Becoming Jane out on DVD (Region 1)
Just thought we would mention it.
And we heard a radio advertisement that said it starred “Anne Hathaway as a lovestruck Jane Austen!”
We really shall retire to Bedlam.
We might have a DVD review here eventually. Stay tuned.
February 14th, 2008 at 7:31 am
I only watched it so I could look at James McAvoy.
February 14th, 2008 at 9:20 am
Well, that seems a worthy goal. (I am not being sarcastic.)
February 14th, 2008 at 9:40 am
For me that’s also sort of the only reason I will watch this movie again…
February 14th, 2008 at 11:06 am
Right. I have decided, in order to survive the onslaught of Bad Austen Adapatations and Bio Films, I’m going to have to come up with an all-purpose drinking game for such things. Just to keep my sanity.
February 14th, 2008 at 12:15 pm
Andy, that sounds like fun…
Jane Austen says a line from one of her letters: take a drink.
Jane Austen says a line from one of her novels: take two drinks.
Jane Austen is shown as a pathetic spinster who never met HEEEERRRRRR Mr. Darcy: chug several glasses.
February 14th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
Anne Hathway’s accent slips: take a swig of beer (no shots for this one, we don’t want you passing out before the movie’s half-over…)
mixed drink of choice every time an actress runs around sans fichu, bosoms heaving
heh, it’s too easy!
February 14th, 2008 at 7:59 pm
This film doesn’t make any sense, because who would walk away from the opportunity to run away with James McAvoy?
Jane Austen was clearly insane.
February 14th, 2008 at 11:54 pm
Can we also take a swig whenever Mr. Wisley proposed or Mrs. Austen demanded Jane get married?
Though I think we’ll all be too tipsy to keep count.
February 15th, 2008 at 4:29 am
How about a drink for whenever two characters are in the same room but are wearing clothes from two different decades?
February 15th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Clothes from different decades? That happened at my house this morning … and when I get home tonight, I guess I’ll have a drink!
February 15th, 2008 at 10:23 pm
LOL. (one of the many adaptations with varied clothing!)
I am going to swig when Jane does American sign language with her brother George.
February 17th, 2008 at 7:45 am
@ #6:
You’d certainly get drunk doing that during an all-day viewing of P&P95! Lydia and Lizzy’s (very) ample bosoms are on display throughout the whole series and were always sans fichu. Doing it at night is one thing, but they did it during the daytime too.
February 18th, 2008 at 10:42 am
Saw it for the first time this past weekend. Probably a good thing I wasn’t drinking because I would have spewed it all over the livingroom carpet and upset the dog when Mrs. Austen hollered about digging her own damn potatoes;)
Most of the time I made it through by chanting under my breath, “it didn’t happen, it didn’t happen, it didn’t happen…”