OK for me.
Added 2/8/2010
I paid an acceptable price, the product was delivered on time and in good condition.
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They Don't Get Much Better Than This
Added 1/12/2010
"Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994) is one of my favorite movies: well-acted, a rollicking romantic comedy with one serious, touching scene, and an overall feeling of the vitality and the spirit of life. The movie creates a gang of friends, each one interesting and fun to be with. It may be Hugh Grant's best film where he's able to balance his boyish charm with a more ruminative side. The gang gathers at a series of weddings, and through wonderful vignettes we get to know each one: the hippie girl, the deaf mute, the Charles Addams Morticia-looking woman, the flamboyant, joyful gay guy and his devoted lover, and the clutzy millionaire.
At the one funeral scene in the movie, Gareth's lover, Matthew, delivers a very moving eulogy that always tears me up. He reads W.H. Auden's poem "Funeral Blues" otherwise known as "Stop All the Clocks." With the lines "He was my North, my South, my East and West/I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong." As in other British movies slapstick comedy like Monty Python can be paired with the deadly serious.
The movie begins with Hugh and his Platonic roommate hippie girl buddy late to a wedding, and at a fast pace the film travels through multiple lives and meetings. Charles (Grant) falls for Carrie (Andie MacDowell) at first sight, but he's always been unwilling to make a commitment to marriage, and has had a series of girlfriends. He's met the right girl but doesn't have the ability to effectuate. Grant can play flustered, irresponsible, self-absorbed, irritated, bedraggled, put upon, and still keep his impish, boyish charm.
The multiple weddings are fun with their eccentric characters. Grant and his friend say awkward, indiscreet, funny things in wedding speeches. One of the film's hilarious highlights is when Rowan Atkinson (of Mr. Bean fame) officiates at his first wedding as a newly ordained priest. He says "Holy goat" instead of "Holy Ghost" and "Holy spigot" instead of "Holy Spirit."
The film's dialogue is literate and funny. It's clever the way Charles and Carrie use "skulk" for example. The film has great photography.
At the final wedding suspense piles up, we in the audience get more involved and tense as the scene plays out. Stick around for the credits at the end: they're fun. And the soundtrack is fine too.
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The film that made Hugh Grant a star
Added 9/8/2009
Classic comedy. All the supporting case is stellar. Except Andie MacDowell. She's not believable (is she really attractive enough to follow around at all these weddings?) and at this point in her career, she wasn't that good an actress. Or maybe this is her being good and in that case I just don't think she's all that and a bag of chips.
The funniest scene in my opinion is Hugh stuck in the pantry.
As for the DVD, I have the 1999 disc and it's as bare-bones as you can get (i.e., non "Deluxe Edition"), although it does include a 'Collectible "Making Of" Booklet'--wow! Hopefully the extra bucks get you some extras? Mike Newell did a fantastic Director's Commentary for Donnie Brasco so here's hoping.
It's hard to believe that a romantic comedy was nominated for Best Picture (1994). Then again it seems like the Academy was big into nominating a British film almost every year in the 1990s.
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Ok Wedding Movie with Charming Actors
Added 6/28/2009
This movie wasn't as good as I remembered in my youth. It is one of the cute movies about a man who keeps meeting a mysterious woman at several weddings and a funeral. Are they in love or not? Are they just teasing each other?
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Charlotte Your blind she looks like a meringue
Added 6/8/2009
Okay so I watch this movie at least once a year.Its about a dorky English guy who sucks at meeting girls and is always late for weddings.Charles has a horribly shrill ex girlfriend his friends call duck face who carries a torch for him, and is even more pathetic at dating the opposite sex than he is.(If you can believe it) He thinks he is doomed to be single forever, until Charles falls in love with an American Girl wearing a Giant hat at his friend Angus's wedding.
You have to love his friends too. Sarcastic Fi, who seems like kinda of a cold bitch at first , but once you get to know her, you see what she is all about. Bernard and Lydia who have epic sexual chemistry. Gareth who wears loud vests and love to chicken dance.
It also captures the time in your life where everybody is falling in love and getting married but you and all the cheesy dances and costumes and stuff.
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OK for me.
Added 2/8/2010
I paid an acceptable price, the product was delivered on time and in good condition.
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They Don't Get Much Better Than This
Added 1/12/2010
"Four Weddings and a Funeral" (1994) is one of my favorite movies: well-acted, a rollicking romantic comedy with one serious, touching scene, and an overall feeling of the vitality and the spirit of life. The movie creates a gang of friends, each one interesting and fun to be with. It may be Hugh Grant's best film where he's able to balance his boyish charm with a more ruminative side. The gang gathers at a series of weddings, and through wonderful vignettes we get to know each one: the hippie girl, the deaf mute, the Charles Addams Morticia-looking woman, the flamboyant, joyful gay guy and his devoted lover, and the clutzy millionaire.
At the one funeral scene in the movie, Gareth's lover, Matthew, delivers a very moving eulogy that always tears me up. He reads W.H. Auden's poem "Funeral Blues" otherwise known as "Stop All the Clocks." With the lines "He was my North, my South, my East and West/I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong." As in other British movies slapstick comedy like Monty Python can be paired with the deadly serious.
The movie begins with Hugh and his Platonic roommate hippie girl buddy late to a wedding, and at a fast pace the film travels through multiple lives and meetings. Charles (Grant) falls for Carrie (Andie MacDowell) at first sight, but he's always been unwilling to make a commitment to marriage, and has had a series of girlfriends. He's met the right girl but doesn't have the ability to effectuate. Grant can play flustered, irresponsible, self-absorbed, irritated, bedraggled, put upon, and still keep his impish, boyish charm.
The multiple weddings are fun with their eccentric characters. Grant and his friend say awkward, indiscreet, funny things in wedding speeches. One of the film's hilarious highlights is when Rowan Atkinson (of Mr. Bean fame) officiates at his first wedding as a newly ordained priest. He says "Holy goat" instead of "Holy Ghost" and "Holy spigot" instead of "Holy Spirit."
The film's dialogue is literate and funny. It's clever the way Charles and Carrie use "skulk" for example. The film has great photography.
At the final wedding suspense piles up, we in the audience get more involved and tense as the scene plays out. Stick around for the credits at the end: they're fun. And the soundtrack is fine too.
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The film that made Hugh Grant a star
Added 9/8/2009
Classic comedy. All the supporting case is stellar. Except Andie MacDowell. She's not believable (is she really attractive enough to follow around at all these weddings?) and at this point in her career, she wasn't that good an actress. Or maybe this is her being good and in that case I just don't think she's all that and a bag of chips.
The funniest scene in my opinion is Hugh stuck in the pantry.
As for the DVD, I have the 1999 disc and it's as bare-bones as you can get (i.e., non "Deluxe Edition"), although it does include a 'Collectible "Making Of" Booklet'--wow! Hopefully the extra bucks get you some extras? Mike Newell did a fantastic Director's Commentary for Donnie Brasco so here's hoping.
It's hard to believe that a romantic comedy was nominated for Best Picture (1994). Then again it seems like the Academy was big into nominating a British film almost every year in the 1990s.
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