To not understand how it’s only TODAY that I’ve ever watched Love Actually

[Careergoals]

And it was bloody lovely!

I genuinely don’t know how I’ve never seen this despite being 51. In my defence I’m not much of a film lover by DD had heard about it and decided to put it on.

So many big names in it, it was fab.

My heart actually broke for Emma Thompsons character though, what a shit of a man. Wonder if he did sleep with that woman.

I love it!

I have never watched it and have booked to go to see it at the cinema next week!

I have never watched it and have booked to go to see it at the cinema next week!

I think some people think it makes them superior to say they hate Love Actually.

@Papyrophile the cottage was a fake but built in the Surrey countryside quite close to where the film is set. We were living in the town it was filmed in at the time, and the street was redressed to disguise the tile shop we bought our bathroom tiles from.

Yeah. Everyone loved it at the time. It's only recently they decided they didn't like it.

While You Were Sleeping is my favourite.

But I also love Love Actually, The Holiday and The Family Stone.

Yeah, The Holiday knows it's basically light festive escapism.

Love, Actually, by contrast, thinks it's so incredibly clever and sophisticated. And it's not at all.

I'm 40. Never seen it.

I start watching feeling all superiorly intellectual and then just give way to the fantasy.

I love it 🥰

I watched Love Actually for the first time a couple of years ago (aged just over 50), expecting to love it as it was apparently a top Christmas feelgood film. I just came away thinking “Well, lucky for Richard Curtis that he gets to make his middle-aged male fantasies into a film, but the whole thing made me feel a bit sick and I won’t be watching them again”. And I was confused about my reaction because everyone else seemed to love it. And I really like so many of the actors in it. But the concepts made me feel icky.

Yeah it's an awful film. But I love Billy Bob Thornton & Rowan Atkinson's scene is hilarious

A-OK @RomanMum But the cottage is not a real place. It was a location.

I really dislike it, which I didn't expect to because I love the cast. I just find it really depressing for a Christmas film.

I prefer The Holiday.

In the film it looks massive when they show the outside (bigger than what I would consider fits the criteria of a traditional cottage) and it's absolutely tiny in the interior shots, especially the bathroom.

I don’t think I’m intellectually superior because I don’t like Love Actually. I don’t think I saw it until a decade or so after it came out. I’d seen so many cultural references to it I thought I had seen it and so many people say they love it and I liked Four Weddings and a Funeral so I assumed when I sat down to watch it I had already seen it and forgotten parts. Then I realised I hadn’t seen it and it’s fucking terrible and every single storyline is problematic and not about love but about men deciding that they like or don’t like women and women being very passive in those ‘romantic’ relationships.
Rowan Atkinson, Bill Nighy, Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Laura Linney etc etc would all single handedly carry a one man performance of reading the phone book so I feel praising the acting is a cop out to be honest.

Wonder if he did sleep with that woman.

Emma Freud confirmed a few years back that he did, I'm afraid. She's wearing The Necklace when Hugh Grant is travelling through Wandsworth, which I think we were meant to take as confirmation.

Your language is just as melodramatic.

I love it so much!

Watch it every Christmas without fail.

Never seen it , I'm 53.
Never seen the holiday.

I love Muppet Christmas carol, but my favourite is a Muppets family Christmas, where the muppets, fragile rock and sesame street characters all end up at Fozzy bear!s mums house for Christmas!

I think the age when I first saw something affects how I see it. I watched Love Actually when it first came out and I was a (probably naive) 20-something. I can see it's faults but I still enjoy watching it. Rowan Atkinson doing the present wrapping is still hilarious.
The Holiday , by contrast, I first watched only a few years ago as a more cynical 40- something and too many things didn't make sense that I couldn't just see it and enjoy it IYSWIM.

I rewatched four weddings and a funeral recently and I still love it.

@Carriemac @AnneShirleysNewDress

Yaaaayy!

Glad I'm not the only one.

Nobody I know seems to have heard of it.

Saw it in the cinema when pregnant with DD. Spent the next hour ranting to my mates about it. Trouble is it's sugar coated misogyny which means you like bits of it and hate yourself for that. Love Bill Nighy in it and (sorry) Hugh Grant. But all the women are objectified or fucked over.

I’ve always loved Love Actually. I was 18 when it came out and I went to see it five times at the cinema (my pals and I all had a massive crush on Karl 😄). Now I like to laugh at the stupid bits and eye roll at the bits that aged badly, but so many moments make me feel warm inside!

I cannot stand the scene in The Holiday when Jack Black is singing film soundtracks at Kate Winslet in the video shop. It makes me cringe 🫠