So tonight for the very first time...

[Magnificentme]

I'm going to watch Love Actually soooooo
Is it a hit or miss ??

Horrific, cheesy drivel.
I love it!

Excellent crap. Love it! try to ignore the sexism

I find it massively offensive, by which I mean it was made with huge contempt for the audience, as if they'll accept this badly written, nonsensical shit because it's about wuv and chopped up into different stories, each shitter than the last.

Obviously if you disent it, there are a great many failings but I ADORE it love watching it and it never fails to make me laugh and cry and it’s an uplifting feeling I’m left with at the end.

(Though the Joni Mitchell CD breaks my heart again every time I watch)

Obviously you need to read this after
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I don’t like it. Don’t go in with too high expectations!

Thought I'd give it ago as hugh Grant is in it
Don't ask me why but he makes me feel all warm and cosy whenever I watch him in films haha I think it's his voice it's really soothing God I sound like a freak now

You'll like Hugh dancing

I love it despite the more problematic elements.

I love it but probably because it reminds me of being 17 and loving it then... not sure if I watched it fresh today how I’d feel

If you’re expecting an amusing and lighthearted trashy romcom (which you probably are given your fondness for Hugh) then I think you’ll really enjoy it.

It’s by no means intellectual or deep but IMO it’s fun, funny, and actually quite moving at times.

I've never seen it but seen clips - Bill Nighy?

I once spent a glorious Christmas day in the front room with MIL and DPs elderly aunt and various relatives with Love Actually on in the background, when all of a sudden Martin Freeman was thrusting doggy style with a naked Joanna Page, boobs bouncing all over.

I don't know who turned redder.

It's a great watchable film. Enjoy.

The contempt for its female characters just hits you over the head - I can't imagine any self-respecting woman would think any of these relationships were good/aspirational? (I may be forgetting some)

But that's not even the worst thing for me, it's the sheer laziness of the 'storylines'. What's the Kris Marshall one? He says he will do (X - no spoiler), does it, and does it in a really sexist way. A lot of the humour is based around calling a not-at-all-fat character fat. I can't think of many saving graces - Rowan Atkinson is quite funny in it? Maybe the caterer conversation, which is entirely predictable?

I don't like how the word "spaz" is thrown out so casually by Colin Firth's character. The rest of it is terrible too really.

blackmould I don’t think anyone has said that they find the relationships aspirational.

Never understood why this is a “Christmas classic”. Utter rubbish.

I'm a horror fan...
But LOVE Love Actually.
Maybe it is horrifically bad but it's a thumbs up from me

I love it. Total cheese!

blackmould I don’t think anyone has said that they find the relationships aspirational.

No but they're supposed to be heart-warming? I guess? Am I missing something and everyone loves this film because it shows awful creepy relationships?

But, oh, Emma Thompson, my heart broke....

I adore it

Only time I ever fancied Hugh Grant in anything, shimmying around #10 to the Pointer Sisters 😳