Has anyone else been reading the war going on online about the whether or not Love Actually is a good/romantic movie?
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2013/12/-em-love-actually-em-still-awful/282273/
http://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/12/why-love-actually-matters
Links to several of the articles if you're bored this afternoon 
Where do you fall on Love Actually?
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pomegranate / 3577 posts
Oh rats! I'm the first and only meh! I thought it was meh. The Keira Knightley storyline kinda pisses me off and ruins it for me, heh.
honeydew / 7488 posts
@Espion: i am meh too. It just didn't do it for me, and I've watched it again just to try and "get" it but to no avail..
pineapple / 12526 posts
I think it manages to be a romantic movie while still portraying real relationships. Im a fan.
pomelo / 5257 posts
I love it! I just think it's the new thing to hate on this year, at least if my Facebook feed is any indicator. In past years it's all been nothing but love for it, but this year it seems like there's some backlash going on. Anyway, I'm not very cultured when it comes to movies, I just want to see something that will make me smile 
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
I loved SOME of it. But I hated the story line with the husband who falls in love with the younger woman and then leaves his family. While probably something that happens all the time, it really depressed me and took away from everything else about that movie that I loved so much. That movie would've been perfect if that storyline wasn't there!
grapefruit / 4997 posts
@Adira: ok maybe I need to watch it again, I don't remember this part. I remember really loving this movie when I first watched it years ago.
grapefruit / 4066 posts
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Love actually, haha. I think if it was all butterflies and rainbows and everyone was happy, it would be a boring movie. I like that some of the storylines are sad and some are happy. That's how real life is, so I find it relateable.
pomegranate / 3113 posts
@NovBaby1112: exactly my thoughts on it. I love it and wouldn't change a thing.
The sequence where the kid is running through the airport and Colin Firth's character is going to propose makes me cry every. single. time. I watch the movie.
pear / 1787 posts
@Adira: he doesn't leave his family.
I love it but despise the fat jokes in the scene where Colin Firth's character is going to propose to Aurelia (lots of idiotic jokes at the expense of her less attractive sister). And I hate the way the Natalie character's weight is treated. Both story lines could have worked perfectly well without those elements.
I think even the depressing story lines make it great--it shows the realities of many different kinds of love.
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
@Adira: I thought Alan Rickman's character realized he'd been a fool? I remember he hugged his wife in the last scene...
pomegranate / 3980 posts
I have never seen it but from the sound of it I can tell I would probably hate it.
blogger / eggplant / 11551 posts
I'm meh/dislike. Hate is too strong for me to use on this movie, but I'm definitely in the minority with how I feel about this movie!
pineapple / 12793 posts
Not a fan. I never understood the hype. That movie actually make me feel uncomfortable.
I'll be back in an hour after I read all those links.
I'm happy to know I'm not the only one.
cantaloupe / 6869 posts
@squid: OMG. That is my favorite quote from the whole movie. I think I love you.
GOLD / watermelon / 14076 posts
DH and I watch it every year during the holidays. It's one of my favorite movies! The Colin Firth story line makes me cry every time!
cantaloupe / 6171 posts
@squid: YES.
I love this movie. I love that it isn't just about romantic love--the Liam Neeson/stepson-stepdad storyline is hands down my favorite.
Also, Emma Thompson crying while listening to Joni Mitchell just destroys me. I cannot watch that without crying. I 
Emma Thompson, there's a scene at the end of Sense and Sensibility where she has a similar breakdown that always, always, always slays me as well!
wonderful pomelo / 30692 posts
@Kimberlybee: @DigAPony: @mrbee: @swedishfish: Okay, apparently I need to rewatch this, because I REALLY thought they weren't together anymore at the end!! I kind of thought they had separated and were just trying to be friendly at the end of the movie, but weren't together anymore...
ETA: Either way, that story line is depressing. Even if they are able to get past Harry's indiscretions, I thought it kind of ruined the movie for me because I hated what Harry did and I felt so bad for poor Karen!
pomelo / 5257 posts
@nana87: YES, to Emma Thompson's Joni Mitchell scene. Every time I watch that I think about what an incredible actress she is to be able to convey so much emotion with such grace and subtlety. I mean she's literally in a room by herself, not saying a word, and your heart just breaks watching her. That's the best part of this movie to me -- the awesome cast. Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson... Can't get any better!
nectarine / 2765 posts
Love love it! It's tradition for us to watch it every Christmas Eve. Definitely my favorite Christmas movie..."and he's got a big knooob!" Heh
pear / 1823 posts
I love it! I like that not everything works out perfectly - makes it more realistic, IMO.
honeydew / 7488 posts
@Adira: I'm with you... The whole alan rickman affair portion ruined it completely for me.. Even if they didn't end up splitting.. That's pretty much my lasting impression of the movie. Probably because he's such a good actor and made me detest him, haha.
admin / wonderful grape / 20724 posts
@MrsSCB: I think Emma's real life husband cheated on her with a younger woman! So maybe she wasn't acting...
GOLD / pineapple / 12662 posts
@squid: " . . .even St. Basils"
Love It!
ETA: Not so much the anti-American bits, but on the whole, love it!
pomegranate / 3658 posts
@Mrs Green Grass: Huh wha? There's no cheating in that movie! Alan Rickman's plotline involves him flirting with another woman and buying a gift for her and getting caught, but he never actually cheats. None of the other plotlines have anything to do with infidelity. I would hate it too if there was a lot of cheating in the film.
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