To say Four Weddings and a Funeral is CRAP

[DerelictWreck]

I've just watched Four Weddings and a Funeral for the first time on Netflix.

It's terrible! Like I genuinely don't understand how it's so well reviewed? Some of the characters are good but there's so many of them it's hard to keep track, and the whole things revolves and Charles pinning for a woman with whom he's had one conversation and slept with twice.

She cheats on her fiancé with Charles, is super flippant with feelings, ruins his wedding and he still loves her?! Meanwhile he hurts every woman he dates and doesn't seem to understand the concept of an alarm clock.

Am I missing something?! What other films are overrated - shall I even bother with When Harry Met Sally?

[SilverHairedCat]

Stop all the clocks 😭😭😭😭👍👍

[Celebelly]

The end is cringey I will admit. The 'is it raining? I hadn't noticed' bit is possibly the worst piece of film ever to darken our screens.

[Magicpaintbrush]

I feel the same way about Robin Hood Prince of Thieves - by todays standards it's absolutely shite. Crap acting, crap script, the lot - but at the time it was the biggest movie of the year. Some films really don't age well at all. Independence Day is another example, laugh out loud terrible when you re-watch it.

[Annandale]

I can't bear most of the writing in richard curtis films. But they do have a breezy confidence that is surprisingly seductive. And at least the jokes even if unfunny are verbal. I dont much like baggy improv style stuff like bridesmaids or i feel pretty.

Is the choice for an evening's entertainment really 4 weddings or nil by mouth??

[PawneeParksDept]

My favourite but is the OTT sex couple which starts when the bridesmaid thought she be fighting them off and wasn't

Fun Fact : Richard Curtis always has an inept character called Bernard because a guy called Bernard stole his girlfriend

Nicola Walker is in it too

[ChairmanMiaow123]

I’m like that with Ferris Bueller now, actually. He’s just an entitled, obnoxious little shit, i’ll wager.

[Ironfloor269]

YNBU. Anything with Hugh Bloody Grant in it is utter tosh.

[FrustratedTeddyLamp]

YABU may watch it now if its on netflix

[RomanyRoots]

All the mentioned films are good to watch once or maybe twice if you revisit with your children.
That said, they don't date well, any of them.

[BrightonGallery7]

I adore High Grant. Adore him!

sigh

[Aintnothingbutaheartache]

The only think that spoilt that film for me was Andie MacDowel. I can’t watch her!!! And WHY would ANYONE fancy her when they could have Kristin Scott Thomas?!?!

[topcat2014]

Loved it at the time, but not sure I could watch it now.
I remember being sad that Charlotte Coleman died of asthma etc.

[lljkk]

I loved AndieMacD in SexLies&Videotape, & liked her well enough in Groundhog Day, but she is DIRE in FW&AF. I can't stand her now. FW&AF is a good flick apart from every single scene AMcD is in.

Have you seen TrulyMadlyDeeply, OP? I wonder if I'd hate it now, dare not watch in case my initial fondness is ruined.

[overagain]

Aintnothingbutaheartache soooo with you there!

[elifant]

lljkk - yes she was great in SL&V and GD, totally agree. She was totally miscast in FWAAF.

OP, I adore When Harry Met Sally! I won't have any knocking of it!!!

[Sparklingbrook]

My second favourite film is St Elmo's Fire. It really does not stand up well to scrutiny.
The male characters all have terrible character traits and the women aren't much better. Andie McDowell is also in that.

But I watch and try not to think about it.

I also like the Carnival scene in FBDO but that's about it.

[PlatypusPie]

It was of its time - but that was my time and was so accurate about the multiple weddings I went to then. I did swoon for Hugh Grant then, and he has been very funny and self mocking about the whole floppy hair hesitant,convoluted speech thing since.

[Petalflowers]

I’m also not a fan of Andie McDowell in the film. Her voice really irritates me.

However, the funeral scene is superb and a classic.

[ScrambledSmegs]

Andie McDowell just wasn't right in the role, it's true. She seemed a bit wet - she didn't need the rain to be drippy. I ended up thinking that even if he didn't want Fi (which, FFS, makes him utterly MAD) then Duckface was Anna Chancellor and come on, knocked Andie McDowell into oblivion.

It was the other characters that made that film. Hugh Grant is no romantic lead looking back, why did we think he was?

[LittleMe03]

Dolphins are nasty fuckers too apparently...

[RainyAfternoon]

There’s a quite brilliant re-enactment of the ‘Is it raining?’ line on Graham Norton m.youtube.com/watch?v=fc_9NJgVOX4

[shakeyourcaboose]

Urggg! Am also not a fan of Andie McDowell, that scene in Groundhog Day where she randomly quotes Sir Walter Scott l find painful! 'The wretch...doubly dying, shall go down, To the vile dust from whence he sprung, Unwept, unhonor'd, and unsung'

[ScrambledSmegs]

I bloody love RH:PoT still. Kevin Costner's 'British' accent makes me laugh so hard, although at least he makes an effort - all Christian Slater bothered to do was affect a weird lisp! And it clearly owed a massive debt to Robin of SherSwoon, with Michael Praed and his impressive chest wig.

[Annandale]

it's true that as soon as Huge came on screen as bastardly Daniel Cleaver in Bridget jones I was like 'oh YES that makes sense, he does a brilliant turn as a shit' because I think we have to let Handie McTowell off at least 20% of the responsibility for the breeze block lack of interest they expressed in each other on screen.

Actually I think it would have made far more sense for Huge to get off with Scarlett. I wonder if that was in the first draft of the script.

[RonniePickering]

YANBU. I only like Hugh Grant as Daniel Cleaver and the bloke in About a Boy. Both pretty unsavoury characters