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?

K k is also awful in bend it like Beckham.
She is marmite. Once described as someone women hate and men love..( not by me)
Derxa, about a boy is my perfect film to watch with some nice chocs.
The book is good too. One of Nick hornby's better books.

I was trying to find the words to describe what I think of this film and couldn't do it. So this from a PP sums up how I feel about the film perfectly.

It is just one big luvvy, mutual back slapping, smug pile of tosh. Set against a backdrop of typical Working Title schmaltz, snowscenes, idyllic west london houses and neighbourhoods but-hey-look-at-us-in-a-state-school and shite music. But hey people lap that kind of shit up!

I hate About A Boy too. And Notting Hill too. Agree with wheoever mentioned Rhys Ifans, he's stomach churning. In any film, not just Notting Hill.

I feel I'm being quite negative on this thread!

plantsitter, the article says everything that was whirling incoherently around the back of my mind, but the main reason for angry tears at the time was fury that a so-called 'feel good' film had made me feel so very awful about being overweight. The ludicrous Martine storyline was just a run up for the sheer hilarity that in falling in love with a woman he'd never spoken to, Colin Firth might ever have fancied a fat woman.

I do agree that christmas nativities are never on christmas eve.
Ever. Not in these parts anyway.

Love Actually is a pretty shit film.

The only bits I enjoyed where the marvellous scene where Rowan Atkinson takes an age wrapping the mistresses Christmas present and the really sad scene when Emma Thompson opens her Joni Mitchell CD.

Mind you Notting Hill is even worse, Gina McKee is a fine actress, but I feel sure they might have been able to find another actress just as good who was an actual wheel chair user, and Julia Roberts is a deeply annoying character.

Gine McKee is always so bloody wistful.....looking off into the middle distance thinking about some great pain.

Yabu. Christmas films have to be full of shmaltz/saccharine/toe curling. It's the rule.

Any similar film at any tme of the year would drive me nuts, but Love Actually in December? I spoon it up with extra syrup on top

Don't worry... Blade Runner 2049 is out very soon!

YANBU It's Vomsville

Shite, shite, shite, it's a shite film, it is! YANBU

Keira knightly in anything though decides whether I will watch a film.
absobloodylutley!!!!!

Jiggler - YES and everyone seems to think she's some great beauty, when she's certainly attractive but not in a stunning way.

I still remember feeling outraged watching The Forsyths when Damian Lewis was meant to be punching above his weight by marrying her, when clearly he was - and is - an uber hunk who could have anyone he wanted.

Anyway sorry back to the subject. Yes is rubbish film. Is better than Nativity 3.

I ❤️ Love Actually very much. There aren’t many films I don’t like though. Some I’ll only watch once maybe. Keira is quite annoying in it though...”I look quite pretty, yeah well, it’s your wedding day love so I’d hope so.

Cannot wait for Blade Runner!

Youcanstayundermyumbrella Yes, that too in fact. And the bit in the article about how 'nothing works like that' nails it perfectly. It's just phony and horrible.

Couldn't get through "the breakfast club" , Judd Nelson character creeped me right out. Pretty in pink either.

Pulp fiction just seemed incredibly self conscious and try hard without any real plot. I used to like Quentin Tarantino but now he just seems juvenile and "sooo edgy" most of the time.

I wasn't aware anybody liked chitty chitty bang bang, that's gotta be one of my most gruesome, stomach-churningly horrific movies ever made. I watch it just to laugh and be nauseated by "Trudy scrumptious"

It's a dreadful film and a stupid story. McCutcheon is as awful in it as she is in everything else, as is Grant. Thompson deserved better.

YANBU. I hate it too. Hated all the storylines but in particular the 2 porn stars - it all felt too seedy and I didn't feel it belonged in the film. I also hated the KK storyline and the Liam Neeson one. I honestly felt I could write a better film.

Only few mins that I liked was when Rowan Atkinson was wrapping the present

Love actually, the holiday, all the Bridget Jones, About Time, It's a Wonderful life, The Grafalo, The Snowman, Muppets Christmas Carole, Scrooged andGroundhog Day. Not Christmas until all these have been watched! All naff but I love them!

I'll put it on if I want to watch a romance film over Christmas as it's the only one I can stand (hate romance films,much prefer comedies tbh) but do love me a bit of Home Alone 2... I cry with laughter every time I see the "woah! What a hole!" Bit. And the bricks...

I haven't seen Love Actually but doesn't look like my type of film at all.

The one film I dislike that everyone seems to love is Elf. I can't stand it and Will Ferrell is not funny in the slightest, in my opinion.

I don't mind Love Actually. I dislike Titanic with a passion though and refuse to watch Mama Mia. People tell me that I should watch, as they love it, but I've always managed to avoid it.

Hate Grease too. Saw it when it came out and loved it (my excuse was that I was 9) and then watched it again years later and wondered WTF!

Home alone. I don't get it

I've no idea why a movie about a grown man grooming a teenager is so beloved

He's only 8 years older than her, she's probably 18 in the film, so that would only make him 26