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« Reply #4175 on: February 20, 2011, 06:52:18 pm »
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Das Leben der Anderen, for the second time. Was slightly drunk this time, which did wonders for it. I lose my cynicism when I drink and for a horribly romantic and sentimental film that definitely enhances the experience.
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« Reply #4176 on: February 21, 2011, 01:46:58 pm »
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« Reply #4177 on: February 21, 2011, 03:58:05 pm »
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The King's Speech

Quite excellent. Although I think they could have cast a better Churchill.
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« Reply #4178 on: February 21, 2011, 05:40:01 pm »
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The Kids Are Allright.

Probably my least favourite of the Best Picture nominees I've seen so far. Still pretty good.
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« Reply #4179 on: February 21, 2011, 05:45:44 pm »
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The Kids Are Allright.

Probably my least favourite of the Best Picture nominees I've seen so far. Still pretty good.

That one felt like shameless Oscarbait to me.  So did the King's Speech, but I liked it a lot more.  Not sure why.
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« Reply #4180 on: February 21, 2011, 05:53:29 pm »
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The Kids Are Allright.

Probably my least favourite of the Best Picture nominees I've seen so far. Still pretty good.

That one felt like shameless Oscarbait to me.  So did the King's Speech, but I liked it a lot more.  Not sure why.

The King's Speech was definitely Oscarbait, but did a good job of it. The Kids was just, I don't know...I felt like I've seen this kind of film many times before and that this wasn't that original. Basically.
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« Reply #4181 on: February 21, 2011, 06:18:08 pm »
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The Kids Are Allright.

Probably my least favourite of the Best Picture nominees I've seen so far. Still pretty good.

We watched the first half hour or so of that movie, then shut it off because it wasn't very interesting.
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« Reply #4182 on: February 21, 2011, 08:10:35 pm »
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The Kids Are Allright.

Probably my least favourite of the Best Picture nominees I've seen so far. Still pretty good.

We watched the first half hour or so of that movie, then shut it off because it wasn't very interesting.

That's the only one of the ten that I haven't bothered to watch.
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« Reply #4183 on: February 21, 2011, 08:19:36 pm »
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The Kids Are Allright.

Probably my least favourite of the Best Picture nominees I've seen so far. Still pretty good.

We watched the first half hour or so of that movie, then shut it off because it wasn't very interesting.

That's the only one of the ten that I haven't bothered to watch.

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« Reply #4184 on: February 21, 2011, 08:53:17 pm »
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The Kids Are Allright.

Probably my least favourite of the Best Picture nominees I've seen so far. Still pretty good.

We watched the first half hour or so of that movie, then shut it off because it wasn't very interesting.

That's the only one of the ten that I haven't bothered to watch.

I thought it was ok... but probably #8 or #9 on the list of BP nominees in my mind.
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« Reply #4185 on: February 21, 2011, 09:02:50 pm »
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The King's Speech.

Did not approve of some of the language, but overall a very good movie, intriguing story line, brilliantly acted.

Historically factual.
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« Reply #4186 on: February 21, 2011, 09:23:50 pm »
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The King's Speech.

Did not approve of some of the language, but overall a very good movie, intriguing story line, brilliantly acted.

Historically factual.

Actually, there were some major aspects of it that weren't correct in that regard.
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« Reply #4187 on: February 21, 2011, 09:39:16 pm »
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The King's Speech.

Did not approve of some of the language, but overall a very good movie, intriguing story line, brilliantly acted.

Historically factual.

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« Reply #4188 on: February 21, 2011, 11:29:26 pm »
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The Princess Bride, a childhood favourite.
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« Reply #4189 on: February 22, 2011, 12:13:53 am »
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It wasn't bad as an action movie but the main plot was kind of predictable and if you're Genre Savvy you can figure it out. Also Diane Kruger's character was kind of hard to buy, she's an illegal immigrant from the former Yugoslavia who needs to get about 4000 Euros to get papers or whatever and works low-class jobs living in a slum. Yet she looks like Diane Kruger, I don't think she'd have much trouble getting the money or papers.
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« Reply #4190 on: February 22, 2011, 06:21:59 am »
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The King's speech. Excellent film.
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« Reply #4191 on: February 22, 2011, 08:48:28 am »
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The King's Speech.

Did not approve of some of the language, but overall a very good movie, intriguing story line, brilliantly acted.

Historically factual.

Actually, there were some major aspects of it that weren't correct in that regard.

Which ones? The one that struck as the most obvious was the depiction of Churchill as supporting the King, whereas in reality he damaged his political career immensely by being solidly behind Edward VIII.
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« Reply #4192 on: February 22, 2011, 09:18:30 am »
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The King's Speech.

Did not approve of some of the language, but overall a very good movie, intriguing story line, brilliantly acted.

Historically factual.

Actually, there were some major aspects of it that weren't correct in that regard.

Which ones? The one that struck as the most obvious was the depiction of Churchill as supporting the King, whereas in reality he damaged his political career immensely by being solidly behind Edward VIII.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jan/13/reel-history-kings-speech-colin-firth
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« Reply #4193 on: February 22, 2011, 10:31:31 am »
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The King's Speech.

Did not approve of some of the language, but overall a very good movie, intriguing story line, brilliantly acted.

Historically factual.

Actually, there were some major aspects of it that weren't correct in that regard.

Which ones? The one that struck as the most obvious was the depiction of Churchill as supporting the King, whereas in reality he damaged his political career immensely by being solidly behind Edward VIII.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/jan/13/reel-history-kings-speech-colin-firth

Looking at that list, the one I mentioned seems to be the only really grave one. The others are pretty understandable and more minor.
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« Reply #4194 on: February 22, 2011, 10:51:23 am »
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Quote from: Gustaf on February 22, 2011, 10:31:31 am
Looking at that list, the one I mentioned seems to be the only really grave one. The others are pretty understandable and more minor.

That was basically the judgment of the article as well, of course. I think more questionable is making a film about Britain in the thirties and making it about that.
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« Reply #4195 on: February 22, 2011, 11:12:50 am »
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Looking at that list, the one I mentioned seems to be the only really grave one. The others are pretty understandable and more minor.

That was basically the judgment of the article as well, of course. I think more questionable is making a film about Britain in the thirties and making it about that.

Oh. That's some class analysis. I see your point, but on the other hand I'm willing to grant artistic license on that issue.
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« Reply #4196 on: February 22, 2011, 01:48:49 pm »
It's a really weird thing, how even a movie not directly about WWII sees some need to promote the cult of Churchill, even by 100% reversing his IRL stances.

Great movie if you can get past that.
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« Reply #4197 on: February 22, 2011, 02:26:51 pm »
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It's a really weird thing, how even a movie not directly about WWII sees some need to promote the cult of Churchill, even by 100% reversing his IRL stances.

Great movie if you can get past that.

Churchill was Britain's only source of comic relief until the invention of Monty Python.
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It's a really weird thing, how even a movie not directly about WWII sees some need to promote the cult of Churchill, even by 100% reversing his IRL stances.

Great movie if you can get past that.

Churchill was Britain's only source of comic relief until the invention of Monty Python.

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« Reply #4199 on: February 23, 2011, 11:17:34 pm »
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The King's Speech.

Did not approve of some of the language, but overall a very good movie, intriguing story line, brilliantly acted.

Historically factual.

Actually, there were some major aspects of it that weren't correct in that regard.

The major premise of the movie, however, was factual, the stammer of George VI and the treatment received from Lionel Logue in overcoming it.
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