To ask who's story you don't like in Love Actually?

[fairybeagle]

I don't like Colin's. And as I've got older I've started to dislike Andre Lincoln's characters (which is sad as I used to love it so sort of taking the magic out of it) as he's actually a creepy stalker.

I think the Colin story is funny because most of us know someone just like him, whether a brother, a cousin or a work colleague.

I don’t like any of this film

I thought Colin's story was a bit daft and played to that wishful fantasy some British people seem to have of thinking their accent is incredibly erotic to Americans. The story with Laura Linney's character is sweet but implausable and frustrating, why can't she get together with that guy another time? I hate Mia, I think she's a very badly written character and a basic two-dimensional portrayal of a 'sexy' woman.

Aarrgghh I also can't stand Martine Mccutcheon's character. "Where the fack's me facking coat?" Definitely a middle-class Primrose Hill-centric idea of how working class people talk!

I was under the impression it became physical. In the scene where she puts on the necklace, she's in her undies and she gets up from her messy bed as she puts the necklace on. I thought this meant he'd just been round to give her the necklace (and the rest). Bastard.

You could be right. Can't really remember and have no intention of watching again. Either way, would be interesting to see it with the genders reversed, and the middle aged married woman getting to shag her hot young male underling, while the hubbie sat at home crying.

And don't get me started on Keira 'I'm quite pretty, aren't I?' Knightley acting with her chin....

All of them for me too. The movie is crap.

Why exactly is Aurelia at the house Colin Firth has hired out (wasn’t it just a hired holiday let or something?) She’s just there to make tea and clean and stuff? Who is paying for her? I can’t remember if it was explained.

I think the rental agency provided cleaning/housekeeping services, included in their villa rentals. But the usual cleaner was unavailable so they sent Aurelia, even though she could neither drive nor speak English and was therefore patently unsuitable for the role.

If I was renting a villa and they sent me a cleaner I didn't ask for, who I couldn't speak to and I was expected to drive them home every day... I think I'd be renting somewhere else.

God, I have just watched this and it is such shit. So full of toxic masculinity and topless women. Was watching it with DH and DD 12 and was surprised at how dated and utterly sexist it was. I thought Emma Thompson was good though. Did you spot Betty Draper as one of the American girls in the bar?

I'd like to see a remake with the same stories, same script even (as far as possible) but with all the male characters changed to female and vice versa.

I think this would work very well actually.
I actually can't think of a single story in it that wouldn't work equally well if sexes were reversed.

It's a steaming pile and it definitely hasn't aged well. At all.

My winner would have to be the creepy inappropriate stalkery 'best' friend. I hated that cards scene with a fiery passion. He's a terrible friend. And the part where he tells his best mates new bride to lie to her new husband about who is at the door, and she goes along with it....feck no.
He needed to keep his gob shut about how he felt and not self indulgently spilled his guts so he can get 'closure'.
I have my youtube comments switched off to this day because I got sick of people @ing me years later in the comments section to tell me I was wrong and it was a lovely sweet romantic scene. Yeah, no. He's a creep.

All of them.

I think they are all huge stereotypes and cliches. While its an easy watch especially at Christmas I never truly get the hype. Much prefer 4 Weddings. I feel if I had been asked to come up with say 5-10 different scenarios of little love stories not being a script write etc I'd have come up with pretty similar, its bog standard very obvious but OTT. But also like Bill Nighy's bit the best.

The Kris Marshall story would’ve been more believable if he’d gone to the effort of visiting the USA and found no one was interested .

I only really like Emma Thompson and Liam Neeson in it, the rest are awful. I loved Alan Rickman but he’s a total bastard in this.

I mean, the stalker best friend is just plain unrealistic. If I found out my DH’s friend was stalking me I’d definitely tell my DH who would lose it and the friend would no longer be a friend.