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It's not as if David Fincher took a crappy script and made a great movie. He had a lousy script and made a lousy movie, Tom Hooper had an excellent script and didn't fuck it up. Kudos to him, and hooray for King's Speech, the second best of the 10 Best Picture nominees.
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Hooper's directing was pedestrian at best. I'd even say that Ron Howard did a better job directing the awful A Beautiful Mind than Hooper did with The King's Speech.
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ITALIANO wrote:brilliantly directed

Wait, someone on this board has used those words consecutively about this film?




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I wonder how people who make movies, and who are into movies, can find The King's Speech to be so brilliantly directed. But I guess we have been here before.
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Post by Bog »

So it finally has now happened...sure wish there was a concrete reason outside of pure award excess backlash.

The film that seemed destined to bore us out of our minds with another Slumdog type slaughter...winds up with...well...basically nothing, at least as far as non-UAADB, Joe Public types are concerned.
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Sonic Youth wrote:
kaytodd wrote:An undeserved award but a nice speech. I had never heard that story about how he came to direct The King's Speech.

FWIW, I predict a split. TSN will win, IMO.
But wouldn't that feel like all kinds of wrong?

What's worse? Losing Best Picture, or winning Picture and Fincher losing to Hooper?
Really. It would have been like Paul Haggis winning director but BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN winning Best Picture.

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Damien wrote:Thank God. I was beginning to think Social Network might actually win Best Picture. Phew
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kaytodd wrote:An undeserved award but a nice speech. I had never heard that story about how he came to direct The King's Speech.

FWIW, I predict a split. TSN will win, IMO.
But wouldn't that feel like all kinds of wrong?

What's worse? Losing Best Picture, or winning Picture and Fincher losing to Hooper?
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Thank God. I was beginning to think Social Network might actually win Best Picture. Phew
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An undeserved award but a nice speech. I had never heard that story about how he came to direct The King's Speech.

FWIW, I predict a split. TSN will win, IMO.
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ITALIANO wrote:I expected it, but I'm not happy - not only because he didn't deserve it, but also because it makes Best Picture even TOO predictable now,
What are the chances of the reverse split?
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They could at least have made this the penultimate award to give out, like in the other years.
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Yeah, this was just mean to Tee.
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I expected it, but I'm not happy - not only because he didn't deserve it, but also because it makes Best Picture even TOO predictable now,
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