"Love Actually" Does anyone actually LIKE this film?

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I watched it for the first time the other day (couple of years late I know) And I was shocked at how bad it was. I always thought (due to all the hype) it was a good film.

It just used cliched romantic storylines and generalised representations of London which had no truth whatsoever to how London actually is. You can just tell it was made by Americans....
 
I love it. The Chapter featuring Kris Marshall spoils it a bit, and a few things are a little far-fetched, but I love the sentiment behind it. It is a very sweet little movie.
 
Notting Hill is very badly edited.

In the original cut the opening scenes are narrated by the friend of Hugh Grant's character who is opening a Restaurant in Notting Hill.

Each chapter of the movie was then to be separated by a scene in his Restaurant featuring all of Hugh Grant's "frienRAB" discussing what was going on and adding dimension to their secondary characters.

In the final edit they removed all of the scenes in and around the Restaurant and the Restauranter.

It makes for a very disjointed and odd movie!
 
It's okay. Not much different to Four Weddings, Notting Hill or any other Hugh Grant luvvie film (plus oher luvvies like Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Liam Neeson, Bill Nighy, Martin Freeman). You can tell from the castlist exactly what it's going to be like.

One thing that stanRAB out is how it was obviously written by Richard Curtis, and made by the British. No American company would have had the American president trying it on with an English parlourmaid - as if an American president would ever do that?
 
I like it - very enjoyable to watch pre-Christmas. Of all the couples, I so wanted a happy ending for the American woman and the Chief Designer, though. :( The Emma Thompson Christmas-present scene was just heartbreaking.
 
Can't watch anything with Hugh Grant in. Can't abide his fumbling, mumbling, stuttering middle class persona that ozzes into every role he plays. Tosser.
 
I like it - very enjoyable to watch pre-Christmas. Of all the couples, I so wanted a happy ending for the American woman and the Chief Designer, though. The Emma Thompson Christmas-present scene was just heartbreaking.

That's the part that always gets me..and I want Laura Linley to end up with the hot guy too.
Love this film
 
I tried to watch this again last night, on ITV2+1... but the transmission messed up about an hour in :mad:

I also noticed that the Martin Freeman story seemed to be gone - did ITV sneakily edit it out, or is there a version without this in it? Hopefully it'll be aired again soon, because I didn't get to watch the second half last night :cry:
 
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