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Pride and Prejudice (2005)

Advantages: Actors' performances, not too serious.
Disadvantages: Sometimes confusing.

...I'm glad to say that Pride and Prejudice was not the same. I was impressed by the cast members' performances, they all seemed to successfully pull-off their characters roles. I think this is because most of the characters are very well developed, but I feel some could have been portrayed in a more obvious way. It was often hard to decide what a character was feeling, but this didn't happen too often. The only downside is that sometimes parts of the ...
...miss out important details, perhaps expecting the audience to understand what is going on without them having to tell us. Because there are so many different stories and plots, the fact that certain details are missing means that sometimes it is easy to become confused. The story in general is wonderful and extremely interesting. It may appeal less to younger viewers but to any romantics-at-heart it is an excellent film! I would really recommend ...

CaimheKnox 01.03.2009 · Read full review
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The Power and the Passion...

Advantages: Excellent acting, historical value
Disadvantages: Extreme promiscuity could hinder historical enjoyment

Charles II: The Power and the Passion is a superb BBC drama, which I found to be very interesting and enjoyable, with excellent contextually historical events interspersed with a moving and thought-provoking drama about the life and struggles of the first post-Cromwellian king. This royal soap opera takes place on an epic scale, covering the personal events and affairs of the king that lead to 14 illegitame children in the context of anti-Catholic ...
...with the slow-motion beheading of Charles I, but then goes on to become rather less enjoyable with what I believe to be excessive sexual scenes. Despite their historically acurate nature and adding to the drama, I feel that these do somewhat lower the enjoyment of the story. Certainly, with the aging Charles in the final episodes, this is toned down, and the story is very well played, ending with a brilliant depiction of Charles' death, with the ...

lofty_on_line 14.05.2006 · Read full review
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Love really does make good movies

Advantages: you get two great movies
Disadvantages: In My books none

Shakespeare In Love/ Pride and Prejudice Two disc (DVD) Having read and fallen in love with both Shakespeare In Love and Pride and Prejudice i was afraid to buy this DVD. Have you ever found that after enjoying reading a book you found that the Film just didn’t live up to the book? i have, so i didn’t want to be disappointed after watching the Film of both these books so i didn’t buy the DVD. My partner knew how much i loved the book so last Christmas ...
...my movies. What is Pride and Prejudice About? For those of you who haven’t read pride and prejudice which i doubt are very few of you won’t know what happens in the story. Pride and prejudice is mostly based on the five Bennet sisters, as they go through their life looking for the potential suitors for them to marry, their mother aspires to marry her five daughters into wealth, their father is a more simpler man, he lets his daughters choose on ...

19901 09.05.2007 · Read full review
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Actions Have Concequences - Atonement

Advantages: Great story, Great acting, brilliant twist
Disadvantages: None

...to the story. Atonement won many awards including an Oscar for the music, which is very dramatic. It also won a Bafta for best film and the Kiera and James have both won awards for their acting. Overall I think it is a brilliantly directed film that is complex, interesting and definitely worth watching for the shocking twist. Also posted on Dooyoo. ...

wendz86 06.11.2009 · Read full review
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Down and out in LA

Advantages: Brilliant performanes, nice music
Disadvantages: Slightly too long

The Soloist focuses on the true life story of Nathaniel Ayres, played by Jamie Foxx, whose life story is portrayed on the big screen due to LA journalist Steve Lopez, played by Robert Downey Jr. Steve Lopez is a hard journalist to please. Divorced from the editor of the paper, Steve sets out to reveal local people in his column who have had a bad run of luck. Nathaniel Ayres was and is a musical prodigy who, having come from the famous Julliard school, ...
...which has made him into the fun-loving, caring, but very lonely street walker and sleeper that he is today. Lopez and Ayres become friends after a lunch time encounter when Ayres is playing a violin with only two strings. What follows is two hours of hard hitting rollercoaster emotion as Lopez helps Ayres battle with his mental illness and tries to entice him back into a normal way of life, getting him to do the thing he loves and to share his gift ...

welling 01.11.2009 · Read full review
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