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Author:  freetime [ Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:07 pm ]
Post subject:  Jane Austen
Is it just me, but does anyone else find the works of Jane Austen to be LAME?
I have read "Pride and Prejudice" and just watched "Sense and Sensibility" on PBS, and in both cases, was very disappointed. I don't know why this lightweight junk is considered classic.
What am I missing?
Author:  Mirage [ Sun Aug 10, 2008 3:27 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Jane Austen
What am I missing?

Do you really wanna know?
Author:  freetime [ Mon Aug 11, 2008 8:30 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Jane Austen
Yes. What Jane Austen works have YOU read? Do you have anything to say about my topic?
Author:  NWIHoosier [ Mon Aug 11, 2008 9:47 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Jane Austen
What were you disappointed about? I read Pride and Prejudice, and I thought it was a great book. Some of my friends who have read this have described what you're feeling, though. I've never read Sense and Sensibility, though, so I can't really tell you what you're missing on that one.
Author:  freetime [ Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:54 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Jane Austen
I watched Sense and Sensibility this weekend on PBS. It reminded me of Pride and Prejudice, just seemed like a very old fashioned soap opera to me. I kept thinking "Gee this is a classic. I must not be getting something here." The PBS show I saw was sort of entertaining in a lame way, nice costumes and sets with pretty people, but not much more than a time waster, IMO. I'm glad Your friends share my view. It's not just me.
Author:  Mirage [ Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:03 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Jane Austen
Just curious if you like pre-1950 "B" movies?

I even remember watching an old account of the Abe Lincoln story that was grainy as heck and about as corny as it gets.

But I never was much in to too many silent movies though for the same reason I only watch a few foreign films. I'm too lazy to read subtitles. More accurately though it's because I spend so much time keeping up with the dialogue that I can't comprehend what's happening on the screen.
Author:  BigWhiteGuy [ Tue Aug 12, 2008 5:07 pm ]
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Mirage wrote:
Just curious if you like pre-1950 "B" movies?

I even remember watching an old account of the Abe Lincoln story that was grainy as heck and about as corny as it gets.

But I never was much in to too many silent movies though for the same reason I only watch a few foreign films. I'm too lazy to read subtitles. More accurately though it's because I spend so much time keeping up with the dialogue that I can't comprehend what's happening on the screen.

pre-1950's B movies are the best! Favorite flick is: THEM. (a sci-fi about mutant ants in the desert)
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Author:  freetime [ Sat Aug 16, 2008 9:23 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Jane Austen
I love old black and white movies. The Grapes of Wrath is my all time fave. I always need a whole box of Kleenex!
I like B and W movies from the 50's and early 60s too. Days of Wine and Roses is great, as is Manchurian Candidate, Dr. Strangelove, and a few others I can't think of right now.
Author:  Dave [ Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:56 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Jane Austen
freetime wrote:
Is it just me, but does anyone else find the works of Jane Austen to be LAME?
What am I missing?


Uh, brains.
Author:  deelight [ Sun Aug 17, 2008 10:58 am ]
Post subject:  Re: Jane Austen
freetime wrote:
I watched Sense and Sensibility this weekend on PBS. It reminded me of Pride and Prejudice, just seemed like a very old fashioned soap opera to me. I kept thinking "Gee this is a classic. I must not be getting something here." The PBS show I saw was sort of entertaining in a lame way, nice costumes and sets with pretty people, but not much more than a time waster, IMO. I'm glad Your friends share my view. It's not just me.


There's your problem. Get your Jane Austen from a book not a boobtube.
Author:  freetime [ Sun Aug 17, 2008 7:15 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: Jane Austen
I read Pride and Prejudice, as I said. It was just as lame as the PBS Sense ans Sensibility show, IMO.
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