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Saw this film the other day. The foul language ruined what otherwise could have been a great movie.
1 posted on 01/28/2011 7:39:44 AM PST by BenLurkin
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2 posted on 01/28/2011 7:47:10 AM PST by La Lydia
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It was NOT the swear words that made this a great film.

It’s such a great story.... they SHOULD have made it PG-13 to begin with. The F word adds NOTHING to the value of this movie.


3 posted on 01/28/2011 7:47:56 AM PST by SomeCallMeTim
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Personally, I thought this was the most overrated film of the century - past and present. It was a major snooze of a movie with Colin Firth proving he can stutter effectively and Derek Jacobi looking ridiculous in a bald “wig.” What a bore.

At least “The Queen” dished the dirt on the Royals and the Blair administration. It was at least fun - not deadly dull. As In Living Color might say: HATED IT!


4 posted on 01/28/2011 7:48:29 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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Saw this film the other day. The foul language ruined what otherwise could have been a great movie.

I had that same reaction when I saw "Patton."
5 posted on 01/28/2011 7:48:46 AM PST by drjimmy
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That’s the kind of thinking that got The Sopranos mutilated on the A&E Network.


6 posted on 01/28/2011 7:49:43 AM PST by Maceman (Obama -- he's as American as nasi goreng)
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I agree that the language in those scenes bothered me. It took me a step back from really liking that movie. They could have done something to keep the language and make it inaudible, like showing him make the first sound of the word and then cutting to watching them through the window so you didn’t hear it.

That said, I think the movie’s a little overrated anyway. I saw it just after Black Swan, which not too many here will appreciate because of its unnecessary/attention-baiting lesbian scene, but was otherwise a very good movie. I would compare the lezzie scene in Black Swan to the language in The King’s Speech as disappointing otherwise-I’d-have-loved-it moments.


7 posted on 01/28/2011 7:51:06 AM PST by Feline_AIDS (A gun in hand is better than a cop on the phone.)
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It was a great movie, and the profanity did not bother me.


9 posted on 01/28/2011 7:54:59 AM PST by LifePath
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Word for the Day: Bowdlerize

If you don’t understand the psychological component of why Prince Albert stammered (i.e. it’s not a purely mechanical problem), then you will have no understanding why the emotional outburst of profanity was fluid rather than restrained by a stammer.

Don’t edit the film.


11 posted on 01/28/2011 8:12:41 AM PST by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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I wonder why on DVDs they dont have a audio version that is PG.
14 posted on 01/28/2011 8:25:25 AM PST by Jolla
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Sometimes the language fits, sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes there's so much of it that I just tune it out.

I haven't seen this one so I can't comment.

15 posted on 01/28/2011 8:30:06 AM PST by Darren McCarty (We should lead ourselves instead of looking for leaders)
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The airlines censor language and other R rated stuff to show during flight so what’s the big deal?


22 posted on 01/28/2011 8:55:00 PM PST by VA Voter
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