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men and period
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do any of the fine gentlemen of this board watch and enjoy period drama's?
because my bit of man muff refuses to watch them, he wont even give them a chance. is it the archaic language? the fact that most of them involve or centre around romance?
because i cant help but think that these men (especially those who dont do much reading ever/wouldn't pick up an old book) are missing out on some wonderful stories, just because they were written a few hundred years ago. i say stories because im mostly referring to tv/film adaptions rather than the actual literature.
any girls whose boyfriend/husband watch them?
um
Not me.
^^
have you watched/read pride and prejudice?
its hilarious! mr collins cracks me up.
the books can be really long winded
i've tried to read northanger abbey a few times and i cant get past the first few chapters because its all a load of irrelevant crap about baths and shiz
that anne frank one is poor*
especially that woman playing the mother, her from Green Wing. "Hmm I dont really know how to do serious acting... I better just look at the floor with a pained and demented expression every time someone talks to me"
*opinion based entirely on episode 1
my post has been circumsized
They're all shit
ALL
i thought this was going to be about something totally different...
i feel dirty now
I just have no interest in them at all.
Nothing makes me even the slightest bit curious about what they're like.
Love Actually set in Victorian times? No thank you.
every period is a drama!
kapow!
Absolute piffle.
I take it that Hornblower and Sharpe don't count...
I made Sam watch Mary Bryant (sp?) once.
Sharpe doesn't count.
Because it's ACE.
tint,
it's bent. Especially the way it has soft rock guitar solos playing the background as Sharpe and his five men defeat a HUGE battalion of about 8 French soldiers (but they chuck the camera about everywhere to make it seem like there's a few more).
:D
also sean bean is a blades fan
hence it's shit
^ this
@ bamos
i miss sharpe
reckon i could get some DVD's somewhere for cheaps?
Zavvi Oxford St (London) were sent too many by their distributor
So they had a big pile of them on sale. Dunno if it's still there.
cool, thanks
I watched a bit of Little dorrit with the shortie
it was alright, but i think we'd both be happier using the 6 hours it takes to watch the whole series doing our own things - she can watch that, i'll watch babylon 5 ta very much.
Mebbe he could watch on laptop with headphones whilst she watches on tv or vice versa?
Tipping the Velvet
fapo
that the one about the lezzers aye?
yes
It's shit/great
OH MY GOD
i read the book for my course. the book was acceptable. then i made the fatal mistake of watching some of the youtube clips of the bbc production :'''''(
i havent seen it
whats wrong with it?
everything
have you read the book?
nancy looks more girly than kitty
her voice makes her sound retarded
they try to make the whole thing with her being a rentboy, funny
you end up having no sympathy for her at all because it's so badly adapted
the fading technique they use makes it look like an episode of days of our lives
and that's just from the few first bits that i watched
oh
you're talking about tipping the velvet, right?
i haven't read that.
which ones supposed to be more girly? i cant remember which ones which. i enjoyed it though.
I hate period drama
I'll watch some Dickens adaptations but that's about it, if they count, he'll vaguely watch/surf at the same time and make comment about bonnets and such...
It's mostly 'cos they're pretty dull.
They seemed to be based around this absurd belief that time actually moved slower in the past - the placing tends to be a bit laborious and they're too often a bit worthy.
I think brilliant period dramas can be made but they often don't seem to be.
Only because most period dramas are dingy Victorian bore-fests
I want more adaptations of 19th Century Russian literature, or French. Not Dickens, Austen and Hardy by candlelight, with lots of prop hay everywhere.
I'm pretty sure someone could make a snore along version of 'The Idiot'
Why do intelligent girls...
Love these submissive vacant bints in corsets and dowrys and... 'oh, Mr Darcy, why I would care for a wander...'
I don't get it at all
see, you clearly have no idea what pride and prejudice is about
elizabeth is completely UNsubmissive, thats why she's such a dude
So by period drama
you really mean Pride and Prejudice.
no, im just using elizabeth as an example of a non submissive woman in a period drama
but she's played by KIERA KNIGHTLEY
AARGHHHHH
Im referring to Jennifer Ehle
Kiera was alright but Elizabeth is supposed to have boobs, BOOBS
i hope she just sticks to these dramas from now on
so i won't have to watch her ruin otherwise good films in the future
shakespeares desdemona on the other hand
insipid and infuriating character
I avoid
because they've all got that fucking bint Kiera Knightley in them!
But seriously, as much as I love 19th Century Russian literature (Dostoevsky, Gogol, Tolstoy being my faves) I'd hate to see adaptations made from them. They'd turn something like The Brothers Karamazov into smoochy, morally-persuasive, sentimental drivel like most TV dramas.
gogol
<3
<3 indeed.
If only he hadn't burned the second half of Dead Souls :(
Only last week I decided that I would call my next cat Gogol.
Regardless of whether it is male or female!
we're not talking about search engines here toots
i hate you so much
im going to pull out your teeth, grind them up and put them in a pie and make you eat it.
I'm gonna rip your eyes out and shove em down your pants
so you can see it when i kick the crap outta you
im gonna shove steves poo's down your throat
so you suffocate, and while you're suffocating im going to poke you with a FIRE POLE
fair enough
at least it'll make a pleasing noise
DONG!
:D
Well it depends.
What I think most men hate is the prim, unfunny, fairly vapid BBC Pride and Prejudice-esque stuff. If we're gonna watch insubstantial fluff we'd rather it was about killing bad guys, blowing shit up, etc...
That said, Amadeus and Barry Lyndon are two of my favourite films, just to name a couple of examples. But then, they're not really the kind of thing that springs to mind when you say "period drama".
pride and prejudice is not vapid!
the film was rather, but the 90's tv drama was amazing!
mhm
Have you seen this?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114117/
no
why?
i really want to read it but haven't got myself to the library for a while
I dislike most romantic period dramas..
But ill watch the crime and most other ones.
Is Hercules in New York a period drama?
if so, then yes. Yes I do.
utm_music sent that to me in the post
amazing times :D
I dunno.
I usually like the books and stuff, but I don't watch tv.
I liked Atonement. And I liked the old adpation of Brideshead Revisited
atonement p!ssed me off so much
I HATE SAD ENDINGS
PLEASE WARN ME SO I WONT WATCH YOU
i think i cried, actually :(
there might have been a slight lump in my throat.
but Sophia...sometimes sad endings are the best endings...
i know i know
i just get so annoyed
It's because they're gay.
i normally watch stuff like this, when it's adaptations of books i like
but it's pretty disapointing sometimes. Tess of the durbervilles was shit but i don't think you can maintain the wonderfulness of thomas hardy on screen. Austen tends to televise pretty well. I always think she'd have made a really good playwright, which would make Mansfield Park really ironic hehehe. Before I'd read any Austen i thought it was terrible and pointless, so yeah, men should give her a go.
I thought Little Dorit was good apart from the very last scene. Bleak House from a few years ago was completely ace.
I know some men who really like Austen and my dad watched Bleak House with me. The one time i watched something like this with my boyf, he left the room.
there's an older adaption of tess, from years and years ago
you should dig that up, it was really really good. i cant comment on the new one though as i didnt get a chance to watch it.
cool i'll czech that out
I'm not a fan.
Too much over-acting. Not enough Dinosaurs, explosions or exploding dinosaurs.
I have no qualms, if it’s good.
Good:
Cranford (BBC version)
John Adams (the one on More4)
Pride and Prejudice (BBC version)
Sense and Sensibility (Film)
Bad:
Heartbeat (vom)
Poirot (only plus point is the Art Deco)
Lark Rise To Candleford (fucking awful. It’s like the turd on the bottom of Cranford’s shoes)
The problem I have is that too many adaptations just depend on an imagined utopian past as a setting with no attention paid to characterisation or plot.
:( Poirot
Yeah it's really naff and the acting bad, but i really really enjoy watching it.
i fucking hate them
the only things i'll watch that are set in that period are history documentries.
Maybe i wouldn't mind them if they were on occasionally, but it seems like the BBC has to show one of these every sunday night or the world will implode.
my mother loves them. she would though, she's a GIRL
OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE
Period? Dramas?
THis thread is a massive letdown
...
I think it says a lot about the laziness and lack of imagination of the genre that when you say period drama, people immediately think mincing ladies in corsets swooning. Or maybe I'm alone in that, I dunno.
Anyway, surely a drama set in a time away from ours is a period drama, right? If this is true, let us now consider Deadwood - one of the greatest TV series ever. Or Rome, which was not okay, I guess. There are other interesting periods which need dramas - but I guess the BBC only have the budget for those periods involving bonnets. Shame.
It’s more to do with what they can ‘sell’,
as a dream to us brits and as a programme to overseas commissioning editors.
i was forced into watching episodes 4,5 and 6 of little dorit last night
and to my dismay I bloody loved them
I don't do
TV drama, so that's out.
It's pretty much a no to cinematic period dramas too, but I enjoyed Marie Antoinette with the Dunst. I'm aware of it's factual innaccuracies, but I'm not fussed. It wasn't supposed to be a documentary.
lurves em
by and large.
love beyond anything Pride&Prejudice (original series), went on a trip to the stately home which was used as Pemberley. twas awesome.
i always manage to miss the BBC ones annoyingly.
the recent Jane Eyre was really good. and not just that fish out of timewater one with wasser-po-face.
If Rome counts, i liked that too.
Sense and Sensibility - good
Persuasion - good
Emma - ok
i can't think of anymore, cos there are loads.
maybe it's the sense of oldskool romance, the gentlemanly men, fighting for their women and being all gentlemanly about it. blah blah.
<3
I always liked Jane Eyre
There's not enough 'Mad women in the attic' twists in modern literature.
i've seen hundreds
and here's the basic plot of them all:
one or more ladies are trying to get married before they get old
someone has lost their inheritance
there's a grumpy man
there's a funny fat woman
bad things happen
a mysterious benefactor arrives and gives them lots of money
everyone is happy