Love Actually

[razor]

1 hour ago, Tony Moanero said:

1. Annie Hall

2. The Shop Around the Corner

3. Barefoot in the Park

4. Roman Holiday

5. Moonstruck 

 

I never miss an opportunity to watch Annie Hall or Barefoot in the Park.  Absolutely brilliant films.

 

I hate Love Actually.  I have never seen it, but:

 

The type of people who think it's great are the type of people who have no taste.

It has that professional posh English bloke in it (notwithstanding his rebirth as an excellent person).

The whole premise of it is based on a falsified Englishness that doesn't exist, but panders to an American audience.

I've watched Four Weddings, and I have no doubt this and that Notting Hill are exactly the same.  Privileged people leading privileged lives (in London), having lots of quirky friends and everything understatedly turning out "surprisingly well, actually..."

 

 

[Bjornebye]

3 hours ago, razor said:

 

I never miss an opportunity to watch Annie Hall or Barefoot in the Park.  Absolutely brilliant films.

 

I hate Love Actually.  I have never seen it, but:

 

The type of people who think it's great are the type of people who have no taste.

It has that professional posh English bloke in it (notwithstanding his rebirth as an excellent person).

The whole premise of it is based on a falsified Englishness that doesn't exist, but panders to an American audience.

I've watched Four Weddings, and I have no doubt this and that Notting Hill are exactly the same.  Privileged people leading privileged lives (in London), having lots of quirky friends and everything understatedly turning out "surprisingly well, actually..."

 

 

Four Weddings and Notting Hill are boss!!!! 
 

Granted they aren’t as reflective on British society as a whole as Rita Sue & Bob Too but still….. 

[razor]

46 minutes ago, Bjornebye said:

Four Weddings and Notting Hill are boss!!!! 

NEGGED!!

 

Granted they aren’t as reflective on British society as a whole as Rita Sue & Bob Too but still….. 

 

REPPED!!

One of the greatest scenes in British cinema history.

 

Yes, Harry Lime runs through the tunnels of Vienna.  Yes, Colonel Nicholson, wounded from gunfire, falls on the detonator to topple the bridge over the Kwai. Yes, Charlie Croker’s men might make a grab for that gold but it will cost them their lives…

 

And then there’s this:

 

 

[Bjornebye]

15 minutes ago, razor said:

One of the greatest scenes in British cinema history.

 

Yes, Harry Lime runs through the tunnels of Vienna.  Yes, Colonel Nicholson, wounded from gunfire, falls on the detonator to topple the bridge over the Kwai. Yes, Charlie Croker’s men might make a grab for that gold but it will cost them their lives…

 

And then there’s this:

 

 

Hahahahahaha a cinematic masterpiece

 

“shut up you yer bastard I’ll fuckin’ flatten yer” 

 

“my husband is not a dirty bastard” 

 

“you tell em Sue, up the IRA!” 
 

“Is that what you’ve been telling them you dirty bastard” 

[YorkshireRed]

All these top fives and not a mention of When Harry Met Sally!
 

I can’t quibble with the films chosen, but I have WHMS as the daddy of the genre. 

[DalyanPete]

10 hours ago, Bjornebye said:

Time to separate the men from the 'ones for the watching'

 

 

 

And with that clip you lose the battle!

You know the hooker who sucked him off? That's you that is.

[Redder Lurtz]

Some thoroughly decent romcoms about but Love Actually is utter shite. 

[DalyanPete]

6 hours ago, razor said:

It has that professional posh English bloke in it (notwithstanding his rebirth as an excellent person).

The whole premise of it is based on a falsified Englishness that doesn't exist, but panders to an American audience.

I've watched Four Weddings, and I have no doubt this and that Notting Hill are exactly the same.  Privileged people leading privileged lives (in London), having lots of quirky friends and everything understatedly turning out "surprisingly well, actually..."

 

 

Nail on fuckin head, hopefully Richard (I went to uni)Curtis.

[DalyanPete]

For a rallying cry, this thread went quite well.

 

[Mudface]

I've only seen the bits where Stacey gets her norks out, that was pretty good.

[Redder Lurtz]

11 minutes ago, DalyanPete said:

For a rallying cry, this thread went quite well.

 

 

It should be strapped to that abomination of a gay disco music thread and dropped in the north sea. 

[ZonkoVille77]

I believe I've only seen 2 of the films mentioned in this entire thread - Rita, Sue and Bob too and Four Weddings. Am I missing out on much?

[AngryOfTuebrook]

1 minute ago, ZonkoVille77 said:

I believe I've only seen 2 of the films mentioned in this entire thread - Rita, Sue and Bob too and Four Weddings. Am I missing out on much?

The ones in the lists of fives.

 

Just don't bother with Love Actually.

[Captain Turdseye]

I’ve only skimmed this garbage but it’s about time somebody said what everybody else is thinking. 
 

It’s time for Dave to do the right thing and ban Bjornebye from starting threads. 
 

Worse than Lurtz. Not even joking. 

[Remmie]

Some brilliant comedian will be along shortly to say die hard is their favourite rom-com

[Captain Turdseye]

*puts on Shooter in the Motor hat*
 

Die Hard is my favourite rom-com

[Karl_b]

It has a red and white poster and is therefore shite.

 

I actually watched it once and now it's on the list of Christmas films I will never watch again.

[Mudface]

It's problematic- https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/nov/30/richard-curtis-lack-of-diversity-in-love-actually-makes-me-feel-a-bit-stupid

 

Everyone involved should be cancelled and burned at the stake for not anticipating cultural sensibilities 20 years into the future.

[sh#t waffle]

1 hour ago, Redder Lurtz said:

Some thoroughly decent romcoms about but Love Actually is utter shite. 

Yep

[John102]

38 minutes ago, Mudface said:

It's problematic- https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/nov/30/richard-curtis-lack-of-diversity-in-love-actually-makes-me-feel-a-bit-stupid

 

Everyone involved should be cancelled and burned at the stake for not anticipating cultural sensibilities 20 years into the future.

Don't let the guardian find out about the best bands/best male/best female/band draft on here. They would be spitting out soy lattes all over the place.

[DalyanPete]

1 hour ago, Redder Lurtz said:

gay disco

I yet to view and somehow don't think I will.

[Redder Lurtz]

5 minutes ago, DalyanPete said:

I yet to view and somehow don't think I will.

 

Yeah. Give it a swerve mate. I lifted the lid and quietly closed it again. 

[Mudface]

7 minutes ago, John102 said:

Don't let the guardian find out about the best bands/best male/best female/band draft on here. They would be spitting out soy lattes all over the place.

 

Their end of year best album list was unsurprisingly dominated by angst ridden female singer songwriters, evenly split between mumbly bores and massively over produced autotuned Mickey Mouse soundalikes. I tried listening to a few of them, but I'm not a 30 something single woman with a disastrous dating history so none of them clicked.

[Redder Lurtz]

1 hour ago, Captain Turdseye said:

I’ve only skimmed this garbage but it’s about time somebody said what everybody else is thinking. 
 

It’s time for Dave to do the right thing and ban Bjornebye from starting threads. 
 

Worse than Lurtz. Not even joking. 

 

What shit threads have I authored? The place is littered with Stig's efforts. None of mine. 

[Captain Turdseye]

1 minute ago, Redder Lurtz said:

 

What shit threads have I authored? The place is littered with Stig's efforts. None of mine. 

I meant Kurtz. 
 

It was early in the morning.