like an alzheimer's patient
I forget things all the time.
I forgot all about one of my most favorite movies, Love Actually, until I saw the last hour of it on sunday afternoon.
I LOVE this movie.
It is all that is good and right about the world.
And yet, like an imbecile, I had forgotten it.
Had forgotten that it is very Christmas-sy in nature, and that I adore it.
I had to look it up -
my feeble little brain couldn't remember how many couples there are in the story.
Eight!
Hugh Grant is the Prime Minister.
I have no basis for thinking this, but I think, in this movie, Hugh Grant is just Hugh Grant.
But, never mind...he falls in love with Natalie -
- who is referred to as fat throughout. BUT SHE'S NOT FAT...
She has a wee slip up with Billy Bob Thornton, who plays the President of the United States, who is a jerk, but it all comes out right in the end.
The Keira Knightly School Of Acting With Your Jaw segment of the film is a sweet story of unrequited love.
There's the bit with Liam Neeson and the precocious child and the dead mom.
This is the least impressive plot line to me...but it has a cliched and wonderful end, so it's all good.
The running away to Milwaukee to get laid plot line is pure comic relief - and has the very best punch lines...
Which is really good as the Emma Thompson plot is tearing and sad and just heart wrenching.
No, no one dies, but there is a small mis-step in their marriage and it sets everything off kilter - perhaps forever. It's beautifully acted by Emma who I always forget liking so so much.
That Mr. Bean fellow shows up, and I read that his part was originally written to be an angel and that in his second appearance in the story he would vanish -
thankfully he is only human. And thankfully it is a bit part as I find him annoying.
As I do Laura Linney, who also has a sad story line.
Something about her voice and stringy hair irritate me. (Tolerant, aren't I?)
I tend to forget about the porn star stand-ins too, which is bad because I want to watch the movie with Middle or Youngest and it's just not a good idea...
they are cute though.
Things are tied up with the thread of the aging rock star...
and his Christmas single...
By far the sweetest and dearest plot is the story of the writer and Aurelia.
Colin Firth! What could be wrong with watching him fall in love with the plain but wonderful Aurelia? And seeing him leave? And watching realize he can't be without her? And his wonderful proposal?!
And it all ends, mostly well, at THE AIRPORT.
You all know how I feel about airports...
It's just the best movie, fun and funny and sad -
and, I forget about it all year long and have the pleasure of rediscovering little bits of it each Christmas like a big box of ornaments, each with it's own story...
I forgot all about one of my most favorite movies, Love Actually, until I saw the last hour of it on sunday afternoon.
I LOVE this movie.
It is all that is good and right about the world.
And yet, like an imbecile, I had forgotten it.
Had forgotten that it is very Christmas-sy in nature, and that I adore it.
I had to look it up -
my feeble little brain couldn't remember how many couples there are in the story.
Eight!
Hugh Grant is the Prime Minister.
I have no basis for thinking this, but I think, in this movie, Hugh Grant is just Hugh Grant.
But, never mind...he falls in love with Natalie -
- who is referred to as fat throughout. BUT SHE'S NOT FAT...
She has a wee slip up with Billy Bob Thornton, who plays the President of the United States, who is a jerk, but it all comes out right in the end.
The Keira Knightly School Of Acting With Your Jaw segment of the film is a sweet story of unrequited love.
There's the bit with Liam Neeson and the precocious child and the dead mom.
This is the least impressive plot line to me...but it has a cliched and wonderful end, so it's all good.
The running away to Milwaukee to get laid plot line is pure comic relief - and has the very best punch lines...
Which is really good as the Emma Thompson plot is tearing and sad and just heart wrenching.
No, no one dies, but there is a small mis-step in their marriage and it sets everything off kilter - perhaps forever. It's beautifully acted by Emma who I always forget liking so so much.
That Mr. Bean fellow shows up, and I read that his part was originally written to be an angel and that in his second appearance in the story he would vanish -
thankfully he is only human. And thankfully it is a bit part as I find him annoying.
As I do Laura Linney, who also has a sad story line.
Something about her voice and stringy hair irritate me. (Tolerant, aren't I?)
I tend to forget about the porn star stand-ins too, which is bad because I want to watch the movie with Middle or Youngest and it's just not a good idea...
they are cute though.
Things are tied up with the thread of the aging rock star...
and his Christmas single...
By far the sweetest and dearest plot is the story of the writer and Aurelia.
Colin Firth! What could be wrong with watching him fall in love with the plain but wonderful Aurelia? And seeing him leave? And watching realize he can't be without her? And his wonderful proposal?!
And it all ends, mostly well, at THE AIRPORT.
You all know how I feel about airports...
It's just the best movie, fun and funny and sad -
and, I forget about it all year long and have the pleasure of rediscovering little bits of it each Christmas like a big box of ornaments, each with it's own story...
Comments
But yes, it all thankfully works out in the end.
-sigh-
a d o r e it.
I caught this on TV last weekend and like you, had forgotten just how much I like it. So I love this post.
Keetha
Liam's son is just....my heart. And my favorite characters are Natalie and Cate's character - she absolutely nails her, as is her way, of course.
For a split second, when I was planning my wedding, I wanted to do the "All you Need is Love" thing around the church, but then got real.
Which I LOVE.
I do believe I will go buy the darn thing today. So we can watch it while the
Entire
Family
Lives
Here
over Christmas Holidays.
The family?
Is starting to dubbs guest rooms. And Big Tub usage hours. I am cooking and freezing stuff now. Today? Green chile.
Not that you asked or anything, I'm just thinking aloud...
Just love it - and I have the soundtrack.
have you seen "sidewalks of new york"? it's a little sleeper of a movie directed by & starring edward burns w/ rosario dawson, heather graham, brittany murphy & david krumholtz. i highly recommend it & other than the language it's fairly clean(not much nudity that i can recall). probably not as romantic as "love, actually" but closer to reality. very well acted, directed & photographed.
I knew there was a reason I liked you ;)
A good girlie cry Christmas theme triumverate for me, the Anglophile would be Love Actually, Bridget Jones, the 1st film and then Sliding Doors, not of course for Gwyneth but for my beloved John Hannah.
About the Boy is another movie I forget I like.