My "Love Actually" story
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emmagrant01Before our son was born (and we had more disposable income), DH and I used to go to London every year over Thanksgiving weekend. We usually made almost a week of it, and we'd go to lots of theatre, do some Christmas shopping, and generally have a wonderful time.
On our 2003 trip, we had an evening free one night and decided after dinner to go to one of the cinemas on Leicester Square. We picked a movie that was conveniently about to begin, one I had only heard of because Liam Neeson was in it (and I was in the Star Wars Prequels fandom at the time). That movie, of course, was Love Actually.
To say that we enjoyed it is a huge understatement. The experience of seeing that movie and having no idea what it was about, in London in the midst of the Christmas season, and right after a fantastically romantic dinner at a great restaurant -- it was just perfect. And every time I see it, I remember the night that we saw it for the first time. That was one of the top ten movie-going experiences of my life!
What's your story? What makes that movie so special to you?
On our 2003 trip, we had an evening free one night and decided after dinner to go to one of the cinemas on Leicester Square. We picked a movie that was conveniently about to begin, one I had only heard of because Liam Neeson was in it (and I was in the Star Wars Prequels fandom at the time). That movie, of course, was Love Actually.
To say that we enjoyed it is a huge understatement. The experience of seeing that movie and having no idea what it was about, in London in the midst of the Christmas season, and right after a fantastically romantic dinner at a great restaurant -- it was just perfect. And every time I see it, I remember the night that we saw it for the first time. That was one of the top ten movie-going experiences of my life!
What's your story? What makes that movie so special to you?
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Date: 2011-12-22 11:39 am (UTC)I was just realizing the other week when there was a meme question going around, "What's your favorite Christmas movie?" and I thought I didn't have many Christmas movies I cared about; I'm fanatic about a number of Christmas specials, like Charlie Brown and the Grinch and nearly every Rankin-Bass show of that era, and there's the made-for-tv George C. Scott Christmas Carol and the Barishnikov/Kirkland Nutcracker. All of those are part of my Christmas tradition (and my Christmas in July tradition, too; I rewatch all of those every summer for fun!), but I don't really have an affinity for Christmas movies. And then I thought, "Wait, Love Actually's a Christmas movie, isn't it?" And I remembered that, yeah, I had really enjoyed that film, hadn't I, and I remembered that I really loved the Bill Nighy plotline best of all, and I got warm fuzzies.