![]() I think one thing that makes this movie really stick out - I mean, it's a classic for a number of reasons, right? But one thing I love about it is it's not a mean movie. ![]() RIVERS: This is the Jon Favreau-directed movie with - starring Will Ferrell as this elf who realized that he's actually human. RIVERS: So, I mean, I have a few? One, I mean, just to stick with that year, 2003, it's a little movie called "Elf." Maybe you've heard of it. OK.ĭETROW: We've gotten the hating out of the way.ĭETROW: What, to you, is actually like a great Christmas movie that you enjoy watching that holds up that you're going to watch every December? RIVERS: As a viewer, you are concussed, and you're just - you just have to accept what's happening. RIVERS: Because you're concussed at that point. You're just like, he's standing outside the house with the cue cards. ![]() You're beaten over the head with romantic gestures.ĭETROW: And at that point, you're not stopping to think how creepy it is to stand outside the house with the cue cards. And the plot of this movie leads that you just get back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back-to-back big, sweeping gestures. It is about our love of British people, and it is about, I think, a soundtrack elevating a movie.ĭETROW: And I think grand, sweepy romantic gestures - we feel moved by them, even if they're totally nonsensical, as most of them are. RIVERS: Like, so what does what does this movie tell us? Does it tell us you can find love if you're like, you know, a man with, like, a position of power? Does it tell us, like, the only way you can find love as a woman is if you are a subordinate to that man in power? Does this movie tell us that it's OK to just sneak around your best friend - alleged best friend - to stalk his bride with weird, creepy videos? Is it about just our love of British people? Like, I just.ĭETROW: It is the last thing. RIVERS: I think it's about love the way, like, "Crash" is about race, except there are more white people in "Love Actually." "Love Actually" - Scott, what is this movie about? Like, what is this movie?ĭETROW: It's about love. Well, I got to be honest here, and I recently watched it. Why don't we just start with some examples that you think are holiday classic movies that maybe shouldn't be, maybe don't quite hold up or are maybe actually terrible?ĬULKIN: We're starting with disappointing potential listeners here, Scott. Good to be with you.ĭETROW: I want to start with the thing that everyone gravitates to anyway when you're talking about holiday movies, and I know you have many opinions on them. THOMAS BRODIE-SANGSTER: (As character) Actually, I'm in love.ĭETROW: To talk all things holiday movies, we have brought in ALL THINGS CONSIDERED producer and film connoisseur Marc Rivers. LULU POPPLEWELL: (As character) We've been given our parts in the nativity play, and I'm the lobster. NINA SOSANYA: (As Annie) Welcome, Prime Minister.ĮMMA THOMPSON: (As Karen) So what's this big news, then? To - and I'll just start getting this perennial controversy out of the way right away - the 76 intertwining main characters of "Love Actually." MACAULAY CULKIN: (As Kevin McCallister) I'm up here, you morons. JAMES STEWART: (As George Bailey) You want the moon? Just say the word, and I'll throw a lasso around and pull it down. (SOUNDBITE OF FILM, "IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE") You could say hello to everyone from George Bailey. But one of the more low-stress holiday habits is rewatching classic Christmas movies. The holiday season means the return of many rituals - some good, some bad, some both.
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