waste of my time

Rating: 4/10 (3 July 2006)

I love this book, one of my favorite. Love the BBC/ A&E version. It's a direct screenplay of the book. This latest adpatation was just awful. No character development, terrible re-writes of classic scenes. What a waste of my time.
I am horrified that some people out there might have only seen this version of the classic and think that this is the way the book plays out. Sure, the absolute basics are there but so many of the characters are fluffy.
Mr Collins --- doesn't seem such a bad guy in this movie, likewise Wickham is not all that bad of a fellow either. However, read the book and it's a whole another scene. Mr Dacy is so tame, there is no "redemption" of his character in the movie...
Elizabeth Bennett comes off as a flirt, no deepness in her character. The ONLY person I halfway enjoyed in the movie was Lady Catherine, and that because of the actress.
Way to go Holloywood in destroying another great classic. I made myself sit through the entire film, only to watch how much it was destroyed. However, I'm going to pop in the BBC version right now and hope to purge this film from my memory banks.