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Ania
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 Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 10:46 am Post subject: Atonement |
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| I've just bought Atonement on DVD and although I usually don't usually like Keira Knightly, I absolutely adore the book so I wanted some people's opinions. Has anyone seen it/read the book, how does it compare? |
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dolarabee
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:07 pm Post subject: |
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Haven't read the book but the movie is on my list to see. I better get there too, before it's out of the cinemas.
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NancyBrooke
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| Posted: Mon Feb 04, 2008 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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I hope to see it this week, it's playing at the local historic big, single-screen theater. I thought the book was a masterpiece.
I know this doesn't answer your question ... 
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| Posted: Thu Feb 07, 2008 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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| I haven't seen this yet, but I really want to. |
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Just saw it, and thoroughly enjoyed it. It is very true to the book and the acting is very good. You know, I think Kiera Knightly is more attractive as a 'modern' girl, actually ... At times the images are a bit trite, but appropriately so, and there are some, perhaps disconcerting shifts in time but again, all in keeping with the novel and its themes.
And, on a more subjective note, that James McAvoy is like a flourless chocolate tartlet: deceptively small, seeming - perhaps - harmless yet powerfully sweet and deliciously intoxicating. Bet he feels good on the tongue, too ... 
Okay ... I'm back. 
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Ania
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| Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 4:33 am Post subject: |
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 Thank you Nancy! Heehee! |
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My pleasure, I'm sure  ... if you see it let us know what you think  .
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Ania
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Have watched it and I absolutely loved it. I was really pleased with it actually, it stayed true to the novel and the standard of acting was very high, I don't know if I'll ever particularly like Keira Knightley, but I think that she did Celia justice. James McAvoy is just too yummy in a rugged way, he was fantastic in this and the little girl who played Bryony was absolutely brilliant.
Great film!
Strange to see James McAvoy in this though after having watched him recently in Wimbledon and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, such a variety of parts! |
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| It was an excellent movie. I think that the score was particularly amazing with the film because it was very simple, but drove the tension. The end at first made me think we had suddenly accidentally changed the channel, or something, but once I had thought about the way they ended the movie, I liked the twist. |
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