I’m watching Four Weddings and a Funeral for the first time

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I know it’s a classic but somehow I’ve never watched it.
So I’m about an hour in and I just wanna get this straight ..

Carrie meets Charles. They sleep together. Charles finds out she’s in fact engaged and meets her fiancé. They sleep together again. And then she takes him with her to pick out a wedding dress .. that’s as far as I’m up to

What is happening here I thought these two were one of the most iconic and popular couples in romcom history I had no idea this is how the relationship started 😂😂

@frugalkitty

"Scarlett, you're blind.....she looks like a big meringue"

I laughed out loud and very loud at this.

I've just rewatched it, I love it, I love that Carrie is an independent woman and is actually a bitch. She's real, although I do agree that the chemistry isn't great. I felt very nostalgic watching it.

Andie McDowell was
(a) crap
(b) not the first choice
but the rest of the film is FAB
esp anything with Simon Callow
and the wonderful bolt of lightning scene

I don't think it's intentional OP, Richard Curtis doesn't "do" women very well in his films and I think he though if he got an absolute stunner like Andi M to play Carrie no one would care that she's a completely vapid dullard.

For a great Curtis film watch About Time. It's wonderful!

The scene where he jumps out the sink cupboard (remember them in hotels!) while his mates are shagging is comedy gold mind

@june2007

Unfortunately Charlotte the actress who plyed Charles sister passed away not that long after. Aged 28. (Whats, bonking? well it,s a bit like tennis but the balls are smaller.")

She played Marmalade Atkins in the 80’s kids tv show. I think she died of an asthma attack sadly.

Richard Curtis films are of their time imo and don't age well. I was a student abroad when Four Weddings came out and decided not to watch it dubbed, but wait until I went home. I loved it at the time.

So I’m up to Charles’ wedding and my heart really hurts for Fiona. Must be torture watching the man you’ve been in love with for years marry someone else.

I think if you watched it at the time then you love it as you loved it then. Watching it for the first time now and I imagine it's a bit crap. FWIW, I loved it then and still do - I really like Andy McD but loved the friendship storylines more.

I just realised how similar Charles sister Scarlett is to Hugh Grant’s character, Will’s sister Honey in Notting Hill.

Love this film. Apart from ‘that’ line.

It's the friends that make this film great. Andie McDowell is shit. I always yearned to have a big table full of friends in a smart London house when I watched this film as a teenager.ove a bit of nineties Richard Curtis.

@BenoneBeauty

I think if you watched it at the time then you love it as you loved it then. Watching it for the first time now and I imagine it's a bit crap. FWIW, I loved it then and still do - I really like Andy McD but loved the friendship storylines more.

Yes I love these friendships. It’s making me sad that I don’t really have a group of friends like that

Charles is obviously very popular with the women in his own circle. That’s maybe what sets Carrie apart. She doesn’t seem overly bothered about him (until the end).

@AngelicaElizaAndPeggy

It's the friends that make this film great. Andie McDowell is shit. I always yearned to have a big table full of friends in a smart London house when I watched this film as a teenager.ove a bit of nineties Richard Curtis.

Yeah the friendships are lovely. It’s making me wish the same thing even now at 28! I’ve always been one for a few very small groups of friends but I have nothing like this. Wish I did

Scarlett is his flat mate not his sister.

@june2007

Unfortunately Charlotte the actress who plyed Charles sister passed away not that long after. Aged 28. (Whats, bonking? well it,s a bit like tennis but the balls are smaller.")

Was she Charles's sister? Surely not. Saying that I haven't watched it for years

I haven't seen it. Or dirty dancing or flash dance.

@Meganplays

Scarlett is his flat mate not his sister.

Oh! I might need to watch this again I seen to have missed a few points here. Not sure what gave me the impression they were siblings

@Horehound

I haven't seen it. Or dirty dancing or flash dance.

I’ve not seen dirty dancing either. It’s never appealed to me. Flash dance I’ve only seen because I love sh e actress Jennifer Beals but if it wasn’t for her I likely wouldn’t have seen that either ! I’m generally not a huge romcom fan other than British ones. A lot of American ones I find far too corny

According to Wikipedia Scarlett is in fact Charles’ sister
“At the wedding of Angus and Laura in Somerset, the unmarried best man Charles, his sister Scarlett; his friend Fiona and her brother Tom; Gareth, a gay man, and his Scottish lover Matthew; and Charles's deaf-mute brother David endure the festivitiesL

Kristen Scott Thomas was always my favourite.

I think as a snapshot of the upper-middle-class in the mid-90s, it's jolly good. Very zeitgeist-y. I remember watching it with a friend and when I look back to that time, the UK seemed full of promise. Makes me a bit sad.
Like all Richard Curtis films from 'Love, Actually' to 'Notting Hill', it's be bloody good if the central love story was excised. Andie MacDowell isn't always execrable, but she is in this, although her part is so unsympathetic it's hard to know if anyone else could have done better.

@Blondiney

Kristen Scott Thomas was always my favourite.

Bit of a name drop, but my mum’s goddaughter (and a close friend of mine) is dating her nephew. I’ve met her a few times through him and she’s really lovely and so humble in real life. No airs and graces at all.

I remember Anna Chancellor saying on This Morning that the nickname was originally ‘Fuck Face’ live on air!