The best review I saw of Love Actually
Just read "Crap, actually."

Why do women find Colin Firth attractive? I just don't get it.

I think as well as the feeling patronized aspect of most romcoms, and the generalization that all women like shoes and chocolate (*) and want to be bought flowers, for me it's the predictability. I'd rather sit through a film which has an ending that feels right, even if it's not the one you would want. People die, things don;t work out, I want to see that in films, I don;t go to the cinema to be reassured that everything will work out right in the end, I go to watch something interesting. I almost wrote "I go to be stimulated," but that's an enitrely different sort of cinema...

(*) I like shoes and chocolate. But they're not the mainstay of my existence.
(Rakky (forgot her password) The muffin maverick, Mon 5 May 2008, 17:20, Reply)