Love Actually - Hasn’t dated so well…

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Following on from an earlier thread regarding Four Weddings, I watched Love Actually a few years back and can remember a few things that made me think it’s not dated so well!
Fat shaming, misogyny, homophobic but the worse one for me personally was Colin Firth’s character using an offensive ableist slur…
AIBU and overthinking it - it’s what it is yadda yadda even though it makes me cringe and is slightly triggering ( child has a disability)

its on over Christmas and it’s annoying me that it’ll be lumped in as a great Christmas film but I find it really outdated and offensive!

I really hate that kind of stuff: it’s nasty and outdated!!
Someone give my head a wobble but be kind if you do….

YABU - films need to be taken and enjoyed for what they are. If it were made recently I’d agree but just enjoy it. Or don’t.

Good grief. There is the off button you know. Oh I forgot, you’re not going to watch it just moan about it.

I watched it in the cinema in 2003 and hated it for all those reasons and more. Nothing to do with the film aging badly, it was creepy and misogynistic and offensive 22 years ago.

It was great. And an icon of its time.

Just turn it off.

Im sure a Wonderful Life doesn’t meant current standards, but it’s still a good film.

Great film, so is Four Weddings. I really enjoy when I watch them. Second the off button.

I’ve hated it since the day it was released. We’ve got a guy being unfaithful to his wife, one telling their best friend’s teenage looking wife they love her, a child whose mother has died being driven to the airport and encouraged to break the law, a prime minister being completely inappropriate with his staff, urghhh. Just urghhhh!

Just... turn it off then?

Media absolutely needs to be consumed with an understanding of its time period.

Some things that were once considered progressive and groundbreaking now get vilified for being tone deaf and out of date. It’s simply not reasonable.

Your last line sums up everything... 'give my head a wobble but be kind if you do'

Yes, be kind. Always. No need for good old fashioned resilience or a sense of humour when everyone's being kind.

That's your opinion OP.
I enjoy watching it..whatever the consensus is.
Just turn it off if you don't want to watch it

It's a terrible film, and I agree with you. Misogynist, ableist, and just a shit film as well. That scene where all the attractive American models fall over that disgusting idiot guy ffs 🙄

It was of its time.

I saw it the other week for the 1st time loved it

What’s the ableist slur?

Head has been wobbled!

I know I know 😣 I'm hearing you all, some love it, some hate it ( me)

I love it
If you don’t then don’t watch it

he says he’s running like a “s**z”
I hate that word 😡

I only watched love actually for the first time last year, not quite sure how! But I really didn’t rate it and found it quite crap. I’m not sure why people love it so much.

Christmas movie tip. If you watch Die Hard straight after Love Actually, Alan Rickman will be punished for what he did to Emma Thompson.

Its a rubbish over rated film. I really never got the hype!

This wasn't even an accepted word when the film came out. Its always been a nasty word

It’s a terrible film, I hated it when I saw it on its first release. Apart from all the “-ists” it’s rightly accused of, it’s far too long with way too many story strands, and crucially it’s NOT FUNNY.

Same-I’m quite easily pleased film-wise but I walked out of the cinema back then. Re-watched it a few years ago to see if I’d missed-judged it but I still felt the same way.

Even for its time it seemed like every situation or character was either moronic or absurd, which might have been fine had any of it been funny*. The storyline with Emma Thompson was quite sad though. Could have been a film in its own right, albeit not a particularly funny one.

*opinions may vary

Oh for goodness sake 🙄 My post was held because I wrote the full word instead of writing s**z. Good God. It's as well I'm the one with MS and have the fortitude to endure it, rather than people who might read and collapse because of the letters 'p' and 'a'.

Editing to add that my deleted post above was not some horrifying attack. It simply said that in spite of running as described in the film (due to MS spasticity in cold weather!) I can enjoy the film as a slightly odd but entertaining Christmas movie. I like that it shows a bit more light and dark than most Christmas films and I find it especially poignant that Liam Neeson went on to lose his wife prematurely in real life 😢