Here's a movie review for you:
Friday, Emma came over and we watched Persuasion on Netflix. We saw ahead of time that it didn't have great reviews. We saw it had a rating of 33% on Rotten Tomatoes.
We were actually a little excited for a really terrible movie, kind of like how we love watching sappy Christmas movies. The cheesier the better.
Sadly, it was not bad enough to be good, but not good enough to be good either.
Anne Elliot is one of my favorite Jane Austen characters. I aspire to, but will probably never be like her. She is calm (always) and kind and patient. She is long-suffering. She is great in any crisis. She isn't perfect like Jane Bennett is, she did take bad advice and broke it off with Captain Wentworth after all.
This adaptation made her like a Great Value Elizabeth Bennett. She was sort of sassy and quirky and kept breaking the fourth wall to give the audience a smirk or a saucy retort.
I am fine with people remaking Jane Austen stories over and over again. Just don't mess with Anne Elliot.
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