pride and prejudice new movie!

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trailer here

... looks very exciting but how can we get colin firth and the bbc production out of our heads... good darcy though! liked him in spooks!!!

I think I saw CF on an escalator at Waterloo around the time of A Month In the country (his finest hour?), an experience I still treasure -- even though I interviewed him after P& P and found him truly loathsome.

I've always had a sneaking suspicion he might be a bit loathsome in real life BP - there is something about his flinty little eyes, generally otherwise fit though he was/is.
He's done some rather peevish interviews IIRC about not wanting to be Darcy for the rest of his life, ah, diddums. Whinged all the way to the bank I daresay. I don't ever recall reading anything really warm and bowled-over about him...and I have read a lot about CF
Go on, spill. Loathsome how exactly?

yes bakedpotato, do tell

CF was promoting Nostromo (tedious TV drama, the one where he met his Italian wife). Telling me in some depth about the injuries bruised finger, probably he had incurredin a particularly demanding action sequence.
'In this scene,' he explained, 'I was being garotted. [Pause] Do you know what "garotted" means?'
I nearly cried with disappointment.
Also the fashion team who did his pics said they'd never styled a man who wanted so much makeup. He knew exactly what he wanted done, and in the pics I'm glad to say he looked like Danny La Rue

Nostromo was awful and a ratings disaster as I recall.
So Larry is not the only Darcy to want the slap ladling on then.
I have always despised Sting since he gave an interview in which he professed boredom with stupid little girly Police fans not understanding the allusion to Lolita in "Don't Stand so Close to Me". As I was reading it in Russian for my A Level at the time I would have punched him on the snoot, the patronising twat, if only I could have.
That was it for me and the Police, frankly, and it is so nice to know that the mighty Stuart Maconie thinks Sting is a conceited fool as well.
Oh BP, your fingers must have been itching...

I slapped him in print, Marina .
A few years later, the paper I then worked for (the original thing had been for a glossy) put me forward to interview him not knowing our 'history'.
I heard his PR came back and said, 'Colin says absolutely no way to bakedpotato'

I haven't seen the first but think Colin Firth is gorgeous, however I also think Tom (from Spookks) is GORGEOUS too so can't wait to see this

I haven't seen the first but think Colin Firth is gorgeous, however I also think Tom (from Spookks) is GORGEOUS too so can't wait to see this

That's v interesting bakedpotato, he sounds incredibly obnoxious.

Has anyone actually seen it yet?
Dh and I had agreed to go together, and now he's a bit miffed because I've been invited to go and see it with a group of girlies.
Will it bear seeing twice?

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Has no-one seen it?

Not yet but planning to! Isn't someone a bit rubbish playing Mr Darcy?

Dh has agree to go on Wednesday night. He sorted the Babysitter out as well so that we could go

Ooh, that trailer is most annoying - kept stopping. And the American voice over just doesn't go at all.

Mr Collins isn't weedy enough and Mr Darcy is....well, he's not Colin Firth is he?!

Not sure about Kiera Knightly as Liz Bennett either - not strong enough.

Will still go and see it. From Nov 18th Roisin.

Or is that in the US, Nov 18th??

I've seen it. I thought it was very good if you look at it as just a film. If you compare it to the BBC version it is lacking, but then you can't expect a 2 hour film to have all the plot twists and character foibles in that a 6 hour production. I liked McFadden as Darcy, and Kiera Knightley was a convincing Lizzie. Dh didn't think Donald Sutherland was right as Mr Bennet. Brenda Blethyn was very good. It was very cinematic and some of that could have been cut out in favour of more of the plot. For example Catherine De Burgh (Judi Dench - brilliant) turns up in the middle of the night to confront Lizzie which doesn't happen in the book and was just done for effect. I will still buy it on dvd though

Loved it - yes very different from BBc version but thoroughly enjoyed it especially after reading an article by Deborah Moggach who adapted it in the paper ercently. Won't say anything more in case of spoiling it. MY ice cream was chocloate chunk and rocky road

Would agree it's worth a babysitter... Thought it was just as enjoyable as the BBC version. Really liked the texture of it: the way Lydia looked grubbily hormonal, like a real teenager; the exuberance of the balls.
Loved the way we saw Darcy's character changing. Thought MM did a fine job on him. Both he and MM surprised me; I'd underestimated them as actors.
C de B thrown away a bit, I thought.

I'm going to see it on Thursday night, but can't help feeling that it will just not be P and P without Colin Firth emerging from the lake. God I love that man...

Goodness, I must be obsessed. One of those MMs should have been a KK.

saw it on Saturday...

wasn't expecting to but REALLY loved it. Don't want to spoil it so won't say too much now, but I thought the solution of concentrating really hard on Lizzie and Darcy to the extent of making the other characters quite one-dimensional worked.

the cast is definitely younger than the BBC version, and it's to its benefit in my view.

Heard last week that Emma Thompson had (uncredited) worked on the script. You can tell - the words are good. Sometimes the dramatic scene setting is a bit annoying though.

Thanks all - I'm looking forward to seeing it ... twice!