Annual Love Actually Rewatch

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???


I really don't like this movie.
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???


I did not realize that was actually Claudia Schiffer!! Wow I love this thread
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:Watch The Holiday instead. Please. Anything but this garbage movie.


Yes this
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.


Mr Bean an angel never occurred to me!

I do enjoy this movie even though I find myself yelling at the screen a lot.
Anonymous
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Anonymous wrote:
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.


Ha, that conforms to my view of the movie, which is that every scene is some variation of male fantasy. Lesbian dying of cancer obviously doesn't make the cut.
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