Pride & Prejudice with Pirates

[dangermousie]

The best review/bash of the new atrocity that is Keira Knightley's P&P is to be found

here

The author starts with her dashed hopes that P&P would have made a great pirate story (don't ask) and only improves from there:

Sample wonderfulness (read the comments, too):

these enjoyable musings were spoilt by the arrival of a pair of ominously

Comments

[dangermousie]

Indeed. Just thinking of this movie makes me RAGE

[strippedpink]

I haven't read your entry yet, but I just had to come and rant because I'm so absolutely certain that Keira Knightley is going to fuck my movie up.

ARGH!

[dangermousie]

I am sure she will. I am staying away from it because I don't want to have a coronary in the theater.

[lesbiassparrow]

I am a sucker for Jane Austen adaptations. However, this Pride and Prejudice with Kiera Knightly, an actress with all the acting ability and charisma of a boiled potato, and displaying a Mr Darcy with hair that resembles a hollowed out ferret repels me. Begone foul minion, I say!

[dangermousie]

an actress with all the acting ability and charisma of a boiled potato, and displaying a Mr Darcy with hair that resembles a hollowed out ferret

I think I want your internet babies...