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Originally Posted by Barty
Yes the Emma Thompson's screenplay directed by Ang Lee was great. Pretty perfect casting too.
I think Scorcese's Age of Innocence relied too much on narration and made it feel too remote, but maybe that was the righ tone.
I like the P&P with Keira Knightley. All the movie adaptations are more sentimental than the books, but hey, Keira is just so damn cute. The best is probably the BBC version with Colin Firth as Darcy.
Fry and Laurie's creation has a different feel than the books. I think I may even prefer it to the original.
On that note, my favorite Holmes is Jeremy Brett.
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As with many things, tastes vary. I was reading Wodehouse long before the F&L adaptions, so that's what my expectations were founded on. I did find the series enjoyable on it's own level - quite funny, but I still prefer the books.
Like The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - nearly everyone refers back to the books as the 'gospel' version, but since I listened to the radio show well before the books hit America, I tend to compare the books and movies to that.
P&P adaptations being too sentimental - well, that's what I'm afraid of. P&P is probably one of the least sentimental 'romances' ever. Too much sentimentality would spoil it, IMHO.
I don't think I have a favorite Holmes - I enjoy the Holmes stories, but I don't think I've ever had enough emotionally invested in them to care particularly about the adaptions, as long as they weren't completely messed up. Brett was good - so was Basil Rathbone although many of Rathbone's Holmes movies stray too far afield.