Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy- Page 2
Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#25Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Posted: 10/22/13 at 2:54pmHer British accent sounds more effortless than Anne Hathaway's in One Day, Keanu's in Dracula or (my least favorite of all time... so bad) Josh Hartnett in Blow Dry.
#26Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Posted: 10/22/13 at 2:57pmScripps, help us out again: Doesn't Dick Van Dyke in "Mary Poppins" take the award for least-convincing British accent?
#27Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Posted: 10/22/13 at 3:08pm
If you think Dick Van Dyke's English accent was unconvincing then you should watch a very young Michelle Pfeiffer in "Falling in Love Again" where she plays Susannah York's character in flashbacks.
I love me some Michelle Pfeiffer, but...
#28Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Posted: 10/22/13 at 3:10pmDick Van Dyke's is certainly the most-ridiculed.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#28Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Posted: 10/22/13 at 5:38pm
"PS as a Christmas romcom I prefer this to (ducks) Love Actually, which I have now seen in its entirety"
You are dead to me. Dead!
Love Actually has its strong points and its weak points, but nothing in BJ can come close to Emma Thompson's scene in the bedroom. She was doing work that Streep would sell her daughters to be able to do. The brilliance of acting that Emma Thompson displays in that scene hasn't been seen in years. That scene is perfect.
I enjoy Shirley Henderson. It's too bad that she only played a bit part in Bridget Jones rather than playing the lead.
#29Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Posted: 10/22/13 at 5:39pmI enjoy her, too, but Moaning Myrtle as Bridget Jones? Puh-lease.
#30Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Posted: 10/22/13 at 5:44pm
"That scene is perfect."
It is. But it's only one scene.
If Kander & Ebb were to have written the musical version of BJ then I'm sure casting Shirley Henderson and Alan Cumming would be fine.
Gothampc
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/20/03
#31Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Posted: 10/22/13 at 7:11pmName me a scene in Bridget Jones that is as sweet as Andrew Lincoln standing outside of Keira Knightley's door. That was a heartbreaking scene as well.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#32Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Posted: 10/22/13 at 8:38pm
YOU ARE RIGHT LOVE ACTUALLY IS THE ONLY MOVIE THAT EVER WAS AND I'M SO GLAD THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IN A THREAD ABOUT THE NEW BRIDGET JONES BOOK
Actually hated Love, Actually, actually. Watched video. Not vg. Actually.
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#33Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Posted: 10/22/13 at 9:28pmI got my love of James Callis from the first movie
#34Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Posted: 10/22/13 at 10:51pm
I actually love "Love Actually," but I think the whole carols-with-the-flash-cards scenes is kind of stalkery/creepy--especially the pic of the mummy, or whatever the hell it was.
But I'm with you on the Emma T. crying scene.
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#35Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Posted: 10/25/13 at 7:41pm
I have the capacity to love both "Love, Actually" and "Bridget Jones".
And love them, I do!
In fact, I think I will watch both movies again very soon.
Reg, we still have a movie date to schedule.. let's make it a double-feature!
So, the book. I haven't finished, but had the chance to get through a good bit of it while traveling for business this week. I had a hard time with the SPOILER (at first!), but, it hasn't derailed me from enjoying the book and, as PRS puts it, reconnecting with an old friend.
I did have a sort of startling realization, however, at just how much time has passed since these books were first introduced to us! Being relatively close to the age Bridget Jones is, in book 3, I gasped at how the time went by in the blink of an eye. I was just in my 30's, I swear...
Wynbish
Broadway Legend Joined: 4/27/12
#36Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Posted: 10/25/13 at 7:55pmYou guys are stronger than me. I don't think I could get past that hurdle. I'd flail into it and demand some ice cream to soften the blow.
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#37Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Posted: 10/25/13 at 8:01pmIce cream and some wine...
#38Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Posted: 10/25/13 at 8:24pmAddy, I look forward to it! In fact, I have one really good (I hope) suggestion . . .
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#39Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Posted: 10/25/13 at 10:09pm
I'm all ears, Reg!!
Ok, finished the book.
I think that there had the be the "SPOILER" in order to even have a 3rd Bridget Jones book.
It wouldn't be true to Bridget to have a book about her happily-ever-after life, where it left off with book 2. She had to have a reason to be involved with Twitter and technology and flummoxed by all that is part of life in these crazy times. (Don't know if that makes sense...)
I really enjoyed spending time with Bridget again.
Phyllis Rogers Stone
Broadway Legend Joined: 9/16/07
#40Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Posted: 10/25/13 at 10:25pmI'm nearly halfway through it and I'm really enjoying it.
#41Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Posted: 10/25/13 at 10:29pm
Can't. Resist. Enthusiasm from . . . Phyllis. And . . . And . . . Addy . . .
Must read . . .
NYadgal
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#42Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Posted: 10/27/13 at 7:08pm
If I were to write a review, this is exactly the review I would write.
And, yes, it's possible I cried a bit at the end of the book, too.
(DO NOT READ, if you don't want to know the SPOILER)
NY Times: Mad About The Boy
#43Bridget Jones - Mad About the Boy
Posted: 10/28/13 at 6:40am
I love the Glen Hanson artwork used for the article. He's one of my favorites.
Updated On: 10/28/13 at 06:40 AM
Videos