To ask if you're looking forward to the "re-imagined" Wuthering Heights?

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I can't wait! Jacob Eldori's wig looks a bit dodgy in the first part but he scrubs up well when Heathcliff becomes rich. Not sure about the Yorkshire accent.

Margot Robbie looks a bit too old and glowy to be Cathy but I'm there for the frocks, the interiors and the scenary!

Anyone else going?

Me too. I bought it at 17 on the back of the Kate Bush song. Hated it. Tried on several occasions but every time found something new to.hate about the characters. And Margot Robbie is just wrong.

I don't think adaptations necessarily have to be close to the source text - and it's not as if we're short of WH ones - but that doesn't mean you can go off in any direction you like and expect it to work.

If I had to put a positive spin on things I would say that the book was considered shocking when it came out and maybe a modern adaptation has to do extra things to create the same effect. But it does feel distinctly like it's just being "shocking" for the sake of being shocking, like Saltburn was.

No, not interested, and film makers need to stop stealing classic stories and making their own 'interpretation' - it's just cashing in. They should write their own stories then and give them original names. It's pathetic moneygrabbing.

DH asked if we wanted to go this weekend as he knows how much I love the book and have read it dozens of times but I'm not interested in this at all.

Do I want to see a slightly gothic, toxic, doomed romance with Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in the lead roles with a Charli XCX soundtack? Absolutely.

Do I think it should be Wuthering Heights? Absolutely not.

My H and DC2 are planning to go so I will tag along out of FOMO. I think the only way I can approach this is to forgot the book entirely, and treat it on its own merits. But I am worried that so much has been stripped away from the source material that it's basically going to be Yorkshire based soft porn. Which actually sounds alright when I think about it.

I will watch it but I am not expecting a faithful rendition of the book, but probably a nice spectacle.

I haven't enjoyed any of the film adaptations to be honest, they just have never been quite right. Juliet Binoche and Ralph Fiennes were abysmal, Charlotte Riley was a decent Cathy but Tom Hardy wasn't right for Heathcliff...ironically, the adaptation which I felt captured the vibe of the characters and book best was actually the BBC gender-switch one from about 20 years ago, called Sparkhouse. I felt like that one really captured the wildness of the characters, story and landscape more than any other I have seen.

Anna Calder-Marshall as Cathy and Timothy Dalton as Heathcliff (1970) was the best version I've seen.

It's too long. I'm.not sitting in the cinema that long. Rather watch at home where I can pause if I want too

The problem with the interpretations is they are trying to create a romantic ending out of what is a doomed gothic supernatural story.

its beauty is in its darkness and the destructive awful nature of their love - their love isn’t to be idealised it led to misery

the redemptive story is between Cathy and Hareton (which we shall ignore the first nature cousin of given that Linton is too!)

Heathcliff is not a good man he abuses all of Linton/Hareton/Cathy (jr) he is not the hero of the book at all

Great acting, bad wigs.

Why anyone thought casting a 35 year old blonde Australian as a 17 year old Yorkshire girl was a good idea is baffling.

Exactly this!!!

Can't get past this. Also the reviews are bad. I could see it for free with Odeon Limitless but won't bother!

I dont think any can live up to tha Ralph Fiennes one

I read it several times and my eyes would roll back into my head so far I could see the back of my skull. I almost wisch Heath-bloody-cliff woul roam the countryside murdering them all one by one. At least there would be something to look forward to.

It looks like a bad parody. Like others have said, Heathcliff is a violent arsehole, not a romantic hero. And the less said about the casting, the better!

Read the book when I was about 14 and watched the film with Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier.

That was enough for me.

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I think part of the problem for me was that I first read it in my 30s and was under the misapprehension they were doomed lovers - but they were just awful, awful people and I was thoroughly depressed by it.

I think with the book it kind of depends what you are expecting - so many do seem to think of it as a romance as a love story kind of like Pride and Prejudice

but the Brontë sisters are Regency writers, they aren’t time of Bridgerton and the majority of the 18th Century

they are very much gothic novels and Wuthering Heights isn’t a pure gothic romance it has a lot of gothic horror in it with huge amounts of supernatural and ghostly elements

it is a Victorian novel and the Victorian times were not a great time to live in across the board and the fiction of this time reflects that

Yes, I think the fact that all this awful stuff happens to most of them by the age of 19/20 reflects that!

100% will avoid like the plague

I think Jacob Elordi is well cast. The way Healthcliff is described in the book doesn't suggest that he is black or Asian. He is described as a swarthy 'gypsy', so someone of Basque descent is pretty on the mark. Margot Robbie is terrible for this role though. I think if you're going to go so off-piste in your interpretation why not just write a new story?

I read the book as a kid. I remember a lot of death (Catherine dies halfway through btw) and a lot of obsession, punishment and suffering. There's no love (apart from as children) and no sex as far as i remember. I guess they've changed the story a lot. What an odd story to choose for a valentine's release.

It’s not Wuthering Heights, this film should not have used the name, it looks appalling. Casting and costumes are wrong, Cathy is not blonde, or the age of the actress, it’s all wrong.

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