Normal isn't a good enough reason for me to find a story interesting. It's completely irrelevant, in fact. By about halfway in, I realised I did not care what she experienced or what happened to her. I stuck around because so many people like the movie, but she, they didn't come back from that--it was two people uninteresting to me doing uninteresting things in ways that didn't interest me.

Normal isn't a good enough reason for me to find a story interesting.

That's why I don't much like most family drama. True to life family troubles--I can get that in my living room.

Blow Dry

OMG, Bill Nighy! Natasha Richardson (RIP), Rachel Griffiths! Glorious tattoos! Blow Dry always had a Strictly Ballroom feeling to it, for me, though it's a vastly different tale.

The scissors on the bottom of his foot!!

This is what I am saying.

Plus, I love the accents (excepting Josh Hartnell, of course).

It's massive cheese and totally predictable, but I love it.

Bill Nighy is delish.

And yes, the same feeling as Strictly Ballroom, another of my faves.

I've seen quite a few questionable (but sort of interesting) early Alan Rickman. Close Your Eyes, where he plays a husband cuckolded by siblingcest (the brother's played by Clive Owen so maybe sort of understandable? IDK.) Man, what a weird film. An Awfully Big Adventure, also with the incest theme! A couple of movies that tried to capitalize on Rickman's charisma by casting him as historic figures well known for their famed magnetism -- Mesmer and Rasputin -- and fell short. And that one movie where he and Emma Thompson played a couple of bickering detectives on search for a a con woman played by Carla Gugino and they inexplicably failed to have any UST. I blamed the director (Gugino's hubby.)

I dunno. I love him, but I kind of feel like he's been ill-served by movies in general, TMD and Sense and Sensibility excepted. Well, and Galaxy Quest, of course.

I would never have thought to look for Blow Dry on Netflix streaming, but now I know one of the things I will be doing this weekend.

Blow Dry is pretty fun. Natasha and Rachel have great chemistry together. So does Alan and the rest of the cast.

Rickman in Dogma was fun.

Oh hell, I loved Rickman first--before Die Hard--in January Man. I'm a huge Kline fan and a Mastrantonio fan, and of course, Susan Sarandon and the vowel guys: Keitel, Steiger, Aiello, but I kept staring at the screen: Who *is* that Ed?

January Man

YES!! My fourth favorite Rickman film.

I also like Bottle Shock, which was quite educational. (also on Netflix)

Plus, the other historical figure movie he did with Mos Def...Something the Lord Made. Really unsympathetic in that.

Wikipedia says he'll be Ronald Reagan this year. Hm. That should be interesting.