Best Director
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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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.
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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Really. It would have been like Paul Haggis winning director but BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN winning Best Picture.Sonic Youth wrote:But wouldn't that feel like all kinds of wrong?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.
What's worse? Losing Best Picture, or winning Picture and Fincher losing to Hooper?
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But wouldn't that feel like all kinds of wrong?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.
What's worse? Losing Best Picture, or winning Picture and Fincher losing to Hooper?
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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.
FWIW, I predict a split. TSN will win, IMO.
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