I watched Love Actually on Netflix. Yes I'd seen it before but it's back at No.8 in the top10 Australian shows, and my memories of it were a bit fuzzy. It is, after all, 20 years old.
What a lovely movie it is, fantastic cast, heartwarming stuff for the season, and some good songs in the soundtrack. Also some poignancy for me, like Alan Rickman, who died fairly recently, playing one of his rare nice roles.
Well worth another watch.
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Love Actually
I think I saw it just yonks ago. Perhaps it is time to watch it again.
Gwen
Sophisticates
Sophisticates sneer at Love Actually. I’m sure they’ve got lots of good reasons. But I’ve always enjoyed it. My favorite scenes are the ones where the English writer goes to Portugal to win the hand of the young woman who cleaned the cabin he had rented. Magic!
— Emma
It is a real feelgood movie
and for many at this time of year, feeling good towards your fellow human is often hard. it is one of those movies that warms my heart. To me, that is 'job done'.
Samantha
I watched an even older one
I enjoyed 'Brief Encounter', which was a real trip down memory lane, and the characters were so middle class, but it was awfully good. To make up for it I let the kittens watch 'Shawn the sheep' and 'Chicken Run'. They fell asleep and missed the end.
Angharad
Christmas is All Around...
Oooh, I love this movie Joanne, I watch it every Christmas... Just finished it again about three nights ago. I especially enjoy any scene with Bill Nighy and his Christmas song, and that Martine McCutcheon is gorgeous...
Who do you have to screw. . .
. . .around here to get a cup of tea and a chocolate biscuit?
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Earworms
The movie is stuffed with catchy tunes. Strangely, the one that sticks with me is Billy Mack's "festering turd of a record."
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
I feel it in my fingers!
I feel it in my TOES!
God, yes. Perfect, solid-gold shit!
— Emma
Also, the Absurdity of Colin
It is amazingly insane for Colin to think the remedy for all his woes can be found in a bar in Wisconsin.
Of course, hundreds of thousands of Cheeseheads think the same thing.
Jill
Angela Rasch (Jill M I)
Couldn't Stop Myself!
I watched it again last night! It really is as addictive as chocolate. Such a wonderful cast of characters.
I wanna be
Laura Linney when I grow up.
Love, Andrea Lena
Love
One of the things I liked about the movie was how some relationships— Colin and the Cheeseheads, for instance!!! — were pure fantasy, while others were heartbreakingly real. Sarah’s love and feeling of responsibility for her brother, even when it ended the romance for which she had been pining for “two years, seven months, three days and, I suppose, an hour and thirty minutes,” was incredibly poignant.
— Emma
Keira Knightley
The doorstep scene gets me every time. Unrequited love - who can't relate to that?
Wasn't She Beautiful
And she was only 18. How jealous could I be?
I love the movie, but I have
I love the movie, but I have to say, Alan Rickman’s character pisses me off! I want to strangle him for buying the office trollup that necklace! And how much he hurt Emma’s character!
I love the writer and the maid. And i like the unrequited love section, he did not act on it, and only let her know so she could understand why he had been distant.
The scene were the Prime Minister and his security detail sing Good King Wenceslaus cracks me up every time.
I Think
We've all got favourite parts. Alan Rickman's character was remorseful in the end and some of the scenarios didn't work out, but that's life. All in all it's a lovely movie. I'm looking for royalties for promoting it!