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Pride & Prejudice: Just Go
About the best thing I can say about Pride & Prejudice is that it isn’t horrible. Mrs. BratsNBeerGuy dragged me out to see the latest movie version of Jane Austin’s love Victorian-style novel and I suspect many of you husbands and boyfriends out there will get the same request this weekend or over the holidays. My advice is to just go, get it over with, and maybe you’ll win yourself a few brownie points in the process. I’m sure your significant other deserves a couple hours of your time. But it is a long couple of hours, believe me.
Call me insensitive or unromantic, but I just find it hard to muster up a lot of interest in the matrimonial wheeling and dealings of Victorian girls. And all the “Mr. Darcy” and “Mr. Bingley” junk really gets old after awhile. But like I said, it isn’t a bad movie. The acting’s okay and the production is quite good, actually. (I always hate those period pieces that make Victorian England look spotless and beaming. It wasn’t, not at all.) So if you have to go, just go and try hard to stay awake. Kharma might come back to thank you.
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