Before I begin: Jane Austen's novel is one of the greatest novels of all time, beautifully written, delightful as it gets. Then along came a crazy man called Seth Grahame-Smith added zombies, ninjas and martial arts to the story. Right, as if such thing would work! That guy is on crack! THEN YOU BITE YOUR TONGUE CAUSE THE NOVEL WITH THE ZOMBIES IS AWESOME!
If you haven't read it yet, do it, it is so much fun! And don't worry if you already watched the movie, they have the same name but their stories are totally different. I'm serious! Not "it's an adaptation of the book" different, but "I'll keep the title and the characters, the rest I'll throw away and re-write it!" different. THAT DIFFERENT!
Damn you Burr Steers!For all it! First for a PG-13 zombie movie. I see more blood when my girlfriend bites my lip than in this movie. For ignoring ninjas. You tried to keep it safe with a zombie movie, man with that source material you should have gone totally bananas! For just saying f*ck it to all the strong female characters of both novels. For making me say that Wickham was right! He was the only reasonable among homicidal pedant aristocrats. AND I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE ZOMBIES!
Lydia and Wickham "love-story" was completely ignored. We had a two minutes dance between Jane and Bingley... They never saw each other until their marriage at the end of the movie. We barely had any Liz and Darcy time on screen. And the battle royale. It is teased a battle between Liz and Lady Catharine, but in the end just a ridiculous battle between Wickham and Darcy.
What I saw was the corruption of literary work about women. Both sources are about strong woman who stand up and don't let themselves be subjugated by any male. The Bennet sisters, the deadly Bennet sisters are no more than damsels in distress, in this movie. They kick some ass and then nothing. THAT IS A SHAME!
Casting-wise. I liked Sam Riley, Matt Smith and Jack Houston. Sam could play Darcy in a straight adaptation of the original novel and would be amazing. Matt as Collins was the comic relief, sometimes forced, sometimes perfect, he was quite well in the part. And Jack's Wickham was very good, he was quite charming as was supposed to, but because of the poor writing there was no deceitful Wickham.
Among the women. I didn't really saw three of the Bennet sisters, they were barely in the movie. I liked Bella Heathcote as Jane, she was no Rosamund Pike, but balanced the delicate and lovely, but didn't had enough time on screen. Lena Headey was another one. Visually perfect as Lady Catherine, but the few lines she had were kind of lame. She would be awesome kickin' zombie ass and Lizzie's ass also.
The so called protagonist, Liz Bennet, by Lily James. As the whole movie, the character was poorly written, so I don't know if she could do any better. Just for taste, I would change her for Lily Collins. I think Collins would fit better as Liz Bennet and is a better actress than James.
Bottom line... I was really looking forward to this movie, probably the first one of the year, but it was a mess... It's hard to imagine how it could be worse... The writing was the thing that doomed this project.
If you haven't read it yet, do it, it is so much fun! And don't worry if you already watched the movie, they have the same name but their stories are totally different. I'm serious! Not "it's an adaptation of the book" different, but "I'll keep the title and the characters, the rest I'll throw away and re-write it!" different. THAT DIFFERENT!
Damn you Burr Steers!For all it! First for a PG-13 zombie movie. I see more blood when my girlfriend bites my lip than in this movie. For ignoring ninjas. You tried to keep it safe with a zombie movie, man with that source material you should have gone totally bananas! For just saying f*ck it to all the strong female characters of both novels. For making me say that Wickham was right! He was the only reasonable among homicidal pedant aristocrats. AND I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE ZOMBIES!
Lydia and Wickham "love-story" was completely ignored. We had a two minutes dance between Jane and Bingley... They never saw each other until their marriage at the end of the movie. We barely had any Liz and Darcy time on screen. And the battle royale. It is teased a battle between Liz and Lady Catharine, but in the end just a ridiculous battle between Wickham and Darcy.
What I saw was the corruption of literary work about women. Both sources are about strong woman who stand up and don't let themselves be subjugated by any male. The Bennet sisters, the deadly Bennet sisters are no more than damsels in distress, in this movie. They kick some ass and then nothing. THAT IS A SHAME!
Casting-wise. I liked Sam Riley, Matt Smith and Jack Houston. Sam could play Darcy in a straight adaptation of the original novel and would be amazing. Matt as Collins was the comic relief, sometimes forced, sometimes perfect, he was quite well in the part. And Jack's Wickham was very good, he was quite charming as was supposed to, but because of the poor writing there was no deceitful Wickham.
Among the women. I didn't really saw three of the Bennet sisters, they were barely in the movie. I liked Bella Heathcote as Jane, she was no Rosamund Pike, but balanced the delicate and lovely, but didn't had enough time on screen. Lena Headey was another one. Visually perfect as Lady Catherine, but the few lines she had were kind of lame. She would be awesome kickin' zombie ass and Lizzie's ass also.
The so called protagonist, Liz Bennet, by Lily James. As the whole movie, the character was poorly written, so I don't know if she could do any better. Just for taste, I would change her for Lily Collins. I think Collins would fit better as Liz Bennet and is a better actress than James.
Bottom line... I was really looking forward to this movie, probably the first one of the year, but it was a mess... It's hard to imagine how it could be worse... The writing was the thing that doomed this project.