The movie starts pretty much the same as 8 MILE. I never had a stutter, but I think most of us can identify with the stress of having to go do some thing where you talk in front of a bunch of people, and you can imagine how much more terrifying it would be if you stammer. This poor bastard has to make a speech to everybody and he’s had a stutter since he was a little kid. It is explained in dialogue that a prince used to just have to stand there looking important, but now because of the new technology he has to be able to talk good. It’s the dawn of radio and that changed everything, before video killed the radio star and the internet turned video into little clips of animals doing funny things. It’s cute, I guess.Ĭolin Firth plays the Duke of York (not to be confused with A #1 Isaac Hayes), second in line for the throne of England just before WWII. It’s a cinematic adaptation of a concise, easy to explain premise. I don’t mean the trailer gives away too much, I mean there’s not much to give away. It will wrap you in its gentle warmth and steadfastly refuse to surprise or startle you.

But from my perspective it just seems like if you saw the trailer and you thought you know, I’d like to see what happens between those scenes, just to be sure, then you will be perfectly comforted. I know everybody seemed to really enjoy it, so I’m not gonna say they’re wrong. I guess I don’t really get THE KING’S SPEECH. I knew it was gonna be a bummer to watch the only one I hadn’t seen be the winner so I went and saw KING’S SPEECH too. I crammed and watched WINTER’S BONE and 127’S HOURS this weekend, so I’d seen 9 of the 10 best picture nominees. This year I was kinda feeling like I didn’t have a bird in this cockfight, because I didn’t even think I had a favorite theatrically released movie this year, but then I remembered that I did and I just didn’t want to admit it because it was about ballet.

It’s part of being too into movies, don’t get all uppity about it. We all understand the inherent flaws of an award show, but you can still enjoy them, just like you enjoy seeing everybody’s stupid lists of the top 10 of the year or all time best explosions or whatever so you can get mad at what they left off or agree with some unexpected choices they made or whatever. So I’m calling a best director/best picture split tonight. Of course that one was ambiguous, I say Freddy won because of the wink but Jason got to do that cool strut holding the severed head.

JASON was meaningless too and I still wanted to see who would win. I know it’s supposed to be cool for movie fans to say they don’t care about the Oscars because it’s all meaningless and etc., but FREDDY VS. The 2011 Oscars are on in a couple hours.

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