[nutmeg]

I recommend this movie highly and hope that it wins an Academy Award for best picture. Colin Firth should also win for best actor.

I agree. Saw The King's Speech a couple of weeks ago - it is excellent. Best movie we've seen in many years!

Can someone tell me why The King's Speech lost so many Golden Globes last night (including Best Picture) to The Social Network? (I assume it has something to do with the uber-liberal Foreign Press)

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Can someone tell me why The King's Speech lost so many Golden Globes last night (including Best Picture) to The Social Network?

The Social Network has made a ton of money, but I haven't seen it.

[Brilliant]

Possibly it’s generational. And about money.

[Blue Ink]

“Can someone tell me why The King’s Speech lost so many Golden Globes last night (including Best Picture) to The Social Network? (I assume it has something to do with the uber-liberal Foreign Press) “

You assume right. Aaron Sorkin (the writer of ‘The Social Network’) is a darling of Hollywood, here and abroad. His rabid lib ‘hate Bush/Sarah Palin’ credentials are on the record and solid.

‘The Social Network’ is about smart young privileged people betraying each other and fighting over money. There are no heroes. You come away hating everyone. No love, no friendships, nothing said sincerely. It’s overwritten and glib and cynical, just like Sorkin’s old show ‘The West Wing.’ In short, easy to snicker at and digest — like the Twizzlers you just bought at the concession counter.

“The King’s Speech” makes grown men tear up and want to have a friend like Lionel Logue and marry a woman like Elizabeth. It never had a chance with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

P.S. I loathe Twizzlers.