Love Actually - yes or no?

[WarmSausageTea]

I fancy watching something festive, and I’m wondering about watching LA. I saw it 10+ years ago, and wasn’t keen, but I have had gin and am feeling quite chilled.

So, LA, yes or no? And if no, can I have some cheesy Christmas film recs, please? (I loved Last Christmas and the three Netflix prince films.)

Thanks.

No. I liked it at the time though.
Emma Thompson character annoys me though. Neglecting her needs for her stupid husband with his wandering cock.

And oh my lord the 'you dont like that people have opinions' thing(usually spouted by right wing lunatics). Its the content of the opinion thats the issue.

And calling someone a right wing lunatic is perfectly ok?

@Chimeraforce

No. I liked it at the time though. Emma Thompson character annoys me though. Neglecting her needs for her stupid husband with his wandering cock.

Yes, that storyline leaves me cold, I must say, though it is so often praised as the only redeeming bit of the film on here. I think for me it’s just a giant cliché — sleazy boss Alan Rickman, a Sexy Secretary straddling her office chair suggestively in outfits that verge on caricature, the Stoic Wife in her sensible skirts who won’t make a scene and spoil the children’s Christmas play, the Wrong Present etc.

(I also like both AR and ET as actors, but I find it distracting that they both do a similar thing with their lower jaw so they show a lot of lower gum when they speak.)

Yes it is.

Only worth it for Rowan Atkinson's gift-wrapping bit... 😂

Some people don't seem to be able to grasp the concept of make believe it seems. If it was supposed to be true to life it would be a documentary

You don't understand how films work, do you? Or opinions

Cock-blocktopus, though 😂 😂

I actually read that Rowan Atkinsons character is supposed to be an Angel. I think RA does a fab job in a film that limps along with all the cliches in the book.

The honest trailers for this is very funny:

Hate Love Actually.

I watch Elf, the Family Stone and the Spirit of Christmas.

I went to see LA in the cinema twenty years ago and emerged so angry at it that I was actually crying in rage. So I didn't think it was fun back then either. That was to be fair a bit of an overreaction, which I've never repeated, but it's been shit since day one. Watching it as someone who was a bereaved child (shortly before Christmas too) is probably different to someone watching it for the romance though. And watching it as a fat woman (that scene in Portugal with the sister is just awful, never mind the Martine M stuff) wasn't much fun either.

The wider misogyny didn't hit me for a few years to be fair. But I'm now a humourless old crone who gets crosser and crosser at how damaging much of our media is in its messaging so probably shouldn't be commenting on anything at all. I really need to go and live in a cave away from other humans at this stage.

Yes it is.

Wow.

I read on a magazine cover that Martine never watches LA but I didn’t have time to look inside & find out why

This may disappoint you:

"Singer and actor Martine McCutcheon rose to fame on EastEnders in the 90s but it was the 2003 hit Love Actually that cemented her in the nation's hearts - and ensured we get to see her on our screens every Christmas.

But Martine has revealed that while the rest of us will be settling down to watch the modern Christmas classic at some point this month - she won't.

Martine said she doesn't like watching herself on screen, and so doesn't get to enjoy Love Actually with the rest of us.

She said: "I’m so proud to have been a part of Love Actually and it means the world that it’s become a Christmas tradition for so many families but I do struggle to watch myself on screen so I can’t honestly say I sit and watch it"

It's shit, but Working Title films usually are. Their narrow stereotyping and tokenism are predictable, patronising and tedious. (Notting Hill, say no more).

The Holiday is only marginally better but the sets/house porn make it more watchable.

Gremlins I'd forgotten was a Christmas film. Might give that a rewatch. And The Wizard of Oz and the Sound of Music weren't, but they were screened so often on TV at Christmas that I now think of them that way.

National Lampoons are totally ridiculous but they're supposed to be, and I have a nostalgic love for John Hughes films. A million times rather a Griswold than the cardboard cutouts so often played by Grant, Firth and Dench!