to wonder why people like love actually

[bionicant]

when i first saw it i winced and was embarassed for all involved with it.

totally crass and embarrassing esp the bloody prime minister and tiffany plot

why do people like it so much>?

[PopTheDragon]

I adore it, it's my all time favourite film. Not exactly sure why it just always cheers me up and reminds me that I've always got a lot to be thankful for.

[mumoseven]

Hate Keira K watching her wedding video scene.
'Oh, I look quite pretty!'
Fuck off

[Yogagirl123]

I loved it, it was different at the time, not sure about the sequel though.

[ShelaghTurner]

La La Land was pure shite. Friends I went with loved it and would have watched it again. I thought it was utter dross!

[Zhabr]

I fell asleep when I was watching it in the cinema. DH loved it.
I nearly fell asleep while watching LaLa Land, DH loved it.
Not my cup of tea, I guess. Love horror films, but DH is too scared.

[BikeRunSki]

"Dislike the little boy being obsessed with that little girl too."

I don't think that's the love in that story though... I think it's about him and Liam neeson

I agree. I noticed in the RND Sequel that "Sam" called Liam "Dad". 😄

[ShelaghTurner]

What happens with Karl in the end montage? I can't remember.

[apringle]

Yes! Finally someone else that thinks it's saccharine drivel! And Kira knightly is just painful to watch as an actress.

[tabulahrasa]

"Dislike the little boy being obsessed with that little girl too."

I don't think that's the love in that story though... I think it's about him and Liam neeson

[MaryPoppinsPenguins]

The Laura Linney storyline is ridiculous... surely she can say to hot Karl 'I have to take this, back in five minutes!' She can't be expected to never have a relationship because her phone is occasionally going to ring

[ButtercupChain]

Posted too soon!

I love Billy Mack too, and the Emma/Alan storyline. And the guy going to America for a girlfriend is OK. Also love the sing-song at the wedding 'all you need is love....' :)

Quite like the Colin Firth falling for his nanny bit, but find a it a tad hard to fathom how you can fall in love with someone when you don't speak the same language.

Dislike the little boy being obsessed with that little girl too.

I do loathe the bit of the storyline based around the couple making a porn film though. I don't think I am prudish; it's just a bit weird/distasteful/unnecessary.

Keira K is OK, but her constant annoying 'looking down her nose whilst pouting' look really pisses me off.

On the whole I give it a 6.5 out of 10. :)

I do quite enjoy it at Christmas, but it is a little bit over-rated I think.

[ButtercupChain]

It is OTT, and Martine saying 'piss it' instead of saying 'sod it' is daft. And the woman whose brother rang in the middle of her shagging did me in. (FFS, take the phone off the hook for half an hour!)

[ThursdayLastWeek]

I love it because of its very awful shameless cheesiness. It is not a film that takes itself seriously.

Love the Emma Thompson/Alan Rickmansworth storyline.
Absolutely hate with a passion the Andrew Lincoln bit with the cards at the door. Back off Andrew she just got fucking married!

[CaoNiMartacus]

They should re-make it with just the Emma/Alan storyline.

Keira K is face-meltingly awful.

[APlaceOnTheCouch]

Thanks Fru . I found it on Elle's website.

[FruSkogKattOla]

I believe it was on at about 9.30 last night (according to a thread in Telly Addicts!) I recorded Comic Relief only for the LA sequel - but haven't had time to watch it yet.

[APlaceOnTheCouch]

Does anyone have a link to the Comic Relief sequel? I missed it last night.

[Tiredbutfuckingfine]

God it's like a vision of how upper middle-class idiots see the world and it's so awful...thanks for this thread!!!!

[FruSkogKattOla]

What squoosh said :

"Four words."

"Hot."
"Semi."
"Naked."
"Karl."



But, yes, I love LA anyway - well, most of it!

[RockyTop]

Different people like different things shocker....

I enjoy Love Actually. Of course it's not serious, award winning stuff, but as a bit of sentimental fluff around Christmas it does the job for me.

[whensitmyturn]

I love it, it's my official wrapping Christmas presents film.

[MarsInScorpio]

Every single aspect of it is brilliant.

[KC225]

Four pages and no one has mentioned Hugh Grant's bile inducing dad dancing to the Pointer Sisters.

I live in Sweden and they show it all the time. I always think of mumsnet with the American girl caring for her brother storyline. I imagine mumsnet shouting 'put you brother on block and establish boundaries, you have the right to shag that a gorgeous work colleague after a Christmas party'

[MumBod]

It lost me at 'Piss it'

Who says that? Just proves Richard Curtis has only seen working class people in books.

Hugh Grant's speech makes me cringe so hard my arsehole creeps up my back and ends up on my head.

That stupid fucking Boden-attired kid learning to play the drums in a week just so he could stalk that lass.. I wanted airport security to bring him down at the end.

Martine McCutcheon being described throughout as fat. Ok then.

Richard Curtis films have a distinct whiff of ingrained misogyny about them. I lasted about ten minutes of About Time too. He's an over privileged, overly sentimental, one dimensional, ivory tower-dwelling charlatan, imo.

[JonesyAndTheSalad]

I can't bear it. Martine is bad, the plot's bad...