*Originally written September 11th, 2016*
"What the fuck?"
I am speechless. I don't know what words can do this justice. Love Actually is Richard Curtis's Pulp Fiction. The man is a genius.
He has made a film so openly broad and so obvious that it had to be a spoof of the genre, but played it so straight, it works. I could not believe the events that were unfolding on screen. I was in shock.
It is so clearly made by a man that knows how to manipulate the masses. Some of the characters were horrible, some were so overly nice you wanted to punch them, while others were annoying. Liam Neeson was fantastic though, his tears at his wife's funeral were the closest thing Love Actually had to something that wasn't artificial emotion.
I have not been in so much shock over a film since I watched Neil Breen's Fateful Findings or Tommy Wiseau's The Room. Horrific and terrible on so many levels, yet I loved every single moment. This film is 130 minutes long, but I wish it was longer.
Richard Curtis single handedly trolled every single person in the world by making what is essentially the Tango and Cash of romantic comedies. A mash up of everything that came before, but so off its tits in cliche and cheese that you sorta gotta watch it in fascination and take it all in. He obviously snorted a kilo of cocaine while watching several TVs at once that were all playing romantic comedies then proceeded to write this screenplay.
10/10 Dans
Love Actually is out now on Blu-ray and DVD in the UK
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