If the credits played right after, would you be at all surprised? Obviously, when Mark reveals his love for Juliet through written out cue cards, the credits could run right after that and it would feel right. Think of almost, literally, every scene in this movie. Okay, so, back to the point that Love Actually is made up of nonstop dramatic endings. (Speaking of holiday classics, it never fails to delight me that the director of A Christmas Story also directed two Porky’s movies.) I am not judging that aspect at all other than to say I didn’t realize this beloved holiday classic would be on par, nudity-wise, with popping in Porky’s. And two, this is not the movie I quite thought it was and, free from its edited cable run, this movie has a surprising amount of nudity for no real reason. As I watched, it’s one of those things where I realized two things: One, yes, as I mentioned, I get why this is so popular. A few days ago I had some time to kill and just watched it by myself. And no one forced me to watch Love Actually. I’m actually embarrassed it took me this long to watch it. So before we get into that and you start yelling at me on social media, I am not here to make fun of Love Actually. The entire movie is composed of “dramatic last scenes.” But here’s the thing I realized about what I think makes Love Actuallyaddictive. After this scene there are still 45 minutes left in the movie. The other thing I assumed was this was the dramatic last scene of Love Actually. Summing it up with, “We already know.” Fair enough.) (I have been warned by people who love this movie to not get too deep into this strange plot point here. I had no idea Andrew Lincoln plays a guy in love with his best friend’s wife. The first is I didn’t understand the context. Here are two funny things about that scene. Obviously, I’m aware of the Keira Knightley and Andrew Lincoln scene at the door, which has been parodied one million times, including this year in a cell phone commercial starring the two leads of Scrubs. It’s almost impossible to avoid Love Actually completely. To be fair, I’ve seen bits and pieces on cable. They just go into their references and then I have to sit there and pretend I get them. You know, where people don’t even ask if you’ve seen the movie. It was a modest hit in the United States (and a pretty massive hit worldwide), but it’s always weird when you realize you missed out on something that seems pretty universally accepted as something everyone has seen. The thing is, I don’t remember Love Actually becoming “a thing” until later. That sounds like a good idea.” (I still live here.) So, anyway, my point is that I was preoccupied during its theatrical run and then pretty busy during its initial home video blitz. Louis and I was going through a terrible breakup and the last thing I would want to do at the time is buy one ticket to a movie called “Love Actually.” A breakup that was bad enough that, a few months later, I decided, “Hey, maybe I should move to New York City. Love Actually was released in theaters in November of 2003 and, at the time, I was living in St. In addition, any movie that manages to include a child dressed as a Nativity lobster, a Bay City Rollers song played at a funeral, love-emergency lessons in both drums and Portuguese, and Hugh Grant dancing through the halls of 10 Downing Street to the Pointer Sisters is worth seeing at least twice.Looking back, it makes a lot of sense why I didn’t see Love Actually in theaters. Love Actually is a movie about taking big chances (both hopeful and hopeless), about making big gestures to show our love, and about big, big feelings that may make us crazy and miserable but remind us that we are alive and why we are alive. Each of the actors creates complete, endearing, vivid, and vulnerable characters that we will remember long after we have forgotten most "stars" who spend two full hours onscreen in the latest multiplex fodder. It helps, of course, that he has a dream cast, including newcomer Sangster, a real-life cousin of Hugh Grant and already a first-rate actor and a knock-out screen presence. Richard Curtis, who wrote Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill for the first time directs his own screenplay with heart and style. This romantic comedy is as stuffed with goodies as the Christmas stockings for those at the very top of Santa's "nice" list - and it is just as entertaining, too.
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