DVDs of "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" include, in the extras, the whole Cambridge review thing that Fry, Laurie, Thompson, and others were involved in (including Tony Slattery, if you want to get obscure-Brit). There's a hysterical sketch with Thompson and Fry as Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning.

Discovering Emma Thompson was originally (and still can be) a comedian was a jolt to my understanding of acting, lo these many years ago. I think I hurt something that time she guested on Ellen (the sitcom, not the talk show) and "came out" about the fact that she was actually from Ohio. Complete with annoyingly nasal midland accent.

(She also tearfully confessed that Sir Laurence Olivier had been born in Arkansas, and had been putting on that plummy accent all his life.)

Speaking of Jane Austen:

Singer Lily Allen is set to take on an acting role in a spoof movie version of 'Pride and Prejudice'.

According to The Sun, Allen will play the part of Lydia Bennett, with comedian and television presenter Russell Brand set to play her lover George Wickham.

Reports also claim that Stephen Fry will take on the role of Mr Bennett, with Carrie Fisher set to play the part of his wife.