Love Actually

[trinityvixen]

...has to be the cutest, sweetest movie ever.

It's choc-a-bloc with cliche--every single female introduced to every single male barring one exception got hooked up with each other--but it's the cutest, most enjoyable thing I've seen recently. Perhaps, predictably, I liked Colin Firth a whole lot, but my favorite was definitely Hugh Grant as the new British Prime Minster. Seriously. It's very sad, very, very sad. I usually like Hugh Grant's silly-and-forgettable romantic comedies as much as the next girly-girl, but he's somehow a lot more likable as the Prime Minister. I can't explain it. Maybe it's the association of single guy possibility with the office currently occupied by the hottest first-world leader ever, British Prime Minister Tony Blair.

Otherwise, the whole movie is ao adorable as a whole...even the commentary is ridiculously great and funny and sweet. Question, though, relating to commentary: anyone (who reads enough tabloids) know if Hugh Grant actually doesn't like Colin Firth? They kept ragging on him on the commentary, him worst of all. Or is this just more of the droll British humor thing? Anyway, all girls need to see and love this movie. And try not to get drool all down their fronts when the really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really HOTT!!!!111ONEONEONE Brazilian guy takes his shirt off. He's probably the only non-male model who would look that good in those underpants...jesus, he had nice hair, too...and glasses...oy, maybe I need to rethink the British Prime Minister Hugh Grant infatuation...

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*chokes*

[saikogrrl.livejournal.com]

LMAO

you only just discovered the wonderfulness that is Love Actually?

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me and icefalcon and cruciel were ranting about it for aaaages and anticipating it *long* before it came out! -- mostly because of Alan Rickman hehe ^___^ (those glasses did look a bit weird on him, but still..... mmmmmmmmmmmm. XD )
And Colin Firth has to be THE most adorable man alive. <333333
I am going to marry him.

OMG did you see the deleted scenes on the commentary? My faves were the "seeing farts" gag scene at Emma Thompson's and Alan's sons school (OMG also, how cool is Emma Thompson? ^___^ )

and -- eeek! the scene where Alan is talking to Emma and she's complaining about her butt, and he's like "hey, I've invested a lot of time and emotion into that bottom" !! (or something like that rofl)


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Re: *chokes*

[saikogrrl.livejournal.com]

the deleted scenes on the commentary

heh heh, i mean on the DVD.....

Re: *chokes*

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm just now catching up on this. I nearly rented the DVD of "Dawn of the Dead" to see the extra features and such, but it was only the director's cut, which I've seen, so I figured I'd take one I hadn't seen yet. And, yes, I remember you being gonza for this movie, which is part of the reason I picked it, really.

However, Alan didn't look so hot in this one, really. He and Emma Thompson were wonderful together, but seriously, Colin Firth was the much cuter older-guy, as was Hugh Grant. Hotness is the young Brazilian guy, and laughter bubbled right out of me when I imdb'd the movie and found out the guy playing the sex-scene double in the movie will be Arthur Dent in a new Hitchhiker's.

Re: *chokes*

[saikogrrl.livejournal.com]

the Brazilian guy's sex scene double?


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Heeeeeeeeeee Hitchhiker movie XD

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

This is a great movie. I think I've seen it three or four times, and it gets better each time (especially once you can start keeping the characters straight). I think I liked the Colin Firth storyline the best, and the kid running in the airport. And I'm sorry, but I really like Keira Knightley. It's too bad Rowan Atkinson's part was cut so much, because he was a lot of fun too.

I haven't listened to the commentaries yet, but I hear they're excellent. You're welcome to borrow my DVD if you need more time to soak it all in :)

And I don't know if there's any real enmity between Hugh Grant and Colin Firth, but they don't get on well in the Bridget Jones movies...

[stars-fell.livejournal.com]

My friends and I have decided that Love Actually is the Ultimate Plotless Movie. Because if you think about it, there really is no plot, except that everyone is someone tied together in weird ways (except for Bill Nighy's character?). That being said, I still love the movie to bits. Alan Rickman & Colin Firth & even Hugh Grant = OMG. And I can't look at Rowan Atkinson anymore without thinking "damn, my Favoritest History Professor went to Oxford with him". :D

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It's definitely a movie for being "Hooray for Electra complexes!" as the ones I love in it are all twice as old as me at the very least.

Plotless? Hell yeah. Maybe that's why it's so good. None of this "HAVE TO FIGURE OUT A WAY TO MOVE ALONG THE ROMANTIC COMEDY FORMULA!" crap. Keep the formula, but chop it up, ruin it here and there and never resolve it (Alan+Emma's path, Laura+the Hot, Hot Brazilian guy), and you've got gold.

Also: Hugh Grant dancing around=comedy genius