[A/N: this is back from my days in the tiger pits. No mothers were involved in the making of this post.]
“Riders, are we gonna get cultured tonight?”
“Yeah!”
“Wait, what are we doing?”
“Getting cultured. We’re watching Pride and Prejudice.”
“And Zombies?”
“A2, come get cultured!”
“….what?”
“We’re watching Pride and Prejudice.”
“But no zombies.”
“It’s kind of creepy that he’s just staring at her. I mean, he was awkward in the other version but this one–”
“Even more awkward.”
“Yeahhh…”
“So…what she just said was, ‘I heard you’re into this guy and I’m gonna tell it to you straight,’ but then she said, ‘you gotta be careful, he’s poor’?”
“He still staring at her?”
“It’s so awkward!”
“The mother isn’t going to be like this the whole movie, is she?”
“Yep.”
“Oh my g*d. I hate her already.”
“I like how the dad is just out of it. He’s so chill.”
“So awkward.”
“Homegirl is sassy! I love it. I like this girl. I hate everyone else, but I like her.”
“Well, what about Jane?”
“Oh, Jane is OK.”
“And what about the dad?”
“Oh, well, sure, I like him too.”
“What about Darcy?”
“Oh, well, I love Colin Firth, so sure. Even though he’s a creepy awkward dude who stares at girls instead of talking to them.”
“Hey, talking to people is hard.”
“…fair.”
“Oh my gosh. Is this the cousin guy?”
“He’s definitely more weasly. And possibly more ratlike.”
“I think he’s less ratlike but more weasly in this one.”
“You guys, he’s creepy!”
“THIS GUY! He’s so creepy!”
“He’s supposed to be like funny in a pathetic way.”
“He’s so creepy, it’s like–it’s like actually making me physically uncomfortable to see him.”
“Ooo, ooh is this gonna be the scene where he finds her in his house? DUDE. I cannot imagine how it would be if I came home and the person I asked to marry me and who turned me down was there IN MY HOUSE.”
“I hope this scene is as good as the other one, because that was deadass hilarious.”
“I feel like I need to read this book.”
“You need to read the book.”
“….so awkward.”
“What did I miss?”
“I wish I could catch you up, but…”
“….culture. You missed getting cultured.”
“Oh. That makes me sad.”
“When are the zombies going to show up?”
You must like your friends a lot to admit to hanging out with them if their idea of P&P is the zombie version 😀
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I didn’t participate in that particular watch party, for several reasons.
IIRC, P&P 2005 was the palate cleanser/sanity restorer after M2 made us sit through Sharknado 1, and then I made us watch the “good” version.
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Oh man, the Sharknado franchise. Not even the Evil Dead franchise was that stupid…
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About half-way through I started to theorize on how it was actually a deeply symbolic psychological journey through one man’s psyche and the road to redemption. It didn’t help much.
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Nothing could redeem those movies. I watched the first 3 and then just had to stop for my own sanity. Not even flying sharks eating people en masse (which would normally be perfect for me) could redeem every other bad part 😦
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We stopped letting him pick the movies after that.
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Good for you. Probably stopped a vortex from opening into a Hell dimension or something 😀
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