To Not 'Get' 'Four Weddings and A Funeral'?

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I know its supposed to be a 'Classic Chick-Flick' (hate that phrase!) but I just don't 'get' it?
Aside from Andie MacDowell's awful wooden acting, the character she plays is a bit...lose with her morals and I just dont find her particularly likeable.
Am I wrong? Am I missing something? Or are there others somewhere like me?! And are there any other 'classic' films you just don't 'get'?

Fuck! Fuck!....

yy, she is the least likeable part of the film. there are other good bits though...

"stop all the clocks..."

*loose

The start is good, but analyzing 4w&1F is like discussing the nutritional value of candyfloss.

Is it a Chick Flick?

Oh my. No, you're right of course, it's dreadful. :o

YANBU to dislike or not enjoy a film. It's personal taste, not really a question of reasonable vs unreasonable.

"They say rubber's mainly for perverts. Don't know why. Think it's very practical, actually. I mean, you spill anything on it and it just comes off. I suppose that could be why the perverts like it."

Its just the 'Is it? I hadn't even noticed' line near the end (in the rain) that makes me want to smack her with (a slightly less wooden than her) chair leg...

Andie McD does play an increibly unlikeable character but in a way, ypthat is a strength as most chick flicks have very bland, idealised, sickly sweet female leads.

YABU. Did you really think this film was very popular because everyone is so admiring of Andie MacDowell's acting and her character was marvellous? I love Four Weddings because
a) Hugh Grant is great in it
b) the script is wonderful
c) the acting is generally fab (ok apart from Andie)
d) the characters are so individual and likeable
e) it captures something for me. It's a bit elusive, but for me it is that certain feeling of being nineteen at University in the summer, with friends and beer and fresh mown grass etc etc etc :)

I love it.

I love it too, especially because I went to see it with my boyfriend, who died of meningitis 6 months later, and it so reminds me of him, and being deliriously happy.... love the Wet Wet Wet song too.

But apart from that it has a lot to recommend it too - it's funny! Fuckety fuck... Acting and casting great (apart from Andie who is shite... hate that 'is it raining?' thing too), story lovely, and I won't hear a word said against it! :)

I can't really remember it. But I don't get 'Love Actually' which I'm guessing is similar - so many little stories that due to only having about 2 scenes each storyline it's so shallow.

oh ignore the andie mcd character, it's not about her, it's about hugh's group of friends - who are all fantastic!!!

she's just a prop.

the film completely holds together and is just a lovely englishy richard curtis film if you switch channels every time andie bloody mcdowell appears , this is completely do-able shes barely in it but ruins every second she does appear with her whimpering and general wetness/stiffness , yes it is fucking raining you simpering cow

Oh God - the funeral and John Hannah's reading of the Auden poem, and Christmas and Emma Thompson not getting the necklace, just a CD...

(Sorry, that was in reply to the Love Actually reference as well as the Four Weddings thread...)

I adore it. "what a very naughty husband inDEED!, bernard sinjen delaney, i need to be where other people are not, we've bith lost alot of weight since then" etc etc. And love actually which is my ultimate xmas movie.

I like 4waaf but 'love actually' ?? I have started to watch it a few times (on tv) and can't get past the first 10 mins. I really don't get it.

I REALLY don't like Andie M but she is watchable - Bill Nighy on the other hand... (comparing the two films).

Now 'Love Actually' I like....bit of a perve on Liam Neeson and the footage recorded in the actual airport with the voiceover about 9/11 (sob) Gets me everytime!

Grunts, swigs beer and scratches as to not look too much like a big girls blouse

Four Weddings is okay, Love Actually is one of the most pointless films ever made. It wasn't even written to sell a house (Notting Hill) and it had too many characters with too many rambling stories that went nowhere. And Kiera Knightly was in it.

Love Actually on the other hand is rubbish . Disjointed and formulaic.

Pointless anecdote coming up: my sister and I went to a wedding and one of the readings was the clanging cymbals one. She whispered "Good point." We were purple and snorting with mirth - you know when the harder you're trying not to laugh, the worse it gets? Little moments like that would never happen if it wasn't for Four Weddings. Similarly, "Actually I think I'll have one of those. Mind if I join you?" "No. That would be lovely."

I could go on. And on. And on.....

First date with first real boyfriend in the La Renior in the Brunswick Centre long long before it it was fashionable - 4 Weddings.
What we thought was last night out before DD arrived, only she choose not to be a breech baby half way through film (very weird washing machine on spin cycle 37 weeks pregnant moment) - Love Actually.

The best part of 4W is the closing sequence, lovely song and stills of all of them happy and in love (except Fi). Crap apart from that. Oh the bumbling brother is good. AM is awful, AWFUL, AWFUL