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Author Topic: The King's Speech Mike Blakesley Film God Posts: 12767 From: Forsyth, Montana Registered: Jun 99 posted 02-25-2011 03:56 PM                        King's Speech definitely has the Oscar momentum -- if it doesn't win Picture, Actor and Supporting Actor it'll be surprising. We are playing this starting tonight so I'm HOPING it wins best picture! We pre-QC'd it last night -- a very good movie. Both of the lead actors give excellent performances. I also liked seeing the "period" radio equipment -- always fun to notice these details. To me it's part of the magic of the movies that instead of a big epic scene, the climactic part of this movie is a guy sitting in a chair reading a speech into a microphone....but it is STILL edge-of-your-seat stuff. 4.5 out of five stars for me. Really enjoyed it, even though I wasn't sure if I would.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 02-25-2011 05:24 PM                     Wow...playing it so late off the break...the heads and tails must be mutilated and the image dirty and scratched Or did the GDC/NEC clean all of those problems up?  |  IP: Logged Christian Appelt Jedi Master Film Handler Posts: 505 From: Frankfurt, Germany Registered: Dec 2001 posted 04-07-2011 02:39 PM                     Very good movie, much better than I had expected it to be. I found some of the more extreme wide angle cinematography a bit disturbing, but the story is told well and simple. Unfortunately, the subtitled print I I watched was quite unsteady. Rock-steady subtitles, but lack of definition in the film image and a great deal of vertical weave.  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 04-07-2011 08:36 PM                        THE KING'S SPEECH will be released on Blu-Ray and DVD in a week and a half on the 19th of April. I am looking forward to the BD and will watch it that evening because I am already in the mood to seeing it again. I have always loved historical films especially about British royalty such as YOUNG VICTORIA, THE QUEEN, and ELIZABETH/ELIZABETH-The Golden Age -Claude  |  IP: Logged Tom Petrov Five Guys Lover Posts: 1121 From: El Paso, TX Registered: Jan 2003 posted 04-07-2011 09:51 PM                    Good movie, but Geoffrey Rush deserved the best supporting actor award  |  IP: Logged Claude S. Ayakawa Film God Posts: 2738 From: Waipahu, Hawaii, USA Registered: Aug 2002 posted 04-07-2011 10:07 PM                        Tom, I was rooting for Geoffrey Rush to win the Academy Award for his performance in THE KING'S SPEECH but I felt Christian Bale's deserved to win for his performance in THE FIGHTER after I saw the movie on Blu-Ray. Bale"s role in the movie was much more challenging and he delivered. Mr. Rush had already won a Best Actor Oscar in 1996 for his performance in SHINE and I am sure he will be nominated again and eventually win another award.. -Claude  |  IP: Logged

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