Love Actually...

[MrsFozziwig]

It's nearly Christmas, I have wine, I'm watching in tears as usual

Just feeling sorry for myself that it's never going to happen for me...

That's it really!

Ah well.

I love the film. But I often think about LN's role as a new widower - then several years later it happens in real life :(

Love the ET bit. I don't know why. I think its relateable, whether you've been through it or not

Hate the BT guy and Keira Knightley bit ... vomit

The Colin Firth bit, I think I must be the only one that likes it by the look of this thread Miss Dunkin Donuts 2003

Have a look at the Love Actually Honest Trailer on Youtube.....

I really dislike that film. I thought it was all about settling for less than you deserve. Or falling in love with someone because they're beautiful even though you can't speak the same language

I likethe couple who are making the porn movie - and are so shy and reserved with each other away from the cameras. Totally unbelievable, but kinda sweet.

Watched love actually yesterday night too. Pondering life ....

Aww hell I love it

Dont care about all its little foibles, dont care about the timelines (we dont see every minute of every day for each person in this film, just as we dont see it in any other film)

Emma T is awesome thats the kind of thing I did after my ex left. Often it would hit me out of the blue and I did all that stuff before I went downstairs to face kids on many an occaision.

I like the 'Xmas Card' bit, he is closing the door on the whole being in love with her for ages bit while letting her know that he is moving on. Its not like he can just leave it like the elephant in the room every time he sees her once she knows about it. TBH while Chiwetel Ejiofor is pretty tasty, give me Andrew Lincoln any day of the week (you listening santa?)

No its not perfect, but then neither is life and many people dont have that 'happy ever after with the one they want' kind of Xmas, but I still love it and bless me for being shallow and sexist but all those gorgeous men in one film, woooooooowwww.

I watched it last week, the bit that really grated on me was when LN is crying over his wife and ET says something like 'cheer up, noone likes a whinger, you'll never get a shag like that' just totally inappropriate!

ET's total luviness annoys me too, although I agree her later scenes with the necklace/Joni Mitchell are brilliant.

Also, even if there are huge Portuguese communities in this place in France (which you can get a ferry to the UK from but it is also warm enough that you might want to sit outside writing your book in December, near Marseille airport) how on earth do none of them speak any French at all.

I live in an expat community full of people that can't speak the language. There are loads of Portuguese without any French or German or Swiss German here.

The British are the worst though.

Heart warming. Can't believe some of the cynical responses on here! It's fiction ! FFS

I love PM and Tiffany flirting. Hate the Joni Mitchell stuff.

Bloody no 1 Christmas film for me !

Sob sob over Emma Thompson. Too much for me this year :(

I love how on this thread there are lots of references to other characters played by the same actors in different films and yet we all understand! Egg from this life, Snape, stacey, Tim from the office, Tiffany, and the BT guy.

I've never seen it, I watch an xmas themed film every night in December as well
Shall watch and report back

Iron but as I said above, our responses to a film like this often reflects our own experiences. Those us who have been Emma Thompsons character see the film in a far more cynical way than those of us who havent. Its quite telling.

I think the best friend with the cards and the Keira Knightly character did what he did by way of explanation for his behaviour towards her. He was in love with her but came off as being indifferent/slightly hostile so he did this by way of explanation only, not in order to break them up.

Bollocks.

:o

I agree with Bogey. He was doing it for the 'drama' and the 'tragedy' of something that could have been and, by putting the ball in his court, something that could now happen if she chose to make it happen.

It was hugely disrespectful to his best friend, her husband, especially as she followed him down the road and kissed him whilst her husband was sitting upstairs watching TV and utterly oblivious to 'their moment'.

I would like this film a lot if it weren't for the Laura Linney scenes which I actaully find unbearable to watch.

Yes Bogey. I get that I really do.

our responses to a film like this often reflects our own experiences. Those us who have been Emma Thompsons character see the film in a far more cynical way than those of us who haven't. Its quite telling.

I don't think that's true. I'm happily married to my undergraduate boyfriend, whom I've been with for almost a quarter of a century, and can see that Emma Thompson and Laura Linney act everyone else off the screen, and that it's not accidental that they're the figures of female self-sacrifice in the film, rather than the hot young things who inexplicably immigrate to shag random Brits, marry men they've never had a conversation with, or deal with the conundrum of having Andrew Lincoln and Chiewetel Ejiofor vying for your affections - and who aren't really characterised at all. (Why does Aurelia want to marry a slightly pudding-faced man she's never spoken to? Why are American women depicted as nymphomaniacs when confronted with a British accent, apart from Laura Linney? Would people who usually do porn body double work not be required to be more buff and tanned? Why is Laura Linney wearing a bag lady woolly hat at a church wedding?)

Also, because several people have raised it, I think ET pretty much has to be plummy and Hampstead-y, purely because her brother is the PM, and no one casting Hugh Grant was going to have the PM be an ex-miner Labour politician... It makes more sense if they're a well-heeled, well-connected, posh-ish north London family.

Plus I actually quite like the bit where she encounters Hugh Grant backstage at the school play and goes into full on plummy luvvie mode - her character is in obvious pain but putting on a good face in front of the children and the Downing St 'staff' by being all annoyingly jolly. And of course it's poignant that what nearly makes her break down is that she believes that for once her brother has shown up to support her and see his nephew and niece, whereas he's just there for a shag with someone whose tendency to chirp 'Where the fuck is my fucking coat?' in front of a bunch of small children is supposed to be cute and shock the US audience...

I think the film would have been a lot better with the deleted scene reinstated. Two great actresses in it.

Would people who usually do porn body double work not be required to be more buff and tanned?

They weren't porn actors just stand ins for normal movies so I guess depending on the actor they could be all shapes and sizes.

The woolly hat in the wedding though - awful.

Sorry, but this is one of my most hated films of all time! The ET stuff gives me the rage (even though I've not been through that with my DH), I can't believe that people can fall in love without having a conversation in the same language, and I don't believe that BT man could have a foursome with hot Americans based purely on his accent.

Also there are so many stories in the film that I don't have time to care about any of the characters (except ET because she's such a great actress). I usually like Richard Curtis so remember being absolutely gutted when I saw Love Actually in the cinema. So disappointed! As Christmas movies go, give me Die Hard any day (I actually hate Alan Rickman's terrorist character in this less than his philanderer in Love Actually, which is probably not right)!

Isabelle Begone!