Love Actually

[Gloria]

I just saw this movie and absolutely loved it. Perfect holiday film. I liked all of the stories. My favorite is the Colin Firth language barrier story.  My second favorite was the cute story with the little boy and Joanna, how he learned to play the drums just to impress her. I found that adorable. The saddest story was the story involving Laura Linney's character. *SPOILER*
So sad she had to give up happiness to take care of her brother. I found that hearbreaking.

All in all, I loved all of the stories. Rowan Atkinson still made me laugh, even if he wasn't in a big part. The funniest character was the aging rock star. He gave some of the best lines in the movie.

[ProgWRX]

Im with Golden Trumpet on this one.  

I just felt like they didnt let each story breathe enough IMO. I felt like whenever a story was becoming interesting they would choose to cut away from it, not giving it time to settle. I would've liked it more if they had cut a couple of the stories and dwelled more on the meatier ones.

I also really hated the whole "Natalie = fat/chubby" jokes, specially bad because then we are shown this walking stick for a girl (Knightley, who is very pretty, but WAY too thin) as being this most desireable creature... it was kinda disgusting.

I also really loved seeing Liam Neeson back on a _real_ movie.

Oh and, I usually hate Mr. Bean in anything BUT Mr. Bean, but he was great in this, slightly different than usual but very effective.

[Raikus]

I also really hated the whole "Natalie = fat/chubby" jokes, specially bad because then we are shown this walking stick for a girl (Knightley, who is very pretty, but WAY too thin) as being this most desireable creature... it was kinda disgusting.

Y'know, every time they made one of the chubby jokes it confused me. The Natalie character wasn't even close to being fat. She had a really nice face and well fleshed out body. But then maybe my standards are lower than others.

[ProgWRX]

Exactly my thoughts. She had really nice curves, IMO. The fat jokes coupled with the emphasis on Knightley (and with her being rail thin) was just... ugh. It just gave me a bad vibe. Plus the Prime Minister's character was under-developed IMO. (although this is mostly because of my earlier gripe, of them not letting the stories "breathe")

[modage]

FINALLY saw this today, as i was waiting till the last possible moment.  i liked it, however biggest complaint (like many others) is that there simply were too many stories.  they could have axed the musician, dorky kid goes to wisconsin and naked stand-ins and spent a little more time on the hugh grant and laura linney who were absent through a large portion towards the end of the film.  those 3 storylines were funny but too goofy and didnt seem to match the more serious tone in some of hte other stories which i thought were undernourished.  (also, upset that laura linney didnt get a conclusion).  so i enjoyed what was there but overall not completely satisfied with it.

i will also take the chubby one over keira.

[ElPandaRoyal]

Saw it today, didn't read any of the posts, have no time to do it now... just wanted to say how much I'm in love after this. Fuck, it's great. I mean, life in personal terms hasn't been that amazing (not terrible, either, just... well, I dunno,not very motivating) this past months, but it's settling down and this... this was just what I needed to feel perfect. I'm feeling perfect today. Today, I rock. After it, I just wanted to call this girl I know who's the only person who could understand exactly how I felt. Damn... I'm so damn happy it's probably annoying to anyone who's reading this. The kid, running in the airport was the peak of it.... Ahhhhh.......  

Happy New Year everyone, and let us just all be happy. I know I am.

[SHAFTR]

I really enjoyed this film.  Probably falls at #6 for the year (ahead of LotR).  The kid going to Wisconsin storyline made me cringe.  The rest of the film I absolutely loved.  The best scene, Emma Thompson and Liam Neeson in the kitchen when he starts crying.

It was a Happy Magnolia, not as good but still very entertaining.

[kotte]

The kid going to Wisconsin storyline made me cringe.

Why do people have problems with this one? It's so over-the-top and unbelievable.

I too love this film.

[cine]

I just saw it.

And I loved it too.  

[Pwaybloe]

I saw it a couple of months ago.

I loved it too.

Then I made love to it.

Then it started leaving its dirty dishes in the sink.

Then I hated it.

Then I told it to move out.

[MacGuffin]

Universal Home Video have kindly sent over the first official details on Love Actually which stars Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Laura Linney, Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman. The disc will be available to own from the 27th April this year in seperate anamorphic widescreen and full screen editions. Each should set you back somewhere in the region of $26.98. Extra material will include an audio commentary with the director and cast, deleted scenes, a featurette on the music of the film and a Kelly Clarkson music video.

[Weird. Oh]

THIS IS FILLED WITH SPOILERS.

I watched this last night on dvd and was quite confused at the response that it got from the forum. Overall, I felt people are praising this very highly. I don't understand why? The movie had certain elements that were interesting but it was just so conventional and typical.                          

I enjoyed over the hill musician character but like most of the other elements his schtick got old real quick. His frankness became predictable and like a lot of the movie, very tedious. I had a problem with every relationship except the Watson/Rickman characters one.

I absolutely hated, the relationship between the PM and the help Natalie. It's just so contrived. It was telegraphed was the beginning. He would fire her and go back and find her.

I really hated the way the US was portrayed in this and how the PM seemed so arrogant. It was no way like real life politics would occur

Besides that, the naked stand-ins premise was good. Again, however, its novelty wore off on me.  However, what kind of movie were they stand-ins for? Seemed like a porn film. And we know that porn films don't have stand-ins.

The writer and the beautiful exotic help getting together? Didn't see this coming.

Knightly and the best friend of the groom. Him actually really loving her?

The obvious positives were the many beautiful women in the film and some good performances. I just felt overall this movie was written by someone who took as many possible romantic comediy conventions  and threw them into one script. Almost everything felt so forced and cliched. Perhaps it matters where are you coming from when you see this film in order to really feel something from it. By the way I loved About A boy, but I think to compare this to it would be completely unfair.

[bonanzataz]

wow. i too just saw this one when i went out to california and they had it on spectravision. i can't believe you people liked this movie. it was absolutely awful. it made me so mad that there was so much talent and such great people working on one film and it turned out so piss poor. it makes me angry to think of this movie. just so so bad. i cared about not one of the characters and didn't find it amusing in the least. what in the world were any of you thinking?

[Thrindle]

This thread shouldn't be revived, no one cares anyways... but my god, I had the worst hangover today and decided to watch a movie.  Now I'm suicidal too.  Fuck.

[Pubrick]

This thread shouldn't be revived, no one cares anyways... but my god, I had the worst hangover today and decided to watch a movie.  Now I'm suicidal too.  Fuck.

so what the fuck does that hav to do with this movie? u didn't even say anything about it. if u just want attention there are plenty other drunk threads u could waste space on.