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cadragongirl

independence day

Jul 04, 2009 09:15

happy 4th! hope everyone is having nice weather to enjoy the fireworks this evening. i hope to see some nice ones tonight, especially since i always seem to miss them. we usually went up to toronto for the holiday, so much so that my sister once commented that we should become canadian since we always seemed to be there for canada day & we were ( Read more... )

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satakieli July 4 2009, 15:09:45 UTC

Three lovely little movies. I have great fondness for them all. I think Travelocity started the gnome thing after Amelie came out; I can't be sure as I do not now nor never have had a TV, but that's certainly how I interpreted it the first time I saw one of those commercials.

I showed my family Bride and Prejudice, and they were all delighted, even my father, which astonished all of us. (Interestingly enough, three years later, the movie randomly came up in conversation recently, and he now claims that he didn't like the movie at all. Ha.)

I don't find that Darcy especially attractive either. I mean, not ugly or anything, but. I am unashamed of my joy in the movie--it is cracktastic indeed, but there's more there there than in the bubblegum mormon one. I do so love faithful left-turn reinterpretations of classic stories ( ... )

satakieli July 4 2009, 15:15:27 UTC

Oh. I remember what it was. I didn't watch it. It was the music from the Pride and Prejudice musical, which had been coming up one track at a time for ages now on its website, and I finally listened to on a run in May. I won't link to its website because I'm about to bash it terribly.

As a bland generic Disneyish musical, it would have been fine. As Pride and Prejudice, it was terrible, terrible, terrible. The music was cheesy and the lyrics trite, and trite lyrics are just painful when one of the main reasons Austen books aren't just another love story is the marvelously snarky and keenly observed prose. I actually did enjoy two of the songs, but only two, and they were the songs of Mr. Collins and Lady Catherine--they were actually more cleverly written than the others, and anyway, hearing them in a trainwreck wasn't quite as painful.