Love Actually

The Kelly Clarkson song is still there.

WTF....this is one of my all-time favorite movies. I pre-ordered as soon as it was available.....expecting I would be getting an HD version of my US DVD...??? Haven't had a chance to watch because of busy weekends - will be anxious to hear more on this...

I've watched it probably a dozen times before I got the BD, and honestly I didn't notice the music change.

Son of a *****. Now I have to watch this film now, this weekend, instead of on Christmas Eve with my wife. If Universal screwed us I am going to write go to their ofice and scream bloody murder.

Well, not really, but **** YOU Universal if this is true!

You sure watched it more times than me! I doubt any important music was changed. I watched the BD just a few days ago. If some background noise and music changed, it breezed past me.

Would you rather they just shelved films where they can't get the music rights? What wrath have you for Mu-sick Kompanies? ....that don't play ball?

The music has always been an issue with this film. My friend, who runs film in his house, has a UK print of the movie and MUCH of the music is different, save for "Christmas is All Around" and "Both Sides Now," obviously.

Unless he has some super secret workprint of an early rough cut with temp music, I doubt all that much was changed. One of the bonus features on the disc is Richard Curtis explaining why he picked the music that he did, as demonstrated with clips from the movie. I doubt he would have done that if they were all tracks he didn't want.

I might buy that one song in the background of one scene is different. But I've seen the movie a few times in the past, and I'll be damned if anything stood out to me here.


The Blu-ray plays "Jump" at that scene as well. Are you claiming that there's supposed to be a different song playing? Kind of hard to believe that, considering that Grant is dancing around in time with the song and singing its lyrics.

Is the Blu-ray allegedly different than the existing DVD, or just different than someone's memory of the theatrical release? I think this is all much ado about nothing.

If by MUCH you include, the little girl not singing that Mariah Carey song "All I Want For Christmas"...that would be stunning & blasphemous.

Ah, right you are. That is the same.

It's all true. On the dvd the song "Too Lost In You" by Sugababes replaces "Jump"by Girls Aloud during the end credits. It is this song that is heard during the first part of the party scene on the blu-ray. The dvd had Kelly Clarkson during that scene.
Is it possible that the dvd was changed, and the blu-ray is the same as the theatrical version? One song is missing from the dvd but the blu-ray has all the songs at some point in the film.

It could also be the BD is accurate to the original UK release and the DVD was accurate to the US release; music cues like that change all the time as do the end credit sequences themselves (they're completely different on the US and UK releases of Bridget Jones's Diary.)

That's a good possibility. I thought it was very strange when I put my US-purchased Blu-Ray in and had to choose English from a long list of languages before the movie would start and then it showed the Studio Canal logo instead of Universal. Seems like a European disc has been used worldwide for this movie and that may be the reason the music is different.

That must be a Canadian thing, as the US disc has the same silly Universal logo and "screen saver" everywhere.

(For example, if you pause the film for more than a few minutes, the screen shot will disappear replaced with an animated Universal logo…)

The US theatrical version had Craig Armstrong's music throughout the end credits. The UK version finished with "Jump" by Girls Aloud.

Love Actually is the must watching title lists in the greeting season.

If the US theatrical version had instrumental music during the end credits, then it's odd that the US dvd had two pop songs over them. In any event I guess we've indeed got the UK version on the blu-ray. On one hand I'm glad that we have the "original" version as Richard Curtis wanted it. On the other hand I really don't care for "Too Lost In You". I think Kelly Clarkson's song is much better.

Hang on - they included the Kelly Clarkson music video on the disc, but it isn't even in the movie any longer?

But did you have to select a language before the film played the first time? I do have the Universal logo on the main menu, but before the menu loads and before the movie starts it plays the Studio Canal logo. I've never seen the screen saver.

The Kelly Clarkson song still plays during the end credits after "God Only Knows", just not during the party scene.

Yes.

Also, the Studio Canal logo is one of several logos that plays at the head of the movie.

Watched this tonight on blu for the first time. Just keeps getting better and better every time i see it...and yeah, I still cry.

My wife and I loved this movie, actually! It was a blind buy and one of my best purchases all year.

Mark

This is my wife's and mine absolute favorite movie of all time. And we regularly listen to the soundtrack CD. I'm happy that there was no discernable music difference during the movie. As for the end credits I don't know - I just know that listening to the CD we know which parts of the movie the music is from.....

Watched it tonight on BD. With a bottle of our favorite, special wine. Life is good!