What Movies Have You Seen Lately?

sweetpotatoboy · Post by **sweetpotatoboy** » Thu February 17th, 2011, 6:04 pm

"Vanessa" wrote:Yes, Lost in Austen is good fun!

I completely agree! Great cast all round.

fljustice · Post by **fljustice** » Thu February 17th, 2011, 6:39 pm

"sweetpotatoboy" wrote:I completely agree! Great cast all round.

Thanks for the recommendation. Just added Lost in Austen to the Netflix
queue. I can always use a laugh!

LoveHistory · Post by **LoveHistory** » Sat February 19th, 2011, 11:19 pm

The King's Speech. Brilliant film. I hope it cleans up at the Oscars.

SonjaMarie · Post by **SonjaMarie** » Sun February 20th, 2011, 3:02 am

"LoveHistory" wrote:The King's Speech. Brilliant film. I hope it cleans up at the Oscars.

I just would like Colin F. to win so badly! A bunch of famous ppl want Javier Bardem to win but he has HIS Oscar, time for Colin to win!

SM

Madeleine · Post by **Madeleine** » Sun February 20th, 2011, 12:10 pm

And CF didn't win last year so it's his turn!

Ash · Post by **Ash** » Sun February 20th, 2011, 3:53 pm

Given the conversation re the Kennedy tv series, and in honor of President's Day, I thought this an interesting article

http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/02/20/greene.presidents.hollywood/index.html?hpt=C1#

fljustice · Post by **fljustice** » Sun February 20th, 2011, 4:02 pm

Thanks for the link, Ash! I have a biography of Reagan (from PBS) sitting on the DVR because it promised to be more even handed than the love/hate fests I normally run across. I'll report back!

LoveHistory · Post by **LoveHistory** » Sun February 20th, 2011, 5:45 pm

Very good article, thanks Ash. This part is right on "conditioned-to-be-reflexively-partisan" a lot of people don't even think, they just spout the most recent rhetoric of their choice of party. We're seeing a lot of that in Wisconsin right now (mostly people who won't bother to do any research and find out what's really going on either.

I don't think Lincoln could get elected in the 21st century. He was hated enough in his own time. Imagine the way people would dig into his past, his mental health, his wife's mental health. His Twitter feed might be interesting though.

donroc · Post by **donroc** » Sun February 20th, 2011, 6:27 pm

There was at least one error spoken by the narrator in the Reagan PBS doc. He said Regan instituted tuition for the first time for the University campuses. Not true. I paid tuition from the time I enrolled Cal in 1949.

Vanessa · Post by **Vanessa** » Mon February 21st, 2011, 5:54 pm

I've been to see The King's Speech today. I thought it was wonderful. Colin Firth definitely deserved his BAFTA, as did the film and Geoffrey Rush who I thought was excellent as the speech therapist. I was holding my breath at the end when he was doing his speech!

Very moving. It would be lovely to see CF receive an Oscar for his performance as he was very convincing.