To not understand how it’s only TODAY that I’ve ever watched Love Actually

I love LA , watched it with DD ( adult) on Dec 1st as she hadn;t seen it all the way through for years .

"Eight IS a lot of legs , David" is one of her favourite quotes .

Love Hugh Grant , his dancing scene is the best bit ( also watched Heretic last week , Hugh Grant has still got it )

Didn;t like The Holiday , cannot abide Jack Black trying to do a cute "who me , shucks" face .
I have reached the age of 58 before I saw it and I could happily go another 58 before I see it again.

They ( Amanda and Graham) met , slept together twice , DTD once then she met his daughters in the space of two weeks . All the Red Flags Flying there

I agree it's a Mumsnet 'thing' to hate it but I love it!

I hope you've seen The Holiday...if not, watch that too.

Awful film. Still disgusted that Keira Knightly was cast as a young wife while she was still underage, and in such a creepy grim storyline (husbands supposed best friend in love with her) 🤮🤮🤮🤮

All of this. Plus it's not funny

This just reminded me I meant to watch it today.i always feel heart broken for Emma Thompsons character too, and agree his is very much a shit of a man.

I will never not be bothered by the Laura Linney storyline... every time I see it I get frustrated. She could have/he could have/the staff at the facility could have... urgh!! So annoying and yes, so sad.

Well, her role is to seduce an already married man. And opening her legs and acting horny, dancing and grinding against him at the office Christmas party saying its all for you sir, is that not slutty and him a creep?

She may be perfectly nice in real life but the role is to portray a horny woman wanting to sleep with a married man. It's facts.

Creep and the slut in the office and buying her the jewellery rather than his wife.

All that sanctimonious judgement and you think the use of “slut” is acceptable?

Yeah, utterly pointless and cringe and I would hate kids to see that

Yes, and doesnt she swirm about in just knickers and bra and open the door to Hugh grant in said pants and bra, saying you're not who I think you are, are you?

There are so many things wrong with this movie.

The chap obsessed with his mates wife. And the fact she kisses him while her husband is upstairs and she lies its Carol singers

The two people pretending to have sex om every scene is just so cringe. And frankly gross.

The other young lad obsessed with going to America to have sex with other women.

Creep and the slut in the office and buying her the jewellery rather than his wife.

Calling the lady with dark hair fat, chubby and huge thighs when frankly she's gorgeous and curvy and not a bit fat is VILE.

The fact is a 12 is a rubbish rating too. Definitely should have been an 18.

I still love it, I think people take things too seriously. No films or sitcoms are meant to be a model for perfect behaviour. The guy with the signs only confessed his love because Keira thought he hated her!

Too sad for me!!!

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It would have at least made one of the storyline half interesting....

I realise I may be alone in this viewpoint (and have watched too many horror films) but when Colin went back to the American girls dorm, I genuinely thought they were going to murder him.

Appreciate that this scenario wouldn't be very Christmassy 😁

That is the best scene! Also Hugh Grant’s face when his driver starts singing the carol 😅

Just watching this now. Yearly tradition.

God it's brilliant, and makes me miss 2000s London.

The scene where the prime minister knocks on Natalie's door has two of the funniest lines:

"Where the fuck is my fucking coat?"
"Eight is a lot of legs, David"

Not a fan at all - I sat down to watch Last Christmas this eve for the third year running which I much prefer and am making it my mission to not cry at some point when I watch it !

They were par for the course unfortunately but they were also offensive at the time. See also Fat Monica in Friends. It’s a good thing that they are less acceptable now but they were clangers at the time too.

Feminism actually felt stronger back then than it does now. The bullshit of Love Actually was no better then than now.

I love it. I agree it hasn't aged well. But the fat jokes for example were par for the course in 2003. If you weren't a size zero you were fat back then.

There are plenty of other films that have also aged badly but people still enjoy them.

Yes, I mean I was 20 years ago, not 200. People were regularly making films and writing books in which women weren’t cardboard cutouts.

And me. I get very weary of the claims that it’s only now that some people can see how offensive it is: all of the above applied when it was released and plenty of people thought it was a pile of shite then.

It’s so awful. I watched it the second time as I thought I missed something first time.

Emma Thompson is amazing, but the rest is terrible.

Im no film snob though, bloody love The Holiday. It’s my Boxing Day night movie, with a glass or two of wine. You could drive 10 buses through the plot holes, but Jude Law is dreamy, who wouldn’t fall in love with him.

I love it but agree it hasn't aged well!