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'?

Other classic films you don't get: Breakfast at Tiffany's.

I watched it for the first time a few months back. I really didn't get it! So she's an "escort" who visits some mafia guy in prison for criminal purposes, and the guy is a struggling writer who sleeps with that older woman for some cash, and Mickey Rooney is a very not acceptable now sterotyped fake!Asian person, and there's a party and some shoplifting and she's mean to that cat and chucks it out in the rain... It's just bizarre!

loved it - it was very much of its time

it was the first time i went out and left 6 week old pfb ds with my mum - i cried on the way there and asked to turn the car back home but we carried on and enjoyed the film

No, NO NONONONONO

4W AND A FUNERAL is like being suffocated by a big, wet, British marshmallow.

The only film I've seen which I hated more was Mamma Mia.

Dear OP, I don't get it either. But then I rarely get these films and their idea of "romance" which is often naffy/cheesy and has nothing to do with real romance whatsoever. Their plots and characters seem to be brought up in stereotypes probably bandied around at marketing strategy meetings.

I liked "About a Boy" funnily enough, at least some heart. Hugh Grant could have been a great actor, but this silly middle-class twaddle...

Fuckadoodledoo.

Its a classic, love that film.

jane, I watched About A Boy for the first time the other day and thought the same thing. Hugh Grant is actually an excellent comic actor when he's not playing Hugh Grant. Loved him in Bridget Jones too.

Did that sweet girl who Hugh lives with and rushes off to the wedding in the mini in, dud she die in real life?

Notting Hill was shit too.

Love it! Wish I had mates like Hugh Grant's.

It was the first "grown up" movie I watched. Think I was 8 when it came out and watched it when was about 10. Loved it from then on. Although that whole line about "is it raining?" made me want to smack Andie Macdowell.

Hugh Grant was only ever fuckable in Lair of the White Worm. He became far too dogeared far too quickly after that.

She did. Charlotte Colman her name was, and she died of an asthma atttack, alone in her flat, I believe :(

Very sad and bleak way to die.

And she is part of almost the best quote of the film, something like:

Gareth: (admiring) Fab dress Scarlett! Ecclesiastical purple and pagan orange symbolising the magical symbiosis of the Christian and heathen religions?"
Scarlett: (stunned puse) That's right.

Marmalade Atkins too,

she had drug issues too iirc - very sad though

Hi Aries with Bells, Hugh Grant also had a brief part in a Roman Polanski film ("Moon under Water" or something). Played a middle-class tosser brilliantly. I remember Julie Birchilll saying Jack Nicholson could have been a great actor, and I wonder that about Hugh Grant too ... maybe stretching it a bit.

Hugh played a horrible character in a rather horrible film (can't remember the name, he was director of a theatre company with Alan Rickman as Captain Hook...) anyhow, he did some properly good acting in that.

I hate it. I hate Hugh Grunt, I hate 'Notting Hill', I hate 'About A Boy'. In fact If I see that twats face, it's a total switch off.

The film I referred to was An Awfully Big Adventure. If you hate chickflick Hugh, you might like it.

Bitter Moon. It was a bit pervy, IIRC.

YABU, totally.

'Push on through 'til dawn' is a household phrase for us. As is, 'I think I'm in there'.

It is great in spite of, not because of, Andie McD. DH love it too though probably only because two women from his laminated list are in it.

'We've both lost a lot of weight since then' is comedy gold.

Bitter Moon is quite possibly one of the cheesiest worst films of all time. I can only think of Madonna's Body Of Evidence as topping it.

I dont like the film ..

"Is it raining, I hadnt noticed" FUCK OFF!!!!

But....my favourite swear came from that which is Fuck a doodle doo! :o

Fuck a doodle doo is nowhere near as good as Steve Segal's 'fucknuts'!

I loved this when it first came out - I must've been 16ish at the time. It was hilarious and glamorous and romantic all at the same time, but it has lost its charm for me as I've got older. I now can't understand why he didn't get together with the Kristin Scott Thomas character, she is far more interesting (and beautiful) than Andi McDowell, and both the Hugh Grant and Andi McD behave so shabbily towards their recent spouses/almost spouses that I find it hard to much like either.

Charlotte Coleman was and is one of the best things about it. I loved her in everything she was in.

I love it, I first saw it with a friend in the US, and kept telling them just how true it was to weddings I'd been to (especially the awful singing by "friends" during signing the register).
Charlotte Coleman's sister is in Tracey Beaker, and confused me for years. Charlotte used to act for a bit, then go off travelling, then act for some more money, so I like to think she had a good if short life.