Annual Love Actually Rewatch

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Anonymous wrote:I'm an annual watcher and agree that it gets more problematic over time.

Emma Thompson finding out about the necklace always gets me, when she plays joni mitchell in her room, gah! It's so real to me having btdt.

I never thought they stayed together though. The scene at the end strikes me as two people who are just transitioning the kids from one parent to the other being cordial to one another. I've also been in this situation and that's really what it goes like.

Otherwise, the kiera knightly storyline doesn't bother me. she's so beautiful in the wedding scene, i can see that the friend would just be infatuated with her.

my favorite though is the boy and the song at the end.

So much is very unrealistic but the cast just makes this movie. even the american girls in the bar who have small parts are stars.

I disagree about Emma Thompson. She says let’s go home and they go as a family. I don’t think she was handing off the kids. I think she was resigned to faking it in front of the kids and keeping the family together.

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Anonymous wrote:It is such a bad movie. How can you love the Kiera knightly story, he is basically a stalker and ruined her wedding video. Also he’s a lousy friend.

All of the women depicted in this, with the exception of Emma Thompson maybe, have no brain cells.

The Colin going to America story is not even funny and is trading in the dumbest stereotypes in the world.

Come on now. That wasn’t meant to be her wedding video. It was meant to be his secret stalker fantasy porn!

And the ditzy American girls who swoon over British accents — I know so many! That’s pure truth.

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There is no world where Denise Richards, Shannon Elizabeth, and Elisha Cuthbert find Colin and his friend attractive.

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If you're heterosexual, cisgender, white, thin, submissive, and privileged, then Love Actually is the perfect movie for you.

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Anonymous wrote:If you're heterosexual, cisgender, white, thin, submissive, and privileged, then Love Actually is the perfect movie for you.

Whatever.

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Anonymous wrote:We rewatched it last night because I needed holiday-themed background noise while I worked on a tedious project. My DH and I got into a big argument about whether or not the husband cheated. For 20 years DH has believed that there was no cheating and it wasn’t even an emotional affair?! And I have believed that there was for-sure, definite physical cheating but even if there wasn’t, it was as emotionally cheat-y as it gets.

My world was pretty rocked by finding out that my DH doesn’t think emotional cheating is a thing. His actual quote: “I think he was just a sad old man who was trying to get her to notice him by buying her a necklace. He didn’t do anything wrong by trying.” Mark my words, I am going to bring up Love Actually in divorce court.

Once I got over my own personal drama, I really enjoyed the door-to-door hunt for Natalie.

And I completely disagree with the anti-Colin Firth poster. That storyline alone could be a movie!

Okay - I'm the anti-Colin Firth poster. I do enjoy it - I just don't buy it. Without being able to communicate - get engaged? But, I would be totally up for a longer version that made me believe they could actually be in love. That said - some of the funniest parts of the movies are the subtitles for these two.

One more thing that bugged me this morning - all the relationships are hetero normative!

They actually cut two stories, and one of them was the lesbian headmistress of the school whose lifelong partner was dying from cancer. They even filmed a few scenes for it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm an annual watcher and agree that it gets more problematic over time.

Emma Thompson finding out about the necklace always gets me, when she plays joni mitchell in her room, gah! It's so real to me having btdt.

I never thought they stayed together though. The scene at the end strikes me as two people who are just transitioning the kids from one parent to the other being cordial to one another. I've also been in this situation and that's really what it goes like.

Otherwise, the kiera knightly storyline doesn't bother me. she's so beautiful in the wedding scene, i can see that the friend would just be infatuated with her.

my favorite though is the boy and the song at the end.

So much is very unrealistic but the cast just makes this movie. even the american girls in the bar who have small parts are stars.

I disagree about Emma Thompson. She says let’s go home and they go as a family. I don’t think she was handing off the kids. I think she was resigned to faking it in front of the kids and keeping the family together.

+1

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Anonymous wrote:I just finished my annual rewatch of Love Actually. I don’t care if you do not care for it, I love it. It is heart warming, funny and charming!

Some questions and thoughts:

- Karen stays with her cheating husband, right?
- As someone whose husband cheated on her, Karen’s storyline hits very hard.
- Harry sleeps with Mia in exchange for the necklace?
- Why why why couldn’t poor Sarah not answer her brothers call to make love with her longtime crush?
- Colin and the American girls never gets old!

Just rewatched last night for the first time in several years and enjoyed it.

Harry did sleep with Mia, the director confirmed it via Twitter several years ago. Also confirmed that he and Karen stayed together but were never as happy as they once were. I found that storyline very sad now, approaching a similar phase of life. The director also said that the guy played by Mr. bean was supposed to be an angel- taking too long to wrap the necklace so that Harry could be dissuaded from his poor decision, and appearing at the end of the movie in the airport at security giving Sam an opportunity to break through to the gates.

Such a great cast. Comin forth, Hugh grant, Liam neeson, Alan rickman, Laura linney, Keira knightly

Also broke my heart that Sarah didn’t make it work with Kyle, though he didn’t seem particularly understanding.


Lastly, the cue cards/poster boards that the guy showed to Keira knightley… that scene gets me every time.

Things that didn’t age well: the constant remarks about Natalie’s weight, and the other fat jokes in the movie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you're heterosexual, cisgender, white, thin, submissive, and privileged, then Love Actually is the perfect movie for you.

Yawn. What virtue signaling film do you suggest?

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I love this movie! we watched it yestreday and realized that it was edited down. The Porn couple was nixed!

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I saw it last night and got a bit depressed. Father looses beloved wife and has to raise son, meets Claudia freaking Schiffer in school and they end up together???
Mr Darcy discovers his wife’s cheating on him with his brother and falls in love with another woman he can’t even communicate with all in a month???
Nobody needs some time to process the trauma???

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I love this movie! we watched it yestreday and realized that it was edited down. The Porn couple was nixed!

Sadly, not cut from Netflix.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I saw it last night and got a bit depressed. Father looses beloved wife and has to raise son, meets Claudia freaking Schiffer in school and they end up together???
Mr Darcy discovers his wife’s cheating on him with his brother and falls in love with another woman he can’t even communicate with all in a month???
Nobody needs some time to process the trauma???

Yes, this bothered me as well.

[Anonymous]

Love this movie and watch it every year. Cry each time for Emma Thompson and during the proposal scene.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just finished my annual rewatch of Love Actually. I don’t care if you do not care for it, I love it. It is heart warming, funny and charming!

Some questions and thoughts:

- Karen stays with her cheating husband, right?
- As someone whose husband cheated on her, Karen’s storyline hits very hard.
- Harry sleeps with Mia in exchange for the necklace?
- Why why why couldn’t poor Sarah not answer her brothers call to make love with her longtime crush?
- Colin and the American girls never gets old!

Just rewatched last night for the first time in several years and enjoyed it.

Harry did sleep with Mia, the director confirmed it via Twitter several years ago. Also confirmed that he and Karen stayed together but were never as happy as they once were. I found that storyline very sad now, approaching a similar phase of life. The director also said that the guy played by Mr. bean was supposed to be an angel- taking too long to wrap the necklace so that Harry could be dissuaded from his poor decision, and appearing at the end of the movie in the airport at security giving Sam an opportunity to break through to the gates.

Such a great cast. Comin forth, Hugh grant, Liam neeson, Alan rickman, Laura linney, Keira knightly

Also broke my heart that Sarah didn’t make it work with Kyle, though he didn’t seem particularly understanding.


Lastly, the cue cards/poster boards that the guy showed to Keira knightley… that scene gets me every time.

Things that didn’t age well: the constant remarks about Natalie’s weight, and the other fat jokes in the movie.

Thanks for sharing. I just saw it again and thought that it wasn't clear whether or not Harry slept with Mia or was just flirting with the idea. Either way is a betrayal. It's good to know what the director intended. The scene where Emma Thompson says that he made a fool of her whole life was really poignant. Marriage is a strange thing. You put all your eggs in one basket and it's hard to come to terms if your husband isn't as invested in you and the kids. Many men just aren't willing to be selfless for the family the way many women are.

Interesting about the angel. That makes more sense now.

The Sarah/Carl thing was so sad. She shouldn't have answered the phone that second time. Her brother was safe and she could have called him back later. She has to have a life. But yeah, Carl could have been more understanding too. Maybe tried to have a date the next night. They both pined for each other for two years then just gave up when it was still possible.

The cue cards scene w/ Keira Knightley was fantastic. So sad to realize he was smitten with his best friend's wife. I liked how afterwards he said enough and was going to move on.