Rate it: Love Actually (2003)

7 /10

Fuck Canada.

Why do I say that? This board once said they'd rather live in Canada than the US - yeah, ok riiiiiight - and used as their logic "life expectancy is longer in Canada" - Yeah, who gives a shit - you have to live in Canada

Similarly - in a piece of Offensive Nationalist Britp(r)opaganda Hugh Grant - in ths period the great Walking Stammerer of Our Time says this :

"We may be a small country, but we're a great one, too. The country of Shakespeare, Churchill, The Beatles, Sean Connery, Harry Potter. David Beckham's right foot. David Beckham's left foot, come to that".

What would happen if I said this about about the US?

But no..........you all say fnck America all the time - as ibbi - a horrible, horrible man btw - says constantly under his breath for fear we may throw his precious tea in our harbor again - fnck yeah! - what do WE get in the US?

A movie about shitting in a bucket and pushing socialism on us? We like to kiss too yanno in the States - inbetween our institutional racism, stealing Native American land and supporting oppression

We're defending Churchill now? There is a chick at my local 7-Eleven who gives me the wrong change constantly while staring at her phone with a bone through her cheek and a tattoo on her face or some shit who calls him a war criminal and if given the chance would stab me in the neck and drink my blood

A war criminal .......... Think about that! She's a Progressive, ok?!! She's super smart on politics and Life ok and she knows everything.......except how to give me correct change

......I really got to switch to decaf......anyhoo:

* It's The Godfather Part 2 of Romantic overkill.......it's like 11 hours long.......the last time I saw it I broke a hip just by watching it..........as someone who speaks out all the time about how movies aren't romantic enough while lecturing us about blah blah blah I can't really slag off this one for being too romantic can I?

It's also a better movie - and a better Christmas movie than The Preacher's Wife........and funnier btw......but then again what isn't?

4 hate actually, (3 of the points are for Nighy).

I'll settle for a 4. It's incredibly annoying.

5/10

5

It's also Taylor Swift's favourite movie so she and your mom have that in common.




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3 - I really struggled to get through this film. Pretty much all the characters are annoying and it’s just so boring.

It’s become so much more fashionable to hate it in recent times, I imagine just to push back on the hype this movie once had. I don’t see why it deserves any more criticism than any other movie of this genre.

I’m giving it a 9, I hear the criticism and I don’t care lol, it’s a beautiful gem of a movie to me and it hits all the right notes so I overlook the weird one-off plot points for the overall directorial feat in emotion, chemistry, tone, atmosphere.

7

7 / 10

6/10 can't say it's not memorable