that kind of dishwasher
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I enjoyed it when I saw it, but recently read a decent article about its questionable portrayal of womenā¦ which I didnāt wholly agree with but couldnāt deny made some salient points, and awoke not so much condemnation as guilt at my own enjoymentā¦ I wonāt go further into that as I donāt want to ruin a fun film. You will never find moral judgement from me whatever your opinion tastes in fiction; I loved Jungle Holocaust and you know how I feel about that other 70s flick Funk 
Iām not really critically equipped to deal with feminist criticism of literature anyway. In fact one of the reasons I love truly subpar exploitation is it makes standards such as taste and morality fairly defunct.
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Thatās why I like it
Wait. What? Whomsoever wrote that has some rather absurd inclinations.
Everyone in the film is a semi-manic, distraught weave of classical complexes paraded about as a functioning human being. Also, it is a bloody rom-com. What did they expect, A Dollās House? Anna Karenina?
Letās review the male characters;
-Rick Grimes surprises the world by in a reverse set of events, trying to shag his best friendās Missus.
-Severus Snape mercilessly cheats Trelawney with his Patronus; the fox.
-Liam Neeson uses a particular set of skills towards fanning his sonās unhealthy obsession.
-Bill Nighy deprecates himself and his āplus-sizedā friend til they realize they love each other, celebrate with alcoholism.
-England goes to ruin because PM Grant canāt get over the office badonk.
-Martin Freeman plays stereotypical English gentleman incapable of hitting on girl he is currently humping.
-Manchild attempts to live out his porn fantasy, accent acts as Deus Ex Machina.
That is the god-damned point.
Weāve gone from Woolf, Stein, Aurbach, Hitchens, andā¦ good god, Wilde, to this folks.
To this.
Hehe. Honestly I apologise for raising a potential debate Iām not really up to (anyone interested can drop me a pm and Iāll try and dig out the article re Love Actually). I suppose I brought it up to confess that in the at best insensitive and at worst immoral enjoyment I get out of various exploitation flicks ā¦ the depths of my Bacchanalian self arenāt quite free from conscience. Damn it.
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Oh, donāt worry about derailment on this thread Hattie, if that is your concern.
Iām pretty certain this is one of those āderailment proofā threads. But fair play on bringing it over to PMs for anyone willing to go to it.
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I confess I want to see this play out in front of God and everyone
Love Actually is a horror movie and everyone in it is crazy as hell.
Proof-
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Well yes, it a film about brits coming to terms with emotion and sentimentality
If thatās not horrific i dont know what is
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Watch the video. Itās crazytown.
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To be fair, swamp nudity would make me fly to foreign lands
Hey, I think thatās a confession
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Yeah, but youāre funk. Iām sometimes inspired by your moral ambiguity.
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Thatās the sweetest thing Iāve heard in a few hours
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Anyway, all this is irrelevant.
Everyone knows the best christmas movie is Die Hard.
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Okay, Iām 100% sure this will piss some people off, but after looking into the situation, I think Edward Snowden is a ā ā ā ā ā ā ā hero
Also I mostly posted this cause Iāve been itching to have a debate about this topic lately
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I donāt know that thatās a usually controversial topic,a t least online. The only people that I know who donāt think that arenāt big internet users.
Manningās was probably the more damaging/downplayed one, as it showed a lot of current troop movements and operations in the Middle East.
Snowden basically just said āguys, theyāre recording everythingā and backed it up with the documents, and GTFO because he knew they would be coming after him.
Half the people Iāve talked to consider him a horrible person, so I figured it would probably be the same around here
Weird. Most circles that Iām aware of pretty universally revere him. Iāve had to explain parts of why what he did was good to my parents, but they arenāt as dialed in as most people I know.
If I could wish for anything, anything in the world right now, it would be a gelatine-free Haribo. 
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Iā¦ I donāt.
Arenāt those gummy bears?
Likeā¦ how would you evenā¦
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