Love Actually annoyances

[marychristmas22]

Watched it last night for the 26363th time and there are still things that really irritate me.

1. Emma Watson calling Liam Neeson a sissy when he cries at the loss of his wife.

1. Juliet kissing her husbands best friend in the middle of the street. And what would have happened if the guy had come to the door in the middle of those boards?

1. This is the worst, the entire Laura Linney storyline. I get that she's giving up romantic love for the love of her brother but why? Why can't she have both? We're led to believe Carl is a nice guy, why wouldn't he have accepted her situation and supported her? And why does her story finish so abruptly about 45 minutes before everyone else's?

Not to mention all the sexism and misogyny but these things always just stick out to me as being the most ridiculous. Thoughts?

Martine McCutcheon constantly being referred to as fat and chubby.

Kiera Knightly saying "I'm really quite pretty."

Oh yes definitely. She must be a size 10 if that. Bizarre.

Also the idea that the PM would alter actual policies based on the fact that he fancied the tea lady. Although that could be quite believable in the current government I suppose.

read this. It's so funny.

Keira Knightley being the wife in the first place when she was 19 and the husband was in his 30s. Just why?

I don't remember Emma Watson being in it?

I always hated the Laura Linney storyline. Her brother was in a care home. He wouldn't have had so much access to a phone to call her all the time, (pre mobiles and even so) it was clearly obsessive reassurance seeking behaviour and the staff should have been all over it, providing distraction and deflection as it wouldn't have been good for him to continue that, not to mention causing burnout for his sole/primary support person. Sheesh.

Yes to all of the above!!

Kiera knightly was 17! It’s so grim

I think OP means Emma Thompson.

Argh yes, makes me cringe!

I never get the hype over this movie. I watched - no sorry - endured it once and will never put myself through it again.

The way that the PM just "called out" the US president, as a jibe at Tony Blair. Because Foreign Policy is so straightforward, as is dealing with military alliances. Yeh, just be sassy!

Any film where someone just breaks through airport security, leaping across barriers without being wrestled to the ground (at the very least) is clearly very silly.

Funniest moments are from Bill Nighy and his ( fat) manager!
Ant or Dec ?

When Martine tells the PM her ex thought she was fat
' I can call the SAS , lovely fellows , but one phone call away '
I do love Hugh grant in that film
I agree that much of it is dubious though, especially Keira knightly and the porn couple
Too cringy

Tbf, I don't think it's supposed to be realistic. It's a fantasy (albeit in large part a male one). About Christmas as a time where the usual rules of things don't apply. The dissonance comes from the fact that those elements of it sit alongside sadder ones (thinking mostly of the Emma Thomspon story).

It's a strange film that we Brits get all sentimental about, and i just don't get it. There are so many cringeworthy bits as pp have said.

In the back of my head I'm thinking "cuddly rom-com family viewing," and then BOOM! That Martin Freeman porn scene comes on. The whole film is below average at best, and the only bit worth watching is the Emma Thompson /Alan Rickman situation.

I love the film (actually!) but cringe at the fat comments about Martine. Awful.

it was Emma Thomson who called the grieving husband a cissy. Also awful. (What is their relationship anyway?)

It's a silly film. But very watchable. I remember hating it when it came out in the cinema. But quite enjoy watching it for the nonsense now.

All these points have been made & done to death - yes, there are many, many holes in the plot & storyline; behaviour of more than a few characters is problematic viewed through today's lens; the body shaming is wrong.

If that's sufficiently bothersome, don't watch it but honestly, it's all been covered extensively.

(And on Emma Thompson 'sissy' comment - actually there I disagree. That was the nature of their friendship, support hidden behind joking comments.)

Friends. She was his wife's best friend.

What about all the comedy forrin people at the end? I cringe so hard I nearly turn inside out. AND they have a fat one they (horrors) try to palm off on Colin Firth instead of the thin daughter. At least U think that's how I remember it.

I agree. I know the film is problematic and like most Richard Curtis films has lots of nonsense & over-wrought sentimentality.

But the Emma Thompson storyline is painfully recognisable & well-done.

The fat mocking all the way through is awful. The worst but overall I think. MM, the Portuguese sister and the Bill Nighy manager all mocked for their weight.

I love the film but it hasn’t aged well.

I saw Love Actually in the cinema when it first came out.

There was an audible ripple of hatred that ran through all of the women in the audience when she said that.

I thought she was his sister?

As if the Keria Knightley character and her husband could afford that mews house.