"It would be most inconvenient since I swore to loathe him for all eternity."

(this is a slightly compromised version of what i originally intended to say.  it took me longer to get home than i expected, and then i was tired, so now i can't remember everything i wanted to talk about.  you'll have to forgive me for that!)

last night i finally got to see pride & prejudice!  chelsea let me leave work 15 minutes early, and i went by myself, which is only something i would do for a movie such as this.  i had some reservations about keira knightley being lizzie bennet for some unkown reason, which i think i may have voiced to laura, but i don't know what i was so worried about.  she was fabulous!  and this matthew macfayden fellow as mr. darcy was a pretty good choice as well, although even if he had been bad i might still say that simply because he was very nice to look at.  and i loved judi dench as lady catherine, especially in the scene where she comes to confront lizzie about the rumours of her being engaged to darcy, and i love that lizzie just mouths off to her, i think that's one of my favorite parts of the whole book so i was so glad to see it!  (they cut that out of bride & prejudice, and i know it's very loosely based on the book so really, who would be surprised.  but since it was in the deleted scenes, that sort of consoled me.)  the guy who played mr. collins reminded me a little bit of tim curry as the butler in clue, i think it was the apparel, but i just had to keep laughing at him!

then there were the gorgeous shots of the english countryside.  oh my gosh, if they were trying to make me all wistful and senimental about england, they succeeded.  it even slightly made up for the fact that they ended with these really cheesy scenes with a sunrise, and the ending one with the whole "mrs. darcy" bit that kind of grossed me out.  really, though, that is probably the only thing i can think of to complain about.  overall though, i laughed quite a lot, which is good because it's supposed to be funny, and i just really liked it.

i want to go see it again, too!  but i also want to see the chronicles of narnia at some point this weekend, if at all possible, so i think i may have to make some priorities.  plus, i need to find someone who would be willing to go with me, because i have to say that it's very strange going by myself, even as anti-social as i am feeling.

(tee hee!)