How Rubbish is Hugh Grant ?

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"Love Actually"

"Hmm, yeah, look I'm the Prime Minister, yeah! arr I can walk in this door and everything! Hello how are you yes, I'm the prime minister..."

Did he write his own dialogue? (apart from the speech telling the president to get tae fuck)

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:17 (twenty-one years ago)

On a scale of 1-10 where 10 is utter rubbish, I'd say he's a 5.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:18 (twenty-one years ago)

"Mickey Blue Eyes"

Everyone else in the movie: "Heeyyy.. Love this guy (hugs Hugh)! Arr, british guy.. and he's having a go at Acting! Godda love him...."

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, it's just every time I see him in a film, I get the sensation "I could do that, and better too!" and I'm no trained actor...

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

He is very rubbish.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I was trying to think of the last great movie he was in and I had to go back to Impromptu! But maybe I missed one. About A Boy made me want to slit my wrists more than Mickey Blue Eyes did.

― scott seward (scott seward), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:22 (twenty-one years ago)

He's very good at being Hugh Grant/bumbling lovable fool (Four Weddings, Notting Hill, Love Actually, Bridget Jones, About a Boy etc) but unutterably awful in anything that requires any degree of acting skills. But still oddly likeable, like a puppy or something.

I couldn't bring myself to dislike him, it seems wrong somehow. Also he is ridiculously amusing in interviews.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, he's often (more often than not) bearable. And I enjoyed "Love Actually". And he's not total and utter rubbish. Or is he? I dunno. How rubbish is Hugh Grant, I ask myself. Oh yeah. and youse too.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:25 (twenty-one years ago)

(not that he's meant to be a bumbling loveable fool in Bridget Jones, he's meant to be a nasty cad, but he's like a bumbling loveable foolish nasty cad).

His fight scene with Colin Firth at the end of Bridget Jones is one of the best fight scenes ever.

― ailsa (ailsa), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I think he's actually a lot better then he's given credit for

― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Quite rubbish. We just bought an old book of the Four Weddings and a Funeral script (with photos) for the language students and it reminded me how irritating his schtick was even then. And next to Andie McDowell it's like some kind of apocalypse of Annoying.

I liked his little dance in Love Actually though.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I quite like him.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Funnily enough, that was the bit Dawn called as the 'hey lets all laugh at the funny bit, audience' moment. OTM, I thought.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:33 (twenty-one years ago)

He's great as an evangelical Scottish preacher in an early episode of A Very Peculiar Practice. I don't dislike the guy, I think he makes a reasonable fist of the guff Curtis makes him say.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked Love Actually very much.

I think maybe it takes considerable talent to act the bumbling fool and make it look so easy.

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Reading the script, there are some ok jokes in FWAAF. It's just in the mouths of upper middle class twit/kooky American characters that they turn to unpalatable dust.

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Ailsa OTM

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:ZKixuADGr1kJ:dreamwater.org/hughgrant/leno/leno15.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Ailsa OTM

http://hughgrant.stufftosee.com/leno/leno1-15.jpg

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 11:50 (twenty-one years ago)

He's vile

― Skottie, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:46 (twenty-one years ago)

New thread suggestion:

Hey -- ever tried to kill yourself? What about Hugh Grant then? Would that work for you? (21 new answers)

― Skottie, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Filmography of Hugh Grant:

Four Weddings and Hugh Grant
Notting Grant
ImpromGrant
About that Grant
Mickey Hugh Eyes
Bridget Grant

― Skottie, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Hugh Grant, Actually

― C J (C J), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

The Hugh Grant that went up a hill and came down Hugh Grant, actually

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

The Hugh Grant that went up a hill and came down a bumbling, stuttering fool of an actor, actually. ********Oh sorry, mark, that's what you said!

― Skottie, Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Mark Grout are you Scottish? Or, more precisely, Glaswegian? It's just this is the first time I've noticed "tae" and "youse" in your posts and it threw me a bit. I have been away for a while though....

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I have lived all over the place. Born Bath, School South Shields, then Windsor.

My accent is all over the shop, loads of places/twangs I've never been to let alone lived. End of blog.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Thank you, I was sure you weren't Glaswegian but those words just smack of Glesga. Anyway, Hugh Grant.....

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 13:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Careful, Smee, I'll start going on about cludgies and the like.

Hugh Grant once made an embarrassing pass at a friend of mine (he worked with her sister) while in the back of a taxi in a group of people travelling to a cast party, possibly for Notting Hill.

But I have a thing about Lair of the White Worm.

― suzy (suzy), Tuesday, 6 April 2004 14:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Who's the current lair for his white worm? Liz Hurley's over, or no?

― Skottie, Wednesday, 7 April 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

seven months pass...

Seems like the appropriate place to note this WashingtonPost.com headline:

Hugh Grant to End Acting Career

more thoughts re: the actual reason... http://entertainmentcomplex.blognation.us/blog/_archives/2004/11/12/181885.html

― EComplex (EComplex), Saturday, 13 November 2004 02:33 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

two weeks notice is fucking incredible. molly haskell agrees!

― 007 (thoia), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 03:12 (twenty years ago)

it is actually funnier than I expected it to be. I believe firmly that any movie with him in it is at the very least watchable and almost always good.

― kyle (akmonday), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 04:18 (twenty years ago)

I like him when he's being a bastard. He was great in Bridget Jones' Diary, and in an Awfully Big Adventure, and he was almost great in About a Boy.

He was pretty good on University Challenge too.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Tuesday, 12 July 2005 06:20 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

I LURVE Hugh Grant. I love that he's so different from the type of charachters he always plays and I love his brutal honesty(about himself and his co-actors) and the guy is FUNNY(if you've ever seen TV interviews he's done). Like really funny. Witty and intelligent.

Everyone says they hate all those Working Title films(including me) but we all love them if we are being honest. I can admit I have lied to friends about that, which is unlike me cause I'm not one of those who have guilty pleasures. There's just something awfully annoying about the image those films project that you just dont want associate yourself with it. They're like the Britpop of British film if ya get me.

― Lovelace (Lovelace), Sunday, 13 November 2005 05:57 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

lol

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1213718-did_you_hear_about_the_morgans/?cmpid=rtnewsletter_12_18_09

― Rage, Resentment, Spleen (Dr Morbius), Friday, 18 December 2009 12:30 (fifteen years ago)

This is called "Did You Hear About Them Organs" in my head

― Which one's George Clinton? (Tom D.), Friday, 18 December 2009 12:53 (fifteen years ago)

It is about time for Hugh Grant to accept that role as a serial killer who eats babies. Because Hugh Grant and babies: omg cuet!

― Aimless, Friday, 18 December 2009 18:13 (fifteen years ago)

"Hmm, yeah, look I'm a serial killer, yeah! arr I eat babies and everything! Hello how are you yes, I'm a serial killer..."

― Mark G, Friday, 18 December 2009 20:00 (fifteen years ago)

Synopsis: Romantic-comedy regulars Hugh Grant and Sarah Jessica Parker finally unite in this fish-out-of-water laugher. The actors play Paul and Meryl Morgan, a Manhattan couple whose marriage is in danger. But it turns out all they may need...is a change of scenery! When the Morgans witness a murder and are sent by the government to small-town Wyoming to hide from the killers, their marriage shows signs of recovery.

― you are wrong I'm bone thugs in harmon (omar little), Friday, 18 December 2009 20:08 (fifteen years ago)

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