Re: THE KING'S SPEECH (no spoilers)

On Feb 13, 8:36 am, trotsky <gmsi...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2/12/11 10:53 PM, moviePig wrote:



On Feb 12, 11:43 pm, Tom<thut...@xxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
On 1/4/2011 3:05 PM, moviePig wrote:

Unsurprisingly, the real audience engine of THE KING'S SPEECH is its
voyeuristic incursion upon the reserve of George VI and retinue.  And,
in that respect, I was never easy with the script's verisimilitude, or
with a certain formality to its proceedings.  After drawing aside the
royal curtains, the plot follows a stately progression along a
generically familiar, ordained path ...the twelve stations of the
throne, as it were.  But, even for screenwriters, a time-honored
recipe has value ...and the rendition here of this one is pretty
irresistible.  (Look for Colin Firth's Oscar-nom, and for Geoffrey
Rush to deserve much of it.  I can't know if it was George VI on
screen, but it surely wasn't Colin.)  SPEECH is talky (duh), but
surefooted quality abounds throughout, and somehow my attention never
wavered.  Very well recommended.

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We just returned from seeing this very enjoyable movie.

Colin Firth certainly deserves the Oscar nom (nice prediction, btw) and
Geoffrey Rush does deserve much of it.

I find I really like movies about deep friendships.

Also, had I not watched Mike Leigh's ALL OR NOTHING a couple of days
ago, I would not have recognized Timothy Spall as Churchill. After a
quick check of imdb, it turns out the last time I saw Mr. Spall was in
Mr. Leigh's SECRETS AND LIES, from 1996.

Yeah, Mike Leigh is for me a wholly sufficient brand-name ...ever
since SECRETS AND LIES bowled me over.  E.g., reviewers I often heed
have been tepid about his forthcoming (to me) ANOTHER YEAR, but I
don't really care...

I've never seen a movie of his I didn't like.  Let me throw "Naked" out
there too if you haven't seen it:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107653/

Won't watch it again, but wouldn't have missed it. Whenever I see
David Thewlis nowadays, I think he's slumming.

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