Love Actually
Friday, February 04, 2005
On the below check list... I have completed: UVF logo design, getting chains from Pepboys and finding someone to fill in for Kat.
I also managed to fit in a movie:
Ok, before I go about flaming this movie, I will talk about the things I liked about it.
Keira Knightley. Hands down, she is so pretty. I know that people don't like her cos of her massive underbite, but I like that feature. I'm an odd one... I think the funny features in a girl makes them attractive. Just like Angie Jolie's weird eyes and oversized lips (but not weird features like Jennifer Garner's buff shoulders). I also liked some of the stories in this film. Colin Firth got the most dramatic story of course... as he is always playing the "victim". The has been rock star brought me the most laughs and without his character, I wouldn't have liked the film as a whole. I loved how the movie was entangling all the characters somehow... but not making a huge mess of it.
My dislikes... and these were prominant enough to bump the movie down a couple notches on the "Great Movie List".
I completely despised the scene with the US president coming to the UK. Completely ludicrous. The whole scene was absolutely meaningless. I can't say enough of how stupid this scene was. Obviously, the writer of the book is an intelligent person... and according to the rest of the story, can get by with making people laugh on a genuine realistic way. However, this scene being so far past far-fetched, can only lead me to believe it was a political jab. I hate politics in movies. So for that one scene alone... screw the writer. The set up of the Prime Minister and Natalie could have written in so much more funny and meaningful ways. Instead, I have to sit there and watch this crap of a scene... with a fictional UK prime minister giving his own version of Bill Pullman's ID4 speech... COMPLETE WITH DRAMATIC MUSIC TOO! "We will not go quietly into the night!... We will not...." *rolls eyes*
Other scenes I didn't really like included the whole love story with the Porn actors... somehow, it's hard for me to believe that these two would act so innocently on the set of a movie shoot. Very unnecessary. I really loved the ugly English man who declared himself a "sex-god!... just on the wrong continent" until he actually went to America. Again... "as if...". It was idiotic stories like this one and the president one that really took away from meaningful ones like: the girl who has a brother in Mental institute... and her constant devotion to his well-being prevents her from achieving any romatic life. Or the relationship between Emma Tompson and her wandering husband.
The movie is not as good as everyone says it is.
There is my assessment of this great/terrible movie... don't worry, I didn't spoil anything really.
I also managed to fit in a movie:
Ok, before I go about flaming this movie, I will talk about the things I liked about it.
Keira Knightley. Hands down, she is so pretty. I know that people don't like her cos of her massive underbite, but I like that feature. I'm an odd one... I think the funny features in a girl makes them attractive. Just like Angie Jolie's weird eyes and oversized lips (but not weird features like Jennifer Garner's buff shoulders). I also liked some of the stories in this film. Colin Firth got the most dramatic story of course... as he is always playing the "victim". The has been rock star brought me the most laughs and without his character, I wouldn't have liked the film as a whole. I loved how the movie was entangling all the characters somehow... but not making a huge mess of it.
My dislikes... and these were prominant enough to bump the movie down a couple notches on the "Great Movie List".
I completely despised the scene with the US president coming to the UK. Completely ludicrous. The whole scene was absolutely meaningless. I can't say enough of how stupid this scene was. Obviously, the writer of the book is an intelligent person... and according to the rest of the story, can get by with making people laugh on a genuine realistic way. However, this scene being so far past far-fetched, can only lead me to believe it was a political jab. I hate politics in movies. So for that one scene alone... screw the writer. The set up of the Prime Minister and Natalie could have written in so much more funny and meaningful ways. Instead, I have to sit there and watch this crap of a scene... with a fictional UK prime minister giving his own version of Bill Pullman's ID4 speech... COMPLETE WITH DRAMATIC MUSIC TOO! "We will not go quietly into the night!... We will not...." *rolls eyes*
Other scenes I didn't really like included the whole love story with the Porn actors... somehow, it's hard for me to believe that these two would act so innocently on the set of a movie shoot. Very unnecessary. I really loved the ugly English man who declared himself a "sex-god!... just on the wrong continent" until he actually went to America. Again... "as if...". It was idiotic stories like this one and the president one that really took away from meaningful ones like: the girl who has a brother in Mental institute... and her constant devotion to his well-being prevents her from achieving any romatic life. Or the relationship between Emma Tompson and her wandering husband.
The movie is not as good as everyone says it is.
There is my assessment of this great/terrible movie... don't worry, I didn't spoil anything really.
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