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Dec 23, 2020 · I will not stay silent on this, my hottest take, any longer: Love Actually, the “classic” holiday rom-com that is very dear to at least one person in your life, is actually a very bad...
Dec 16, 2022 · What Love Actually pushes on us instead is a pre #MeToo imagining of high romance, where women are lovely because they are non-threatening, passive and available. Or they are bad and have severe ...
- Best: Hugh Grant's Narration
- Worst: Screwing Over Emma Thompson
- Best: Sam's Young Love
- Worst: Giant Choir in The Middle of Someone elses Wedding
- Best: Prime Ministers Speech- The Country of Churchill
- Worst: Karen and Daniel, Unexplained
- Best: Interracial Love Story Jamie Bennett and Aurelia
- Worst: Lack of Same-Sex Romance
- Best: Happy Endings
- Worst: Glamorizes Stalking
It is no mystery as to why the filmmakers decided to open with Hugh Grant's narration. The actor does lend his classic British voice to the movie and gives it a wholesome British appeal. Grant's professional trademark is his posh English pronunciation. Therefore in the very beginning, Grant lays stress on love, immediately explaining the purpose of...
Emma Thompson and Sir Alan of the Rickman, real-life best friends, played a couple, Harry and Karen in the movie. Apparently, Harry is bored with his marriage or something. The causes aren't explained, but he's thoroughly disinterested and disregarding of every little effort his wife puts into their marriage. Come on Harry, get a grip, Mia is just ...
What young Sam feels for Joanna is nothing but a pure form of love. Sam is besotted with the American exchange student, Joanna. So he does absolutely everything in his might to win the girl of her dreams, from learning drums to running from the airport security just to talk to her before she leaves for America. RELATED: Hogwarts Houses Of Love Actu...
During the course of Juliet's wedding to Peter, the best man Mark announces a surprise. In the middle of the actual wedding, the man disrupts their schedule by having a giant singing choir sing for them! Maroon 5's Sugar-ish, eh? That's not a nice gesture, that is actually sociopathic behavior, because of absolute disregard for everyone's schedule ...
The Prime Minister is fired up because an unpleasant American President is at their doorstep, someone with no regard for official protocol. So he stands up to him because, for one, he has come to Britain to announce an unfavorable pact, and two he's tried to get sleazy with Natalie. Whilst, the latter part is debatable on many accounts, Hugh's spee...
One of the shortcomings with Love Actuallyis that it left a debatable scope for Emma Thompson's Karen and Liam Neeson's Daniel's relationship. Who are they to one another? Judging by Karen's advice, the two seem awfully close. At the beginning of the movie, a visibly sad widower, Daniel rings up Karen and she blurts out these lines. “Get a grip. Pe...
One of the most redeeming features of Love Actually is Colin Firth's character, Jamie. Jamie is English and Aurelia is Portuguese. It's not every day that an Englishman picks up a crowd of French people, including the girls' father and sister who direct him to the restaurant where the girl works at. It's definitely not every day that an Englishman ...
Richard Curtis'sLove Actuallylacks a same-sex romance. Given that Hugh Grant passionately made a plea for love at the beginning of the movie, it makes one wonder why isn't there an LGBT representation in the movie? All straight love stories pander to the heteronormative lust, to see only a boy and a girl loved up. There's however a teeny bit room f...
Every character gets their happy ending by the end of Love Actually, fulfilling the purpose of the movie. Like it or not, Love Actuallyis a light, festive rom-com that should be watched for comic relief and warmth. By the end of the movie, young Sam had his tryst with Joanna, Daniel had found his love, The Prime Minister of England had established ...
Once you have aged well as a viewer, you find it difficult to get past Mark's stalker actions disguised as love. Love Actually doesn't just normalize stalking, it rather glamorizes it. No, Andrew Lincoln's Mark is not a cute guy, deeply in love with his best friend's wife. The latter part is not a crime, but to have documented your best friends' th...
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Dec 12, 2023 · But Hugh is wrong, love is not all around in this Christmas movie, in fact it’s nowhere to be found. What Love Actually pushes on us instead is a pre-#MeToo imagining of high romance, where ...
Dec 3, 2020 · Cassidy Knowlton. Thursday 3 December 2020. It’s very easy – and even fashionable – to hate on 2003 Christmas mega-hit Love Actually. Bestselling author Lindy West called her book of film...
Dec 6, 2013 · Begin with the obvious: Love Actually is not, in fact, a holiday-season movie in any meaningful sense. Yes, it takes place in the weeks leading up to Christmas, and it features a Sisyphean...
Dec 14, 2013 · The 10-year anniversary of the movie Love Actually seems to have pulled back a scab for some folks. These past few weeks, a battle over why you should love or hate the film has bubbled up...
