It’s 2016.
Listen: Love, Actually is a very bad movie.
That doesn't mean I don't love it. Of course I do. I'm an adult baby whose already negligible taste goes right out the window when it comes to Christmas movies and rom-coms, and especially when it comes to Christmas rom-coms.
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But folks, it's 2016, and Love, Actually is no longer the modern Christmas romance we need it to be.
Don't get me wrong, it's like, SO great that Prime Minister Hugh Grant is somehow able to fall in love with his beautiful and charming employee despite the fact that no one can stop talking about how fat (?!!?) she is. So cute that Colin Firth falls in love with his hired help Aurelia, with whom he cannot communicate. Assistants: so hot. And SO romantic how obsessed sad Mark is with the pretty married lady. Love!!!
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NINE subplots and not even one of them is queer? What gives?
Actually, Love, Actually DID originally have a lesbian subplot, but it was cut. It involved two older women, one of whom is terminally ill and dies at the end. Sounds about right.
This year, I'd like to propose an alternative. A much better love story, actually. A new Christmas classic: Carol.
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