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Thread #148865   Message #3460365
Posted By: Stilly River Sage
02-Jan-13 - 10:33 AM
Thread Name: BS: Seen any bad films recently
Subject: RE: BS: Seen any bad films recently
I had the 1940 version of Pride and Prejudice in my NetFlix queue and it arrived over the holiday break. Olivier and Garson had a horrible script to work with, hard to believe Aldous Huxley decided to take a hand in that screenplay. The story was so altered and mangled as to make it laughable. Perhaps they thought no one actually read the novel, just heard about it? And Greer Garson at 36, while still a gracious and lovely woman, was way too old to be playing a 20-year-old ingenue. And she's three years older than Olivier, who was playing a 27-year-old character at age 33. I just couldn't suspend disbelief to make that story work for me. :-(

SRS