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Monday, May 23, 2011

The King's Speech (2010)

I just saw The King's Speech (2010) and I must say I am stunned to learn how highly acclaimed it is.

It's not a bad movie, I am not saying that; Colin Firth did deliver an Oscar worthy performance, but that's just about it!
  • There isn't really much of a story line - a singular plot really, told from beginning to... hell that's not much of an ending is it, it's not like Bertie led the RAF and bombed the crap out of the Nazis.
  • The speech itself, wasn't much of a speech, nothing more than one of those boiler plate address.
  • There ain't even any epic scene - the production team went out of their way to skip over the coronation! The scene of Bertie watching the Hitler film was so made up.
  • What about props! Buckingham Palace was computer graphics, Westminster Abbey was computer graphics, it's 2010, can't they make them a little more convincing?
  • The man that resembles Geoffrey Rush could have been computer graphics, it's hard to tell.
It does remind me of a another WWII stutterer story I saw on TV - Breaking the Code (1996). Alan Turing, he was instrumental in wining the war. Now that's a character worth making a movie about.


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