<p>DH and I saw The King’s Speech this morning (movies are $5 before noon at our AMC theater…yah). We both loved it. I can’t say enough how enjoyable it was. I felt as if I were watching a classic old movie on AMC crossed with a great History channel documentary. Go see The King’s Speech.</p>
<p>First movie I have seen in several years, and I enjoyed it. Palaces, castles, and no blood…that is my thing. </p>
<p>Ridiculous that it is R rated. What child has not heard these words?!</p>
<p>As an adolescent stutterer, I very much related to the speech associated anxiety in the movie. As well as the anxiety knowing what was to befall Britain during WWII. Had me in tears for part of the movie-but then my kids say I’m too sensitive. </p>
<p>I think I need to see it again. </p>
<p>Came home and looked up a number of related biographies. NOW I understand why everyone loved the Queen Mum, as she was called. What a force of positive energy!</p>
<p>If anyone’s interested, this article on the BBC’s website has an embedded link that plays the actual radio speech by George VI that Colin Firth gives at the end of the movie. </p>
<p>[BBC</a> News - The King’s Speech: Royal broadcasts in the BBC archives](<a href=“http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12020794]BBC”>The King's Speech: Royal broadcasts in the BBC archives - BBC News)</p>
<p>And this link to British Pathe has newsreel footage of a speech George VI gave in 1938, in which it’s easy to see how difficult public speech was for him:</p>
<p>[KING</a> OPENS SCOTTISH EXHIBITION (aka EMPIRE EXHIBITION OPENED BY H.M. THE KING) - British Pathe](<a href=“http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=50494]KING”>http://www.britishpathe.com/record.php?id=50494)</p>
<p>The speech begins about 3 minutes into the newsreel.</p>
<p>H and I saw this movie last night. At the risk of sounding redundant, I thought it was certainly the best movie I’ve seen in a couple of years or more. H, who isn’t much of a movie-goer, also really loved it. We spent much time afterwards talking about the movie and how it opened up a part of history we just didn’t know very well. I love when a movie engages me enough that I want to google information about it as soon as I get home! </p>
<p>And oh my, its three major stars, Carter, Firth and Rush–just fabulous. </p>
<p>Undoubtedly, this will garner many Oscar nominations and deservedly so. Terrific and worth a bit of a drive for those of you who must!!</p>
<p>PS Donna, thanks for those great links.</p>
<p>As I left the theater, I said to my mother, “Colin Firth just won the Oscar.” Was highly amused when Mrs. Logue (Jennifer Ehle) met the King (Colin Firth) - Elizabeth and Darcy!</p>
<p>Can’t wait to see it. We’re in a small town and it probably won’t come here until after the Oscar nominations come out. And then it’ll only be here for 10 days or so. This is the first movie I’ve wanted to see in a long time. S2 saw Black Swan twice. From his description, it’s too creepy for me. I was tempted to see it for the dancing.</p>
<p>I just saw the movie today, and I really enjoyed it. I first heard about it on CC. Thanks for the suggestion.</p>
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<p>The R rating is because of a few “therapeutic” swear words. My brother (pretty cautious about movie ratings) took his 7th & 9th graders to see it. He said it was a lot less offensive that Little Fokkers (which was rated PG13). </p>
<p>My dad remembers hearing George stammer through his speeches on the radio. I think I’ll take Dad to see the movie later this week…and I never see a movie twice.</p>
<p>I am going to recommend it to my mom as well. She remembers hearing the abdication speech and asking her very conservative mother what it was all about. I’ll bet my grandma gave her an earful about Wallis.</p>
<p>I’d like to see it again too. With movies that I really like, I find I always enjoy it again as I can pay more attention to the sets, minor characters, and–my favorite–the costumes.</p>
<p>This and the Secretariat movie and Social Network, I’d watch any of them again.</p>
<p>Re: R rating. Saw an interview with the director and Colin Firth (who rarely does interviews). He complained about the ratings system. He said that violence in a film is evaluated in context. However, bad language is not. One f*9 is a PG, but 4 is an R. As many posters above have said, that seems ridiculously. Esp. when compared to violent acts. 1 person getting shot may be PG, but 3 or 4 doesn’t necessarily make it an R. Frankly, I’ll take bad language any day over violence.</p>
<p>Some movie makers add in enough F bombs to get the R rating. A PG 13 rating is the kiss of death for some movies.</p>
<p>Absolutely loved this movie, and thought it was one of the best movies I’d seen in a long time and in my mind, Best Picture of the Year, although I will agree that I did also think The Social Network was quite good. They were all outstanding performances and what awesome clothes Helena Bonham Carter gets to wear! Came home and read an old book that I have about the abdication, “The Woman He Loved” which has lots of photos of the royal family before and after the abdication , including where they sent the Duke and Duchess of Windsor during the war and his attempts to remain part of the gov’t in some way and how he never really forgave the royal family for how they treated Wallis, before settling in to a society life. It does reference the king’s stammering issue.</p>
<p>Great film. Really enjoyed this. Haven’t seen social network, but I will have to make an effort.</p>
<p>Re: ratings: Shoot a thousand people, get a PG13. Say a swear word, get an R. Scratch our head in wonder at the increasing violence in our culture. Sometimes, I turn on the TV and absolutely CANNOT believe the stuff they have on there, and we have parental controls…</p>
<p>The kids should see this one. It’s very good.</p>
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<p>I don’t think the royal family ever really forgave the Duke (or the Duchess) of Windsor for how they treated George VI and his wife Elizabeth,* so I guess it was mutual! And since they were both Nazi sympathizers, not to mention horribly racist and anti-Semitic, it’s really a very good thing that he abdicated, and that they were effectively exiled to the Bahamas during the War. </p>
<p>*I think there’s even a reference in the movie to Wallis’s nickname for her – the fat Scotch cook, or “Cookie.”</p>
<p>We just returned from seeing this fabulous movie. I took my 15 year old son, who for the first 10 years or so of his life struggled with a significant speech impairment and who still occasionally struggles.</p>
<p>When they showed the marked up speech, he grinned because that is a strategy he is quite familiar with.</p>
<p>Unbelievable that it was an R rating. </p>
<p>I cannot say it enough – see this movie!</p>
<p>Also just returned from seeing this movie - it was fantastic, one of the best I have seen in years.</p>
<p>I just saw the movie tonight – thanks to all who have posted in this thread to recommend it! I also thought it was wonderful, for all the reasons already mentioned … plus it was a nice treat for this Harry Potter fan to see Michael Gambon & Helena Bonham Carter in some very different roles.</p>
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<p>My 14 year old S saw it with me. I had no problem with this. As others have pointed out it is the language which earned the R rating. I would recommend that you take your teen to see it.</p>