Comments on: Becoming Jane (2007)

By: girldetective

girldetective — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 01:35:23 +0000

It was that kind of middling movie that’s hard to describe, because I did like it some, I did think much of it funny and charming, yet it still was a little boring and glossy. I’m on the tipping point–smack in the middle, at about 2 1/2 stars.

By: carolyn

carolyn — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:27:06 +0000

I liked it.

I don’t need it to be historically accurate. But then I’m not Jane Austen’s biggest fan.

My parents both thought it was charming and both ARE fans of hers.

By: girldetective

girldetective — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 02:10:49 +0000

It isn’t a bad film, just kinda boring. James McAvoy is pretty to look at, and the idea of how Austen’s experience formed the base for her pairing of marriage and money in all her books is very likely true, I think. But I would have liked it if they’d taken the time to be a little more accurate about her writing life–they pretended as if she wrote P & P right out of the gate.

By: Steph

Steph — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:40:19 +0000

I vehemently refused to see this movie when it first came out in theaters, because as an Austen fan, I didn’t get the point of this film. People who don’t like Jane Austen are very unlikely to choose to see a movie about her (whether it’s mostly fact or fiction), and people who *do* like Jane are likely going to be upset with the liberties that were taken within the scope of the film.

And yet, somehow this movie wound up on my Netflix queue (the place where all movies I wouldn’t dare see for $8 at the cinema wind up) and is now sitting on my coffee table at home. I watched the first 15 minutes a couple of nights ago, and am already nervous. I think the only way I’m going to get through this is by thinking it’s ALL fiction, and that it’s a movie about a character name Jane Austen, who just happens to be a writer… Either that or it’s going back without me fully watching it. Sigh.