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Post by everso on Jan 13, 2011 17:13:12 GMT
I'm going to see this film tonight with my daughter. I shall report back and let you know what it's like. I've heard good reports.
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Post by Patrick on Jan 13, 2011 22:53:10 GMT
Ditto - Only heard good things so far.
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Post by everso on Jan 14, 2011 1:18:24 GMT
The everso opinion is: Excellent! If Colin Firth doesn't get an Oscar I'll eat my tiara.
It really is a very good film. Colin Firth, as I said, is wonderful as George VI. O.K. he doesn't exactly look like him (sorry but Mr. Darcy is still vair fresh in my mind all these years later - sigh) but he acts his socks off and has the stammer off to a T.
Geoffrey Rush is superb as his speech therapist, and all the supporting actors have been very well made up to resemble the person they're meant to be. Timothy Spall is good as Churchill and does his speech impediment very well, despite the fact that I kept remembering Barry from Auf Wiedersehen Pet.
Helena Bonham-Carter as the Duchess of York/The Queen was, again, very good, although she came across as a bit 'jolly hockeysticks'.
Well worth seeing.
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Post by swl on Feb 7, 2011 22:33:40 GMT
Saw this last night and thought it was pure quality. A film that doesn't involve CGI, long drawn out love stories, ridiculous plots or ridiculously excessive violence. Brilliant.
Colin Firth was superb, as was Geoffrey Rush but I thought Helena Bonham Carter absolutely nailed the role of Queen Mum.
A simple story, well told and performed by actors at the very top of their game.
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Post by tarzanontarmazepam on Feb 7, 2011 22:50:44 GMT
Saw this last night and thought it was pure quality. A film that doesn't involve CGI, long drawn out love stories, ridiculous plots or ridiculously excessive violence. Brilliant. Colin Firth was superb, as was Geoffrey Rush but I thought Helena Bonham Carter absolutely nailed the role of Queen Mum. A simple story, well told and performed by actors at the very top of their game. Colin Firth. Marvellous in Fever Pitch. A proper Gooner! ;D |
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Post by Patrick on Feb 7, 2011 22:51:09 GMT
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Post by Weyland on Feb 7, 2011 22:59:43 GMT
Well, well, well. I was planning to see it today, but discovered that there was no afternoon showing, and the evening one is too late. I will, though, one of these days.
Firth's a Gooner? Well nobody's perfect, and it could be much, much worse. Right, Jean?
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Post by swl on Feb 7, 2011 23:10:53 GMT
Watched it in Gateshead - is there a term of endearment for Gatesheader-ites?
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Post by Weyland on Feb 8, 2011 10:07:22 GMT
Watched it in Gateshead - is there a term of endearment for Gatesheader-ites? Why aye, man! They're Gazzas. (Strictly speaking he's from Dunston, but they're both the wrong side of the river.)  |
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Post by jean on Feb 8, 2011 10:35:57 GMT
Firth's a Gooner? Well nobody's perfect, and it could be much, much worse. Right, Jean? I'll tell you if you tell me what a Gooner is. I saw this last week, and enjoyed it a lot - poor man, even if he was King! But I see the republican backlash has already set in. |
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Post by Weyland on Feb 8, 2011 11:03:53 GMT
Firth's a Gooner? Well nobody's perfect, and it could be much, much worse. Right, Jean? I'll tell you if you tell me what a Gooner is. It's beyond my purview, Jean. You'll have to ask Chris. Theory: Arsenal FC --> nickname The Gunners --> Irritable Vowel Disorder --> Gooners. (Arsenal is a football team based in North London, owned by the United Arab Emirates, which took the name from its French manager, Arsène Wenger.) |
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Post by aubrey on Feb 8, 2011 12:37:04 GMT
The black Arsenal fans (there were apparently a lot of them) spelled Gooner with a "C". (Instead if the "G," obviously.)
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Post by everso on Feb 8, 2011 18:00:03 GMT
The black Arsenal fans (there were apparently a lot of them) spelled Gooner with a "C". (Instead if the "G," obviously.) [/color] Everso retires to her chaise, sal volatile in one hand, fan in the other. |
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Post by trubble on Feb 13, 2011 10:18:11 GMT
 I saw the King's Speech. Well, some of it. I fell asleep in Westminster Abbey and woke up on the balcony of Buck House. So technically, I missed the King's speech. It was good, of course. But..  But in a very good BBC production sort of way. And it should have been told from the therapist's point of view. And Geoffrey Rush gave a much more exciting performance than Colin Firth. I didn't leave the cinema thinking that Firth should get an Oscar. If he gets it I won't begrudge it, but if he gets it I hope Rush gets one too.
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Post by trubble on Feb 13, 2011 10:20:50 GMT
And I say! Wasn't David the most awful sort of a chap.
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Post by everso on Feb 13, 2011 16:00:04 GMT
I saw the King's Speech. Well, some of it. I fell asleep in Westminster Abbey and woke up on the balcony of Buck House. So technically, I missed the King's speech. It was good, of course. But..
But in a very good BBC production sort of way.And it should have been told from the therapist's point of view. And Geoffrey Rush gave a much more exciting performance than Colin Firth. I didn't leave the cinema thinking that Firth should get an Oscar. If he gets it I won't begrudge it, but if he gets it I hope Rush gets one too. Now, it's interesting that you say that, and I know what you mean. I wonder if it's because nowadays we are so used to films with clever special effects and what-not, that when a film just has acting and nothing else to go with it, we feel it might just as well have been done on t.v.? I don't think Colin Firth is the world's best actor generally (although of course he still holds a place in my heart for his Mr. Darcy - or, as Mr. E. says, Mr. D'Arsey), but I thought he was excellent in The King's Speech, mainly because of the way he handled the speech impediment. Geoffrey Rush was good also - is he up for any award, do you know? |
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Post by everso on Feb 13, 2011 16:04:49 GMT
And I say! Wasn't David the most awful sort of a chap. Yes, he was, and I was especially pleased that they chose Guy Pearce to portray him, because I'm not keen on him as an actor. (Didn't he used to be in Neighbours?) I remember my mum telling me that when Edward VIII abdicated, that Christmas they sang "Hark the herald angels sing, Mrs. Simpson stole our king, peace on earth and mercy mild, wasn't Stanley Baldwin wild? |
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Post by aubrey on Feb 13, 2011 16:25:52 GMT
I will always like Guy Pearce for this:  |
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Post by Weyland on Feb 13, 2011 16:28:53 GMT
I don't think Colin Firth is the world's best actor generally (although of course he still holds a place in my heart for his Mr. Darcy - or, as Mr. E. says, Mr. D'Arsey), but I thought he was excellent in The King's Speech, mainly because of the way he handled the speech impediment. Geoffrey Rush was good also - is he up for any award, do you know? Do they sound different in Essex? Just wondering. I still haven't seen it, but I definitely will. I have seen this still . . .  You'd think a King could get a bowler hat that didn't look as if he's dressing up as his dad, wouldn't you? Was Bonham-Carter wearing high-heels three sizes too big as well? |
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Post by trubble on Feb 15, 2011 9:11:45 GMT
I'm mellowing my stance on the Firth. I should have taken into account not only the 'sleeping through the second half' situation but the hilariously backward cinema complete with the auld couple sitting behind us that filled in any long pauses with their own script. And in a film about an Englishman with a stammer, there were a lot of pauses. So. As the time approached, I began to seriously consider the awfulness of his name not being called. And. I joined the rest of the BAFTA audience in breathing an enormous and joyous sigh of relief when it was. |
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