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The Jane Austen Book Club (2007)
I don't know what Jane Austen has to do with this movie....
Let me start out by saying that I'm an avid fan of Jane Austen books - that in itself should say it all. But since most people (aka those who haven't read Jane Austen) won't understand this, I'll say it more bluntly. And to me, they might as well have called this movie the Soap Opera Fan Club, or the Jackie Collins Fan Club. The books were written in the early 1800's, people, not 2008. In none of Jane's books were there even hints of men cheating and leaving their wives, lesbians, or women who lust after men like dogs in heat. I'm sorry, but I must say that I feel it's misleading to portray to those who are clueless of Jane Austen, that she was just like today's Desperate Housewives type of modern woman. She was witty and funny, often ahead of her time, true, but this movie makes her books sound like they are what they really aren't. If the movie had been titled by another book club name I could've swallowed it. However, my tolerance for such Hollywood exploitation, most who have probably never even read classic literature, (the actors who were forced to read the book ahead of time by the director DOESN'T count) is absolutely zero.
Beyond Tomorrow (1940)
Pretty lame.....
I love old movies - like 'Gone with the Wind' and 'wizard of Oz', and hundreds of more obscure movie's like Katherine Hepburn's 'Alice Adams', but this movie 'Beyond Tomorrow' was pretty lame. It started out okay, though a little on the slow side, but it ended in a totally weird way. I thought it was very, very tacky. And not because it was old, but because the story was silly.
I think the plot really went wrong with the three men coming back as ghosts. After all, they really had nothing to do with the central romance of the movie. I got the feeling that it was two movies combined - one about the young couple's endangered romance and another about three men and their past lives. I will not even comment on the confused theology introduced into the plot. Very strange. But I suppose it's worth watching once to see if you applaud it or jerk your thumb down.