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To ask who TF is looking after the kids…

127 replies

LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 27/12/2022 22:50

For Jude Law in The Holiday?

He’s a widower, a single dad of 2 primary aged girls, and he goes out on the piss and makes a last minute unannounced decision to stay at his sisters’ then the very next morning invites his shag to dinner with friends in the pub that night.

Who is looking after the kids?! A widow with 2 children would be called a slapper for doing this and someone on MN would probably call 101 on her even though they know it’s just a film.

Im also calling it that Miles, Jack Black’s character, is a prick. He’s overbearing with his girlfriend and bossy - when he’s trying to get into Amanda’s mansion (BTW do movie trailer makers really afford these houses in their mid-30’s?!) Maggie his GF is on the phone and he says “Come on Maggie this is the important flute section” (referring to the music he composed playing on their car radio). This is meant to demonstrate that she’s unsupportive and rude. However if my DH interrupted my phone conversation and demanded I listened to his shit jingle he’d be getting told to fuck right off. We are meant to believe that the wonderful Kate Winslet in her lovely character of Iris falls for this inept unattractive buffoon when Rufus Sewell offers it to her on a plate! Bollocks

I may be overthinking it all - I’m ill and so can’t sleep and I’m watching easy-watch TV Grin

PS Cary Grant is not from Surrey. That is all

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Jackiebrambles · 27/12/2022 22:55

Grin all very good points. It's so wonderfully shit that film. The dancing bit at the end makes me nearly die from cringe, every time.

LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 27/12/2022 23:01

And now after sleepover no 2 they’re off to bloody lunch in a stately home! This man must have cracking childcare. His poor girls are probably wondering where the hell he is. And Cameron Diaz is actually turned on by this Disney Dad doofus

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LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 27/12/2022 23:02

Jackiebrambles · 27/12/2022 22:55

Grin all very good points. It's so wonderfully shit that film. The dancing bit at the end makes me nearly die from cringe, every time.

Yes! Jack Black’s little shimmy towards her while holding the champagne - why is she burning and not vomiting? They have no chemistry!

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Menopants · 27/12/2022 23:03

Maybe he has a nanny? He likes nannies

Menopants · 27/12/2022 23:04

Jack blacks success is inexplicable

Vaccine001 · 27/12/2022 23:05

One of my friends loves that movie and I'm scared to.disagree Jack Black is a shit actor in my opinion

WeepingSomnambulist · 27/12/2022 23:06

He says they were with their grandparents.
When she finds out about the kids, he tells her that they were at their grandparents when he was out and I'm sure he says something about not getting out often or something.

Thatiswild · 27/12/2022 23:07

Menopants · 27/12/2022 23:03

Maybe he has a nanny? He likes nannies

😂😂😂😂 agree with all of this!

QueenSmartypants · 27/12/2022 23:08

Everything about film is shit

Kate Winslets character is such
a drip

Diaz and that no crying thing?!

LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 27/12/2022 23:09

Menopants · 27/12/2022 23:03

Maybe he has a nanny? He likes nannies

🤣🤣🤣🤣 <bows down to @Menopants >

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Shadope · 27/12/2022 23:11

I’ve never seen it but I wouldn’t call a single mum a slapper for leaving her children somewhere safe and going out and having fun. In fact I do it. As do thousands of single mums. This is a really offensive post

Mushroo · 27/12/2022 23:11

He says they were with his parents for the weekend yes I’ve seen it too many times

Bogglebrain · 27/12/2022 23:11

QueenSmartypants · 27/12/2022 23:08

Everything about film is shit

Kate Winslets character is such
a drip

Diaz and that no crying thing?!

Completely agree. It is utter SHITE! I feel very strongly about this.

SharpLily · 27/12/2022 23:12

I love it. I know it's shit, there are bits that make me cringe but I still have to watch it every Christmas.

LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 27/12/2022 23:12

Shadope · 27/12/2022 23:11

I’ve never seen it but I wouldn’t call a single mum a slapper for leaving her children somewhere safe and going out and having fun. In fact I do it. As do thousands of single mums. This is a really offensive post

Oh dear, 6 posts in and we have a SOH failure.
My point, and I stand by it is that if it was a woman behaving like Jude Law’s character behaves the movie would have a very different tone.

TO BE CLEAR - I am not calling single women slappers.

HTH

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LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 27/12/2022 23:13

SharpLily · 27/12/2022 23:12

I love it. I know it's shit, there are bits that make me cringe but I still have to watch it every Christmas.

Same. I also despise Love Actually. Doesn’t stop me watching it every December.

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ZenNudist · 27/12/2022 23:17

It's one of my quintessentially Christmas favourites

I don't pull it apart too much. It really doesn't hang together as it is.

Love actually is worse for making zero sense but i love that too. The jezebel article pulling it apart is my favourite pieces of journalism

Snipples · 27/12/2022 23:21

Also all the drink driving. They are getting pissed at that lunch and then drive home. Cameron Diaz starts drinking wine from the bottle in the shop and then drives back. There's so much casual drink driving in films.

Zonder · 27/12/2022 23:27

So glad I've found you all!

Now I know the children were looked after because he definitely said his parents have them. But the rest? Oh my word. Why are people like Cameron D and Kate W in this terrible movie? And how has Jude L got so far being so corny? And Jack B - just NO! Totally unappealing and Kate would never fall for him.

But you know what annoyed me most? No plaster on the inside of the walls of Kate's cottage. When have you ever been in a teensy cutesy little English stone cottage and found bare stone on the inside? And no road to it so you have to walk over fields? Ridiculous.

But I still stayed up way too late watching the entire thing. Just like I always do with Love Actually.

whynotwhatknot · 27/12/2022 23:35

it does have a road doesnt it or a track anyway

i like jack black i think hes cute

Passthebaton · 27/12/2022 23:40

Stop perpetuating that single mothers are slappers then, by announcing on a worldwide website/national social media platform that they'd be judged as such?

I have 2 DC and could not give a fuck if emotionally stunted halfwits think I'm a slapper because I dare to have some form of a social life.

Shadope · 27/12/2022 23:41

TO BE CLEAR - I am not calling single women slappers

no but you’ve asked the question who the fuck is looking after the children. You may be in a two adult family but women (and perhaps men) come up against this shit all the time so it doesn’t help. it’s not a sense of humour failure, it’s pulling someone up on a derogatory accusation

Especially when others have said the film clearly says they’re with grandparents.

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LydiaBennetsUglyBonnet · 27/12/2022 23:47

Passthebaton · 27/12/2022 23:40

Stop perpetuating that single mothers are slappers then, by announcing on a worldwide website/national social media platform that they'd be judged as such?

I have 2 DC and could not give a fuck if emotionally stunted halfwits think I'm a slapper because I dare to have some form of a social life.

I’m not perpetuating stereotypes 😂 this is a lighthearted thread not for the perpetually offended

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Creamcrackersandricecakes · 27/12/2022 23:47

My sister used to live in the village where this terrible movie was filmed.
Not very interesting fact - Kate Winslet's cottage is not real.