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

I love it.

I'm trying hard to hold out until nearer Xmas to watch it.

I know it's shite and sexist but I still watch it every year

I loved it at first but watched it too many times. I used to put it on while doing my gift wrapping. Now I put Notting Hill on. Not so Christmassy but still really funny, feel-good and with a happy tears ending.

It’s odd that a film that seems to be despised by so many posters gets so much “air time” on here. There is no other film that is posted about as much as this one.

I love it and watch it whenever it’s on TV.

No I don't like it for all the reasons stated in the fabulous Jezebel article...so WHY do I end up watching it several times every Christmas?!

I think the Emma Thompson scene when she's crying in the bedroom completely redeems all the crap bits of the film. She's glorious isn't she

I love it, it's one of my favourite films ever. I watch it every year. I know there's a lot wrong with it and yet I happily block it out and rewatch it.

What everyone else said about it not aging well and the sexism.

But the Emma Thompson character is pretty nasty at the beginning. She's cracking jokes left right and centre about Liam Neesons dead wife. It really jars. It's meant to illustrate how close they are as friends but its unrealistic and overplayed.

I remember watching that thinking I doubt the writer has ever lost anyone they truly loved because you would not be responding well to glib jokes about a loved one's death.

It's shite .... sentimental crap. Soz.

Oh no no no please no.

I love it. I could do without the Kris Marshall story and the Keira Knightley story, but apart from that it’s a great film.

Especially love Emma Thompson’s character.

It's truly awful. Nativity with an octopus....yeah right.
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Emma Thompsons character- a parody of herself. No wonder her hubby got fed up. Hysterical at all times.
The lady with the brother with mental health issues frustrated me. I'd have been all over that lush guy, after all, it only takes 10 minutes!
Most of them are a bunch of luvvies at least the film gave them an easy job.
I did like the song though.

Nope don't enjoy it.

I love it, particularly the Colin Firth / Portugese waitress bit. I think the relationships - Liam Neeson and his son, Colin going off to American and getting shagged to death.

The only bit that's absolutely shite imho is the Hugh Grant / Martine McKutcheon storyline all of which is absolutely crap and must surely have been tacked on to the end by some film 'luvvie' who thought it needed this extra element to 'enhance' it - it didn't!

The bit where Alan's Rickman's wife has found she's not been given the gold necklace and goes into the bedroom to cry is so utterly heartbreaking - how many times is this what women have to do just in order to keep one form of misery or another from their children?

It's awful. The Laura Linney character drives me mad by letting her brother rule her life.

I hate the soft porn actors' scenes, they make me cringe .

The Americans falling all over that idiot is nonsense.

Andrew Lincoln is gorgeous but his character is creepy and Kiera Knightly is an airhead.

As others have said Emma Thompson steals the show but is heartbreaking.

Nope I don't like it but I usually end up half watching it at some stage over Christmas if it's on tv.

I FAR prefer The Holiday which is also shite but more enjoyable shite!

Watched it once and didn’t like it.

I've seen it once. It was OK. Wouldn't go out of my way to see it again. In fact, I find it very strange that people watch things again and again and again to the extent they can reel off whole speeches from it.

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Came here to post that link! Poorly written, sexist drivel.

It's a banal, feel good and not have to think too much movie. It's not a cinematic masterpiece, even if it does have a stellar cast. I don't really see mud to actively hate in it, it's wither your cup of tea or it isn't. Personally, I enjoyed it. It's a fuzzy feel good think small type of film and when I'm in the mood for one of them it fits the bill, much like the holiday, 4 wedding and a funeral, and that 'style' of film.

Among all the many complaints listed above (especially the sexism) I was disgusted by the heartless, casual portrayal of bereavement. Liam Neeson supposedly grief stricken at his wife’s funeral, then, less than TEN DAYS later, chatting up Claudia Schiffer. And the young son, apparently completely over the loss of his mother in a few days, and more interested in getting off with a girl at school.
The whole thing was so shallow. I couldn’t help wondering how Neeson felt when he was later widowed in real life - I bet he wasn’t over that in ten days, poor chap. I’m still grieving my DH after 27 years.
And yes, I hate the film.

I remember going to see Love Actually at the cinema when it was first released, on the strength of a trailer I'd seen for it.

I thought it was a terrible film. It was such a disappointment! I don't see why others like it so much. Maybe it's a case of "it's so bad that it ceases to be bad"?

I did, however, LOVE "About Time"!

I found it to be a strange and out of date film when it came out in 2003.

It's so very, very odd that - it's at least, never boring.

It has an all star cast looking very young and good looking -
so it's like watching a favourite film from the 50's because that time has gone now.

I often have the same curious feeling seeing a British film that has a contemporary setting. Everything is familiar and yet so far removed from real life it's like a curious and confusing museum piece.

Yes that's London, but not the London I know. Do people in New York feel like this when they see their town on film? ie people don't talk like that, people don't behave like that here!!

I for some reason loved it when it came out. It seemed romantic and cute. I don't really know how. Now I think I might actively hate it. The storylines are terrible and most deeply unpleasant.

The only scene I like from it is the one with Alan Rickman and Rowan Atkinson. "Are you going to dip it in yogurt? Or cover it with chocolate buttons?"