Universal Moves Richard Curtis Pic ‘About Time’ To Fall Slot

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• Mike, do you really want to admit to watching Love, Actually EVERY year?!

  Comment by Takeitoutsidemimi — Thursday January 31, 2013 @ 8:19pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Yeah, that’s a little too much for me as well. The Colin Firth and Hugh Grant segments are wonderful, but the Liam Neeson/kid subplot goes on way too long. Richard Curtis was at his best in “Tall Guy” and “Four Weddings” but Notting Hill fell flat and Pirate Radio was unwatchable. Let’s hope this new one is a throwback to his glory days.

    Comment by jarlerguy — Thursday January 31, 2013 @ 9:00pm PST  Reply to this post

• Nothing wrong with Love Actually. It’s a holiday staple for many.

  Comment by Mike Scott — Thursday January 31, 2013 @ 10:18pm PST  Reply to this post

• Love Actually is a rom-com co-opted for men – a dick flick wet dream for men like Richard Curtis, going through a mid-life crisis.

  The film, ostensibly about how Love is All Around, is actually about how hot young chicks are all around for middle-aged men (Colin Firth, Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Liam Neeson). Of course there are plenty of younger men who find hot young chicks, too, and even very young men-in-training – Liam Neeson’s son.

  And then to cast Laura Linney to be both foolish (for not nabbing a Great Guy in a film full of Great Guys) and topless (of course, Mr. Curtis) and the great Emma Thompson as a relatively dowdy and middle-aged and hence unacceptable woman was bad enough – to give Emma the line “Since when did my bottom stop being my bottom and turn into Britain’s second largest export?” was the icing on an incredibly misogynist cake.

  I get that some men might lap it up, but it slays me that women watch this and don’t see it.

  Comment by wtf — Friday February 1, 2013 @ 7:09am PST  Reply to this post