No spoilers Re: Alan Rickman's new movie

[Carol]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "P. Alexis Nguyen"
<alexisnguyen at ...> wrote:
>
> Carol:
> > But was it worth seeing, in your view? And, if so, worth seeing
for Alan Rickman's performance or for itself?

Ali: 
> Now, I haven't seen the movie itself BUT I can tell you this:  if
you're going to see the movie for the subject (aka the 1976 US v.
France "judgment of Paris"), I would wait for the Judgement of Paris
movie coming out later.  From what I know of the movie, facts are a
little skewed here, so with two movies of the same topic coming out,
I'd wait for the second.  However, I'm not a big Rickman fan and
wouldn't see a (in theaters) just for him, but if you are going to do
so, I hear the movie isn't bad and has wonderful scenery shots - it's
just that the facts are a little skewed.
> 
> Personally, I'm waiting for the other movie and grabbing Bottle
Shock on Netflix.
> 
> ~Ali
>
Thanks, ali. I'm not interested in the subject at all, only in
Rickman's performance. If the rest of the movie is tolerable, I'll
watch it. I just don't want to be bored for an hour while I wait for
fifteen minutes of Rickman's performance. So a "not bad" movie with
great scenery and great (I hope) comic acting from Rickman would be
worth seeing in my view. 

If the subject were, say, fifteenth-century English history, it would
bother me that Rickman is thirty years older than the character he's
playing. As it is, it's his performance, not the character he's
playing or the true story behind the screenplay, that interests me. Of
course, I may have a little more trouble adjusting to Dennis Farina in
any role other than Lt. Mike Torello in the old "Crime Story" series.
(Unlike Rickman and other fine character actors, he doesn't seem able
to submerge his own personality in a role.)

Carol, who would probably watch a documentary if she wanted the true
story of the Judgment of Paris (or, better yet, read about the myth
that it's named after)