The King's Speech

                   

This was the first movie on our list that we chose to watch. Being that this film won Best Picture, it seemed like an excellent first choice.

Our thoughts (in the form of a script):

Hanna: I tried! I really tried to like this movie!

Maddie: You did not! You were texting the whole time!

Hanna: Cause I was so bored! But seriously, I truly don’t understand how this film won Best Picture over, in my opinion, far superior movies *cough cough Inception*. I understand the historical importance of this movie, the acting was superb, but I just found it incredibly dull. Do you agree with me?

Maddie: Well, yeah I was kind of bored, but there was a lot of hard work put into the movie and I appreciate that. I also don’t like to put movies down, cause people put hard work into it and I don’t want them to feel bad.

Hanna: Really? It should have won cause you felt pity on it?

Maddie: It just had the feeling of an important movie as you watched it!

Hanna: That’s all well and good; I’ll take my non-important movies any day.

Maddie: And it was a true story, which, I don’t know, bumps it up in the league, gives it a head start, I don’t know.

Hanna: Yeah, it was history. It was a speech. How did they stretch it into two hours is the greatest mystery of me.

Maddie: There was a sub-plot behind the speech, and if you had’ve paid attention you would have known what it was.

Hanna: I was paying attention! I caught the sub-plot!

Maddie: Yeah, I don’t think you did.

Hanna: So we can agree: We will never watch the King’s Speech again if we can help it.

Maddie: Sure. But we will appreciate it for what it is.

Hanna: Sheer bloody boredom.

That’s a wrap!