Do you like the film Love Actually?

[SundayIsCalling]

I always cry at the beginning, when Hugh Grant is talking about love around us and the arrivals terminal at Heathrow. How the messages from people at the Twin Towers were all messages of love and not hate 😭

But I feel somewhat stabby at Miss Knightly saying "I look quite pretty" - Well of course you do, you're a bloody actress/model.

I adore Alan Rickman, even though he was a fool.

I love Colin Firth, and Billy Mack the rockstar makes me chuckle.

Emma Thompson (obviously).

Roman Atkinson, he helped the boy get through security. I didn't notice that before.

All my in laws say it's rubbish they are not in my good books

It’s worth it for Billy Mack alone. “Ant or Dec”

Ok. I have just remembered it's only saving grace, which is the lovely Laura Linney....but she is utterly wasted in it.

I watched it for the first time yesterday and really enjoyed it :)

One of the few things DD and I both love - we watch it together every Christmas, it's part of the holiday. There are bits we cringe at, but most of it we love.

No. Older men with much much younger women, making tits of themselves. Every pairing, same thing. Once I noticed that I couldn't watch it anymore.

It’s cheesey but I love it.

Watched it when it came out and didn’t get it. There’s so much offensive sexism in it I didn’t understand how anyone could feel good during it. Emma Thompson putting on a brave face for the kids / not wanting to ruin Christmas made me so angry. SO angry. It’s that old crap about women being responsible for what men do all over again. Aargh.

And the stalker friend guy who made the creepy wedding video. As someone who has had a stalker I found that quite unnerving. Clearly a ‘wankbank’ style video, bleurgh. And the cards, so the husband wouldn’t know he was at the door it’s so controlling, so disrespectful to their marriage.

I know reading too much into it blah blah but yuck.

The only remotely funny bits are the subtitles in the Colin Firth segments. I could scream at the fakeness of the wedding 'orchestra', and I appear to be the only one to despise Emma Thompson's character and her sunny delivery of twee lines. Aargh! and KKs simpering smiles during (and on) the wedding vid. I can't believe it was written as a feel good film more as a middle finger to the general public to see if they could get away with such a pile of smug crapness.

I’m with Crunchymum. It was enjoyable schmaltz at 23, but now I’m 38 there are just too many things that I find problematic.

I always hated the kid though. Fuck that kid.

I love it....actually! DH & I watch it every year, either on Christmas Eve or NYE. And it makes me cry every time.

We,, it doesn’t much matter whether Alan Rickman’s bit on the side is his PA or general admin staff, does it? Because in case we were wondering what her role was, we know she’s Slutty Affair Fodder because she keeps sitting in the office with her legs open in a mini-skirt emitting double-entendres, lounges about in expensive underwear and jewellery bought by her fancy man, and slowdances with AR while wearing devil’s horns at the office party.

You have to lovely Love Actually’s subtlety.

Utterly viscerally hate it.

Hate it

I absolutely hate it.

Full of cliches, sexist, misogynistic, snobbish. The only character that isn't terrible and totally unrealistic is Emma Thompson.

It's like it was written-by-numbersto make an economically successful Christmas film without worrying about the actual quality of the movie.

For a good Richard Curtis film, I'd recommend About Time- it's about 50000 times better.

Read the link rubisco posted and see if you still love it (those who do)

Aww saw it on the kings road when living in glamorous part of London pre kids just met dh was a romantic time and seemed such an English feel good Christmassy film remember walking out of cinema and London so lovely and Christmassy so happy memories. However the feminist review of it is correct and spoilt it abit for me.

Hate it. It's a Richard Curtis by numbers film. Trite and cliched. Keira Knightly is awful. Only saving grace was having Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson in it

Love it! What's not to like? Easy viewing, good soundtrack, happy ending.

I put it on last year for the first time in years and was horrrifed by how awful it is.

The link is hilarious. Sums up the women-as-props message perfectly.

I love it except for the Laura Linney story arc that just feels shoehorned in

I feckin hate kiera in it. Alan is the only reason worth watching.

I like 4 Weddings and Notting Hill, but Love Actually....meh.

Hate it. Offensive shit, the women are just there for the men's benefits and have no agency of their own. And every male in it, from little Thomas Brodie Sangster upwards thinks and is being told that's fine. Fuck that shit.

Awful film, I really don't understand its popularity. I love some Richard Curtis films but Love Actually is rubbish.