Enunciate!

I had some extra free time the other day, so I celebrated by walking to the movie theater and watching "The King's Speech".

• Geoffrey Rush and Colin Firth reciting Shakespeare...in a Weinstein film! Those of you that know my favorite movie must know why I grinned widely at those moments.  (Sigh.  I miss Joseph).
• I like seeing HBC as a non-scary person, although I was scared of her when I first saw her, because it's kind of a reflex for me.
• I enjoyed all of the jabs at Australia being a colony of Britain.
• So I'm staring at Guy Pearce, wondering if he's "that Guy guy" that I loved in "L.A. Confidential" and other stuff.  Why did I doubt myself when his cheekbones and jawline are so....HIM?
• Yay, Michael Gambon!  There really should have been some magic in this movie, seeing as he and HBC were in it.  Oh, but then she would have been scary.  Never mind.
• I think it's great that Lionel's last name is "Logue".  What a perfect name for a speech therapist.  To borrow from "Seinfeld"'s Kramer, "That's like an ice cream man named 'Cone'!"
• Through much of the movie, I thought to myself, "I miss London.  I want to live there."  and then Logue was dismissed into the pouring rain, and I stopped thinking that.
• "And up goes Her Royal Highness...and down goes Her Royal Highness."
• "Kinging":  I like that word.  I wish I could say I've been busy "Sherrying".  Wait.  That might sound like I've been drinking.  Oh, OK, I'll take it.
• I love the scene in which Logue encourages Bertie to curse.  This should surprise absolutely nobody.  "F...f...fornication?"
• I also loved the scene wherein Myrtle finds out exactly who her husband's client has been all this time.

Inspiring story, great acting, loved this movie.