I need a "general movies icon." This goes on my list of "12 zillion icon ideas to make ASAP" list.

[tzikeh]

So, I saw Jane Eyre yesterday.


Recipe:

1) Cast the perfect Jane (Mia Wasikowska ILU).

2) Fuck up the rest of the movie by removing any and all instances of joy, leaving only the dreary parts;

don't explain (or totally eliminate) important parts of the story;

give other parts of the story explanations that are entirely NOT the explanations in the book;

spend half of the film's two hours showing characters wandering alone, looking around wistfully/apprehensively at nothing in particular, and saying nothing at all.

Bleh. I have no idea why so many reviews are giving it above-average marks. Wasikowska deserved a better adaptation.

A poll!

[Poll #1731116]
In conclusion: Jane Eyre FTW! \o/

Comments

[serrico.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness, I Walked With A Zombie. I found that movie on TCM one morning right at the beginning of the nurse's wander through the wilds with her patient to the beat of distant drums, and had to track it down afterward to watch from the beginning. It has Old Movie Black People Issues all over the place, but that sequence is creepy as hell.

...and it may in fact be the only movie adaptation of Jane Eyre I've ever seen, now that I think about it. Huh.

[tzikeh.livejournal.com]

and it may in fact be the only movie adaptation of Jane Eyre I've ever seen, now that I think about it. Huh.

Oh my God that is the best thing ever.