Abolutely, positively the worst film ever made
Posted by: Tim Jones on 02 December 2003
My bird insisted on dragging me out to see an squawking, gobbling turkey of a film last night. I'll give you a clue - it stars Hugh Grant.
"Love Actually" on one level manipulates the simplest sentiments of the audience, on another is just incompetently written, and on another is profoundly morally worrying. At the start of the film a man marries a woman with the level of schlock only Richard Curtis can deliver. By the end she is making eyes at his best friend for the sake of a halfway happy ending.
I knew it was going to be bad from the moment Mr Grant delivered a little lecture on the telephone messages left by 9/11 victims. From then on it was downhill all the way.
Perhaps the single worst moment is a woman's visit to her brother in a mental hospital. Apart from the utter unreality of the situation, this the most sickening attempt to to inject "authenticity" into a film I've ever seen.
Throughout the film, everyone is a cliche and lives a cliche'd life. Their houses are mews cottages, or bachelor studios, or the crisp warmth of a Heals catalogue.
All in all it was an experience that left me feeling kinda soiled inside. England isn't like this is it? Say it isn't so!
Tim
[This message was edited by Tim Jones on TUESDAY 02 December 2003 at 16:38.]
[This message was edited by Tim Jones on TUESDAY 02 December 2003 at 16:42.]
"Love Actually" on one level manipulates the simplest sentiments of the audience, on another is just incompetently written, and on another is profoundly morally worrying. At the start of the film a man marries a woman with the level of schlock only Richard Curtis can deliver. By the end she is making eyes at his best friend for the sake of a halfway happy ending.
I knew it was going to be bad from the moment Mr Grant delivered a little lecture on the telephone messages left by 9/11 victims. From then on it was downhill all the way.
Perhaps the single worst moment is a woman's visit to her brother in a mental hospital. Apart from the utter unreality of the situation, this the most sickening attempt to to inject "authenticity" into a film I've ever seen.
Throughout the film, everyone is a cliche and lives a cliche'd life. Their houses are mews cottages, or bachelor studios, or the crisp warmth of a Heals catalogue.
All in all it was an experience that left me feeling kinda soiled inside. England isn't like this is it? Say it isn't so!
Tim
[This message was edited by Tim Jones on TUESDAY 02 December 2003 at 16:38.]
[This message was edited by Tim Jones on TUESDAY 02 December 2003 at 16:42.]