Little Women (2019)

[Drunk Monk]

If someone posted about this already, please link. Searching the title comes up with 10 pages of hits. 

Great cast. I'll watch Saoirse in anything - still bewitched by those Irish eyes. Also, Meryl and Laura Dern, plus an HP2 - Hermione and Prof Sprout. 

It's disappointing. The dialog is too girly chatty to follow and it bounces to and fro in time so it's work to figure out when they are in the story. For example, a beach scene when they are kids cuts to another beach scene years later without warning. It's confuzzling. There's some good scenes, great landscape shots, but the editing just ruins it all. Just goes to show that a great cast delivering solid performances can be totally ruined by crappy editing. I've always thought this about fight scenes too. So much is in the edit. 

There's sort of a sword fight - some kids in school learning fencing. But they're just lunging with sticks... and not wearing knickers... so it's not real fencing. Not recommended for DOOM at all.

[King Bob]

Saw a while ago but never posted. I also found this disappointing, mainly due to the time jumping. Emma Watson didn't get to do much. Chalamet was okay.

The 3 part Masterpiece Theater version is far better.

[Drunk Monk]

To be honest, I'm not really into the story. Did you ever read it? I didn't. And I don't plan to read it. I was in it for the actresses involved. 

Agreed on Emma. She never got past her standard Hermione expressions in this.

[King Bob]

Never read it nor planned to. My wife had read it as a child, and liked it, so I've seen the Winona Ryder one, the PBS one, and this one. I think this one was the weakest really, and the attempts to update the material were mostly clunky.

[Drunk Monk]

The jumping about in time really bothered me. There was little change in the actresses over the years and it kept darting to and fro in time. That was confusing and I wasn’t engaged enough to track it.