2K Replay: PRIDE & PREJUDICE

 by Adam Riske

Winner for “Best Movie for Mature Audiences” at the MovieGuide Awards.

• Best Scene/Moment: I really like the scene where Elizabeth (Keira Knightley) tells her father (Donald Sutherland) about all of the cool things Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfayden) has been doing behind the scenes and Sutherland happily gives his consent for Elizabeth to marry Darcy.

• Best Song: “Dawn” written by Dario Marianelli and performed by Tamzin Merchant.

• Best Merch: This is my choice solely for the seller’s description. A “DVD Pride & Prejudice 2005 W/Kevin Knightley A Joe Wright Fun ” for $5.00. And, of course, it’s Full Screen.

• Director Grade: Pride & Prejudice was directed by Joe Wright.
Great Movies: Pride & Prejudice
Good Movies: Hanna
OK Movies: Atonement, Darkest Hour
Bad Movies: N/A
Unseen By Me: The Soloist, Anna Karenina, Pan, The Woman in the Window, Cyrano
Overall Grade: B

• Double It with This 2005 Movie: Casanova

• Year 2005 Movies to Trailer Before Them: Brokeback Mountain, Memoirs of a Geisha, The New World

• Never Talk to Strangers or Pride & Prejudice? Pride & Prejudice.

• Mall Movie? Not a chance. A fancy theater movie all the way.

• Only in 2005: I watched an adaptation of Pride & Prejudice. It’s all because of Keira Knightley, who rules.

• Scene Stealer: Donald Sutherland.

• I Miss: Donald Sutherland.

• I Don’t Miss (tie): Studios still releasing DVDs in Full Screen in 2005 and the decades-long run of having to clap for Judi Dench for doing literally anything in a movie. She’s good but calm down people.

• 2005 Crush (tie): Keira Knightley and Rosamund Pike.

• 2025 Crush: Keira Knightley.

• What I Thought in 2005: I remember being surprised by how much I enjoyed Pride & Prejudice (2005) on my first viewing. It was involving and I really liked Knightley in the lead role of Elizabeth Bennett. Plus, now I understood the references to it in You’ve Got Mail.

• What I Think in 2025: Pride & Prejudice (2005) held up really well. You have to be patient with it, but it rewards you for giving it your full attention. The cast is great, and it reminded me of Little Women (1994) -- which I hadn’t seen back in 2005 -- and that’s always a good thing. In other words, I might be a better match for Meg Ryan in You’ve Got Mail than Tom Hanks.