I saw that on your Tumblr. I read most of it out loud to my husband, but I had to stop before the end so I didn't start crying.
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I am just so sad and upset. Something about this is hitting me really hard in a personal way. I've loved him as an actor for so long.
Yeah. I'm really angry.
Him and Bowie the same week is just so so wrong.
For some weird reason I really want to see The January Man again. It's not a good movie, and a lot of good actors are kind of terrible in it, but Alan Rickman's supporting role was hilarious and it was the first thing I saw him in after Die Hard (also on the must watch again list). It was so the opposite of his Die Hard role yet still so Rickman it was a revelation.
The January Man isn't a good movie. It's an odd little movie, with a lot of good actors. But there is snappy dialog...two of my favorite movie lines of all time, which I will not spoil.
And the ending is perfect.
And Alan Rickman was one of the best unexpected things in the movie. He's almost superfluous to the movie, but it would be so much worse without him.
So odd though that some of the good actors are so terrible or uneven. Not Rickman, though.
Agreed about the ending too.
Agreed about the ending too.
It had a much deeper impact on me than you might imagine. I remember sitting in the theatre, after everyone left, thinking what interesting things it said about the audience's expectations AND about how that sort of thing would go in the real world.
Agreed about the uneven performances by some of the cast. But not Rickman. All of his fairly limited scenes were choice.
I don't know about anyone else, but the new Suicide Squad trailer (set to Bohemian Rhapsody) is making me very impatient for August!
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Eh. I still really hate the character design/costuming for Harley and the Joker. Seeing them in motion made it even worse, IMO.