I am absolutely addicted to this version of Jane Eyre, having watched it another 4 times this last week alone! And I'm not ashamed to admit it either! It's perfect in every way and there's nothing left out of importance. O.K. it could have done with showing more of the young Jane at Lowood Institution, but it wasn't a necessity.
This tells the story of Jane Eyre, a poor, downtrodden girl who after becoming an orphan as a baby, is sent to live with her Aunt and Uncle and their children. The Uncle passes away and Jane is left to the cruelty of her Aunt and cousins. After 10 years of bad treatment, her Aunt sends her to Lowood School and turns her back on Jane. Jane stays at Lowood for eight years when she finally manages to escape ... Read More:
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A typical example of staying around too long,same old plots but with a much older Sean Bean.
It really must be time for him to give up before what was a brilliant character becomes a joke.
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The most recent adaption on this dvd is a decade old and the other two are twenty years old and personally i would wait for the fantastic new bbc jane eyre dvd which comes out in february.
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I love Sharpe and Harper. But face it, they're ten years older than in the earlier films. It's doing them a bad turn to pretend otherwise and not to craft the script around that fact. The authors string stereotyped situations with stereotyped villains and bland good guys, a lumpy heroin and a boring femme fatale. Only the enthusiasm of the Indian extras brought some life into it.
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I love this film! Shakespeare converted well into film form is a delight (see Branagh's 'Much Ado' as well) and this film is excellent.
All the characters are note perfect, and there is not a single weak performance amongst them.
Although some scenes are swapped around or merged, that helps to show the cohesion of the plot strands and works extremely well.
Characters have a dark as well as a light side; Sir Toby is a classic funny drunk, but he's also a man who is exploiting Sir Andrew for his money and keeping Maria at arm's length. Mel Smith is absolutely brilliant in the role.
Feste the Clown is a much more tragic figure than the only usually portrayed; a man with a deep melancholy, driven back to Olivia's house for lack of food and ... Read More:
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I had written off Toby Stephens in Die another day as so, so actor and after JaneEyre I was hooked. First I love a classical trained British actor with a fantastic diction and voice to go. Secondly I like the actors cabable of using their facial muscles for expresion, seeing either botox filled or talentless hollywood leading men I was completely off Tv or films. I like the series because it require my live brain cells.I do want after Jane Eyre that Toby had a more central role but the story is about the female lead so it can not help, but it make me wonder that why a director waste a fantastic actor like him when any half decent actor can play that part.
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Exec 1 - So what is popular at the moment?
Exec 2 - Well Shaun of the Dead was really popular
Exec 1 - And so was The Office.....
Exec 2 - What about Hostel? people like scary stuff
Exec 1 - So we should make a horror comedy like Shaun of the Dead?
Exec 2 - but with funny bits like The Office and violence like Hostel
Exec 1 - We'll rake in the dosh
What could possibly go wrong?
Well quite a lot as it happens.
A horror/comedy has to fulfil 2 basic requirements, firstly it has to contain some effective and scary horror, secondly it has to be funny.
This fails on both counts, the attempts at comedy are risible and the horror is just laughable, it's simply badly scripted derivative nonsense. ... Read More:
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with the possible exception of the pitiful 1971 entry 'DIAMONDS are FOREVER', 'DAD' is easily the most ignoble BOND entry in the entire series: certainly the least credible serving of the 21st Century.
The thrills and spills are frequent enough, but it has all been done so many times before [in infinitely more skilled hands] that this epic shambles serves no real purpose beyond forgettable 'popcorn' thrills: this total production is a monumental waste of film-making potential: at best it is a routine, also-ran entry in the BOND canon; --at worst, it is a hackneyed, cliched abomination of pseudo-cinematic confetti.
In order to inject 'new' scope into the tired [at this point] formulae, we are asked to accept as credible the concept of a fully-functioning ... Read More:
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It was an earlier work of Toby Stephens and I did not expect to be that good but it take me completely by suprise. Only a month ago I had seen Jane Eyre and it had converted me to be a dvd collector especially Toby`s work. There were some hit and some misses so I had not my hopes high, but the film was very good, all the performances were brilliant and both thedirection and production were of very high. I recommend to any one who likes a good drama.
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Die Another Day was surprisingly impressive first time round but doesn't hold up well to a second viewing for a number of reasons. The pre-title sequence is particularly strong, and the film is plot-led with a good premise that it explores far more effectively than License to Kill - Bond screws up, gets captured and finds his license to kill revoked and has to go it alone. But to many wrong choices are made in the casting of those both in front of and behind the cameras to do it full justice.
Brosnan is certainly a major problem here, getting lazier in the role far sooner than his predecessors. He takes too much for granted and doesn't seem to be putting much effort into it in the assumption that he's got it down pat, when in reality he's starting to go to seed - certainly he must ... Read More:
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