Saturday, September 13, 2003

I was reading the LA Times this morning, and I have to share the Times' review of MTV's Wuthering Heights; I couldn't stop cracking up while I read it:

"What would you have if Heathcliff were a guitar-plucking, motorcycle-riding Kurt Cobain wannabe named Heath, and Cathy wre a snub-nosed, Valley girl-twanged, hyperventilating gal called Cate? What if the moor were Malibu?
What you would have might aptly be called “Withering Depths.” Instead, MTV has the gall to call it a remake of “Wuthering Heights” (Sunday at 8 p.m.).
Mike Vogel (“Grind”) infuses the role of Heathcliff with all the intensity of a bowl of vanilla ice cream and comes off about as tough as a puffy cloud. Plus, he cries like a girl. As Cate, Erika Christensen (“Traffic”) portrays emotion by hyperventilating. A lot. Someone get this girl a paper bag! MTV vapidly reduces a lyric poem of a novel into a cheesy limerick. Would Cathy hit Heathcliff upside the head with a shovel? Would Heathcliff get highlights? Now, really.
“Sometimes love isn’t enough to hold you—sometimes it’s so strong it drives you away,” Cate blankly intones to the riff of an electric guitar. Indeed, sometimes love of one’s hold on sanity strongly drives one to flip the channel."

So, it looks like if anyone wants some laughs this Sunday night, and doesn't want to watch the Conan 10th Anniversary special, just turn on MTV!

No comments: