Jane Eyre

Today I went to see Jane Eyre. I know, it's a classic, an art house movie for snobby anglophiles...but wow what a great story and faithfully filmed. I got completely drawn in....so I barely registered things around me like someone dropping a glass bottle that rolled all the way down to the screen, hitting me along the way...or that 3 people out of about 20 had sneeze fits, that a woman who failed to turn her cellphone off..got a call...didn't notice any of that at all, movie was that good...really it was...

okay, so I noticed but I really didn't care....now if that had happened the day before when I went to see....why oh why...Sucker Punch...which had to be the worst movie I've seen in years and years and years...really. I was drawn in by the $6.00 ticket and free popcorn. Oh gawd it was awful. Now if bottles and phones and general chaos was going on during that I probably would've run screaming...lol But there was this shiny, bright, hot thing up in the sky and I was scared of it....so I stayed indoors with the sucky movie and stoned teenagers...really, really stoned teenagers as in I could smell the stoniness of the teenagers....lol

So to sum up
Jane Eyre
Sucker Punch :what?:

and I should have know SP was a doomed sitch when I had to stop for a passle of turkeys to cross the road on the way down my street.

That reminds me of the summer I read Gone with the Wind. I lay on the porch while my cousins went for hikes, went swimming, went to play the video arcade. And every time they'd get back they would try to get me to put down the book. I should have been enjoying a vacation in the woods but I was in another world, in another time. I barely registered anyone else's presence.

I didn't see the Jane Eyre movie but will keep an eye out for it now.

I'm gathering you saw the new movie just out in early March with Mia Wasikowska in the title role? Lots of good things being said about this movie. So I will look out for it too. Jane Eyre is one of my favorite books. Thanks for the tip.

Berry I did the same thing with Gone With the Wind. Got so totally wrapped up and just couldn't grasp how Margaret Mitchell wrote this wonderful saga and then died. I read it in the 7th grade and again when I was 32. Hmmm...I think being 60 is a good time to read it again.

Yup, I am talking about the brand new one...Friday was opening day...I usually don't go then but it just worked out that way.


Looks like Gone with the Wind got all of us!

Did anyone else read Scarlett?

I didn't. What did you think of it overall?

I thought it had an interesting story and it goes in an unexpected direction. Nothing could ever be as good as the original but it's very worth a read. After all, we all wonder what happens after Frankly my dear... It was written by permission of M. Mitchell's family so it stays true to her style...and it's not just fluffy wish fulfillment. *whew*

The tv people made an awful mini-series..Timothy Dalton as Rhett just didn't work for me at all, and it leaves out what makes the book good. So that's a skip.

I never got around to reading The Wind Done Gone tho.

I had to give away my copy...I wouldn't stop reading it...maybe because I was just ten...I just got hooked.

I read it and thought it was ok. Yes, I did want to know what happened after. I agree the mini-series was awful. Gable is the only Rhett for me. Not familiar with the last book. So I will go check that out

So The Wind Done Gone is a parody of Gone With The Wind. That's what the courts decided. Don't think I'll read it. But, I will suggest you read The Buelah Land Trilogies by Lonnie Coleman. Excellent reading.:)