Seen it yet? It is outstanding in every respect! Directing, cinematography, scenery, historical setting and of course the acting. The tet-a-tets between the Duke/King and his therapist Lionel Logue are wonderful.
It's the best movie I've seen in years. And the theater was as crowded as I've been in in years too.
A very fast moving and enjoyable 2 hours.

http://www.kingsspeech.com/

I thought it was good but not fantastic. My wife liked it more. My dad liked it. He didn't remember the actual speech even though he was a teenager in the UK when it occurred.

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That fat bastard Firth looked nothing like George the Sixth.

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Nothing jiggled or exploded, but it was pretty good.

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Yes I liked it too. Excellent film. Vies with True Grit in my mind as the best film I've seen in a long time.

- Peter.

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I found the movie to be well made and an expensive period piece.....but I was uncomfortable and annoyed at having to watch 2 hours of a poor man struggling with a speech impediment, viewing him the lowest and most embarrassing points of his life. With no real relief.
I love movies....but this one didn't do it for me.
Loved True Grit!
TRON was visually exciting for the first 30 minutes; but then you realize you are stuck in a video game for another hour and a half......Let me out!

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I saw it on Sunday afternoon with my wife, and felt the same way Kerry did: it was good, but not great.

It did resonate with me in a special way because I had a stuttering problem when I was 4 to 5 years old on up. My parents took me to speech therapy, and the stuttering slowly subsided, although didn't completely go away until I was an adult.

I still very occasionally have problems with words that start with certain letters, and I can't explain why I do stutter. I know I am going to stutter on a word before I say it.

What works for me are the same kind of tricks that Lionel used on Bertie, but without the swearing.

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Like raymr said, there isnt any jiggling or exploding but it's on my short list along with True Grit. There are a lot of movies that I can wait until they come out on PPV or DVD. I might actually catch those two in the theater.

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I just saw this movie with my mother yesterday. She usually falls asleep at the movie theater, but she stayed awake for the whole thing! And I enjoyed watching it very much. I haven't seen True Grit, but people have told me its good...I don't think I will though...but who knows.

I wasn't going to see King's Speech until I was in marketing class and our professor showed the trailer. I enjoyed seeing Geoffrey Rush and Colin Firth. They did their job well. Even if they didn't look like the people they were supposed to portray. Also, wonderful to see Helena Bonham Carter play a NORMAL character instead of some crazy lady for once.

Everything looked wonderful, and even though the whole movie was about speech I actually enjoyed it! Did not get bored at any moment.

Also, movies are rated R because of certain swears? Or too much swearing? Because there was pretty much nothing else that bad in the movie. But no one under 18 was there. 90% of the people in the theater for the showing I went to were over 60 @.@ My mom felt young, and I felt like a baby.

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Not enough, screaming, shooting, screwing and swearing for the "regular" audience. When my wife and I saw it it was the same way. Also noticed the audience was white as Utah powder. Most unusual for this part of Phoenix. It was like we'd been transported to an alternate reality.

- Peter.

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Ah...makes sense. Well, to be fair, its a British movie...people my age tend to find them boring...but I'm eclectic. I can like a wide range of movies. And music. People get shocked when I tell them I like a particular classical piece...or that the first time I heard Nessun Dorma I started tearing up.

King's Speech was a wonderful film in my opinion. I kind of wanted to see it because I'm not good at presenting in front of class and such, so I figured maybe watching it would help me out with that. Part of me wonders if swearing in my head during pauses while presenting will actually help. Haha.

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