07-15-2016, 05:18 PM
Sense & Sensibility - 2008 - 7/10
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Outstanding three part series of the Jane Austen costume drama.
More than holds its own with the Ang Lee / Emma Thompson version, but marred by a fatal casting error.
Being longer, more characters and incidents entered the narrative. Some useful (Lucy Steele's sister), some useless (an opening erotic moment, a pointless duel).
Story follows a family of females after their father dies and they are displaced from the manor.
Their mother was wife #2, and English estates always pass into male hands.
Struggles to survive in “good society” and perhaps find romance.
Cast was uniformly fine, though Dominic Cooper profoundly miscast as Willoughby.
He plays his character as an oily troll, and few females, of any time period, would throw themselves at him, unless he was dripping money.
[Image: 63u5u9.jpg]
Outstanding three part series of the Jane Austen costume drama.
More than holds its own with the Ang Lee / Emma Thompson version, but marred by a fatal casting error.
Being longer, more characters and incidents entered the narrative. Some useful (Lucy Steele's sister), some useless (an opening erotic moment, a pointless duel).
Story follows a family of females after their father dies and they are displaced from the manor.
Their mother was wife #2, and English estates always pass into male hands.
Struggles to survive in “good society” and perhaps find romance.
Cast was uniformly fine, though Dominic Cooper profoundly miscast as Willoughby.
He plays his character as an oily troll, and few females, of any time period, would throw themselves at him, unless he was dripping money.
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