I watched 28 Days with Sandra Bullock, Steve Buscemi and (yum) Viggo Mortensen--hearing that he's in it made me rent it. Sandra Bullock is pretty good as alcoholic and drug user and general party-going mess settled into a very bad lifestyle with her cute, alkie/druggy boyfriend. I gather from the netflix sleeve that she's supposed to be a journalist of some sort but you could have fooled me--we never her working or hanging out with friends who seem to work (granted most of the movie takes place at the rehab center). Painful drunkenless ick ick ick. Ruins sister's wedding --ick ick ick. Drunken mom memories--ick ick ick. And the whole thing about AA and the higher power stuff always rubbed me the wrong way--but strangely (and luckily, as far as I'm concerned) they dropped most of that for therapy sessions about 1/3 of the way into the movie. Viggo cute as a button. So-so.
Then I watched Sense and Sensibility directed by And Lee and with Kate Winslet, who I adore, Emma Thompson, who I adore, Alan Rickman (WIA) and Hugh Grant, who I may not adore but like an awful lot...oh yeah and Hugh Laurie (whoopie). I laughed I cried --just kidding I cried and cried--having not read the book I really wasn't sure if it would end sadly or happily. For those who haven't read the book or seen the movie, my lips are sealed. But I enjoyed it a lot. I was going to watch the last movie My Neighbor Totoro but decided to save it and work instead. So what the heck am I doing posting???? tsk tsk.
Then I watched Sense and Sensibility directed by And Lee and with Kate Winslet, who I adore, Emma Thompson, who I adore, Alan Rickman (WIA) and Hugh Grant, who I may not adore but like an awful lot...oh yeah and Hugh Laurie (whoopie). I laughed I cried --just kidding I cried and cried--having not read the book I really wasn't sure if it would end sadly or happily. For those who haven't read the book or seen the movie, my lips are sealed. But I enjoyed it a lot. I was going to watch the last movie My Neighbor Totoro but decided to save it and work instead. So what the heck am I doing posting???? tsk tsk.
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Go you and read the book! Do it now, please!
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I've not seen Truly, Madly, Deeply although I do know what it's about--I'll check it out eventually.
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The higher power thing has always rubbed me the wrong way too... what's this? One needs to believe in a deity to deal with addiction? If you ask me, it sounds like something that would be said by a person who believes in a deity and thinks everyone else should too. I've heard there are atheist AA groups who don't push that particular issue. Makes me wonder what a group of sociobiologists in A.A. would talk about.
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I have a friend who joined AA and was determined to convert me to the higher power philosophy. Luckily, it has never been mentioned again in the last 15 years or we wouldn't still be friends.
I wonder what kind of therapy the atheist groups use?
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instead of, say, considering that the religious content, being unnecessary, should be discarded.
Sigh.
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Emma Thompson also wrote the screenplay for that adaptation. It's one of my favorites--the book as well as the movie. Of course I'm pretty well smitten by all of Austen's novels...
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I noticed that-Brava for her! It was pretty magnificent. Is it faithful to the book?