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Post by PigsnieLite on Jan 16, 2011 15:12:09 GMT -5
Why did this movie win a whole bunch of critics awards? (At least, Americun critics awards.) Its a movie about the origin of Facebook and its unpleasant billionaire creator whom Id like to smack. Its interesting in a *historical documentarish* sort of way, but nobody applauded in the end after I saw it. On the hodder hand, Ive seen THE KINGS SPEECH twice and there wuz hearty audience applause at its conclusion! Of course, that is probably becuz were Brittish.  |
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Post by sunfrog on Jan 16, 2011 17:22:13 GMT -5
I haven't seen this and I don't really want to unless Avril gives it a glowing review. Bleh~ I'd rather watch The King's Speech.
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Post by Avril on Jan 16, 2011 17:22:46 GMT -5
Thanks for the reminder. Must get out to see both. ;D
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jan 16, 2011 19:04:14 GMT -5
GOLDEN GLOBES are here! YAY! But I only watch the parts wid the accents. Hahahaha!  GO, COLIN FIRTHY! GO GEOFFREY RUSH! GO HELENA! GO WHOEVER DIRECTED THIS!  |
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jan 16, 2011 20:13:34 GMT -5
Waaahhh, these are really long Boring speechies! Im going to bed. Feghhhh.  |
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jan 16, 2011 21:51:10 GMT -5
I WOke up and after seeing bits of the telecast ... I must APOLOGIZE for Ricky Gervase who is seriously unfunny, insulting and cruel. Where are you, Stephen Fry? I hope youre not writing another book!  |
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jan 17, 2011 3:32:33 GMT -5
FLUCK THE SOCIAL NETWORK! Ughhhhh, apparently, Englond didnt pay the foreign press enough payola! Bleeechh. [PLite chugs down his orange juice laced wid orange pips, then goes back to work, cruising the internuts.]  |
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Post by Frito Freddie on Jan 17, 2011 13:09:12 GMT -5
I never did like Ricky Gervaise. Thinks too much of himself. The OFFICE is so so. I don't get THE SOCIAL NETWORK either. Its a good movie but it was far from the best. What could the Foreign Press be thinking?
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jan 17, 2011 14:34:17 GMT -5
THE OFFICE isnt even so-so. Its not funny at all, British or Americun. And I thought it wuz beyond tasteless to make that toilet/false teeth joke practically in front of the presidunt of the Foreign Press who is PAYING him after all. I also dont like jokes about Angelina & Brad who contribute millions to charity and then heres this unfunny jackass Gervase making cruddy jokes about them. Ughhhhh, send Gervase back to me. America, and Im going to FRIED GREEN TOMATO him on the grill and feed him to Robert DeNiro. 
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Post by shoegirl on Jan 20, 2011 22:23:25 GMT -5
I just watched the social network a few days ago and I loved it! I really do have a thing for nerds The only other movie I have seen recently was Eat Pray Love, which I really didn't care much for.. |
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Post by dragrat on Jan 21, 2011 4:30:04 GMT -5
I agree. I didn't really find Eat Love Pray that good. I realised how much I don't appreciate Julie Roberts. Too much of the method actor.. No soul for me..
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Post by Avril on Jan 21, 2011 17:17:09 GMT -5
This is completely ridiculous. The actor and the film are not the person...sheesh. Nazi claim threatens to ruin Firth's Oscar night
January 20, 2011
The King's Speech stuns movie goers
Newly released film The King's Speech is thrilling audiences across the globe, as well as being nominated for numerous awards.
Accusations of anti-Semitism have cast a cloud over The King's Speech, writes John Bingham.
COLIN Firth's hopes of Oscar glory for his portrayal of George VI are under threat from an apparent internet smear campaign alleging that the wartime monarch had Nazi sympathies.
Firth, 50, was named best actor at Monday's Golden Globes ceremony in Los Angeles, which is usually recognised as a key indicator of likely success in the Academy Awards.
His depiction of George VI's battle to overcome a stammer has won acclaim and box office success on both sides of the Atlantic for the British-made film The King's Speech.
Colin Firth as King George VI and Helena Bonham Carter as the Queen Mother in
The King's Speech.
Colin Firth as King George VI and Helena Bonham Carter as the Queen Mother in The King's Speech.
The film was nominated for seven Golden Globes, including best film and best supporting actress for Helena Bonham Carter, who played Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother.
There are fears that its success at next month's Oscars could be hampered by an email apparently being circulated to members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, who vote on the awards, accusing the film of ''glossing over'' history.
It alleges that George VI, the father of the Queen, actively ''stymied'' efforts by Jews fleeing Nazi Germany to settle in British-controlled Palestine.
He is said to have written to Lord Halifax, then the foreign secretary, in early 1939 speaking of ''steps'' being taken to prevent Jewish refugees leaving their country of origin.
A significant number of members of the academy come from Jewish families that emigrated to America from Nazi-occupied Europe.
The email, prompted by a blog entry on the website of New York magazine, draws from earlier reports including an article in The Guardian nine years ago that attributes the claim to archive material.
Scott Feinberg, a Hollywood commentator, disclosed on his blog how he had received the anonymous message purporting to be from a member of the academy. ''I'm an academy member, and there are a lot of us who won't vote for King's Speech for this reason, which was in New York magazine,'' it read.
It went on to quote a posting in which the writer spoke of feeling ''morally compelled'' to highlight how the film allegedly ''glosses over the Nazi-sympathising past of the tongue-tied monarch''.
''When it came to actively working to stymie Jews fleeing Hitler's Germany, George actually communicated quite eloquently,'' it said.
The article drew from a letter the king is said to have written to Lord Halifax noting reports that ''a number of Jewish refugees from different countries were surreptitiously getting into Palestine''.
He went on to say he was ''glad to think that steps are being taken to prevent these people leaving their country of origin''.
Mr Feinberg remarked: ''Is the email that I received part of some sort of co-ordinated smear campaign that is being orchestrated by someone with a vested interest in stunting the awards prospects of The King's Speech, or is it really from an academy member who would like others to take note of documented facts about the film's subject that are not reported in the film? I can't say for certain.''
The reputation of the former Edward VIII, George VI's brother, has been dogged by claims that he had sympathies with the Nazis as a bulwark against communism.
In 1937 the Duke and Duchess of Windsor - as Edward and his wife became - toured Germany and met Hitler.
Britain took in about 70,000 Jewish refugees by the eve of World War II, including 10,000 children as part of the ''kindertransport'' rescue efforts.
While historians have suggested George VI viewed Neville Chamberlain's policy of appeasement favourably, fearing that war would lead to the break-up of the Empire, he is remembered as an inspirational figure during the struggle that followed.
The film details how his 1939 Christmas speech rallied the nation, quoting a hitherto little-known poem which reads: ''I said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year, 'Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown'. And he replied: 'Go out into the darkness, and put your hand into the hand of God.' ''
TELEGRAPH www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/nazi-claim-threatens-to-ruin-firths-oscar-night-20110119-19wkt.html
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Post by dragrat on Jan 21, 2011 17:59:32 GMT -5
Oh dear.. Any excuse to bring negative events of history into current times, which in this case could deny an actor's recognition of his skill & creativity..
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Post by PigsnieLite on Jan 21, 2011 18:20:44 GMT -5
HOW dare THEY smear my Beloved King .. er Mr Darcy! A Pox on these Evool Creetures! |
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Post by Avril on Jan 21, 2011 22:55:42 GMT -5
Well...er, precisely.  |
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