{"id":6129,"date":"2011-12-07T11:00:49","date_gmt":"2011-12-07T11:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=6129"},"modified":"2017-04-22T20:25:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-22T19:25:09","slug":"all-time-top-10-films-no-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=6129","title":{"rendered":"All-Time Top 10 Films (No 9)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ninth \u00a0film in this very personal list of my All-Time Top 10 Films is &#8216;<strong>Love Actually<\/strong>&#8216;.<\/p>\n<p>And I can offer you two choices of musical soundtrack:<\/p>\n<p>The morbidly amusing (this song was played at a funeral, on the request of the deceased):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jmkXd3heuFk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Or the emotionally pulling:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PC8LZiNP3RE\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In my world, Richard Curtis is a writer who can do little wrong. His credits are legion and varied, and his work, usually, is a joy to read or watch.<\/p>\n<p>Love Actually is a schmaltazy RomCom packed with\u00a0clich\u00e9. Yet the characters are believable. The scenes and settings taste real and the dialogue (who can forget Martine McCutcheon&#8217;s &#8216;Where the fuck is my fucking coat?&#8217;) is instantly credible.<\/p>\n<p>And it has an epic soundtrack.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d go as far as saying that Love Actually is one of the &#8216;must see every year&#8217; Christmas films of its generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ninth \u00a0film in this very personal list of my All-Time Top 10 Films is &#8216;Love Actually&#8216;. And I can offer you two choices of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stuff","two-columns"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}