My #6 of the year. I am irritated that Helena Bonham Carter is up for an Oscar though. She was good but this was hardly an Oscar role. Give her nomination to Lesley Manville for her performance in Mike Leigh's "Another Year".

goavs9601 wrote: overrated
I was wondering about that. I hear how great it is, yet I can't help wondering if it's boring. It looks like a big old snoozefest to me.

hogaburger wrote: I am irritated that Helena Bonham Carter is up for an Oscar though. She was good but this was hardly an Oscar role. Give her nomination to Lesley Manville for her performance in Mike Leigh's "Another Year".

Agreed 100,000%. Manville and Jacki Weaver's performances ran rings around the other four nominees this year.

I liked The King's Speech quite a bit, but it's not exactly the movie I see when the words "Best Picture" is announced at the end of the month.

I dont care how good the reviews this just looks so boring to me. I hate movies like this though. I dont mind slow movies at all but this just looks dull.

Saw this the other day, and I liked it a lot. It wasn't boring at all. I still think Inception and The Social Network were the best films of the year. This movie deserves better cover art though...

MiseryMatt wrote: Will more than likely pick up the Blu, I loved this one. However, since when is Anchor Bay distributing Weinstein company releases? I thought Sony did that.
http://www.deadline.com/2011/01/weinsteins-buy-...

ladyholmes wrote: Best movie of the last ten years, in my opinion. Even my dad, who hates most movies, adored it.
"Most movies"? As in, all genres?

Oscar bait! Well acted, good story, not anywhere close to best picture of this last year. Still hoping Social Network will beat it for picture and director, and Nolan will win for original screenplay over it

"Oscar bait! Well acted, good story, not anywhere close to best picture of this last year."

I agree. Although I thoroughly enjoyed the movie (I think I landed on the grade of B+) I didn't find it to be as moving, nor did it stick with me as much of the likes of Inception, The Social Network, 127 Hours, The Fighter or Black Swan. Man, 2010 has been a great year for movies, though.

Also, am I the only one that thought the best performance was from Geoffrey Rush, and not Colin Firth?

This was a great film, Colin gave a powerhouse performance. Whether this deserve Best Picture at the Oscars, is highly debatable. But nevertheless, a great film, in my opinion.

Overall, 2010 has been a great year for films indeed. With this, Black Swan 127 Hours, True Grit, Social Network, Blue Valentine, Rabbit Hole, Another Year, Biutiful and Somewhere leading the way for fall release as film-making at its very best.

Back in the summer we also have the lights of The Kids, Winter's Bone, Toy Story 3, Inception, which were also among the finest films of last year. The Town was also very good, but I'm glad it didn't get into the 10 BP, as I don't think it should anyway.

There are also great but forgotten films like The Ghost Writer, in which I really really enjoyed, Shutter Island and Please Give.

It's also a year that fall release films really perform beyond expectations at the Box Office, most of the ten nominees will gross more than $100 M, a truly remarkable achievement for small production budgeted film like Black Swan and The Fighter.

Meh, I wouldn't watch this again. Did nothing for me. Firth is great though, as usual, but he should have won last year for A SINGLE MAN.

I'm very happy this release won't include that god awful PG-13 cut. This film should have been PG from the start with no cuts at all. Seriously, language? It was used for was medicinal purposes for cripes sake!