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

Hi Aries with Bells, Hugh Grant also had a brief part in a Roman Polanski film ("Moon under Water" or something). Played a middle-class tosser brilliantly. I remember Julie Birchilll saying Jack Nicholson could have been a great actor, and I wonder that about Hugh Grant too ... maybe stretching it a bit.

she had drug issues too iirc - very sad though

Marmalade Atkins too,

She did. Charlotte Colman her name was, and she died of an asthma atttack, alone in her flat, I believe :(

Very sad and bleak way to die.

And she is part of almost the best quote of the film, something like:

Gareth: (admiring) Fab dress Scarlett! Ecclesiastical purple and pagan orange symbolising the magical symbiosis of the Christian and heathen religions?"
Scarlett: (stunned puse) That's right.

Hugh Grant was only ever fuckable in Lair of the White Worm. He became far too dogeared far too quickly after that.

Love it! Wish I had mates like Hugh Grant's.

It was the first "grown up" movie I watched. Think I was 8 when it came out and watched it when was about 10. Loved it from then on. Although that whole line about "is it raining?" made me want to smack Andie Macdowell.

Notting Hill was shit too.

Did that sweet girl who Hugh lives with and rushes off to the wedding in the mini in, dud she die in real life?

jane, I watched About A Boy for the first time the other day and thought the same thing. Hugh Grant is actually an excellent comic actor when he's not playing Hugh Grant. Loved him in Bridget Jones too.

Its a classic, love that film.

Fuckadoodledoo.

Dear OP, I don't get it either. But then I rarely get these films and their idea of "romance" which is often naffy/cheesy and has nothing to do with real romance whatsoever. Their plots and characters seem to be brought up in stereotypes probably bandied around at marketing strategy meetings.

I liked "About a Boy" funnily enough, at least some heart. Hugh Grant could have been a great actor, but this silly middle-class twaddle...

No, NO NONONONONO

4W AND A FUNERAL is like being suffocated by a big, wet, British marshmallow.

The only film I've seen which I hated more was Mamma Mia.

loved it - it was very much of its time

it was the first time i went out and left 6 week old pfb ds with my mum - i cried on the way there and asked to turn the car back home but we carried on and enjoyed the film

Other classic films you don't get: Breakfast at Tiffany's.

I watched it for the first time a few months back. I really didn't get it! So she's an "escort" who visits some mafia guy in prison for criminal purposes, and the guy is a struggling writer who sleeps with that older woman for some cash, and Mickey Rooney is a very not acceptable now sterotyped fake!Asian person, and there's a party and some shoplifting and she's mean to that cat and chucks it out in the rain... It's just bizarre!

The best part of 4W is the closing sequence, lovely song and stills of all of them happy and in love (except Fi). Crap apart from that. Oh the bumbling brother is good. AM is awful, AWFUL, AWFUL

First date with first real boyfriend in the La Renior in the Brunswick Centre long long before it it was fashionable - 4 Weddings.
What we thought was last night out before DD arrived, only she choose not to be a breech baby half way through film (very weird washing machine on spin cycle 37 weeks pregnant moment) - Love Actually.

Love Actually on the other hand is rubbish . Disjointed and formulaic.

Pointless anecdote coming up: my sister and I went to a wedding and one of the readings was the clanging cymbals one. She whispered "Good point." We were purple and snorting with mirth - you know when the harder you're trying not to laugh, the worse it gets? Little moments like that would never happen if it wasn't for Four Weddings. Similarly, "Actually I think I'll have one of those. Mind if I join you?" "No. That would be lovely."

I could go on. And on. And on.....

Four Weddings is okay, Love Actually is one of the most pointless films ever made. It wasn't even written to sell a house (Notting Hill) and it had too many characters with too many rambling stories that went nowhere. And Kiera Knightly was in it.

I REALLY don't like Andie M but she is watchable - Bill Nighy on the other hand... (comparing the two films).

I like 4waaf but 'love actually' ?? I have started to watch it a few times (on tv) and can't get past the first 10 mins. I really don't get it.

I adore it. "what a very naughty husband inDEED!, bernard sinjen delaney, i need to be where other people are not, we've bith lost alot of weight since then" etc etc. And love actually which is my ultimate xmas movie.

(Sorry, that was in reply to the Love Actually reference as well as the Four Weddings thread...)

Oh God - the funeral and John Hannah's reading of the Auden poem, and Christmas and Emma Thompson not getting the necklace, just a CD...