{"id":1541,"date":"2005-02-15T23:20:51","date_gmt":"2005-02-15T23:20:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sunpig.com\/mt-entry-1541.html"},"modified":"2006-12-30T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2006-12-30T16:27:15","slug":"love-actually","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/2005\/02\/15\/love-actually\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Love Actually<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond the sweet collection of love stories, two things are going to stick with me from <i>Love Actually<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p>1) How <em>refreshing<\/em> it is to see Liam Neeson in a contemporary, non-genre film, where he doesn&#8217;t have to put on a costume or an accent.  In his natural state, he is a lovely, laid-back actor with a relaxed yet commanding screen presence.<\/p>\n<p>2) How <em>on earth<\/em> Richard Curtis got away with sticking such a blatant, piercing political point in the middle of a big-budget film which, in all other respects, is designed to play well to an American audience familiar with other British rom-com fayre.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from that, it&#8217;s sweet, bittersweet, and enormously likeable.  The fact that it is trying to tell about eight stories at once means that it has to be short and to-the-point with each one, and has no time to linger on filler scenes.  Upshot:  an excellent film, heartwarming and funny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond the sweet collection of love stories, two things are going to stick with me from Love Actually: 1) How refreshing it is to see Liam Neeson in a contemporary, non-genre film, where he doesn&#8217;t have to put on a costume or an accent. In his natural state, he is a lovely, laid-back actor with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[1142],"class_list":["post-1541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-films_4_stars","tag-legendshome"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1541\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/quickreviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}