To Not 'Get' 'Four Weddings and A Funeral'?

A classic in my book.

In Am's defence - isn't her character being deadpan in the raining line. It's not supposed to sound genuine - it's supposed to sound flat. She's being funny.

I guess I saw it just as I turned 21 - when friendships were moving into a grown up stage and here were friends just a little further down the line.

It rang very true. And I have cheerily used "you must be so proud" at every wedding I've been to!

Come on, FW had some classic lines.

?I was at school with his brother, Bufty. Tremendous fellow. Buggered me senseless, still, taught me a thing or two about life. How do you know him??
Pause
Hugh Grant: ?University.?

Old lady at table to KST: ?Are you married??
KST (ruefully): ?No?
Old lady: ?Are you a lesbian??

Glad to see someone else likes ?push on through ?til dawn?!

Mummytime
Yes, quite right, it is bullying and the whole gang of friends participates. Horrid.

The bit where Duckface is doing her hair and headband thingy on her wedding day where she says, 'it works, doesn't it? It really works' (not verbatim!) shows a really nasty streak on the part of the writer. It's really uncomfortable watching. Maybe we're supposed to think the bullying and horrid treatment are justified because, sin of sins, Duckface admires her appearance in the mirror on her wedding day.

What rot.

The funeral scene is sad. And gives some complexity (although it is rather unexplored) to the characters because despite his waistcoats and rah rah appearance, Simon Callow's character is actually from a v modest Northern industrial town.

The whole group treat "Duckface" awfully, and its a nasty bullying clique thing.

My other favourite characters are: the girl who learns sign-language to get together with Charles's brother, the second married couple, and the batty Uncle. Then there is the very sad funeral bit.

Greythorne

Hugh Grant's misogynistic behaviour in the film merely reflects real life-the man has used prostitutes. How much more misogynistic can you get? I think he is absolutely repellent.

I love Four Weddings although now I am older and, I like to think, wiser, I have a sneaking suspicion that Richard Curtis hates women as they're all treated rather badly in his films - by him and the other characters.

I do always want Charles to choose Fi instead of stupid Andie McDowell though. I must have watched it about 100 times and he's not done it yet. Maybe next time...

I LOVE Breakfast at Tiffany's - if you don't, read the novella by Truman Capote. It's very dark and much less Hollywood than the film - and it helps makes sense of Holly Golightly. Plus there's no schmaltzy kissing in the rain ending, either.

For me, I watched it, know what happens, and wouldn't need to watch it again.

The bigger problem is the horrible, horrible way Hugh Grant's character treats 'Duckface'.

That's rather misogynistic.

It's great. Andie McDowell cannot sink it.

givemushypeasachance At last I've found someone else who hates Breakfast At Tiffany's.

LeBof - I thought I was the only person who'd ever seen Bitter Moon! Whenever the subject of "worst ever film" comes up I always say Bitter Moon, but no-one else has ever heard of it. It's awful, awful, awful. When all those luvvies came out a couple of years ago in defence of Roman Polanski and how he shouldn't be tried for rape because he was a great film-maker, I just thought, "But you can't have seen Bitter Moon. He should go to prison for that alone."

Love four weddings apart from Andie McD she ruins it a bit bit other than that it's great

I loved 'How Do you want me?' with Charlotte Coleman and Dylan Moran.

YABU to think it is a 'chick flick'... that misses the point entirely.

FWAF is a fairly traditional 'farce'.... a comedy set piece where doors open/shut and bedsprings twang as the various characters get the wrong end of the stick or are in the wrong place at the wrong time and the hero is usually one very confused man trying to preserve his dignity. The success depends on situation rather than characterisation or acting skills. Should finish with a neat resolution. If you don't like it, fair enough, but it's a pretty good example of the genre.

Glad to see Charlotte Coleman being remembered here.

I love it, I first saw it with a friend in the US, and kept telling them just how true it was to weddings I'd been to (especially the awful singing by "friends" during signing the register).
Charlotte Coleman's sister is in Tracey Beaker, and confused me for years. Charlotte used to act for a bit, then go off travelling, then act for some more money, so I like to think she had a good if short life.

I loved this when it first came out - I must've been 16ish at the time. It was hilarious and glamorous and romantic all at the same time, but it has lost its charm for me as I've got older. I now can't understand why he didn't get together with the Kristin Scott Thomas character, she is far more interesting (and beautiful) than Andi McDowell, and both the Hugh Grant and Andi McD behave so shabbily towards their recent spouses/almost spouses that I find it hard to much like either.

Charlotte Coleman was and is one of the best things about it. I loved her in everything she was in.

Fuck a doodle doo is nowhere near as good as Steve Segal's 'fucknuts'!

I dont like the film ..

"Is it raining, I hadnt noticed" FUCK OFF!!!!

But....my favourite swear came from that which is Fuck a doodle doo! :o

Bitter Moon is quite possibly one of the cheesiest worst films of all time. I can only think of Madonna's Body Of Evidence as topping it.

YABU, totally.

'Push on through 'til dawn' is a household phrase for us. As is, 'I think I'm in there'.

It is great in spite of, not because of, Andie McD. DH love it too though probably only because two women from his laminated list are in it.

'We've both lost a lot of weight since then' is comedy gold.

Bitter Moon. It was a bit pervy, IIRC.

The film I referred to was An Awfully Big Adventure. If you hate chickflick Hugh, you might like it.

I hate it. I hate Hugh Grunt, I hate 'Notting Hill', I hate 'About A Boy'. In fact If I see that twats face, it's a total switch off.

Hugh played a horrible character in a rather horrible film (can't remember the name, he was director of a theatre company with Alan Rickman as Captain Hook...) anyhow, he did some properly good acting in that.