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[meganbmoore]

 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies is a horrifyingly bad movie that could have been halfway decent if they hadn't tied it to Austen. There were brief moments of goodness (such as when Lizzie starts throwing things at Darcy when he tells her why he separated Jane and Bingley, up until that scene turns into weirdly sexual zed violence that was pretty much an excuse to have barely-Clas heaving bosoms) but they were far eclipsed by the kind of awful where you want to stop watching but can't. There were a lot of perfectly decent actors in this movie who have experience in fantasy and period dramas, but they all apparently forgot how to act by the time they finished reading the first page of the script. 

(It also does not understand Austen at all, but I was expecting that part.)

This is probably the most appropriate post I've ever made for this icon, though.

Comments

[saturnofthemoon]

I imagine the book it's based on is far better.

[meganbmoore]

Probably depends on which book.

[genarti]

Ha. Indeed. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies the book is... well, it's sure a thing that happened. A thing that someone who understood neither Austen nor compelling action nor how not to be stunningly orientalist for no reason perpetrated upon the world.

[yifu]

Is it that awful? The premise of sisters fighting zombies really appeals to me, alas.

[meganbmoore]

Oh, its a fun premise, and it COULD have been good, but it wasn't. And Darcy fights zombies more than anyone else.

[shiegra]

Did they include all the weird 'chinese' katanas and 'everyone fashionable has a house-geisha', and the part where Lizzie learns she was mistaken about Wickham and starts mutilating herself in shame?

[meganbmoore]

The Bennetts are looked down on for practicing Chinese martial arts instead of Japanese, but thankfully nothing else you mention made it to the movie.

[shiegra]

It was the kind of thing that, when the movie was announced, I felt almost entirely certain it wouldn't make it into the theatre but like...Hollywood, the depth of my mistrust rivals the Mariana Trench. It's a shame that (it sounds like) the movie didn't shape up into dumb fun though. It seems like marrying action horror and Austen, if the creators understood Austen, could be super fun.

[lea_hazel]

I watched this with my brother. The damage made a lot more sense when I realized the book's author described it as a way to "make Pride & Prejudice worth reading".