Wow! I fall behind in my BetterMost reading over the holidays, finally get around to this thread and discover people are making selections in honor of me! Thanks everybody!! Makes it doubly hard to confess that, um ... I didn't vote for
Wuthering Heights I love the book, but I've never been very satisfied with any of the film adaptations. And I'm sorry Barb, et. al, but I find it hard to picture Ralph Fiennes as Heathcliff (he does play Heathcliff, I assume? not Edgar, whom I can more easily see him as?) But that's no aspersion on Ralph -- I have a hard time picturing Lawrence Olivier as Heathcliff, too. The only Heathcliff I've ever been half satisfied with is Timothy Dalton, but perhaps only because I saw that version of WH
before reading the book.
Hey, this just struck me, having seen
The Children of Men yesterday. You know who would make a GREAT Heathcliff? Clive Owen!
Anyway, I voted for
Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid. I haven't seen that one practically since it was in theaters, loved it at the time and am curious as to how it holds up. I think to some degree my love for that movie laid the groundwork for my love for BBM, 40 years later.