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Pooh, I was excited to see this in theatres but obviously...Where are you streaming it from?
Linda Abhors the New GR Design wrote: "Pooh, I was excited to see this in theatres but obviously...Where are you streaming it from?"
We streamed it from Fios On Demand. Amazon Prime also has it.
Cool! Thanks! I've not used video from Amazon yet
We love our Amazon Prime video. I also added a trial of Acorn Media. I've seen MOST of the British shows I want to watch but I found a few new ones I haven't seen yet. Then I'll add a trial of BritBox to watch some Mary Berry.
Yeah, if I have Prime, anyway, this would be a good time. As soon as this lifts, I'm gonna get a smart (and yes, Marie, bigger!) TV.
Our TV from 2012 had Amazon and Netflix when we bought it but now it doesn't support those good apps anymore and neither does the GoogleTV at the other house so my dad got a ChromeCast device for that house. He brought it home and we love it. I just watched Pride and Prejudice: the musical, a livestream premiere. I want to keep the ChromeCast here so I can keep watching stuff but I think they'll bring it back to the beach house over the summer or the kids will fuss when they can't watch their Netflix and YouTube.
Lol, My niece always says her children aren't spoiled and she doesn't let them watch a lot of TV. When they came here and I had cable and could not dial up paw patrol when the four-year-old wanted me to dial up paw patrol it wasn't A happy moment. I think she like many young people today does not believe that Netflix's TV (even though she's in her 40s).Thanks for the tips. As you know, I'm still rocking the same TV I brought with me when I moved here 20 years ago. And the remote was lost long ago in Madison, so if I don't have the cable Box, then I have to get up and manually change the channel and lower the volume every time those freaking loud commercials come on. Time to just get a larger one. so that I
can actually read
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the room, lol
The men, however, were lacking. Josh O'Connor (Larry Durrell) as Mr. Elton is perfect! He was funny, smarmy and an foppish. Mr. Knightley and Frank Churchill were terribly miscast. Since when is Mr. Knightley an emotional dandy? Those shirt points were way too high for a country gentleman who actually oversees management of his estate, walks across fields, etc. The actor was wooden and didn't have any chemistry with his leading lady. Frank Churchill cut got down in size to a minor character. I was disappointed they cut out the parts where Jane Fairfax is upset by Frank and Emma's flirting and how she was going to sell herself in the governess trade. Cutting that out ruined Frank Churchill's plot and Emma's growth.
Mr. Knightley was awful. He's some weird, emo dude falling on the floor in angst filled fits and running around like a maniac. His chemistry with Emma is next to none and he has lost his playful sense of humor. I didn't find him very attractive. Johnny Lee Miller is my Mr. Knightley of choice!
Mr. Woodhouse, hypochondriac, is very spritely for an invalid! Standing straight, jumping down stairs, going to weddings-that's not Jane Austen's Mr. Woodhouse. I love Bill Nighy but he's not Mr. Woodhouse. The real Mr. Woodhouse is a semi-invalid who fears everything. He doesn't even attend "poor Miss Taylor's" wedding.
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I also felt they cut too much about Miss Bates, her garrulousness and her poverty. She's very fashionably dressed for an impoverished spinster!
The twist at the end with Harriet was stupid and unrealistic.
The little gestures are needed like Mr. Knightley bringing Emma's hand to his heart.
The scenery, the houses, the women's clothes were all EXQUISITE! Emma's pink spencer and some of her other gowns were copies of actual period pieces. The men's costumes were not so great.
What was especially nice about the costumes is that the underpinnings are correct as well and shown on screen. The same with nightwear. It's nice to see the characters are real flesh and blood people who wear underwear and nightgowns and put their hair in curl rags. Emma's perfection is not that of a carved statue. It takes work.
The music was an odd, eclectic mix of period classical music and noisy folk tunes that may be appropriate for a film set in the country but jar with the perfect drawing room setting of the story.
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I did not at all mind Emma bearing her bum by the fire. She was alone and it's taken from a satirical print so it's possible some women did do that. They'd never admit it! Mr. Knightley getting dressed was another scene of partial-nudity and it wasn't much. I liked seeing the way gentlemen got dressed. EVERYONE focuses on women's fashions and the men I've seen at Jane Austen events were either in military dress or their wives dressed them in some semblance of period costume, if they were in costume at all. I've read a lot of Regency romances where the hero's sartorial splendor plays a large role and it was great to see it in real life. I didn't mind the "make-out" scene. That was way more tame than I was expecting. The nose bleed scene was funny and weird. (hide spoiler)]
I think this one is in the middle of the pack for me. I have to see the Kate Beckinsale version again.