To enjoy watching Love Actually

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Just watched Love Actually for the umpteenth time. Thoroughly enjoyed it as usual and got me in the festive spirit.

Yes, the plot(s) is full of holes and mostly ridiculous! However, there are some great moments such as the Emma Thompson scene when she gets the CD instead of the necklace and lots of funny moments (Rowen Atkinson, Bill Nighy etc). My teen DD watching for the first time pointed out the sexism and the fat shaming (but still quite enjoyed it). She's not wrong, but meh! AIBU?

I get that they are not meant to be taken literally, and its supposed to be funny, but it just isn't.

It depends on the relationships between the people as to whether it's appropriate or not. I don't think those lines are meant to be funny, just how those people interact with each other.

Yep, and the women were paid half of what the men were!

Oh well each to their own I guess!

I love it, its just a film, there's no need to be so uptight about it

Aye but then we would all miss out on the annual thread! 😂😂

it was terrible Amanda Barrie sent to get hormone treatment to enlarge her breasts it was madness !

They really are all the same. Spot on description.

Andrew Lincoln can't help that he loves his friend's wife. He's not a stalker - that would be following her home from work and making a pest of himself. He tells her how he feels, she's clearly flattered. They both move on.

My memory of this might be hazy as I have not seen the film for a while but I am pretty sure she only realises his love for her when they are watching the wedding video he made and notices that all the footage is close ups of her. I think the whole infatuation with your best mates wife storyline is a bit ickky.

Yep even more icky as Keira was 17 and Andrew Lincoln was 30.

Keira K was actually 18, but I agree it's a bit of a gap. In the film, though, he certainly doesn't look much older than her!

Full confession: I’m ten years older than my 21-year-old boyfriend. I think casting an eighteen-year-old getting married to a thirtyish man (assuming that the two men probably are similar ages) and being creeped on/borderline stalked by another is slightly odd, and the creepy dynamic is a big part of that. The age gap isn’t TOO awful but I think there’s a huge leap in maturity on leaving school, which KK at her age theoretically hasn’t had yet.

Keira Knightley looked about 30 in it though - it wasn't portrayed as an age gap relationship so nothing inappropriate with it. I wouldn't have known she was so young if it weren't for these threads!

This is true - she hasn’t aged much but looked very mature in this film, I didn’t clock it as an age gap initially.

I only saw it for the first time recently and l loved it.

The Andrew Lincoln character avoids her most of the time, to the extent she thinks he doesn't like her. It's not like he was trying to chat her up behind his friend's back. People don't always fall for the person they should. I thought that although KK was young irl, I assumed her character was early 20s.

He’s sitting next to Sarah at the wedding, right at the beginning.

When Micheal Parkinson died BBC Four showed some of his interviews. Including a snippet of one with Shirley Maclaine She talked about the Hays Code. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hays_Code

Interestingly she said that while this code was in force actresses were getting meaty parts as judges and lawyers doctors etc.
When the code was lifted "most of our roles included being in the bedroom, We just couldnt get out of the bedroom"

Love the film and watch it every year in lighthearted way as yes agree lots of things inappropriate but overall it makes me laugh (Rowan Atkinson is fantastic and we often act out that making someone wait and always adding something else bit). The film is full of details that you notice over time.

I absolutely love the Christmas octopus child, havi ngworked in a primary school where the annual nativity always caused high emotion re casting😂. Unlike everyone else on here the part I most disliked was Emma Thompson being tearful as I wanted her to be really angry and strong. Also loathed creepy Brit man in USA. And so annoyed with woman with brother for turning down lovely chap - come on!

Martine McCutcheon is fab and love it when Hugh Grant goes to look for her. To the taxi driver: “thingy road - the dodgy end”

Feel like watching it tonight now.

It’s amazing how angry people get when someone challenges their underthinkin @Bicorne what a mean thing to say....

Will leave it here.....

This is the thing, they are actors. There is only an age gap if the story says their is an age gap. If it's not part of the story, and you can't tell, there is no age gap.

It's not "creepy" because they are not actually involved.

I think I was vaguely on your side there, and I have a LOT of problems with love actually but none of them are Keira Knightley playing a mature woman getting married. As long as she was looked after on set properly I actually can’t see the problem there.

He was hardly "stalking" her, he loved her , but she was his best friend's wife so he tried to ignore her and pretend he didn't like her. But during the wedding, he couldn't resist filming her looking lovely, as he was so in love. He knows they can never be together.

Of course he wasn’t stalking her! Would the police be interested if Juliet called the police about him?I don’t think so!

Honestly, some people on this thread should lighten up.