I’m watching Sense and Sensibility

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Isn’t Alan Rickman so bloody lovely?

Great film.

Love that film and AR is excellent as indeed are all the actors!

Alan Rickman was wasted as Snape. Not that he didn't do a fantastic job, he was a fantastic actor, but he was so bloody type-cast. He always seemed to be the stereotypical villain, yet he played such a fantastic romantic. First time I ever saw him was in Truly Madly Deeply. Wonderful.

I love Sense and Sensibility. Yes, they are too old but it's so moving that it doesn't matter. I think Emma Thompson is wonderful doing heartbreak. I think Richard Curtis must have thought so too since she's the only watchable part of Love, Actually.

Great film. It's one of my safe place films that I watch again and again when I'm a bit depressed!

Someone I knew waitressed for the close of shoot party for S&S back in the day. She said AR was lovely but "looked 100 years old."

Wonderful film. AR is just brilliant. But I agree that Emma should not have been cast as Elinor. Apparently she was reluctant to take the role.

Is it on Netflix? I feel like watching it now 

I watched it on Sky between.

Pure, unadulterated guilty pleasure.

I need to see if it’s on Netflix or prime.

Why a guilty pleasure?

I don't care they're all too old, I'd watch Emma Thomson reading a phone book.

She's a wonderful actress, just mesmerising

I miss Alan Rickman - he was so liked by absolutely everyone

I think Emma's Elinor was aged up to 26, or so I read at the time. The "where is your heart" scene gets me every time, she's superb.

And she got Willoughby in real life! Greg Wise was lovely and has aged a lot better than dearest Ken.

To be fair, Elinor in the book was a very mature 19. So Emma Thompson's appearance was not at odds with the character she was playing.

If she'd played the immature Marianne (technically only 2 years younger) then we'd all have been going wtf.

Adore Rickman in S&S, it’s my favourite novel and makes my top 10 of movies I watch many times a year.

It’s one of my favourite comfort films. Everyone is perfect in it. Emma Thompson plays Elinor so beautifully that I really don’t care that she’s technically too old for the role - she makes the character her own.

I once started to watch a bizarre BBC version which I had to switch off as the actors were clearly just delivering a pastiche of the film performances and it was painful to listen to.

I’m now in the mood to re-watch the TV version of Pride and Prejudice.

Possibly my most favourite bbc drama ever

That is such a perfect production, score, filming, casting etc, I won’t hear a word against it!

One of my favourite books and films. Love Emma Thompson.

Marianne always gets on my nerves, she's such a bloody drip!

I think Alan Rickman as Colonel Brandon may have been partly responsible for my older man phase in my 20s. Bastard

I do like it but I felt when watching it that Emma was a bit too old for that role. When I saw it at the cinema I was 15, swooned after Willoughby and was bemused by the idea of Marianne falling for Colonel Brandon but now I am older I totally get it.

I think I may be the only person in the world who finds the BBC Pride and Prejudice a bit “meh” but loves the Keira Knightley film version 🤔

It was such a joy introducing my 15yo dd to S&S by watching the film with her. I kept having to pause it so that she could SQUEEEEE with delight

Yes, the actors are far too old for the characters, but they are nonetheless beautifully cast, and soooooo talented.

Then we watched the wonderful BBC P&P together, and dd was as entranced.

I’m now in the mood to re-watch the TV version of Pride and Prejudice.

Possibly my most favourite bbc drama ever

I'd like to put in a vote for Persuasion, with Amanda Root and Ciaran Hinds. It's just perfect!