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?

[Sarahlou63]

It was my era and I went to SOOO many FW type weddings in those years. Fabulous movie.

[SydneyCarton]

I totally missed that Gareth and Matthew were a gay couple until halfway through the funeral scene

[thisneverendingsummer]

Notting Hill is also overrated IMO. Good but not amazing. Also a 6, maybe a 5.5.

[PawneeParksDept]

Martin Hobbit

[thisneverendingsummer]

As has been said, Notting Hill, Love Actually, FWAAF, and 101 dalmations and so on, all portray the Brits as posh uni grads with classic cars, loadsamoney, and clear cut RP accents, (and they all live in London - or close by, like Kent, or Sussex...

These types of films don't represent the majority of the UK.

[tigercub50]

“ Clanging cymbal” .......Sorry, I’m turning into my DM!

[Celebelly]

Martin Hobbit made me almost spit out my drink

[TheMonkeyMummy]

YABU

[Britchick77]

Ahh, FWAAF. It's such a classic from my era (I turned 15 the year it came out) that I actually can't tell whether it's good or bad anymore. I know every line, every character, every look, and so many of the quotes are household sayings ("don't be ridiculous Bernard, I'm not that desperate" is a fave)

So a year ago I might have said YABU. However...

My new year's resolution this year was to watch all the classic movies I haven't seen, I thought I was in for a great year, but I have honestly never seen so much shite in my life. It makes you realise how much the film industry has moved on.

One example: Jaws. Oh My God. I put it off for ages and was fully prepared to spend half of it hiding behind the sofa and risk feeling scared in the sea for life. It's just a load of papier maché shark heads with exaggerated lips and teeth coming out of the water at an awkwardly unrealistic angle and eating people you don't really care about (so slowly that you can really study their exaggerated anguished expressions). This is what still keeps grown men and women out of the water, even now, 40 years later? What the actual fuck? Find Nemo was scarier!

[thisneverendingsummer]

@PawnessParksDept

Couldn't remember his name, so I just said Martin Hobbit.

Agree Muriel's Wedding is sad, but also funny in some parts of it, and that's why I said it was heartwarming and touching too. Amazing, clever, well-written, touching, brilliant film.

[thisneverendingsummer]

@Celebelly

[PawneeParksDept]

@thisneverendingsummer They do however represent the type of "set" that gets to make films in this country, and as that's their experience of Britishness they probably do think it's accurate, nowhere was this better highlighted when the lack of ethnic diversity in Notting Hill, a famously diverse area was pointed out to RC and he responded to the criticism by casting about 3 black people in Love Actually, which shows you "his" London, I think. And the London those elites experience. I mean his daughter has just had a book published, she is about 20, nothing to do with being the daughter of Emma Freud and Richard Curtis though, of course not, entirely on merit.

[thisneverendingsummer]

I still do like JAWS, and it's one of my faves ever. But yeah I agree the shark does look shit now LOL.

[slkk]

I love about time though

[PawneeParksDept]

I love About Time but I'm also like WHY THE FUCK IS TIME TRAVEL EXCLUSIVE TO WHITE MEN, FUCKSSAKE.

I still love it though

[thisneverendingsummer]

I agree Pawnee. Notting Hill - in LONDON - is very diverse, and I don't think more than one or two black faces were spotted in the film!

Also, yeah there is a certain 'set' and a certain 'type' that gets picked to represent Britain to America (and the rest of the world!) The posh, uni educated, upper middle classes.

Not being mean, and I know many of them are talented, and can act, but I do think (these days,) that you are far more likely to make it in movies and tv now, if you have been to a top uni, (or a really fancy and expensive drama school like Italia Conti or RADA,) you are upper middle class (or upper class,) or you have connections in the industry/are related to someone famous.

The generations of actors and actresses born pre 1980's, are the last to make it as actors and film stars from sheer raw talent, and hard work. Now, it's not what you know, it's WHO you know, and how posh and well educated you are.

Sad, but true. I know a number of people who did degrees in media, and performing arts, and they are working class people from the midlands who know no-one famous. Most of them haven't even been able to get even a job in tv or film, making cups of tea.

[Aintnothingbutaheartache]

I agree thisnever I still look back fondly on Jaws (obviously an age thing) but Jaws 3 was the biggest pile of shite that was ever made

[OvO]

I’ve never seen 4 wedding and a funeral!

[OvO]

*weddings

[CarolDanvers]

It was of it's time. Very dated now but great when it first came out.

[Goldenbear]

YABU, I think it's very funny and although not truly representative of the average brit, there is an element of the quintessential English person in it- self deprecating, confrontation avoiding, apologetic as opposed to the American who knows what she wants and gets it. Plus, it's a pre internet world where you had to discover how to be romantic through trial and error, you didn't have the insight and knowledge that the Internet affords people dating these days!

[AngeloMysterioso]

I love it. But mostly because I got married in one of the churches used in the film

[Willow2017]

Fuck fuck fuckity fuck still my fave swear when things go wrong to this day yabvu.

I love it despite the stupid idea that andi mcd's character would marry such a twit even if he does have an estate in Scotland!
The one liners are great and some of the lines are pretty insightful in all the froth. And the cast made the characters loveable.

Its of its time. Its pure escapism. Its not meant to be Voltaire 😀

And Robin Hood is fab too
Alan Rickman steals the show and looks drop dead gorgeous whats not to love?

[Dumbledoresgirl]

I have fond memories of FWAAF. It came out just before I got married and my dad had the great idea of my family and my fiance's all going to see it together at the cinema over the weekend when the 2 sides of the family met. We enjoyed it then, and I have always had a soft spot for it since. I did watch it recently. Yeah, I agree, it has not lasted all that well. I always thought Carrie's marriage to the Scottish bloke wasn't properly explained, like there was a scene or two missing. I am not a fan of Richard Curtis, to be honest. All his characters sound the same, and some actors sound really awkward saying his lines.

A film that has really mega disappointed recently though is Groundhog Day. Dh and I decided it was a classic film that the children really must watch, so I bought the DVD and we all settled down to watch it. Omg, it is so boring! Not least because, of course, it is endlessly repetitive. How did we all find that so amusing when it first came out?

[Willow2017]

Oh and Jaws remains one of the best films ever. The begining where that girl is being dragged back and forward but you dont see anything is one of the best scenes ever.

It was a truly scary film.without all the cgi effects we jave now. Considering they were wrangling a mechanical 'shark' that kept breaking down its pretty damm good.