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?

Also, there's no way Martine McCutcheon was overweight in LA. Stood next to Keira Knightley maybe, but come on...

I always got the impression calling Martine’s character ‘fat’ was making fun of the people who think people who aren’t stick thin are fat, rather than anyone really thinking she WAS fat!

It also has Juliet Aubrey and a very young Rachel Stirling. Bill Nighy does all his own singing IIRC and the songs are pretty good too, co-written by Chris Gifford.

It’s not real. That’s my thought.

The Andrew Lincoln cue cards! That's his best friend's wife for god's sake. It's awful.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12896507/Love-Actually-star-looks-unrecognisable-20-years-playing-mistress-Mia.html. Just saw this today. She is not unrecognisable ! She just got older!

Sounds better and better!

<thunbs up>

It just occurred to me today how problematic it is that Natalie was fired because she was sexually harassed at work by the American President. And then she sends a card to apologise. She didn't do anything!!!

Brilliant Jezebel article linked above, it gets 10/10 for inventing the word 'cock-blocktapus'.

Keira’s mouth

It's an awful film but I watch it because I'm in love with Bill Nighy.

Kiera Knightly. Just that really. Can’t stand her.

I thought she was fired because Hugh Grant realised he fancied her and thought it better if she worked elsewhere.

Not that that is better!!

Can't argue with that!

He is rather gorgeous.