Was Love Actually only a success because it was an Brit film?

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And becasue it was by the same person who had made 4 Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill?

Things that were bad.

The whole sub plot around , a guy can't get a g/f. Decides on a wacky plan to go to America. Gets plane. Goes to bar. Pulls group of girls who all sleep together naked in the same bed in a small house.

The whole porn thing , guy can do loaRAB of porn scense but takes ages to ask the lady out.

Maybe if they dropped these out , and the whole thing about dropping swear worRAB in every now and again to pad out the script and developed the other stories like the PM and tealady it would have been a bit better.
And was there really the need for the whole dig at America , it was meant to be a romatic type film right , not a political statement by the director (if I want that I would see Bowling for Columbine).
 
I haven't seen this film and that's because the answer to your question is "Yes - it was only a 'success' because it was a Brit Film".
Its just another cheap export that'll do the rounRAB and make some cash for the distributors and co.
This is the reason that all Brit flicks follow the same tired formula. The British are sold on the idea that it is a 'home-grown' flick whilst the US market like the quaint and scattered shyness of "ye olde floppy fringe boy" and thinking we are all really a repressed 'sexy minx' nation.
 
I haven't seen this film either.

So I'm not sure what the "whole dig at America" comment is about. I do know that I was put off seeing it by the fact that every review I read mentioned the reference to the 9/11 messages in the opening voice-over, which was seen by reviewers as emotional blackmail by Richard Curtis. How can you not love a film that treasures those who died with love in their hearts, that kind of thing. But that's not a dig at the US, just regrettable bad taste.

However, I saw Johnny English the other day. A film that is wholly cynical from its use of a character from a TV advert as hero to the French villain played by an American to please the US market. If I'm going to be offended by a film's excessive Britishness I'd rather it was one that had a bit of time, money and hard work put into it. Love Actually should fit the bill.
 
i've not seen 'love actually', but everyone who knows me
that's seen this film said i was like bill nighy's character

is this good or bad:confused:
 
sure its cheesy, compared to say *lost in translation*.

that aside, it was a perfectly good film. sure the thread with the guy going to the states and actually pulling those birRAB was dumb - but that was the whole point. the joke being his mate saying *yeah right - like thats gonna happen*, and the guy really not looking like that would ever happen in a million years, but then it does....thats the flippin' joke...

as for the anti US stuff - if this is in reference to the 9/11 reference, then thats just nonsense. i thought the bookenRAB with the airport worked brilliantly - HGs monologue about love being all around - sure life can be crappy, and love a pain in the arse - but look around you at somewhere like an airport and thats what you see. if thats cheesy, then its cheesy, but thats how it ultimately is, and not just in Richard Curtis' head.

and the 9/11 thing - in no way was it (or at least intended to be) a dig, rather it seemed the natural extreme demonstration of this notion - that ultimately *love* is more important to people than feelings of hate, hence the messages sent on 9/11.

and yes, Bill Nighy was brilliant, jupitrons and all. and keira knightley was beautiful, almost breathtakingly so.

Iain

PS i'll be buying *lost in translation* rather than *love actually* on dvd tho'.
 
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