it’s on again…

Are there movies that you absolutely must watch when you come across them on tv?  I have a few:

Red Dawn, Top Gun, Tommy Boy, Billy Madison/Happy Gilmore

and now, thanks to my wife, Pride and Prejudice.  We watched it last spring, over our vacation, and now it’s on again.  Kim was headed to bed until she heard Miss Elizabeth banging on the piano forte.  Now here we sit on the couch, listening to Mr. Darcy stumble through a very poor attempt to reveal his love for Miss Elizabeth in a pouring rain…Our girls have caught the bug, even though they have trouble following the British accent.  Levi watched it with us on vacation, but doesn’t think he’ll ever watch it again.

One of the low-key funny scenes:  Mr. Collins is delivering a rather boring sermon.  People are sleeping.  A kid is spinning a top.  Elizabeth is talking to Mr Darcy’s friend.  He delivers the line:

Mr. Collins: …which are only to be obtained through intercourse…
[pause, thunder]
Mr. Collins: Forgive me…through the intercourse of friendship or civility.

It makes me laugh, because I know how easy it is to says something in the middle of a sermon that I don’t mean to say…like the youth pastor who meant to say “pitched his tents” but didn’t quite get there…

Anyway, back to the movie that my wife–and I–love…