AIBU that Love Actually makes me want to poke my eyes out? Light hearted.

[Mapletreelane]

Don't get me wrong, I love a good Christmas flick. But I'm seeing a lot of love on social media for Love Actually. Am I the only one who finds it cringey; it stereotypes Britain as posh and middle class, and Hugh Grant's dancing PM is just....horrendously embarrassing, not funny? It has a wealth of our greatest acting talent who manage to sound unnatural and unfunny. Give me Elf any day (And I am not a Will Ferrell fan). I'm seeing so much love for it and I just cannot see the attraction!

YABU- Get a life. Love Actually is one of the greatest Xmas films ever

YANBU - it is a cringefest akin to nails scraping on a blackboard (for those of you old enough to know what a blackboard is)

I hate it and I love Christmas films. It's full of shitty people and shitty relationships.

Oh you will not be lonely in your hate for this film. I love it. I also love the piece in Reddit that someone will link to which points out how horrifically misogynistic it is. But I still love it.

Literally had this thread 2 days ago. It's a steaming pile of horseshit and everyone knows it (and if you don't, you're wilfully ignoring the entire film)

I don't like it either and I will watch pretty much any crappy Christmas movie and enjoy it (a Christmas inheritance anyone?!)

All of the characters are awful and there are some very questionable storylines. I quite like the Rowan Atkinson bit but that's about it.

You know its Christmas when someone posts this thread. Each to their own - if you don't like it, don't watch it .

Can't stand the simpering Keira Knightly and gobby Martine McCutcheon. Liam & Alan are perfect.

It hasn’t aged well but we watch it every year
Makes my husband cry

Some films date. That is being polite. Do we want to see a stalker as part of our Christmas entertainment?

Awful film apart from Liam and Alan

I've tried watching it most years but I've never managed to get to the end as I've always found it too boring!

I don't remember starting this thread but I must have. You are not alone OP!

It was very much of it's time, not aged well.
But I'll probably still watch it at some point over Xmas.

The family insisted we watched it last year (in spite of my protests). We got to the end and all agreed that it's completely shite.

I actually think the Hugh Grant dancing bit is one of the least awful parts though. Mainly because he apparently absolutely hated having to act that scene.

It’s awful
You are discerning
I’d rather sniff anthrax than watch it
YANBU

The only good bit is the Alan Rickman storyline. The rest is just too cringworthy.

Someone pointed out last year that actually it's all male bosses taking advantage of female subordinates.

Hugh grant
Alan Rickman
Colin (forgot his name) Farrell?

Sure there's a forth and it's escaped me.

Is it the one where The Office and Gavin and Stacy get together? I hate that bit, totally unnecessary.

@felineflutter

Is it the one where The Office and Gavin and Stacy get together? I hate that bit, totally unnecessary.

Hmm don't think so as he's not her superior. Maybe it's just the 3?

Some people really really hate this movie. I find the posh criticism weird though, surely it's doesn't say anything about ALL British people, any more than any other film?

I don't watch it every year, but I think I like it overall. Some parts of it better than others, but it's a bit like a short story collection, little vignettes about some form of love. Some area bit silly or romanticised and a few are a little more serious or sad - the one about the woman and her love for her brother always gets to me.

The dancing PM I suppose is silly, but then that's the point.

I like it. It has it's daft bits but I like the Emma Thompson storyline and the boy whose mum died.

Each to their own. Life would be dull if we all enjoyed the same things.

Sorry, didn't realise there was another thread 🙁. I just keep seeing so much love and can't get my head round it! I wonder if people don't actually watch it and are just nostalgic from one viewing years ago.

I have seen the film a couple of times,fairly enjoyed it, but now it's old hat,and not appealing anymore. I dare say it will be on telly again and again, much the same as the film Holiday, with Kate Winslet and Jude Law and all the rest.

@cheesecrackersandcorona

Someone pointed out last year that actually it's all male bosses taking advantage of female subordinates.

Hugh grant
Alan Rickman
Colin (forgot his name) Farrell?

Sure there's a forth and it's escaped me.

not the storylines at all though.

None of the stories are slightly romantic. Off the top of my head: cheating husband, stalker, sexual predator (and idiot)...

It's crap. Even the Emma Thompson/Alan Rickman story line. Makes me really uncomfortable how she is revered as a wonderfully strong woman holding it all together for everyone. Those expectations of women just piss me off really and to have her character's understated reactions to humiliating infidelity by her pathetic husband, held up as aspirational dignity just makes me