Review of Far from the Madding Crowd

I gave up watching this after I heard the line, "Do you want a job then?" The dialogue was so modern and unconvincing I was soon irritated by it, and the line in question was the last straw! Another reviewer has commented on the rural dialect. I am an Englishman who lives in the West Country (where this story is set) and am familiar with West Country dialects and accents as they were before television destroyed them. The dialect and accents used in this version were hopeless, and would have been best avoided. (I haven't heard realistic West Country speech in films or on TV since the '60s/'70s - actors seem unable or unwilling to make the effort.)