Four Weddings and a Funeral: I don’t really hate this one as much as some of the other Movies I’ve Hated that everyone else Loved. I just sort of didn’t like it, and couldn’t figure out why everyone else did so much.

I guess the main problem is that I don’t like Hugh Grant, at all. I never have, and he’s at his blinkiest and phony-harmless-slimiest in this one. I do like Andie MacDowell, but mostly because she has a pleasant voice and always has a nice smile on her face every time you see her. But I would not like the line “Is it raining? I hadn’t noticed” no matter how pleasant the voice doing the uttering.

I could also do without the big speech about how much Andie’s character loved her husband, “Hamish” (what kind of a name is that? “What is that I taste? It seems kind of Hamish”), followed by her leaving him with no explanation to take up with The Blinkinator. I also don’t buy the breaking-up of a wedding, no matter how sweet and pure-hearted the disabled fellow responsible for it, as a major triumph for Love and Romance. This movie is kind of an anti-romance really, at least anti-the concept of the possibility of romantic love as more than a temporary diversion. Actually, if it had been marketed that way, I might have liked it better.

Anyway, in trying to remember more about the movie to type smack about, I just read the “memorable quotes” on imdb. I don’t remember any of them. I guess that just about says it all.