The final scene from Four Weddings And A Funeral which, although containing the 'best' piece of acting in the history of cinema, says all I'd ever want to about saying 'I Do'.
That was really badly edited. Editing is supposed to be effortless yet it was so obvious that the director said "Action!" about four seconds before that.
Revised script: Carrie: Is it still raining, I hadn't noticed.... Charlie: Excuse me? What you mean you hadn't noticed? It is absolutely bucketing down here. Are you okay?
I've no idea how many times I watched this scene. Hugh Grant's confession "I've loved you the first moment I met you" awesome, awesome. He is such an innocent, naive person fell in love with this woman ❤
The character of Carrie is incredibly, I don't know...annoying? She is way too complex for her charisma and wit to have any real effect. I don't know - she could've been intriguing.
My one criticism of this delightful movie is in casting Andie MacDowell in the role of Carrie. I am aware that she was not the first choice for this role (Marisa Tomei, had to withdraw for personal reasons). I just can't see MacDowell as a compatible mate for Grant--no spark of electricity ever came across the screen in their relationship.. I found her to be too icy and matronly for the role.
This is one of those weird things where I really don't think it's MacDowell's fault.. It's the same with Daryl Hannah in Wall Street.. It's not her physical acting that's bad. Her facial expressions, connection with Grant and everything are on point... But her voice just seems to deliver the lines blankly or something.. I think it's because her lines were dubbed over, making them sound fake.. Her voice sounds natural in all her other movies
Cian Mulvihill I didn't realize so many people were bothered by this. I kind of saw this as a sarcastic ironic sort of comment- because she immediately follows it up with a quip about drowning. I understand that a lot of people found her character oddly jarring, I did too; the movie had some really funny moments, though.
It's a problem with Richard Curtis scripts. He studied at Oxford and sometimes his characters all talk a bit too intellectually, which makes it all a bit twee / prissy / victorian. But maybe that's how he and his friends talk. After all, he's married to Sigmund Freud's great granddaughter.
I agree with most of the comments here- Andie is a jarring choice for the role of Carrie. The movie has some incredibly funny writing and wonderful characters, though. When I first saw the movie, I thought this line was meant in a sarcastic/ironic manner, because she immediately follows it up with a quip about drowning. It's kinda sad to think it was just straight up bad acting. Oh well, at least it's an extremely quotable line
Watch it! I laugh at that line and her atrocious delivery of it (but posted the clip because of what Hugh says) but it doesn't detract from a very enjoyable movie.
foolhandy I'll still watch it. I just didn't know her delivery of lines in this movie were so...blah. I liked her in "Michael", "Multiplicity", "The Muse", "Groundhog Day", and "Green Card" though. If y'all haven't seen "The Muse", watch it. That's a cute one. Albert Brooks wrote, directed and starred in it, and Sharon Stone is in it too.
alisonmadero To be fair to her it is her worst line in the film by far and, as I recall from an interview on BBC Radio 4 a month or so ago, Richard Curtis himself admitted he'd given her a really clunky line to deliver. I've not seen her in any other complete films but I have seen clips of her. I don't think she's so bad overall, although I'd have fallen for Kristin Scott Thomas instead too!
Everyone who hates Andie McDowell and complains about the writing of the movie, why are you even here? You obviously are familiar with the movie so you just came here to the comment section of the this clip to complain and be irritating to people who enjoyed the movie. Why not go find a movie you like and give them some positive comments instead? Does every part of social media have to be occupied by the haters?
This is where the scene was filmed: Highbury Terrace, London N5. ... Photo: www.google.com/maps/@51.5519956,-0.1017022,3a,75y,303.32h,99.56t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sgWwMA5i7IIhw3gLuDsngAw!2e0!7i16384!8i8192
man . . . poor Hugh Grant. that'll be the only time i likely ever feel _sorry_ for Hugh Grant . . . but MAN it must've sucked: standing in the cold under a rain tower, doing your best to act with a blank plank of plastic.
I was so shocked when I watched this movie. I mean, she had acquitted herself quite well in Sex, Lies & Videotapes... I've seen competent actors screw up performances due to hammy, hysterical overacting or a misjudged tone in delivery, but I've never witnessed an actor who'd previously proven themselves decent (conveying a certain level of emotional intelligence, nuance and convincingness) regress to block-of-wood, literally-can't-act territory before.
THIS BIT MAKES ME SO ANGRY I DON'T ACTUALLY KNOW WHY I AM WATCHING THIS CLIP. I don't understand why he picks boring boring Carrie when he could have had Fi. Also Andie MacDowell is a terrible actress in this and Kristin Scott Thomas is not. AND THE RAIN LINE IS ONE OF THE WORST LINES IN CINEMA HISTORY. I just feel quite cross about this scene and the ending of this film.
What's the chances that after a few months with him she got bored and did the hypergamy thing, going off with a rich guy who could offer more excitement? That's exactly what that type of woman would do.
cheesier than 50 shades of Cheese, some stuff that hit the bookstores in france, a story about a women chained and hung upside down in a cheese cave in aveyron....
O my, she's appalling isn't she? Has she ever acted well? It's saying something to say she's even acted more poorly than Grant too. And to think this is a popular film...
Andie MacDowell's performance is more wooden than a ventriloquist dummy. Andie MacDowell's performance has as much screen presence as a quark. Andie MacDowell's performance is stiffer than the Red Wood forest. Andie MacDowell's performance is as magnetic as a particularly lame bowling ball. Andie MacDowell's performance here is less moving than continental fucking shift. Andie MacDowell's performance is less credible than Sophia Coppola's in _The Godfather Part III._ okay, whoa. that LAST one i feel bad about. i went a little too far. a little _way_ too far. sorry, Andie. all in though, i'd have to say that Andie MacDowell is probably my least-favorite actress who's actually been in many _major_ movies in many _major_ roles. i'm totally tossing out any nonsense non-actor frauds like Paris Hilton, Jenny McCarthy or Paris Hilton. it's only fair. MacDowell's an actor who, if i find out she's in the movie, i actually get *mad.* like, _actually_ annoyed. Andie MacDowell is the only _real_ serious stain on _Groundhog Day_ which is, otherwise, a pretty perfect movie. for what it is, it's perfect. i'll never understand the 1990s' _rampant obsession_ with casting MacDowell in nearly every romantic comedy. _Green Card, Groundhog Day, Short Cuts, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Michael, Multiplicity_ . . . what am i missing? oh yeah - who could forget her in _Hudson Hawk?_ what a hit! i don't know what it is about her. she's beautiful. but _bland._ so terribly, terribly _uninteresting._ i guess she's supposed to be a stand-in for the female audience - someone so totally blank as to provide broad relatability. like Kirsten Stewart as Bella in _Twilight_ only, you know, NOT spirit-clawingly terrible. like i said, i find her _annoying._ not *the worst thing in the world.*
This guy must be the worst actor in the history of Hollywood. Just to think he was a heartthrob at some point is quite unbelievable. Cringe-making nonsense.
