Comments on: Overextended

By: Diana Peterfreund

Diana Peterfreund — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 20:00:00 +0000

Yes, I am getting married, but not until late late this year. Plenty of time to stress about that later!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:02:00 +0000

arn’t u getting married 2?

By: stephhale

stephhale — Fri, 09 Mar 2007 20:17:00 +0000

That stinks you aren’t coming to Nationals! You’ll be missed!

Steph~

By: Alison

Alison — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 21:30:00 +0000

Watch Sex and Lucia. Watch it. Just do.

By: Tempest Knight

Tempest Knight — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 20:51:00 +0000

I canceled my Netflix account. I didn’t have time to watch the movies. As it is, I barely have time to eat and sleep.

By: eatrawfish

eatrawfish — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 19:18:00 +0000

I thought I’d had enough Foreign/Literary Cinema in school (yes Bicycle Thief, yes French New Wave, yes strange Iranian film about a rug and African film that ends with people spitting on the main character) but now that I think about it, it was having Samurai II for two months that convinced me to end the Netflix.

But I am thinking of joining again to rent things I can’t find elsewhere.

By: Gina Black

Gina Black — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:53:00 +0000

I'm not going to RWA either. I'll prolly be in Japan.

As far as Netflix goes, I don't. I quit a long while back because I wasn't watching *anything* I was getting. I just didn't have the time. Instead I get just about every channel available which means that the guys get to watch all their sports and I can sneak in the occasional DVR'd movie or Masterpiece Theatre.

As for indie and foreign movies that are worth watching, if you haven't seen it, definitely put The Horseman on the Roof in your queue. It's a French film, a historical that features Olivier Martinez. :sigh: :sigh: :sigh:

By: Jami Alden

Jami Alden — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 18:33:00 +0000

OMG – we aspire to be the same netflix person. but the truth is, I’d much rather just watch Star Wars for the 500th time (my almost 2 year old can say “Wookie!” I’m so proud) on HBO than watch that award winning, thought provoking, but bound to be depressing as hell movie.

And wow, what a schedule! Makes me exhausted just looking at it…
and aren’t you like, planning a wedding of your own amidst all this craziness??

By: Susan Adrian

Susan Adrian — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 17:47:00 +0000

Ah yes, I'd nearly forgotten Wentworth's letter.

"A word, a look will be enough to decide whether I enter your father's house this evening or never."

Ahhh. The BBC version of that movie's not bad either, even though it's not Colin Firth.

And yes, I thought the modern P&P was way too Heathcliff-y too. I rolled my eyes at the ending.

By: Diana Peterfreund

Diana Peterfreund — Thu, 08 Mar 2007 16:51:00 +0000

See, and I thought they were trying to turn him too much into Heathcliff. All that walking around in the fog, in the rain, in the middle of the night…. might have made a better match for marianne than lizzie, yeah?

When I try to think of ANY Austen hero who would pull that kind of stunt (the heroes, not the rakes) the closest I can come up with is Wentworth, and only when he’s at his ABSOLUTE worst, and because he’s totally used to the elements. I imagine he did something like that the night Anne turned him down, before he ran away to sea.

I mean, for all that’s made of Darcy’s letter to Elizabeth, it doesn’t hold a candle to “you pierce my soul.”