If it’s done right, there is nothing funnier than a withering criticism. tell it to Carlos Boyerofor example, who has become the most influential (and feared) critic in the country based on his peculiar self-confidence how he has fallen asleep in such a movie or how that other has produced an infinite rejection. or the deceased Roger Ebertone of the most recognized critics worldwide, whose compilations criticizing the worst movies in history (for him) they became tremendously popular.
In other advance of the alan rickman diariesremembered for his roles in ‘The Glass Jungle’, ‘Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’ and in the saga ‘Harry Potter‘ Like Professor Severus Snape, we can take a look at an unknown side of the actor, that of the film critic. Alan Rickman collected in his diary two decades of film reviews in which he commented on what he thought of the films he was seeingand several of them have been unveiled in a preview of Guardianrevealing that Rickman was pretty funny when he went into destructive mode. with some of the most popular movies of the last 20 years.
Nobody is spared in these extracts. Neither Clint Eastwoodprotagonist of ‘in the line of fire‘ (1993), which Rickman claims is “an incredible plagiarism of ‘Jungla de Cristal’. Enemies talking on the phone to each other, falling off a skyscraper, etc, etc.”, nor the Oscar winner in 2013 ‘12 years a slave‘: “They told me it was a great movie. Would I see her again? No. What does she say she? Does Chiwetel deserve [Ejiofor] an Oscar? Nope. He’s overacting, looking worried, breathing hard.”
The list continues with ‘the last seduction‘ (1994), which he notes is “a profoundly cynical, joyless, diminishing work. We decided to go. An espresso is more rewarding.”, or with titles like ‘billy elliot‘ (2000), of which he states that “the headlines of ‘The greatest British film of all time’ are an insult to Losey, Schlesinger, Anderson, Newell, Minghella and the rest.”
Of ‘The unstoppable Will Hunting‘ (1997) said it was “a bit disappointing. It feels like it’s searching for a purpose, or has too many.”, and of the Hugh Grant film ‘a big boy‘ (2002) sentence that is “the typical depressing English movie where single mothers and Amnesty workers are ugly people in giant sweaters.“
Not even ‘Vicky Cristina Barcelona‘ (2008), the film of Woody Allen starring Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem and Scarlett Johansson, escaped the interpreter’s sarcastic comments: “Nonsense of a women’s magazine by Woody Allen“.
These excerpts are from a compilation of the British actor’s handwritten diaries to be published in the UK in October, entitled ‘Madly Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman‘.
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The Alan Rickman Diaries: Two Decades Criticizing Movies