Carl faced his death with unflagging courage and never sought refuge in illusions. They also frequently ask me if I think I will see him again. However it has cleaned up here in the UK and I'm sure will do very well in the rest of the world too.“When my husband died, because he was so famous and known for not being a believer, many people would come up to me-it still sometimes happens-and ask me if Carl changed at the end and converted to a belief in an afterlife. As Richard Curtis must have known the movie had done okay but not great in the States. Considering that America is the biggest market for movies it was extremely brave of Richard Curtis to write this scene and he deserves a lot of credit for portraying the American president as rather loathsome and putting into context what the `Special Relationship' really is all about. I actually felt like standing up and cheering when Hugh Grant (as the Prime Minister) finally tells the American president to his face and in front of the worlds press that Britain will no longer kowtow to American wishes but will have an independent view of its own. However for me the best moment in the film was the press conference given (standing side by side) by the American president and the British Prime Minister.
If you watch the film in that context then it does its job admirably well. But I think you have to accept that the movie was made to make people laugh and bring the spirit of love into the Christmas holiday period.
A lot of the reviews here have disparaged the movie because they thought it was too glib about love and very unrealistic. As regards to the movie overall I quite enjoyed it and would definitely recommend it as an ideal date film.
However I was pleasantly surprised to note that the reference was very minor and not particularly cringe worthy either so I am not quite sure why it annoyed some people so much. I had heard about the reference to 9/11 made at the beginning of the movie and was dreading having to sit through that part. However my girlfriend was in town and I thought a romantic comedy would make an ideal movie for us to see together. Like most guys I would never have seen this movie on my own or with male friends.
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