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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- Deja vu? In this video, we shall explore the great sins of early-to-late 2000s romcoms, with a heavy focus on the celeb ensemble mega-cast holiday movies that began with the legendary Love Actually (2003). Let's go.
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Movies discussed:
Love Actually (2003)
He's Just Not That Into You (2009)
Valentine's Day (2010)
New Year's Eve (2011)
Christmas eve (2015)
Mother's Day (2016)
The Decoy Bride (2011)
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This is a REUPLOAD which removes Martin Freeman's bare torso from the video. Please do not age restrict this version I am begging.
Nooooo!
Thank you for taking the money soap I loaned you and scrubbing this video clean.
Feel free to keep it though, I have too many already 🧼 🫧 🧽
Not the male nipple, the most erotic nubbin!!
Damn, that video was doing numbers too. Sad to see you done so dirty by youtube.
Those pesky censors!
the implication of "her car must be brown because she likes to keep things natural and brown is the natural color of cars" is fucking destroying me
so uh *leers* does the car match the drapes
It made me snort so hard cause I have my natural hair color (brown) also brown cars are not that common anymore what is this 1987??
and when's the last time you saw a brown car? It's probably grey.
Most cars in the wild are brown, or black, or dark grey. They’ve evolved this way in nature to try and blend in to foliage and stuff. They’re kind of like rhinos, and elephants, they WILL charge if you get too close so be careful around them. Even captive bred cars can do it to be a dick and it can easily kill you 😢 🙏
Anyone looking at me on the weekends would assume I had an unwashed vehicle, then
the UK “just a lil guy” speech is crazy considering how they fucking still have colonies everywhere
where exactly is a colony of the uk in 2024?
@@sophiewildeeanguilla, bermuda, british virgin islands, falkland islands (there was a whole war about whose colony that one was in 1982), pitcairn, tristan da cunha, cayman islands. this just off the top of my head, there are more.
also depending on op's opinion, the commonwealth could also be considered a form of colonization.
Not many people know that he is quoting Queen Victoria verbatim (she had a vision of Dobby, a bit like in That's So Raven).
@@amateurmagician i disagree that an overseas territory that has full governance of itself could be considered a colony. that violates the definition of ‘colony’ imo. i would also disagree that the commonwealth is a form of colonialism. it is a consequence of colonialism but countries can leave (and have) if their governments want to. that’s why you see countries that were colonised by france or belgium joining the commonwealth but you don’t see former british colonies joining the african franc. there’s mutual benefit to (for example) india and britain keeping good diplomatic relations which is why an economic powerhouse like india hasn’t left the commonwealth. an indian citizen living in the uk gets the right to vote immediately due to commonwealth membership whereas a european or american would have to wait until they had uk citizenship. i think it’s a bit condescending to act like a country with one of the top 5 gdps in the world is somehow the uk’s whipping boy in this day and age and can’t act of its own accord. what would narendra modi gain from opting in to a union that only benefitted britain? not votes i don’t think.
@@sophiewildee ok
I gotta say, Emma Thompson and Alan Rickman read as very divorced to me in the last scene of the movie. They're picking him up from the airport! Clearly he's in town to see the kids. Their body language throughout that scene exactly matches the body language between my parents whenever they had to interact (and couldn't be seen screaming at each other)
I know you pretty much just mean separated, but they can't be divorced in the time frame that these events happen so on this technicality I reign supreme as the great Love Actually interpretive mind genius
I agree I thought they were separated for sure. But my mom who is divorced thought they were still together so maybe it’s up to interpretation. I’d hope they’re separated.
I was about to comment this! I had always assumed that they were divorced by the end of the movie. I will forever be sad if that wasn’t the case.
@@mothcubyeah that particular take was just mind-boglingly stupid. They are very clearly unhappy at the end of the film, and the point is that relationships are messy and sometimes people stay together even when they are unhappy. We don't know if they end up working through it or not.
i thought it was purposefully up to interpretation because of that scene.
My favorite thing about this movie is that the two children in love grew up to voice Ferb and Vanessa Doofenshmirtz, confirming that they are soulmates in every lifetime.
😂😂
wait i never realized 😂😂
Wow! That's insane!
Your kidding I had no Idea 😲🤩🤩
Thank you for taking down that cruel, cruel subplot about the woman with the mentally ill brother and how that meant she could never find love or even have a single night of passion with her work crush. If I can overshare for a moment - I was recently out of the psych ward when I went to see Love Actually with a friend of mine and that scene made me absolutely break down because it awakened all these massive awful fears in me that my sibling would wind up in a similar situation with me one day. Totally ridiculous, of course, she's happily married and super successful AND if she ever did need to become my main support person, none of those things would change as a result. But I was young and vulnerable and didn't have the life experience to laugh that plotline off back then, so it really cut deep. I so appreciate the visceral satisfaction you gave me by pulling no punches when explaining how godawful it is.
Aww I'm so sorry. I'm so glad you were able to feel better about this in the end! Sending my love right to you direct from the heart ❤️
They had the perfect opportunity for the work crush to join in the caretaking. Instead they made it her sole lonely burden for literally no reason other than melodrama. I’m glad you’re feeling better about it too
I had a similar breakdown the first time I saw this film (I was like 19 or 20), but from the Laura Linney’s character’s perspective. My brother is autistic, he’s semi-independent but on my folks’ health insurance and also on social security. The idea that I would constantly have to put my life on hold to make sure he’s taken care of when my parents die and wouldn’t be able to engage in love and life fully terrified and haunted me for YEARS. I’ve now set boundaries and worked with my folks so that when they die he’s in good hands (and I’ll be there to assist), but yeah, fuck you Love Actually for making people with mental illness/disabilities and their siblings believe that they would burden each other forever and neither of them are deserving of romantic love 🖕
@@catabat49654 Thank you for sharing this! I've always guiltily felt like it was an overreaction on my part but that storyline really is toxic. It sneaks up on you because there's never any better reason given for why that has to end EVERYTHING between them - I'd even be happy with a scene where she's with friends or something and they say "wow screw him, if he wants someone with literally no other priorities then he's gonna be alone forever" or just SOMETHING that doesn't treat the story as inevitable.
My maternal grandma lived with us for most of my childhood. She had an aneurysm when my mom was a kid. Both of them would have fights that when she died it sent my mom in a depressive spiral that almost escalated in martial disputes. I know that this scene would have sent her into a breakdown too and I make it a point to never mention films like these for this reason. Its awful on its own, but its downright disgusting when it hits home.
It's pretty bizarre to start a movie using an American national tragedy to prove love exists, but then even weirder to then have the British PM to defend his love by dissing the US.
I bet it was done on purpose
Hate Actually
I clocked that too and it irked the sh*t outta me
"This terr0rist attack seems bad on the surface, but it actually just proved love is real, also I hate America cuz they didn't invent Harry Potter"
So America took one for the team to prove love exists, but they still lose because their pop culture is soggy and gross and doesn't involve wizardry. A weird thesis, but alrighty.
I once tried watching this movie with my family. We were so bored after 10 minutes that we switched to watching Lucy, the movie where Scarlet Johansson uses 100% of her brain. That's how desperate we were.
Lucy is a lot of fun.
Maybe it's not your type of movie, but hey, Lucy is a extremely entertaining film, even if using 100% of the brain dosen't make sense, (SPOILER: she just became a computer), but I still consider Luc Besson to be a terrific director.
i loooved lucy when i first saw it
Controversial opinion but Lucy is a film I actually enjoy, even if it has some... obvious flaws. Honestly I think I'm more willing to accept using 100 % of the brain due to drugs than I am willing to stare at ScarJo for over an hour.
Lucy is Kind fun tho
Women as prizes is the synopsis of this movie. Emma Thompson is an old mom so she isn't a prize to be won and flatter the man's ego anymore. This movie is just yikes all around.
It's from another time. These conversations would be Easier to ha e if people stopped acting like men aren't people or something. A lot of us hate media like this as well. Also there's nothing wrong with gender's ego being stroked especially if it's in moderation. We need to move away from demonizing everything involving men.
@@NineToFiveGamerUC0079You heard “Let’s stop degrading women” as “let’s demonize men!” You are 1000% the problem.
@@NineToFiveGamerUC0079 "it's from another time" 2003 isn't fucking 19th century, what are you talking about?
@@NineToFiveGamerUC0079why the hell would anybody need their "gender ego" stroked. Quickly, explicitly. Because that just seems like a wild justification for misogyny draped in the guise of "love". Especially when the only love that is really centered is sexual and/or romantic, not of family or friends or of your community.
And as others have already said, bro, 2003 was not 23 bce. It may not have been popular, hell I'm confident in guessing any kind of feminist beliefs or negative feelings towards this movie was looked down on/shunned, but it definitely still existed nonetheless. These kinds of stories don't exist within a bubble with no actions in reality leading up to them. But also, can we please stop acting like something being 10+ years from now (which ofc is relative to the current year, not 2024 by itself) means any weirdness, backwards social commentary, or straight up bigotry is excusable? I don't think there's any prominent racism in this movie but when you're making the same excuses people make to justify blackface in say, a 1960s book/movie, you've screwed up somewhere. Probably when you claimed a year only 21 years ago was ancient, and therefore free from modern day judgement.
It's not like they didn't know any better. People have always known better when it came to social issues, maybe not wealth or wars or disease but this definitely. What matters is if these people do anything about it, even just questioning what's socially acceptable for the time. Low-key sexism doesn't get a pass just because it was 2003, if it was 2003 sexism wouldn't get a pass just because it came from 1982, and if it was 2045 sexism from now wouldn't get a pass. Please stop justifying social issues through the passage of time.
@@blahblahblahblah729 I am not in any way involved w this other than to say 2003 was over 20 years ago, meaning EVERYTHING has changed. In the immediate years ensuing 9/11, everyone was traumatized and no one wanted to watch one more thing about war, meanness, violence, etc. It was too damn soon. We took down Hussein that spring and reveled in it: we were still in a dark, dark place. The entertainment industry was scared of a lot of topics and genres. This movie is what it is, but you cannot deny that it has been classified classic--and that it sure as hell gave millions of people a much-needed emotional outlet. If you weren't alive then, I can't explain it any better, but that's what 2003 was like. It was awful.
I genuinely hadn't noticed that the women in love actually all end up sad and the men all get happy endings. what's up with that?
also i think that the emma watson plot is the only redeeming plot, not because it's particularly well-written or well handled, but purely because thompson does such a beautiful piece of acting when she opens the present and has to look happy about it, and then puts herself back together after her meltdown so she doesn't ruin xmas for her children. i agree with you though that the plot point of her deciding to stay, "knowing life would always be a little be worse" wasn't treated with the reapect it deserved.
similarly, i always really liked liam neeson doing his best to be a good single step-dad while dealing with his own grief, but he defs shouldn't have encouraged it as much as he did, DEFINITELY not bypassing airport security in a world which the opening monologue confirms takes place post 9/11. thats a wild thing to let ur child do!!
Liam Neeson craves chaos
@@mothcub He does have a particular set of skills
My mother literally never forgave Alan Rickman for this plot. The actor. Every time we’d watch the movie, she’d curse at him and say “I’ll never forgive you for what you did to Emma Thompson…”
This is not a joke or irony, this is just how great my mom is.
That’s why it’s my favorite subplot. My critical thinking goes out the window when it comes to schlock I watched with my family as a kid lmao.
Also yeah, I think the thing I liked about that scene/subplot was that it was real. Maybe our generation is more into “marriage is a bourgeois prison” and just feels like “why the fuck would she stay,” but it definitely resonates with my emotionally repressed waspy upbringing (unhealthy). People staying together because they were married, and that meant something. Emma Thompson’s plot is that she keeps the marriage, but the marriage is shit, which is raw and real, and she still has love for her kids.
Same with that lady who in the end finds love with her brother. It’s dumb, but the point was that even when life cuts you a raw deal, love is still there, even if it’s the love between you and an unwell relative. There’s love in the in-patient facility.
It’s trash, but it’s trash I have affection for
Emma Watson plot? 😉
Gotta love PM Hugh Grant declaring war on the USA like he just stepped out of a time machine from 1812
And then like half of the remaining movie is still about how unreasonably horny the british scriptwriters are for american women anyways 😂
In fairness, this was a response to Blair letting Bush drag the UK into an illegal war, so it wasn’t out of nowhere. It’s just a pity it was divorced from any actual principle.
I said it before and I'll say it again: "gay wife, indian husband" is the most beautiful song of our generation
Weirdly addicting
why is her voice so angelic tho
I was so deeply upset when the original disappered, can't believe martin freeman's bare torso would betray you like that >:(
martin freeman's torso needs to send mothcub a check for lost revenue
Once a philosophy prof who I disliked said he hates this movie so I watched it out of spite. And he was right. But I'll watch anything Colin Firth is in
Real and true
Even a broken philosophy prof is right twice a day (when he brings up that this movie is bad)
Finally I can learn to loathe Love Actuallys without being subjected to smut and filth
Finally, I can watch this without all the footage of fatal car accidents you had playing in the background
No one understands my artistic vision
@@mothcub David Cronenberg might!
“This film is a complete trainwreck, and you have no idea how hard it was to get that footage!”
@@vaclav4435 And the writer of the book Crash.
For me the worst thing about this movie is Alan Rickman cheating on Emma Thompson, and the second worst is the expectation that anyone would look at another man twice, let alone smooch him, if they had Chiwetl Ejiofor for a spouse.
Ong 🗣🗣🗣
I like this movie for a lot of reasons which I refuse to admit are just “nostalgia,” but it has some of the most heinous examples of “and then everyone clapped” in the history of cinema.
There's an unbelievable number of male boss/female subordinate plotlines in this movie, too. It's really weird once you notice it
It's worse: love actually has taken over non English movies too. In Poland almost all 'romantic' comedies follow love actually. For the past two decades or so.
I can't stand the thousand parts of the cursed Listy do M
I think Keira Knightley is just an incredibly bad kisser. one kiss from her and the crush that was strong enough to risk it all is just gone.
Thank goodness someone finally thought of the children and removed that man’s bare torso. Just kidding, I’m sorry you had to deal with this BS on such a banger of a video. I’ll watch again and like for the algo!
Thank you! I'm just glad people liked it at least 🥲👍
I fully read the Emma Thompson epilogue scene as them co parenting and trying to remain civil in front of their kids but distinctly divorced/seperated
Same.
is the love in the room with us right now
Never could get on the Notting Hill/ Love Actually bandwagon. Glad to know I'm not considered "weird" anymore, I found my tribe😂
The cringe is intense
The thing is even though i can objectively find Notting Hill cringe, in reality i still watch it every couple of years because of the nostalgia and that enjoyment i felt watching it first time around
I sincerely enjoy Nottingham Hill. I hate-watch Love Actually
professor snape buying jewelry from mr beene is too surreal to take seriously at 10:45
try being Austrian and remember that Heike Makatsch the recipeint of the necklace as early 2000"s girly vJane on a german Music tv channel. 😹
Mr “Beene” I’m crying
"I'm gay and I'm gonna play" is too good. TOO GOOD
I don't think Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson (character names I cannot remember) stay together in the end, he clearly goes away somewhere and they awkwardly cheek kiss like people who are affectionate but not intimate with each other. Maybe they're staying amicable for the kid's sake?
They told me they're still together 40 years later
My mom adores this movie and tried to show it to me as a teenager. She should have waited a few years so I would have known to hold back my criticisms.
this film is a labour of loathe you might say
Loathe actually IS all around
Wow i cant believe the British can love. This is more shocking than when I first saw Martin Freeman’s bare torso. Subscribed!
A lassie named Lily was right
The movie Love, Actually's trite
This film, and its brothers,
Disservice to lovers
And treat all their ladies with spite
❤
Holy Hannah, I just heard the line 'doomed evil limerence' for the second time in life, and my heart broke into song.
THANK YOU I LOVE THIS LIMERICK 💖😭
@@mothcub I'm so glad! I wanted to comment for the re-upload, and I saw you'd asked someone else for poetry. More than happy to oblige.
🙌Bravo!🙌 Can't give you a lighter, so here's a candle.🕯️
i love this video and how advertiser friendly it is personally thats my fav thing about it happy happy joy
My appreciation for this vid is also proportional to how convenient it fits into commerce.
Ren and Stimpy ref?
I'm crying, your ballad for the bigoted parents is going to be in my head forever now.. First video I've seen from this channel and its a very strong one
I'd estimate about 57% of my audience needs to hear a little song to really understand what I'm saying.
4:17 "Oh, poor widdow Engwand. We're just a liddle countwy. Evewyone wants to tell us what to do. We just want to keep to ouwselves. We've never done a cowonisation. All we have is Hawwy Podder."
"why didnt boss baby bring up the evils of capitalism" type motherucker
I found the elevator Christmas love actually fascinating, because it communicates such a bizarre relationship with god. I'd like to preface that I'm Jewish and obviously have a few different ideas compared to Christianity- but I think its really something else to have this sense of total interpersonal isolation. To have all these people seem totally disconnected from each other, and to simultaneously focus on G-d as an abstract being that is entirely unknowable but craves or even demands reverence- I really like how you frame that last longing scene in this movie, this sad little angel man who simply cannot follow the people he's been speaking to, how he's spent his time with them not connecting through any literal means but through a script he's presenting on paintings analogous to the divine- his words and thoughts seem so empty, so hollow that they don't offer perspective on a work you can see but dictation on an imaginary piece. And that's his life, that's his role in this world as a messenger, and whether or not he communicated his message he remains alone.
This is probably rambley and silly but I dunno, something about that struck, it feels like someone with a very painful view of the world who's not quite aware of it- or maybe they are, I don't know these people! But it made me sad and I hope they reconsider
That scene feels so dense and strange, love your interpretation ❤️
the god in evangelical movies always seems extremely capricious and cruel, he really seems to like to fuck with people and then just have them explain to one another why it's good that he did that while they suffer
@@thomasstone3480 The evangelical god scans so close to the abusive father in a dysfunctional family.
@@thomasstone3480that's just old testament god, too
@@bmlgordonprobably because that's what most of them embody, so through god he's their means of justification.
After all if a god of supposed love and care for his creations, resembles an abusive family you have on a human level, who's to say your family is in the wrong and not you? It's horrid.
Finally. A place where we can all sh*t on this movie with no regrets. Thank you for your blunt honesty on this dumpster fire of a romantic comedy. ❤
Finally the good clean christian version that me and the whole family can enjoy! jokes aside I'm sorry you had to reupload, it's a very good video, will watch again, and I'm so so glad you started doing video essays, I love your line delivery and the little drawings!!
Thank you so much! I appreciate it 💕
I watched Love Actually for the first time this year and was blown away by how buckwild it was.
I couldn’t decide whether Mark being obsessed with a woman he literally avoids talking to at all opportunities or the fucking America subplot with no punchline was more infuriating.
If i was stuck with the creepy photographer guy in the elevator, I'd be in prison
finally i can watch this without having to skip that SCANDALOUS bare torso clip... thank u utube uve saved me again
Very good video and I agree with almost all of it, but outside the weird thematic context of the film I like the Emma Thompson plot I think it’s sad and a bit poignant that she says ‘would you stay knowing it would always be a bit worse’ and then clearly she does decide to do that and it’s always a bit worse. But the movie is bad and clearly doesn’t like women or want them to be happy.
Yes! I do like that, I just feel like the movie doesn't know where to put it or what to do with it, so it feels rushed there at the end (partly a consequence of the sheer density of different threads), but you're so right.
I always thought the end was after they had broken up. The love 'actually' was their shared love of their children
This is the hot take I needed. 2 relationships with problematic employer-employee dynamics, 1 dude who goes to America and has a lot of sex, several doomed crushes, 1 marriage falling apart...
How did I never know that Taylor Twilight and Taylor Popstar were in a movie together as LOVE INTERESTS I can't
Look up Taylor Lautner's wife's name
I was frantically looking for this one last night. I can finally know peace again
🙏
I hope somebody is going to eat a bag of Munchies when watching this
Munchies if you're reading this: send me a crate
We have munchies where I live but it's like chips(crisps?) and pretzels & stuff, like a salty party mix. I want to try these other munchies though
Your country just has too many Colins.
I like romantic movies, but Love Actually is just... bizarre. I get no spirit or belief of love from it. Like, I can't believe it's lauded as a classic and a supposed must-watch for Christmas.
WHEN is gay wife/indian husband dropping on Spotify
It's a Deezer exclusive track
@@mothcub woah oh i look just like Buddy Holly
USAmerican here never put together that the swearing was a way to signal class which. makes the PM plot even more grimy imo. god why is this movie Like This
I also was repulsed by this movie from the first watch...as a Rom-Com, it's not funny and aggressively unromantic. I found the only passable connection to be the body-double couple because they're the only ones who seem like they will actually have a decent relationship based on a stable foundation; they build a bond slowly by relating to each other in vulnerable moments while navigating the awkwardness of their profession. I wish they had more screentime because the rest of the movie is just so *painful*. There are too many characters with unresolved plot points or just stupid plotlines (looking at you "character Colin"). 🤦♀
Thank you for removing that FILTH
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It’s truly less about love then it is about (specifically MALE) lust and unwanted advances.
Seeing the things that happen in these movies genuinely made me grip my head down on the table multiple times
I also hate children romances, I feel like I’m being one of those weirdo moms at the park pairing up kids just because they’re playing together
Love is everywhere, and it is a lovecraftian force that demands submission to its will. There is no escape. And soon madness follows.
God I'm so sorry you had to reupload this banger but I'm so glad it's back!
btw "me when the female hacker has accessed my bank account" is such a good bit. I have been thinking about it constantly since the first upload
lmao thank you! Glad u liked 👍 my joke 😎
This is almost word for word the rant my brother launches into every single time this movie is vaugely mentioned, very fun i will be sending it to him.
Also poor Bill Neighy no man can resist Rab C Nesbitt yet he paradoxically cannot be contained by such things.
44:03
The best part about Shawn Spencer thanking Monet for painting lily pads instead of dead carp is that Monet actually painted dead fish. He has a painting called "Red Mullets" hanging in the Harvard Art Museum.
"A thoughtless ode to cruelty" is so poetic I can't handle it
'Love Actually is a work of pure dark evil'. Thank God, somebody finally said it.
My hatred for this movie knows no bounds. Thank you for a cathartic watch.
I saw the 20hrs ago and went “wait, I’ve watched this half a dozen times in the last week(s).” Sorry you had to reupload, but glad it’s back!
Thank you Bella Swan 💖🐌
Omg, thank you!! I started this movie once about 7yrs ago out of curiosity and ended up hate watching it by the end. I remember actually wanting to throw something at my tv when it was over 😆
I am loving your uber long video essay era
As a German, seeing Till Schweiger out of the blue really knocked out a kidney for me :D
Still not over that Creepy Man is Shawn from Psych
I would also like to know how Kiera Knightley has the gall THE GALL not to kiss me! "Aare you serious Kiera? You were supposed to kiss ME! What the HELL, Kiera'"
Glad the videos back, it's a banger.
i love this video and i'm sorry you had to reupload it but i'm also kinda glad no one else has to deal with the psychic damage of martin freeman's bare torso :sob:
We need to keep our children safe xoxo
Anyone else find it weird that Liam Neeson's character who convincingly portrays someone devastated by the loss of his wife a couple of weeks before the movie starts apparently has an insta-love moment with Claudia Schiffer just a few more weeks later?
No mate, he's a bloke and she's Claudia Schiffer.
~1:07:00 you talk about how the mothers bond over their racism. As a bi-racial dude who looks more black who has been deep in alt-right circles since the early 00's I can assure you, that is how it works. I can't explain why, but it's like they both bond over their hatred which is why you'll usually see more unity between right-leaning groups even though they appear more diverse on the surface.
Good video overall I thought you just did art on Insta!
I remember my friend and I were watching the Andrew Lincoln storyline thinking he was a dick to Kiera Knightley out of jealousy because he was in love with his best friend, but no, he was actually in love with Kiera Knightley and was just being a dick to her because he couldn't have her. We decided to stop the movie.
i feel so validated..! i had a friend who said this was their favorite movie and i couldn’t understand that. never enjoyed this movie, it always felt kinda uncomfortable
Same, I thought I was the only one that didn't like it.
..Kierra was only 17 during the filming. SEVENTEEN! She had to leave high-school! … ‘s a true mystery why we have a warped perception of beauty and aging.. ((not to mention the sexualization of high-schoolers!)) Lol it fked me up when I learned that. [The actors portraying her ‘love interests’ were 29 and 26].
I've never seen Love Actually in full and don't intend to,but I can see Bill Nighy's character as the pop oriented twin of his aged rock singer character from Strange Fruit.
This is the first video I’ve seen of yours and I clicked on it without looking at the length. It’s 1 AM and I just finished it while I’ve been hand sewing an Edwardian bum/hip pad. I’m gonna go check out more videos cuz this was great.
Also my dad *adored* Love Actually when I was growing up and it always rubbed me the wrong way but I couldn’t pinpoint why until you were showing the scenes of the awkward woman and awkward Xerxes. It occurred to me right before you said it that they don’t show any of the women ‘leads’ in their own stories having a positive experience, and the other women throughout are just trophies or bystanders in their own lives. He’s Just Not That Into You made me feel so validated when it came out and I remember watching it often but it def had its weird story lines.
Thomas Brodie is sooo young! He's come a long way as an actor over the years too. He's taking the leaf out of Elijah woods book by keeping out of the limelight and making a good career in acting. (My daughter likes him alot😂)
Bill Nighy's awkwardness and body motion in the "it might be that the people that i love..." line is one of my favorite things.
Why did the Christmas Eve movie have more than one well-known comedic actor but fail to be funny on every level??
I didn't realize till today that I needed someone else to hate on this movie as much as I did. I thought I was the weird one for thinking this was a collection of lunatic creepy stories 🤣
I've seen one of these in my life, hated it, and felt like if I've seen one I've seen them all. A very middle-class, surface-level look at very pedestrian relationships.
Me not liking love actually as a child is so vindicated
Knowing only about Love Actually from "Love Actually Characters Drawn as Dark Souls Bosses" this provided some much needed insight into that fever dream
Honestly the 9/11 reference works for me. I understood it as "when the shit hits the fan, and you're in the worst situation that you can be in, the only thing you'll really care about is the people you love", which feels true
In the first few years after it happened, everyone was talking about it, frequently and regularly, so they weren't digging up an old tragedy, they were acknowledging something that was still on everyone's minds. And they were implicitly acknowledging that it was one of the worst and most painful situations that they could think of. It didn't seem disrespectful to me
the rickman/thompson plot is the main reason i refuse to touch the movie. it’s not the worst written story imo, but it’s the cruelest. i literally cannot stand it.
dare i say even more disturbing to my young eyes than martin freeman’s exposed torso
time to rewatch this video! both to support you and cause it's more than good enough to watch once a week
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Noo I interpret Emma and Alan's last scene together as the two politely greeting each other in front of family but that they've separated
I think they just do one of those British cheek air kisses, they don't embrace or anything you see
Emma will soon be romping enthusiastically with Leo Grande, no worries! (I never finished that film so just let me continue to believe it has a happy ending)
That’s my interpretation, too. I have finished the film. If I remember correctly, those two don’t have any other scenes together. I could be mistaken. It’s a boring movie, and not one I rewatch.
Thank for this. This movie is so bizarre. I didn’t realize til now how insane it is to have a “running through the airport scene” in the same movie that references 9/11 in the first breath…because it just happened.
I have hated Love Actually from the first time I saw it. It is a terrible, deeply unromantic movie. The world is wrong, and we are right.
Kudos in getting to use Love Actually footage in this video. I tried to make a simmular LA diss and was blocked by Universal at every turn.
YOU SPOKE TOO SOON LMAO
Now that I know English-speaking countries have their own Love Actually rip-offs, Poland having one with multiple sequels (currently we are at Listy do M. 5, I think) is much less weird; I wonder if other coutries have these too. And yes, vibes are exactly the same.
Sorry you had to reupload this! The video is excellent and everyone should watch it!
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This video is SO funny, the editing especially. Love Actually really is a trainwreck with an interesting premise/timeline style.
Thank you so much! 💕
Cool thing about Valentines Day is the terrible scene where grandma delivers her evil speech in front of the big screen, she (aka Shirley Maclaine) is actually on that big screen behind them. I think it's playing The Apartment but idk, couldn't see much
What a bunch of really cool British people! Thank you for sharing!
Your gay wife song is also incredible ❤
>british
>people
pick one.
oh how i always hated this movie that i thought everyone else loved. big respect for tackling it lol. and yes, i also think new years eve is better because it doesnt try to punch above its weight - its light, its cute, and unlike love actually, its not horrifically inept at trying to tackle more "complex" stories that it has nothing intelligent to say about.
damn this was the video that i found you on!!! thank goodness it's back up because otherwise the people who i've been directing to "this hour+ video essay on love actually and the hell genre it spawned" would have been left bereft.
Haha Bill Nighy is sooo much older than Gen X.
I'm not calling him gen x, I'm talking about the sensibilities of the movie's imagined audience lol
I love that with as many serious problems as _Love Actually_ has, _Mother's Day_ manages to make it look like wholesome, pure-hearted High Art by comparison.
as a 13 year old I really liked these movies, because i had silly dreams about living in a big city and having all these nice experiences without ever worrying about money at all. Shockingly I am still broke and do not live in a big city lmao. Love Actually always made me the most uncomfortable, there’s like not a good story in that one at all but it was still kind of escapism for me. This is really great. thanks for doing this, it’s really fun to re-examine these.