Fun fact: they told Olivia Olson to sing "less perfectly" because they were worried people wouldn't believe it was her because she sounded so much older then her age. Then she went on to play Vanessa Doofenshmirtz in Phineas and Ferb and she played Marceline Abadeer with her real life father who played Hunson Abadeer in Adventure Time. She's an amazing singer and I love watching her perform.
@@NicholasMcdermottNick yeah, I only learned that recently and I thought it was really cool. The show meant a lot to their family and they'd all watch every episode premiere together
thomas was actually 13 years old when they filmed this movie so technically she wasn’t too old for him, he just looked way younger than he is (as always😂)
@@christianwise637 I didn't know that that was him in The Queen's Gambit (which is a show that I'm currently watching), and so when I saw that I immediately took off to Wikipedia to see if this was the case. It obviously was, but I wasn't prepared for that fact
Rowan Atkinsons character was meant to be a guardian angel type character where he helps everyone, but due to other things, his story was all but cut aside from two scenes. He takes forever to gift wrap the necklace as a means of giving him time to second guess what he's doing, and stalls the guy at the airport to give the kid time to catch his crush before she leaves.
Fun fact: Emma Thompsons crying scene was real. Her husband, the guy that plays Gilderoy Lockheart, cheated on her with Helena Bonham Carter, and just let all those feelings out right then and there.
But first you need to watch Harry Potter 3 to see Emma Thompson attempt to start her life over as a teacher but her husband refuses to give up on them so he also gets a job teaching at the same school before finally getting his comeuppance in Die Hard.
Keira Knightley was only about 17 during filming, but Chiwetel Ejiofor was 26, while Andrew Lincoln was 30, which makes it a little odd. She's presumably meant to be playing a character in her early to mid twenties.
@@COSun25 Off screen in reality yes, but they aren't off screen so it doesn't matter. That is kind of the point in acting. Without this film you can bet her career would not have launched so well so you won't catch her complaining about it.
@@DM-nw5lu "By portraying these creepy age gaps on screen you are normalising them" It's not on screen though. Her character age is not defined to my knowledge at any point in the movie - and neither is that of either of the men for that matter. Not once have I ever heard a single person comment on the age difference before the last year or so, because no one ever thought twice about the age difference when watching the film for the last 2 decades. BECAUSE NOTHING HAPPENED! In this film there's literally: #1. A couple playing nude stand ins on a film set. #2, An old guy playing music nude on live TV. #3. Another guy talking about his step son injecting heroin into his eyeballs. #4. Not just 1, but 2 employers engaging in inappropriate sexual relationships with women that work for them in subordinate positions. #5. A 3rd guy molesting one of those subordinate position employees in sight of one of the other 2 employers. How challenged for entertainment do you have to be to obsess over this one off screen detail to the exclusion of all else on screen? 😅 Edit: Dang it! I missed another one! #6. One of the employers randomly knocking on doors at night looking to continue his inappropriate work relationship is met by several young girls answering the door to 2 strange grown men...... wot in the effing fook??!!
Fun fact: the actress who plays Natalie, at the time, was severely bullied in the British media for being overweight, so they deliberately did that here to show how ridiculous that is.
Not that it matters - people like what they like. She isn't even close to overweight compared to the American standards on that score 😂🤣 Dawn French is overweight, Martine McCutcheon was fine in that movie.
@@sammybear7100 nah, she's shitty person and just happens to be black. I think it's racist that you can't have a negative opinion about a black woman without being called racist. She sucks.
One of the very few things I love about this movie is that there are Portuguese characters that actually only speak Portuguese. Me, being Portuguese, I'm like YEEES finally some representation in a big popular movie 🙌🏻
@@OliviaSilvaCompositora Oops that was my bad lol I misread the beginning of your comment and thought you said the Portuguese characters were THE ONLY thing you liked 😂
Likewise, I liked that their Portuguese was authentic, and the language barrier was something that Jamie and Aurelia had to work through. Daniel and Sam's relationship was also cute to watch.
The actor who played Sam did the voice of Ferb in Fineas and Ferb. The actress who played Joanna did the voice of Vanessa in Fineas and Ferb. Yes, they had a romance in that show.
Fun fact: if you watch it on TV, they basically cut all of Martin Freemans scenes, so you wouldn't even know he was in it if you didn't see the opening credits.
I could only ever watch this movie once bc I disliked it so much but I'm still shook ever since finding out that Thomas and Olivia who played Sam and Joanna ALSO voiced Ferb and Vanessa in Phineas and Ferb like what lmao
In the defense of the names for Sarah's brother (the one with a crush on Karl), she did say she is also playing mom and dad for her brother since they're on their own in England. It might seem off-putting to us, but the burden of her playing multiple relationships is something I think majority of audiences only really understand in retrospect (where mental health resources are more commonplace/mainstream)
There was nothing complex to understand at the time I saw it in the cinema. That being said the level of access the brother had to a phone was not helpful to the situation - it was constraining her work life as well as her personal life. At a certain point you have to wonder exactly what use the facilities the brother was staying at were - because they didn't seem to take much strain off her shoulders at all. People forget that we used to just get by before mobile phones existed - and that doesn't have to be a bad thing. At a certain point you just have to declare yourself incommunicado and it was clear the facilities were little help in helping her set those boundaries.
Out of like, 8 or 9 stories. The Father Child and P*rn actors ones were the only ones I didn’t actively wanna choke on my popcorn with. From the rest, some weren’t bad but they were not worth the time
I interpreted Allan Rickman and Emma Thompson as being divorced at the end since the had to meet at the airport and how the kids very enthusiastically called out dad made me thing they separated and only see each other during the holidays for the kids
I think it's so ambiguous you can make up your own ending. They could have gotten divorced or worked it out by getting counseling. It seems like she's happier, though, so I'm glad for that.
y'all have to watch the deleted scene of thomas brodie sangster's character doing gymnastics through the airport while running from security, it's so funny the stunt double is obviously much taller than him
Yeah! I kind of think this was the last of those creepy rom-coms that teach you terrible ideas about romance. Like dating a co-worker is crazy risky, but when there’s such a power imbalance it is grossly irresponsible. The guy telling his best friend’s wife that he is in love with her is basically just saying I’m option B if you have marriage problems, it is horrible behaviour and I can’t believe it’s played for sweet. As a man I’m glad I learnt to avoid a lot of pitfalls championed in a lot of movies. Pursuing women because I’m really infatuated with them despite them hinting they’re not interested, or in this case not available, is a big one. You don’t wear people down and win them over, there needs to be a spark at the start. The kid is adorable, I love the way he looks when the girl points at him when she’s singing, it’s my wife’s favourite part of the movie. I think she likes this film because some of the stories are so fucked up and wrong, it makes it more interesting. She always reminds me that Emma Thompson said her performance is based on when she was married to Ken Branagh, he cheated on her with Helena Bonham Carter so she just channeled how that felt 😢.
Love Actually is one of those films that everyone else my age seems to really love (I'm British and grew up in the early-mid 2000s), but I don't like it very much. Maybe it's because I didn't see it for myself until last last Christmas, or maybe it's because I generally don't like romcoms, but for whatever reason I just couldn't get into this one. There were parts of this film that I did really like (oddly enough, it's the same storylines that you liked too - the Bill Nighy one, and the Liam Neeson one), but for the most part I just this one way too cheesy and sickly sentimental, like a lot of Richard Curtis' other romcoms. The other stories felt rather bland and samey especially since most of the characters act the same way - the men are awkward bumbling gentlemen, the women are flat attractive cardboard cutouts, and there are a lot of seemingly romantic moments that come across as really creepy. I certainly get the appeal for this one, but it's just not for me. Also, you're not alone in your thoughts at the end; most of the British people are still pissed off with Alan Rickman's character after all these years for giving the necklace to his secretary and not his wife
This reaction was extremely cathartic. I was shown this movie like 15 years ago and told I would want to watch it every Christmas, and I thought it was one of the most insufferable things I'd ever watched. So I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't care for it.
Yeah this movie is trash. Even the Liam Neeson storyline is weird because the mom literally JUST died and they barely even mention her. When he says to the boy "Is it just your mom, or is it something else?" I'm like UM is his MOTHER dying not enough? Anyway. The whole thing felt like a bunch of ideas that Richard Curtis had jotted down for movies but he cbf writing any of them out in full, so he just threw them all together into one movie. If the Liam Neeson storyline had played out over like several months/a year then it would've hit more for me, if they'd spent some time processing grief and building up that stepfather/son bond.
Also, I don't really love the joke that his fantasy woman is Claudia Schiffer, and then he meets a woman literally played by Claudia Schiffer. And it's like a month or two after his wife died too.
the naked people on set are stand ins, as in the lights and camera angles are being checked before the actors come in:) they aren't 'doubles' per se, more like similar skin tones and build to account for all the complications of blocking and filming an expensive scene, they never appear on screen in the actual film being made:)
i just think Karl and Sarah could have rescheduled lmao. like, i have never understood why she couldn't just say "there's a family emergency, what are you doing tomorrow/next weekend/can i come to your place once I've settled him down" literally anythinggg
It’s not an emergency though. It will keep happening and she knows it. For whatever reason her brother has unfettered access to her phone and she plans to jump to his side every time.
Because the message of the movie, especially regarding older women who get any lines or development, is that their lives are in service to the family no matter how miserable it makes them personally. You're young, hot, and thin in this film or mocked and punished. It's truly toxic.
@@RhetoricalThrill it’s a damn shame that her character can’t a) develop healthy boundaries with her brother, or b) find someone who understands her current dynamic but loves her anyway and shows patience and love towards her family. the writers really just can’t let this poor girl be happy lol
@@lyddiecatt They did a mini special a few years ago where they updated some of the relationships, and they have her married to Patrick Dempsey who dotes on her, so I'm happy she ended up somewhere nice 😊
@@kwnctantinakyriakou3652 you can actually find a lot of videos online of Rickman just reading stuff. One of them is marketed as a soothing sleep aid tool.
I love the little detail that the one guy isn't speaking perfect Portuguese. He has some general grammar things that he's not getting right, as you can see in the subtitles, but it gets the point across, and I think that it's cute and it highlights how new he is to the language.
Your whole reaction was incredibly validating 😌 I've never liked this movie (except the stepfather / stepson storyline!). Don't understand the hype at all.
I think I'm with you on that the only story line I really liked was the one with Daniel and Sam. I LOVE a good parent and child story or in this case step parent and child story and honestly usually prefer those over romantic stories. I was also pretty invested in the Karen and Harry story mostly because I LOVE Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman always has a special place in my heart (RIP Alan) even though I hate Snape lol. I would've liked that story more if Karen left Harry (also OMG, Alan plays a guy named Harry and he plays Snape in Harry Potter lol also Emma plays Professor Trewaleny in HP too! 😂) but I get that it does happen in real life where even if the husband or wife cheated, they do often still stay together for the kids or whatever so I guess it's realistic they stayed together. I think that's why Ariel stayed with Ned (since you briefly mentioned Ned Fulmer lol).
I guess I looked at it as an ambiguous ending, like maybe they were still talking it out. Also, I don't agree with the idea that if you cheat the relationship is automatically over. You definitely shouldn't stay just for the kids, but you also maybe shouldn't end a marriage if there's the possibility of working things out for the better. It's a very personal decision, obviously.
@@jlerrickson Yeah I can understand that. However I personally feel that cheating even once can cause a lot of trust issues so even if the couple are able to work things out, I feel like there's still going to be some tension in terms of trust. That's just my views on the matter.
I hate this movie! So glad to see a reactor who isn't automatically gushing over it because it's a "classic". Most of the characters are so unlikeable, I never found myself rooting for anyone (except the little boy and his stepdad). Yuck.
Ah yes, Love Actually, the movie that portrays all types of love like cheating, power imbalance, male fantasy, more cheating, backstabbing your best friend, more power imbalance but also ✨father-son bonding and platonic love✨ Yes I am salty lol. For such a beloved movie that has an anthology structure, it could’ve done way more than just a bunch of het-cis stories. Familial, platonic, romantic but also represent queer stories, polyamory, romance between bipoc characters, self-love, etc. It’s also not lost on me how almost all the women are younger/younger-looking than their male love interests and at the bottom of the power structure. And the only two women without a power imbalance and age difference were stuck with sad ends?? But the sexist guy got a foursome immediately??? Ladies, you need to raise your standards for romance movies, you deserve better than this. 😭 this felt more for sleazy men than anything.
Tbf, this movie released in 2003, meaning it was filmed in 2002. Queer representation wasn’t even really in its infancy. It was basically a fetus at this point. The only shows I could name during this time with queer characters are will & grace and the L word (both problematic in their own ways). So it doesn’t really bother me even as a sapphic.
I don't think the character Judy (the body double) had a power imbalance or much of an age gap with Martin Freeman (6 years in real life), nor was she stuck with a sad ending. They were co-workers meeting for the first time, so it seems that they wouldn't actually be working together much at all. Plus, I'm sure there would have been moments where John was more naked, leaving him in an equally vulnerable position. At least, this is my perspective on their relationship.
It was 2003 so that’s something to remember there. But there is so much early 2000s power imbalance and BS in the film, respect to all of us who were raised during this period of time and had to come through the other side of it and teach ourselves inner peace after THAT decade of BS. The fat-lolling of every woman size12 or over is an embarrassment. I’m glad our generation is a bit more considerate and doesn’t target every movie to make its male audience worse.
@sapphic.flower: You don't seem to care about people's preferences, because you'll then claim that people who have different preferences from you "need" to do something, in this case raise their standards, for the sake of validating your opinion, which is somehow supposed to help them more than it helps you. You're just toxically imposing yourself on those women as if you were their abusive parent - when men tell women not to wear makeup because "they have natural beauty and they should realize that," they are being imposing in a similar way to how you impose on other women's preferences, claiming that they deserve a certain thing and "should realize that." Those women often want to wear makeup because it feels good, and they're not "giving into" anything by enjoying that - someone trying to take that away from them is the one trying to make them capitulate. A woman who enjoys makeup is not self-undermining (nor is a woman who enjoys not wearing it), and analogously a woman who enjoys the kind of content in Love Actually because it feels good to them is not self-undermining, nor is a woman who enjoys not watching this content. You can speak about whether there is a certain amount of certain demographics getting certain outcomes, yet that fundamentally doesn't stop you from imposing yourself on women when the whole point of women's liberation is for them to pursue what they find enjoyable, PERIOD. Just as a woman doing p*rn is not self-undermining if she enjoys it, a woman enjoying "stereotypically slea*y" kinds of content such as that in Love Actually is not self-undermining if she enjoys it, yet that liberating enjoyment is being denied by your controlling, prudish behavior under the guise of trying to be every female stranger's parent and deciding what's best for them, totally detached from the lived experience of these women. It works for the women who already have the same preferences as you, but the point is to ask what the woman wants, not see if they already agree with your preferences and if they don't, then be a sneaky prude on her behalf. Don't you dare boss around over half of the human population like that. Think before you judge. At least think a little bit.
@@JessemyBeadle There is quite a lot of force in men strongly resisting laughing at a woman because of something about which she is sensitive, and quite a force of jealousy in women that would make them want to laugh at a woman for that thing if it makes her feel superior, to the point that I am not sure who, on the aggregate, is enjoying the rude comments about women more. Sure, by your preconceived notion of how the genders are, the men just like to laugh at women, but when you actually look out there in the real world, it seems that the genders work very differently, oftentimes the opposite to how they're simply assumed to be. Since a man likes to physically fight (and realistically, they are almost always fighting other men, not women, when they do this) more than women, it's often simply assumed that they also like to pick on women more than women like to pick on women in social situations, and yet, the extrapolation of liking to physically fight to liking to say mean things to the gender more typically thought of as victims (women), shows itself to have a really hard time, perhaps because the lazy, simplistic characterization of men and women has a rough time actually fitting into the actual world, and it's perpetuated because many people are only interested in repeating the same preconceived notion over and over again without actually trying to see what men and women are like outside of that anti-empirical bubble. It doesn't matter how many men you see cower when thinking about insulting a woman about that, and how many women you see, a least sometimes, jumping on the bandwagon of pouncing on the insecurities of other women who are envied by them, because you will just repeat the head-in-the-sand preconceived notion that you made up in your head. Sure, it isn't necessarily completely untrue, and it may not have been unreasonable as a starting hypothesis, but as you start to actually collect empirical data with an open mind, you're supposed to change it accordingly, even if the preconceived notion seemed like it made more sense than it actually did. Try to think more critically about this issue in general, and how you define male audiences and female audiences and their characteristics.
Yeah the first time I saw this movie I definitely expected something else maybe more cheery? 😅 p.s., I don’t think it’s weird Laura Linneys character called her brother “babe” it’s cute to me lol
Girl, Cinema Therapy ranked the relationships in this and IIRC they also said that Liam Neeson and his son, and Bill Nighy and his manager, were the best ones! The others are so problematic. Just goes to show how your opinions are ON 👏POINT 👏
This is a movie I’ve been watching since I was a kid, and I have sooo many mixed feelings about it! There are things I really like and things I think shouldn’t even be in the movie haha it’s such an interesting film to examine and I love hearing opinions of people seeing it for the first time.
I honestly don’t understand why so many people hate this movie these days..this movie is about love and it shows you every single thing that comes with love in a very realistic way. It gives you true lovers, cheaters, puppylove, loss, family love, the love between friends etc. Yes, there are horrible people in this movie, but there are also a lot of good people in this movie. But maybe people prefer the fake image of love in movies nowadays idk
If it is not perfectly woke, no exceptions, no forgiveness, no room for error, then this generation hates it. They are not a very open minded bunch. Also young people, shallow line is all they've experienced. They haven't had the life experience to understand, true, messy, complicated, atypical love. And they don't understand that's the best kind of love.
Plus I've noticed a lot of complaints coming from Americans because they don't understand english/ British humour or relationships with each other. Like people complaining about the prime minister making a joke about Natalie, or the "people hate sissies" joke. It's just a familial thing, like pull your socks up nothings going to change and it's happened. Plus didn't understand the complaints with "oh some of these relationships are bad", yes that's kind of the point, love has complications, love isn't just romantic relationships. I also think the keira scene is messed up a bit too because I always interpreted it as "I need to be honest about my feelings and put this to rest". Keira kissing him seemed more like appreciation of his honesty and recognition of what he's saying. Do think the videos he made for himself were creepy but again, not every love story is positive or perfect
@@elenadehaan6549 the kid gets somewhat of a pass for being a kid, but he does the exact same thing as everyone else in this movie- insist he's in love with someone he doesn't know based on looks and make grand gestures to 'win' her instead of actually speaking to her and trying to get to know her. The Liam Neesom character is the least offensive, but within days of his wife's death is telling her preteen son that love is about having sex in every room of the house and specifies they had sex in the teens room. He also repeatedly mentions that the follow up to his wife would have to be Claudia Schiffer and by the end of the movie he has laid eyes on her and is instantly 'in love' and then seen to be a blended family within 9 weeks of his wife's death. The president? The (certainly married) guy who sexually harassed a colleague's much lower employee in the workplace after commenting about her body to her boss? The only real quality anyone in this movie acknowledges as worthwhile is looks, though they do occasionally build a fantasy of what is behind those looks.
Lol I think this movie definitely has the nostalgia factor going for it. It also fills all the different moods and emotions people feel on holidays. Like yeah, sometimes you are going through heartbreak, or death, or new love, or feeling unfulfilled and it's nice to have a movie that no matter what you are going through, it makes you feel better and gives you some perspective. It will always be a repeat viewing for me for that reason 🥰
I can't find myself to like this movie. It has a lot of problematic stuff and just too many unlikeable characters in it. Daniel and Sam's story is the only one I like! Would prefer it if the movie was only about them! Also, It would be fun if you reacted to the movies "New Years Eve" and "Valentine's Day" becuse they have a similar structure in that you follow several storys and several of the characters are connected. They're not that good but I think it could be a fun watch :)
This is one of my favorite christmas movies---there are definitely some iffy parts that do not hold up very well almost 20 years later---but I think the overall message of the film is really sweet. I can understand where you're coming from though---it's definitely not for everybody. either way, hope you have a happy holiday---love your videos!
@@19Rena96 love is all around, even if it doesn't fit you're everyone must be perfect, woke standards. Love is imperfect. The other message is take the stick out of your butt and chill out. It's a comedy movie, it's not that serious. 🙄
It's so cute watching you react to the dialogue. I don't like this movie, it aged badly and I never liked the mean humor. But if someone still watches it for nostalgia reasons I totally understand. It used to be very popular.
YESSSSS!! Love Actually is so overrated. I LOVE that you aren't into it as so many people. Also, I don't want a sequel to this. We've got enough films like this, Valentine's Day, & Mother's Day. All of those films would've worked better as TV shows.
The big difference between Love Actually and all the american knock-offs is that Love Actually feels a lot more genuine, especially in the sad moments (in my humble opinion).
They should've just cut out the storyline about the guy that went to the US like what was the point??? I also would've liked a whole movie just about Sam and his stepdad, I feel like they could've explored grief more profoundly and their new bond over the holidays :')
Likewise, Colin didn't really add anything to the narrative, and could easily be cut without missing anything. Daniel and Sam's story is by far my favourite, and the most relatable to me.
It was there solely for comedic purposes. It's so absurd that it becomes funny. Also at the time when I saw the movie as a teenager in the early 2000's. It was never meant to be taken seriously. Remember its called humor ;)
I always get the “wow you haven’t changed much” from people I went to school with because I have the same issue as Thomas, haven’t hardly changed in looks since school days 😂 but also I think not only Ned but all the cheaters in the world need to know that lol
I think I am the only person who interprets that card scene differently. I took it as him just telling her the truth and letting it out so he does not hold it in anymore and so she understands his distance. He did not expect her to leave her husband and his best friend. The kiss at the end is her saying Thank you. I appreciate that, but now I am going to run in and go back to my husband. The two words that he says at the end of the scene that no one pays attention to is “No more” meaning he spoke his piece and he is ready to move on. I don’t find that toxic. I find that healthy. On the other dynamics, I can’t argue with you too much. The best one is Sam and his dad. I love their close bond and how supportive they are for each other.
Love Actually is on par with all those ensemble Gary Marshall movies made in the early 00’s: Valentines Day, Mothers Day, New Years Eve, etc. The quality of the story is piss poor but the celebrity names make up for it in the audience’s eyes
There are a lot of toxic elements, but as a whole I can't help but enjoy Love Actually. Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, and Liam Neeson's storylines are charming (if problematic in regards to Firth & Grant), and Colin runs into the most ridiculous bevy of American (and Canadian 😅) beauties.
You are not wrong. It was also widely criticized at the time while also being popular. Things havent changed that much. While many liked the feel good tone, many others noticed the deeply messed up relationships and the constant bad fat jokes. Signed: an old
Hugh Grant’s face when his driver sings always makes me laugh. I’m not the first to say this, but Andrew Lincoln should’ve been in love with Chiwetel Ejiofor instead.
I got the impression that Keira Knightley's character didn't cheat but left the 'friend' behind, standing in the middle of the street and she lived happily ever after with her husband.
There's a whole lot of trash burying the few gems, and I really wish Colin had been robbed. I actually like Martin Freeman's story: probably the only other healthy relationship depicted other than Liam Neeson and the kid.
I do still like (I wouldn't call it love) Love Actually but it's without a doubt problematic lol I don't put it on myself but would definitely watch it when it's on telly. My favourite (and the one unproblematic pairing) is between the stand-ins for the erotic movie. So sweet. I hear that they are often cut out of American releases though....
the only two plotlines I actively dislike are the keira knightley one and the weird redditor who went to america. I think the colin firth storyline was sweet between the lines. They showed that they were "soulmates" or whatever by having them being perfectly synchronized in the things they were saying etc and even pulling it through at the end where it turns out that she had been studying english while he was studying portuguese. And I loved the alan rickman/emma thompson storyline, mostly because it was acted superbly. So sad and I kind of like that it has no resolve. That's something for them to figure out now.
The calling everyone babe isn't horribly uncommon in the South, like I've heard it. It's not terribly common but definitely happens. It's more when you're the surrogate parent to your sibling.
And vise versa. Don't make it be about man vs man. There can even be a situation where the wive would cheat and they would still not decide brake up the marriage. Both men and women cheat. Cheating is not just some horrible behavior that only men do.
My friend loves this movie, and it's one of her favorite Christmas movies, but I don't like it, and I feel so bad since I want to like things my friend's like but some of the plots in this just make me cringe hard >.
It definitely tried to do too much, likely due to its obvious desire to export easily. Most of the cast comprised Brits from well-known TV and film series, e.g., “Harry Potter,” “Mr. Bean,” etc., who are known worldwide. A big criticism that has grown over time is the heavily white cast, but as late as the early 2000s, most people overseas still associated Brits with white, stiff-upper-lip types. I was more shocked as the lack of healthy, happy, older relationships. The stories featuring those middle age and up involved adultery and death, and they reportedly cut a storyline that focused on one of the school administrators who was taking care of her terminally ill partner. Apparently, vibrant love is only for the young.
Couldn't agree with you more on this one. And if you find yourself in the mood for some movies with Alan Rickman being a charmer check out Sense and Sensibility (1995) and Truly Madly Deeply (1990).
I thought I hadn’t seen this movie before but as the video went on, I remembered I HAVE…I just don’t remember it 😂 it was forgettable but had cute moments (I watched it on TV so I didn’t recall the Martin Freeman parts AT ALL bc they cut those out!)
For Alan Rickman plotline; My take on the ending, is that they chose to work on it. They are not just forgetting it, but working on their relathionship, I am imagining them seeing a counsler or similar. Not everyone is ready to throw away years of marriage. I feel like this was also said by Emma Thomas in an intervju, though I am not entirely sure 🤔
I'm glad you didn't like the movie, because I like you and the movie kinda sucks. I don't think it's 'out of date' - it sucked back in 2003 as well. A lot of mediocre movies get very popular no matter the year haha
“What does she/he feel about you?” “Wow that’s so inclusive!” *movie continues to only focus on hetero monogamous romances with poorly written female characters*
Just watched this movie today for the first time, and I gotta say, I mostly agree with your takes on it, *especially* the "this movie should have been solely about Liam Neeson and Thomas Brodie-Sangster's characters" one, they were hands down the best part of the movie with the best, most interesting relationship. I liked Karen as well, and the cheating husband plotline could have been interesting if it was given more time to develop. The actors' relationship was surprisingly wholesome as well, but they just weren't in the movie long enough for me to really care about them or their characters that much. The rest of the movie I found mostly trite, cliche, cringy, or forgettable. I think it would have worked better as a miniseries so all the different plot ideas really had time to develop and breathe rather than being all crammed into the same movie and fighting each other for screen time.
So this movie was written by Richard Curtis, who is generally a quite overrated writer of movies and TV. However, it's ironic that you mentioned Matt Smith in the video because one of the things Curtis has penned that does live up to the hype is Vincent and the Doctor. It's an episode of Doctor Who from the Matt Smith era that manages to be fun while containing a surprisingly mature reflection on depression.
Yeah, it's about messy people, not like your generation which is perfect, and has it all sorted out and never does anything out of the blue or anything that would ever hurt another, only goes by the book
I am 16 years older than my sister (I am the oldest, she is the youngest, and we have 4 brothers in between). Anyway our parents are shit, so she runs away from home a lot to stay with me. So half the time I am big brother, and half the time I am parent. So I use terms of endearment with her that I don't use with my brothers because she is a girl, and because she just needs to hear loving words that she is not getting at home. Your point is valid though, because this is not normal, so I get how weird it can come across.
Thomas the Tank Engine spot line was the only part line that I was here in the board for the rest of them were not giving what it's supposed to give captain
@@SophiaPhannn Its a British film. So maybe the dialogue is written before the hired Laura Linney. Hence the english way of speaking. - Also all of the humor is British. A humor that seems to go over the heads of many Americans. With all due respect, I say that because you seem to comment alot on the jokes like they are serious conversations. For Example when Colin Firth is driving her in the car babbling something on incomprehensible Italian... and then says "Yes silent is golden" and you reaction was "yes that is wise do do" When it was suppose to be a joke how awkward it was and Colin Firth comedic timing is really good in this scene. So it's a really good joke. As they are many others that which seems to go over your head - I'm not British, but I'm Icelandic. And I think that our humor is closer to the British then the British humor is to Americans.
On the "people hate sissies" line, in the UK it's considered better to use dark humour like this because the thinking is if you walk around on eggshells around someone when they're going through a bad time, it makes them feel worse. So it's a bit of a cultural thing. Also with the Keira Knightley wedding, this movie was considered pretty progressive at the time for depicting an interracial wedding but not making a big deal out of it, which was rare in 2003. It's a shame you didn't enjoy the movie Sophia, but everybody has different tastes! I feel like people hating on Love Actually's gotten popular these days, but I watch this every year with my mum and it was one of the first "grown up" movies I remember seeing so I've always loved it.
I never saw this movie until 2014, when i bought it for my mom for Christmas... probably one of the worst choices ever. I didn't like it at all but it was one of her favorites at the time. She ended up getting drunk and watching it every single night for well over a week🙃 and she would play it so loud that i would hear the entire thing from my room upstairs. The Christmas song drives me absolutely insane at this point. I wish i had picked a different present because i still can't watch it to this day
Funny in hindsight: Both Keira Knightley and Colin Firth are in this movie. What do they have in common? Colin Firth was Mr. Darcy in the 1995 version of Pride and Prejudice. You know about the other one. 😁 Also, did you know that the actor who plays her husband would play Scar in the "live action" Lion King (never saw it nor do I intend to) while Mr. Bean was Zazu in the actual Lion King movie. Sorry. I'm such a geek 🤓
Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, and Alan Rickman were all in _Sense and Sensibility_ (and Bill Nighy was in one of the many _Emma_ adaptations -- starring Anya Taylor-Joy, who was in _The Queen's Gambit_ with Thomas Brodie Sangster and _Last Night in Soho_ with Matt Smith). A fair number of Austen actors.
