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Andrew
Posted: January 11th, 2011, 9:08am Report to Moderator
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Surprised to see no thread on this one.

Everything about this film suggests Oscar. The performances, it's a period drama, beautifully shot, a character overcomes a problem as part of a bigger fight and it tackles World War II.

This is a film that was surely awaiting a fall with many sharpening their knives at the sheer scale of its baiting, hell fiening, for an Oscar.

It's a very, very good film. Colin Firth will gain most attention for his performance, but once again, Guy Pearce shows what a damn good actor he is. Whenever he was on screen, he stole it. That's with no disrespect to Firth but Pearce is exceptional. The dizzying heights he hit in the massively underrated 'Factory Girl' as Andy Warhol were left in the cold and so it would seem this turn is as well.

The script successfully weaves a timeline of King George's battle with his stammer and the macro events that lead to his eventual conquering of the affliction. The script nicely balances his ascension and the events of the time without making too much capital of his brother's demise and reported Nazi sympathies. Instead the choice is to focus on the themes of duty and strength present in 'Bertie'. That was the correct decision, for me. Concurrently, we investigate (albeit loosely) the relationship between the upstart Australia and the establishment of England. With a shift in power, King George is forced to see the changes in the world and the diminishing power of his great country. We see the seeds of change and how this is aided by the outset of the war with a subsequent need for collective effort and a coming together.

I'd definitely recommend seeing it.


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Had the great experience of seeing this at the Odeon Leicester Square last Friday evening (what a cinema). It's a wonderful film. Funnier than I thought it would be, really evocative of its sense of history, fantastic performances all round...the only weak spot might be Timothy Spall's Churchill - not because Spall did anything wrong, but there've just been so many impressions of Churchill, all of which sort-of do the voice, that it's probably impossible to come across as anything other than 'a guy doing a Churchill impression'.

I havwn't seen True Grit, Black Swan or The Fighter yet, but I'd definitely put this in the small group of films from 2010 that are worth remembering. Yes it's pure Oscar bait, but that's not necessarily a bad thing when it results in a film as well-rounded and well-crafted as this.


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I know what you mean. Spall as Churchill was an uneasy fit. Kinda like putting your jeans on after they've been washed - yet unfortunately, these jeans never loosened. Spall is an excellent actor just not totally right for this role. The general standard of performances just exacerbated this small gripe.

'True Grit' was good, not great, but 'Black Swan' is simply incredible. Aronofsky and PTA will surely become the directors of their generation. 'Black Swan' evoked similar feelings of watching something on a different level altogether as 'There Will Be Blood' did before it.

'The Fighter' doesn't overly interest me beyond Christian Bale's heat for his performance but I do like Walhberg when he's good - he's still my favourite part of 'The Departed'.


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A top drawer film, and a truly great script.

We watched this last week and I loved it so much I was back in the cinema the next afternoon to watch it again on my own -  I thought it was that good.

Colin Firth was brilliant, and coming off his last film "A Single Man" where he also put in an amazing performance I wouldn't hesitate in suggesting he is one of the best actors around today and fully deserves the Oscar that is surely coming his way. Jeffrey Rush was excellent, so too was mad old HBC.

Easily my best film of 2010 and I have to say will be allowed to feel a little miffed at losing the Oscar to Social Network, it deserves it much more.
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Meticulously crafted Oscar bait from the studio that specializes in Oscar fishing.
And I enjoyed every frame of it. Stem to stern.

This film has the three key components Oscar loves to reward:
1) Historical figure humanized through a major personal obstacle.
2) A true story with lasting ramifications that echo through the present.
3) A historical event (WWII) presented to us from a fresh angle.

You combine all those ingredients and you get awards galore.
It's a rewarding drama with clockwork pacing and top notch all the way around.
Timothy Spall as Churchill was the only square peg in a round hole.
It;s like someone lost a bet and had to put him in the movie.
Let's force one more character actor in there for good measure.

It's definitely the crowd pleaser of the the year.
Can it defeat the award juggernaut The Social Network?
Oscar has been known to go against the grain from time to time on such matters.
All I know is I'm glad to see so many contenders do well at the boxoffice.

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Just got back from this. Figured I might as well see it seeing that the Oscars are coming up.

I liked it. Not a top 10 film for me but top 11?... Maybe. What I think I liked the most about it was the fact that, as much as we're told to show, not tell, this dared to be a film about words. Not to say the dialogue was spectacular but I think once you set up that the film is about the way people speak, you start to pay a lot more attention to the enunciation and nuances in the characters' language. It makes for a different kinda viewing experience, I'd say.

That said, I don't think it deserves the Oscar. I think it deserves the nomination but is probably too modest a film to really deserve the award. The cast is superb. This is my first film where I've actually gone in recognizing Firth as a capable actor (with A Single Man being the film that made me realize he was). It was also refreshing to see Rush, a highly underrated character actor, play a character who wasn't nasty or outlandish in any way. Still, I thought their performances were a little low key, not in the context of the film but compared to their competition.

Really, a low key film overall. Nothing particularly bombastic about it. You stick Beethoven's 7th into anything, it'll seem like it but that doesn't make it so. I appreciated the film's simplicity, directness and down-to-earthness but really... not this year's masterpiece. Black Swan holds that title.

This'll still probably win though. The Academy's always had a boner for films about British royalty.


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