To get so angry watching Love Actually?

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I don't even have a partner that's cheated on me but after seeing so many friends going through it the Emma Thompson/ Alan Rickman story just seems so "real life"

I wonder what the the writer had been through to get it so right

Another one who has never seen as much as a minute of it. I remember the trailer for it everywhere you bloomin looked when it launched and it just struck me as utter garbage, so never bothered, and don't think I could.

I like a good chick-flick, just this one doesn't seem for me.

Just wanted to nosy at what would make OP angry watching it .

I like KK, get annoyed at the best man though when he turns up with the cards and her poor husband is sat upstairs, oblivious.

Loved Laura Linney's storyline, her true love was her brother.

Hugh Grant and Colin Firth were chaming and I love the cameo from 'Ant or Dec'

Yes it is a silly film and the storylines are ridiculous (Liam Neeson's son learns the drums in about 2 days) but it's a cheesy Christmas classic, and very watchable.

Imagine the AIBU!

"I have just found out that my DH's best friend, who I always though hated me, in fact completely loves me. He proclaimed this to me on the doorstep while my DH was inside watching TV. After he left I ran after him and gave him a big kiss. That was OK, wasn't it? AIBU not to tell DH about what happened between me and his best friend?"

Olennas "Forgot to add that he keeps a video of nothing but close ups of my face in his personal collection that he took only on my wedding day. Isn't that sweet?"

havea I liked the Laura Linney storyline until Carl decides that a cock-blocking disabled brother is a deal breaker. It actually made me really cross, I mean why couldn't they have her and Carl end up together too? Who is that much of a twat that they walk away because the vagina they picked up for the evening isn't at their disposal because the head and heart attached to it wants to comfort her only living relative who is scared and wants to talk to her?

Carl is a cunt.

I saw it as Laura breaking off the relationship with Carl because she knows she has to put her brother first. When he comes into her office at the end and she says quite firmly 'goodnight Carl'.

Fair play to her, I'd have switched the phone off for life if it meant one night with Carl

Also at 'cock blocking brother' and the AIBU

Good point Cherry. He is such a creepy stalker, isn't he?

I also read it that LL chose her brother over pursuing a relationship (or even the ONS that she deserved!) with Carl. I don't think Carl knew what was going on to be given the choice of seeing her anyway

I've never seen it.

I think I'd lost patience with Curtis at the time.

I don't know whether to put it on this year's list.

It's definitely LL who chooses not to go any further with Carl, not the other way around - after what happens on the ONS and we see her stop by her desk at work, he's clearly hoping she'll say something and doesn't feel like he can.

ET always gets to me in this film too, and actually I like KK in it.

The headmistress storyline is lovely - I'd have cut Kris Marshall and left it in, personally.

bibbity Martine M being fat is a plot point in the film - her boyfriend dumps her for having fat thighs, PPs weren't having a dig!

Manumission, it's worth watching. The Boat That Rocked, however, is not.

The main thing that pisses me off about the film is that the Liam Neeson character doesn't tell his son to pull himself together. He's barely pubertal, yet wants advice on his stalky crush on a girl? Give him some chores.

DH is a massive Radio Caroline fan and he fecking HATES The Boat that Rocked.

It's so creepily predatory. You see it in a whole new light after Savile etc.

I'm pretty certain I would be walking away from a situation like LL's if I were Carl. Obviously in this case, it was she who made the decision, but I don't think walking away makes him a cunt at all.

If the genders were reversed and the woman was posting on here feeling unsure, I'm pretty sure she'd be told to cut her losses and walk away before she got in too deep.

And Bill Nighy! Oldest man I've ever fancied.

I suspect some of you would complain about EL James because you expected Jane Austen.

LA is a Christmas film. It's meant to be cliched, mawkish, and a bit saccharine. It's not meant to be transgressive or edgy. It's a Luxury Chocolate Assortment box of a film, and once one accepts this it is more enjoyable.

The Colin Firth sequence was crap though.

With any Love Actually thread it seems like a race to link to the Jezebel review.

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"Let's get pissed and watch porn".' Best line in the film.

You're somehow talking me into both LA and TBtR bit I'm probably overtired

Who is that much of a twat that they walk away because the vagina they picked up for the evening isn't at their disposal because the head and heart attached to it wants to comfort her only living relative who is scared and wants to talk to her?

Oh good grief.

The storyline of the bloke from the BT ads is tedious and the Liam Neeson's stepson's storyline is ridiculous (they should have tazered him quite frankly) but it's a film you can dip in and out of and for me it's pretty enjoyable in parts. I don't really understand why it comes in for so much analysis on Mumsnet.

I think Jezabel must have been hoping for something more like Antonia's Line. Which is very silly. It's just not that sort of film and anyone who thinks it should be ought to back away from the television slowly.

Bunty, why is difficult to understand that people want to analyse a film when a thread about it comes up? The film comes up a lot because it's a modern seasonal classic, and it's natural that people want to discuss why that is, or what it says about us for making it so.

Because Love Actually is a fluffy Crimbo film that comes in for such an inordinate amount of discussion on MN. So many threads on this one particular film. It puzzles me.

You can leave people to get on with it, if it doesn't interest you Bunty, though I completely agree with your 'good grief' comment!

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