Too little too late…

So true.

Umh… Okay, though I was thinking more of the heart crushing dread of stories about the meaningless of life and death, rather than the horror you enjoy watching It Follows, but sure, one person's glum is another's fun. I just don't think it would be Mr Fellowes' cup of tea, the dowager countess delivers a funny quip,…

Umh. Good point.

Hm. So Downton Abbey is Julian Fellowes' Remains of the Day fan fiction story where the Butler actually proposes to the Housekeeper, instead of meeting her many years later and heartbreakingly saying goodbye to her at a glum bus stop. That makes sense…

I think that's when the show cast aside all pretension of being anything other than quality soap opera. WWI simply had too much darkness for Mr Fellowes to deal with so he fully embraced the melodrama. Back when I watched that season I felt cheated, but I can understand his choice. None of the fun stuff would have fit…

Also, Sybil grows up to be a heroic lesbian ambulance driver during the Blitz, as told by Sarah Waters…

The American contrast has already been played. The next distant cousin should be Anglo-Indian, supporter of Gandhi and Nehru. That would be fun.

Regardless of the actual value of Perestroika etc, Gorbachev's political messages were more reassuring to European ears than the aggressive rhetoric of Reagan's administration. I remember as a child hearing on the radio about the plans to deploy the new neutron bomb soon after Reagan's inauguration. That scared me to…

That makes a lot of sense.

I stand corrected. Though I'm pretty sure there's more than 50 of us.

I've read all of his plays and forgotten most of them. I see the point of people criticizing Romeo and the Tempest and others for serious problems regarding plot and characterization and ideological issues… but I'm thinking of the plays as a sort of Beatles' White Albums. Even if you don't like the whole, some parts…

Same here. I will try again with Finnegans one day though.

Ugh. That rings true. I wish I could yell "get a job!" at him.

You guys really like all the Henry VIs and the Henry VIII and the King John better than Romeo and Juliet and Much Ado?

I'm a big fan of John Gielgud's, so on that side I really really liked it, and I think it's a very smart visual adaptation of a play, but it's also terribly cerebral and lacks emotion, like almost everything I've seen by Greenaway. Gielgud transmit great love for the material and for his own acting, but I didn't buy…

I think I just voted up everybody because I agree with all of the above. the movie is terrible (compared to the book), I liked it ok, and that cut at the end was unforgivable. Also worthy of a Nelson ha ha! Because they thought they were saving that dramatic beat to the next film and… well, ha ha!

Interesting. I had never considered Mike Newell's politics regarding the HP series.

So have I. It's a real bummer if you arrive fresh from the LOTR high, but it's got great stuff in it, waiting for a Benioff and Weiss pair to turn it into an awesome HBO series. Bonus: probably won't disappoint lovers of the original because so little love has been poured on it, poor thing.

Well, I think it's one of his best, so no arguing about taste. :)