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 love it. It's one of the very few films i can watch multiple times (once every few years anyway). Aso one of very, very few that have actually made me cry - the first time anyway. Makes me laugh a lot too.

I have a bit of a love hate thing for it. I watch it every Christmas with DD but we both always agree what a load of misogynistic bunk it all is. We quite like Jamie and Aurelia though completely unrealistic, and I don't mind Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon in it. I hate Colin Frizzels storyline and Alan Rikmans though well acted especially by ET. Laura Linney's always frustrates me, why does the relationship have to go nowhere just because of her brother, it is frustrating. Stacey and Tim are sweet but could do without the whole porn movie thing. Keira Knightly saying 'I look quite pretty' grinds my gears. Bill Nighy scenes overly sexualised and misogynistic eg with addicted to love video. There's a lot to hate in it

But that ending with all the people at the airport never fails to make me blub.

Also love/hate it. Can’t stand Laura Linney, Mr Bean or that goggled eyed twat who goes to find girls in America. Love Martine - she’s adorable in it.

Oh, not another Love Actually thread, it's been done to death, and so boring now.

@Wheresmykimchi alright Richard Curtis. I didn't say I didn't like it. Just that someone else pointed it out.

I genuinely like the film. I'll be watching it again this year for sure

I love a Richard Curtis film. Plus his tv.

Love Actually is awful. Really don't like it.

Misogynistic. Unromantic. Not funny.

Antithesis of a Richard Curtis film.

It's mad. Lots of people really love it, but it's the only movie that actually makes me angry enough to shout at the telly when it's on - go figure...

Awful. So cringe. Andrew Lincoln's character. Odd what we used to think was romantic.

The Holiday is pretty cringe too, CD's character

Honestly I think the popular opinion on this film is to hate it not love it. I haven't heard anyone say they love it in yrs. I don't mind it actually but I will not admit this in public. I find it enjoyable nonsense (and yes I know there are some problematic aspects but this is true of many films).

YABU. I love it.

I find it cringey and hard to watch

But I also love it, and I usually watch it when I come home a bit drunk from a Christmas drinks party and then it makes me sob and it’s all very cathartic

Part of what makes me sob is nostalgia for the 1990s and my youth, I guess, the passing of time and all that stuff

I absolutely love it - just watched it again tonight actually whilst wrapping presents; it warms my cockles

@Madhairday

I have a bit of a love hate thing for it. I watch it every Christmas with DD but we both always agree what a load of misogynistic bunk it all is. We quite like Jamie and Aurelia though completely unrealistic, and I don't mind Hugh Grant and Martine McCutcheon in it. I hate Colin Frizzels storyline and Alan Rikmans though well acted especially by ET. Laura Linney's always frustrates me, why does the relationship have to go nowhere just because of her brother, it is frustrating. Stacey and Tim are sweet but could do without the whole porn movie thing. Keira Knightly saying 'I look quite pretty' grinds my gears. Bill Nighy scenes overly sexualised and misogynistic eg with addicted to love video. There's a lot to hate in it

But that ending with all the people at the airport never fails to make me blub.

Colin frizzell

[quote cheesecrackersandcorona]@Wheresmykimchi alright Richard Curtis. I didn't say I didn't like it. Just that someone else pointed it out.

I genuinely like the film. I'll be watching it again this year for sure [/quote]
But it's not.

None of the men are in any way like that towards the women.

In the Alan rickman scene which is the only one which remotely resembles that , she's the one in the power seat.

Yeh I love it . I mean it's total cringe but people look for things that aren't there. Il be expecting a psychoanalysis on elf next

I loved it and it always made me cry, but yes, I guess it has dated quite badly.

Toyboy found my dvd of this one year and put it on, probably thinking it was some sort of erotic film. He got a shock, but quite enjoyed it. Should add that he is German, so would not know any of the actors except Rowan Atkinson.

My sister loves it and she’s a proper film buff. I’ve watched it twice, the second time to make sure I wasn’t missing the thing which makes everyone love it so much.
I love a good romcom, the more ludicrous the better usually. But this is just terrible.

Emma Thompson is a class act though.

I hate it. Hate KK gurning at the message boards.
Hate Emma Thompson being Emma Thompson.

Strongly dislike precocious dead eyed kid.

Cannot stand MM and the cutesy act.

Absolutely loathe Bill. Not funny.

FFS Hugh Grant please dont do your charming smile, its not charming.

There's literally only 2 seconds of the film I enjoy and that's when the Colin character says "I'm GOING to America!"

Watched it for the first time a few weeks ago. Can't believe people actually enjoy it. It's shit!!

I'd seen bits of it over the years but only watched it all the way through for the first time last winter. Fairly awful on every level. I'll be sure to avoid watching any of it ever again.

I remember seeing it at the cinema. Came out to twinkling Christmas lights, feeling all warm and fluffy.

Cannot watch it now. Awfully dated and clichéd.

So badly dated. If you like it you need to find your inner self worth😁

I remember watching this when it came out on DVD (couldn't get to cinema to watch it as my DC were both little) and thinking how great it was. Although I never liked the Emma Thompson bit tbh. Or sodding Keira Knightly.

Now I can't watch it at all. Just awful. It has dated REALLY badly.

I watched Four Weddings & a Funeral over the summer (this was 'the' film of my early 20s, me and my friends were obsessed with it, and at the time with Hugh Grant too) and it doesn't seem to me to have dated nearly so badly despite being made 10 years before Love Actually.

I love it. Hate Elf though!

Yabvvvu. It's one of my favourite xmas films.