Watching this movie made critic marymacTV think: 'Well, that makes no sense... God, Maggie Smith must be sick of those hats'
Well, actually it wasn’t a dream, it was a movie, a movie much like a dream in that I seemed always to be traveling through a series of overly appointed rooms in which ridiculous things happened and were said by people who seemed familiar and yet not.
Watching this movie that might have been a dream I found myself thinking things like: “Well, that makes no sense.” “God, Maggie Smith must be sick of those hats.
Michelle Dockery, from left, stars as Mary Crawley and Elizabeth McGovern is Cora Crawley in the movie"Downton Abbey." Cynics among us may wonder, why? Why, in this age of cinematic television, and after such debacles as the"Sex and the City” movies, “The X Files” and “The Powerpuff Girls,” why do we keep tacking movies onto the end of perfectly good television shows?But mostly because the fans.
More homage than sequel, “Downton” does not bother itself with the pesky problems of plot or character continuity because it really doesn’t have to. The fans are not there to judge; they just want to know that Lady Mary is still happy, that the Dowager Countess remains acerbic and hilarious, and that neither of the Bateses are back in jail.
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