To hate a much loved film with so much passion

[splendidisolation]

I hate the fucking annoying, saccharine voiceover at the opening airport scene
I hate Emma Thompsons irritating character and hammy acting
I hate Hugh Grants insistence on playing himself
I hate how we're supposed to find Martines character so salt of the earth and endearing- shes fucking annoying
I hate the Liam Neeson storyline and his weird relationship with his weird woolly haired kid who should be getting a life
Im left unmoved by Laura Linney
I absolutely cannt stand Keira Knightleys faux coy girlish smile and that entire weird stalker relationship
I can just about stomach Mr Darcy and his Portuguese squeeze...JUST ABOUT
Bill Nighy - once you've seen the song performed once you're like...whatever...zzzzzz

I find the whole film absolutely sick making and toe curling and yet every Christmas DM forces us to watch it.

AIBU?

I love Bridesmaids! (Aside from the Jon Hamm, and the shitting themselves scenes that is...)

Freaking hate the Keira Knightley P&P though - I had to cleanse my palate with the 1995 BBC version right after. The KK P&P Darcy was dull. Knightley gurned like she had never gurned before, and Mr Bennett was completely incomprehensible!

KK is just 'marmite' - my dh thinks she is marvellous, me not as much.
we cant please everyone and i am sure she doesnt really care much either way. She is a mega rich famous film star and most people are not.
She has the last laugh, whatever your view.

Diehard is the best christmas film.

The railway children with a grown woman simpering about "daddy" at the end.

I have always loved Bruce , bald, in Moonlighting, running around with a vest on, being horrible to Matt and Alex on the one show. whatever.
He has something about him.

I feel like all Richard Curtis films are made for American audiences rather than British ones. No one I know recognises the version of England in those films, where everyone is ridiculously posh and rich and lives in a huge house in the country or flat in the centre of London even though they have a normal job. They're just fantasies for tourists.

Haha I knew it'd be love actually! Yabu it's amazing.

Never seen it. Never seen Four Weddings or Notting Hill either. But I bloody hate Dirty Dancing. That statement usually causes a sharp intake of breath from my fellow women!

The railway children with a grown woman simpering about "daddy" at the end.

Well, now we've just descended to silliness.

Jack Black looks like a badger who’s been run over and then had a job done on him by an amateur taxidermist

I want to marry you @Jiggler

I hate it too OP. I've tried to watch it a few times but 10 mins in I want to break the tv.
I can't stand Bill whateverhisnameis.

Yeah there's somethingissing in you if you cannot find something in LA to like. Sorry but it's true, you are obviously a complete oddball😝

I hate Dirty Dancing Baby can sit in the corner and stfu for all I care

And The Green Mile what utter sentimental tosh white guards loving and respecting a black man in the souther states in the 1930's yay for the guards

I find Emma Thompson so very smug and pompous

@EnthusiasmIsDisturbed

Yep Emma is from the Helen Mirren school of annoying

Just to move the debate on perhaps... the "much loved" one I hate is Bridesmaids. Utter trash. Am I alone?

I agree with every single point you've made. I could have written your post!

Particularly detest mamma mia and Dances with Wolves makes me cringe but LA is crap too.

Hate Love actually and Ms Knightly ruined Pride and Prejudice for me. Colin Firth and Jennifer Earle will never be bettered imo.

Love Sound of Music though. Favourite stop everything moment is when the sad children beginning singing to cheer themselves up and she joins in from behind.

Love the films "Wild" and "The Help". Also absolutely adore "Hidden Figures". Real feel good feminist movies.

When Knightley says "I look quite pretty", I irrationally want to go all Fight Club Ed Norton / Jared Leto on her. And I'm a pacifist.

You'll find many of us agree with you on that, OP.

YABVU imho. LA is a lot of frothy nonsense and is full of stereotypes but it is not the worst film ever. Alan Rickman redeemed any film he was ever in, although it is difficult to forgive him for breaking ET's character's heart. My main problem with it is that Laura Linney definitely should have shagged the brains out of the gorgeous Karl.

Never watched this film! Sounds like I'm not missing much!

I can tolerate Love Actually. I do have a huge problem with Truly Madly Deeply. Simpering hammy acting.

You're not being UR.
And I have never understood the appeal/cult following of 'Dirty Dancing' either (Though I loved Patrick Swayze in Ghost).

Right with you OP. I couldn't stand martine m when she did the yoghurt ads years ago. Keira knightly needs her man had breaking i hate the way she speaks-she is like a ventriloquist's dummy. Hugh grant yep old hat cannot stand anything he is in. Not sure if I blanked most of the film out or switched off but I have no idea how it and or the point of the "story" (i couldn't bring myself to say the word plot)