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

I love it! And The Holiday (which I always watch whilst wrapping)

100% smug. So cringe.

And Hugh Grant's crab dad dancing to The Pointer Sisters knocks his arrest for kerb crawling into his second most embarrassing moment before a camera

Read this. I can’t be bothered to explain why it’s a shower of lazy, misogynistic cliche.
https://www.jezebel.com/i-rewatched-love-actually-and-am-here-to-ruin-it-for-al-1485136388

I'm 50 and never watched it. I got the impression it was a bit crap.

Talking about smug travesties, The Holiday is absolutely horrific, I just don't see the appeal of it at all.

At least Love Actually has some jokes in it.

There's another clue too. You see Mia the tramp with the bad fringe of evil-ness in her bedroom earlier on, with a neatly made bed. And then the next time it's her putting the necklace on and admiring it in the mirror. And the bedsheets in the background are unmade and crumpled. Dirty Harry has been round with her present to get some leg over, crumpled the bedsheets and then gone home to Emma Thompson for their family time.

That fringe has a lot to answer for. It's 21 years ago and I still shudder and take an instant dislike to anyone with that fringe.

I saw The Holiday for the first time tonight when it was on TV - it was so saccharine-sweet it made my teeth itch. It’s not one I’ll be rushing to watch again anytime soon, that’s for sure. I’d much rather have Love Actually, I don’t care how problematic others might judge it to be.

Colin Firth seemed fairly upset by his wife shagging his brother.

The thing is I know it’s problematic and misogynistic but for 2hrs I just don’t care. Which probably makes me hugely hypocritical but it’s a nice Christmas film and I like it.

Me too! I just watched it actually, there are so many funny bits and so many cringey bits, some of the dialogue is awful but there are some great actors in it and it's very Christmasy so it's popular in our house.

I’ve always loved Love Actually. I was 18 when it came out and I went to see it five times at the cinema (my pals and I all had a massive crush on Karl 😄). Now I like to laugh at the stupid bits and eye roll at the bits that aged badly, but so many moments make me feel warm inside!

I cannot stand the scene in The Holiday when Jack Black is singing film soundtracks at Kate Winslet in the video shop. It makes me cringe 🫠

Saw it in the cinema when pregnant with DD. Spent the next hour ranting to my mates about it. Trouble is it's sugar coated misogyny which means you like bits of it and hate yourself for that. Love Bill Nighy in it and (sorry) Hugh Grant. But all the women are objectified or fucked over.

@Carriemac @AnneShirleysNewDress

Yaaaayy!

Glad I'm not the only one.

Nobody I know seems to have heard of it.

I think the age when I first saw something affects how I see it. I watched Love Actually when it first came out and I was a (probably naive) 20-something. I can see it's faults but I still enjoy watching it. Rowan Atkinson doing the present wrapping is still hilarious.
The Holiday , by contrast, I first watched only a few years ago as a more cynical 40- something and too many things didn't make sense that I couldn't just see it and enjoy it IYSWIM.

I rewatched four weddings and a funeral recently and I still love it.

Never seen it , I'm 53.
Never seen the holiday.

I love Muppet Christmas carol, but my favourite is a Muppets family Christmas, where the muppets, fragile rock and sesame street characters all end up at Fozzy bear!s mums house for Christmas!

I love it so much!

Watch it every Christmas without fail.

Your language is just as melodramatic.

Wonder if he did sleep with that woman.

Emma Freud confirmed a few years back that he did, I'm afraid. She's wearing The Necklace when Hugh Grant is travelling through Wandsworth, which I think we were meant to take as confirmation.

I don’t think I’m intellectually superior because I don’t like Love Actually. I don’t think I saw it until a decade or so after it came out. I’d seen so many cultural references to it I thought I had seen it and so many people say they love it and I liked Four Weddings and a Funeral so I assumed when I sat down to watch it I had already seen it and forgotten parts. Then I realised I hadn’t seen it and it’s fucking terrible and every single storyline is problematic and not about love but about men deciding that they like or don’t like women and women being very passive in those ‘romantic’ relationships.
Rowan Atkinson, Bill Nighy, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Laura Linney etc etc would all single handedly carry a one man performance of reading the phone book so I feel praising the acting is a cop out to be honest.

In the film it looks massive when they show the outside (bigger than what I would consider fits the criteria of a traditional cottage) and it's absolutely tiny in the interior shots, especially the bathroom.

I really dislike it, which I didn't expect to because I love the cast. I just find it really depressing for a Christmas film.

I prefer The Holiday.

A-OK @RomanMum But the cottage is not a real place. It was a location.

Yeah it's an awful film. But I love Billy Bob Thornton & Rowan Atkinson's scene is hilarious

I watched Love Actually for the first time a couple of years ago (aged just over 50), expecting to love it as it was apparently a top Christmas feelgood film. I just came away thinking “Well, lucky for Richard Curtis that he gets to make his middle-aged male fantasies into a film, but the whole thing made me feel a bit sick and I won’t be watching them again”. And I was confused about my reaction because everyone else seemed to love it. And I really like so many of the actors in it. But the concepts made me feel icky.

I love it 🥰