12 Trash Movies (That You Definitely Love Anyway)

10. Love Actually

Like Forrest Gump, Love Actually is now considered a classic because it is incredibly successful at manipulating its audience. Not only is it set at Christmas (immediately scoring it charm points), but it has a great cast, what appear to be mostly heart-warming messages and an infectious confidence in itself that's hard to resist.

Unfortunately, if you actually pay attention to Love Actually, you'll realise very quickly that absolutely everyone is a terrible person (apart from Emma Thompson, anyway) and most of the relationships are based on poor decisions or come at some awful cost.

But it's still solid gold trash and it's mostly thanks to how self-aware it is of what it's doing. At one point Rowan Atkinson's character was supposed to be a literal angel - this film KNOWS it's doing exactly what everyone profiting out of Christmas does - dialling into inherent emotions that you cant resist no matter what's doing the pulling.