doctormcmeekle said:

LMAO!

Cloudbuster said:

Cloudbuster said:

I have been thinking just lately that I must impliment some funny Aussie sayings evry now and then.

bkw said:

NO KIDDING! Just because she didn't have bones sticking through her skin she's FAT? Gimme a break!

(Just another reason to hate this film! )

Kayleigh said:

Didn't he turn out to be gay??...lol

applekisses said:

Was the point of the film to say she was fat, or was that just dialogue in which the secretary talked about her ex-boyfriend and tried to show that her ex was an idiot by having him tell her she was fat when she obviously was not??...I assumed it was the later, not that they were making a comment about overweight and "attractiveness"...if that were the case, they never would have had the maid who took care of Colin Firth's place have a "fat" sister who's father cracked joke after joke about her weight.

I liked it when Hugh grant danced.
I liked it when the english guy met the american girls

Well, the point of this film, I think, was not to be some sort of intellectual meandering on the meaning of life, or even love, as its title suggests. I enjoyed it because it was playful, clever, and succeeded in the extremely difficult cinematic task of creating many different storylines and weaving them together, without losing any of them too deeply in the woodwork. I thought at times it was maudlin, and its attempted message of "all you need is love" is so simplistic and ideal, it is hard to grasp in today's jaded world. That said, it is fresh without having to rely on some weird supernatural twist or surprise. It is fresh in that it tackled complex relationships between people in a funny and charming way, presenting the characters as beautiful, yet flawed, and ultimately human, thus allowing the audience to identify themselves with the people onscreen.

Love Actually...


SUCKS!!

Byron said:

True...and I hated the jokes about the "sister's" weight too. That movie was a piece of garbage.

applekisses said:

Yeah, I thought those jokes were cheap and nasty myself.

On Byrons earlier point, it was suggested more than once that the girl had "thick thighs" or some such thing.

bkw said:

yep...didn't her family say things to her as well?

Here's what I liked about the film -- and, for the uninitiated, i'm an unabashed romantic:


"Love, Actually" (please, don't forget the comma. Thanks so much) was about people surrendering to love and taking risks to pursue it -- or their definition of it. And, it didn't stay in safe territory. Betrayal is a fairly common subplot in these storylines. I'm celebrating my favorite plots.

The little boy learns the drums and runs through an airport for it.

The novelist learns portugese and travels to another country to PROPOSE!

That stupid Hugh Grant PM (wouldn't Jeremy Irons have been great in that?) goes to the home of his former secretary -- to *finally* ask her out.

The woman with the mentally ill brother finally takes (a bit of) a leap for her colleague. (no woot there -- hated her ultimate decision).

The husband cheats on his wife (to some degree, we all agree. for obvious reasons, I'm not celebrating that decision. But it represents his pursuit of ... er, something. Poor fool).

The sex-crazy cad flies to America and is actually proven correct about his accent theory. (The trip took guts.)

I didn't get the soft porn actors' deal.

The best friend tenderly shares his feelings for his best friend's wife.

Missteps aside, a good, lighthearted film whose release wasn't too long after 9/11 and seemed aimed, in part, at reminding us about the value of love and the benefit in taking risks to pursue it.

I liked it-I took it for what it is: a harmless feel good holiday romance movie.

If anything it's a bit too sweet for its own good.

It's not supposed to be fucking brilliant.

subhuman09 said:

applekisses said:

You should go lie down-you seem to be getting worse.

applekisses said:

yep.

ThreadBare said:

You forgot the storyline with the aging rock star who finds himself wanting to be with his manager on New Years Eve (or Xmas eve, I can't remember), instead of with some oversexed bimbos..lol...and yeah, I forgot about the soft porn couple talking like innocent highschoolers having their first crush while simulating all sorts of, ahem, adult acts..lol

True...I took it as a lot of stories about love, some worked much better than others...but overall it held my attention, entertained me dispite its flaws, and had just enough there to make me not regret seeing it (again, though, I was on a 14 hour plane trip to Australia, so it wasn't like I was going anywhere else)

subhuman09 said:

It was my "Love, Actually" allergy kicking in.

They weren't soft porn actors, they were the fill-in people for the actors for lighting purposes etc.

I didn't mind that story, it showed that seeing each other naked didn't make it any easier to reveal your feelings and ask someone out etc.

applekisses said:

You know, it was the aging rockstar storyline that I loved about it, everything else was just typical romantic comedy movie-with some interesting elements.

I've always had sort of a romantic fascination with England though, so I'm sure that's part of it.

I was more interested in the fact that it was the guy from The Office than the whole naked storyline thing-even though the whole point was they can do all this at work but when it comes down to it they're painfully shy-which I thought was a cool angle.

The fact she doesn't ask him in on the first date after they've seen everything on each other just seemed to work on a more interesting level than how it could been.

It's not like it isn't predictable-isn't that what most people want when it comes to a holiday movie? Or most romantic comedies?

bkw said:

Indeed you must.

ThreadBare said:

Actually, the title needs no comma because it refers to this quote in the movie: "Love actually is all around us."

At the risk of becoming the flagship of the gay org mafia,
I have this to say:

Me and my best friend, Charlene, always go to see every
new Hugh Grant movie together.

Just cause he always makes those fluffy, lovey, british,
humorous feelgood movies.

That, plus he's quite a dish

So yes, I admit it. Me and my faghag friend always go
see the new Hugh Grant movie.

And I'm proud of it.

Plus, I thought that Love Actually was quite good Actually.

(in a feelgoodmovie kind of way)

hair-flops and car-blowjobs,
The Hugh Grant Fanclub.