You anticipate "The Queen" w/Helen Mirren, I can't be BOTHERED!!!

she's got bone structure.

-- EARLY-90S MAN (miltonpinsk...), September 15th, 2006."

It's all about the Oscars. In order to be eligible for consideration, the film has to be released theatrically first--before it's shown on television. Mirren is a big contender in this role, even if the film is mediocre at best. Which it is. But H.M. as H.R.H. does a fantastic job--but oddly, move for move, it's Meryl Streep in The Devil Wears Prada. Kooky.

bloke "sorry, maam"
Mirr: "less of the maam, I'm not the Queen!"

BOOM F BOOM!!

I think I shall move on or near Balmoral at the first opportunity.

A week ago I could honestly say that I had ZERO interest in the monarchy. Went to see The Queen on the weekend and was very impressed! Go figure. My questions after leaving the theatre had to do with mostly with amount of artistic license taken with the story. It seemed odd to me that such a personal, "behind the scenes" look at the events portrayed in the film would be available from a sitting monarch and Prime Minister. Does anyone know how "legitimate" the story and its details are?

I'm surprised how much I really enjoyed it.

It was so dully lit and shot, like a mediocre HBO movie. Frears ain't Renoir, but still -- even Bob Hoskins in Mrs. Henderson Presents looked better than the deer.

I went into knowing it was filmed as a made-for-tv movie for Channel 4, so I knew they probably didn't have the time to really make it work in an interesting visual sense. I think it says a lot for UK tv movies, to be fair. Still not convinced it has enough cinematic merit to warrant the theatrical release, and certainly not a best picture nomination. Still, really enjoyed it.

In five years, the next movie.. "The Jade"

Didn't make me feel like I understood Britain any better, though.

Was this really a TV movie? Aren't there rules preventing those from being nominated for Oscars or something?

The Queen is totally a TV movie, but it's a really enjoyable one. Nothing to feel too passionate about, but I admired it quite a bit and had a good time watching it.

Gosford Park's got a lot more wit and energy than those other movies you mentioned, Eric -- and uses Helen Mirren to better effect.

My two favorite scenes: Mirren driving the SUV, Mirren accepting flowers from the girl.

i'm still excited to see this, if only cos i loved the last prime suspect and this was "her year" etc

Ha, the encyclopedia lost a page.

Having added a lot of ILXors to my Netflix friends, I can now safely say there is no such movie.

And so it now has been a TV movie.

So I type Queen Bothered into the search box...

Actually, I was surprised about how well Blair comes out of this, like he wrote it himself!

The big denoument at the end "oh you were just afraid the population will turn against you! And they will...." oh come on, he's a politician, it goes with the territory.

It was competent. That's it. It told me nothing new. "Did the queen get stranded in a lake with a broken probshaft? Who knows ore cares?"

My wife, more a royalist than me (heh), thought most of it was corny and bobbins.

And that's the end of the song.

I thought that too (about Blair). And that propshaft scene! I thought she had started laughing but then I realised 'oh she's crying' and look there's a deer...it was preposterous.

they made blair out a saint they did. but this was a well orchestrated attempt at entertainment, and helen was as fierce as ever, esp in the crying for the deer scene.

Good punchline yhup!

"Your majesty, you will be going out live"

PLEASE DO NOT SWEAR!!!!

mirren is hot even when dressed as the queen. it kind of weirded me out. i don't believe the royal family are humans, when it comes down to it.

i didn't even think it was that competent a script. it had that clunkiness you get with compressed history biopics.

we couldn't stop laffing throughout though cos we had better dialogue for the Queen Mum that revolved around gin.

Also, it was an ITV DRAMA PREMIERE with Helen Mirren, so we're eagerly awaiting part 2 tonight where diana's killer is revealed. robson green should have played Campbell, Caroline Quentin should have been cherie. etc

they really should have morphed diana's face on to the deer/stag and have her whisper "let go" or summink

This was forwarded everywhere in blog land:
http://www.idontlikeyouinthatway.com/2008/07/helen-mirren-is-wearing-a-bikini.html

she looks fucking amazing.

http://img233.imageshack.us/img233/5859/dsc00208uc5.jpg

incredible!

LONDON — Oscar-winning British actress Helen Mirren said she used to love cocaine, but stopped taking the drug after learning that a Nazi war criminal profited from the trade, according to a magazine.

The 63-year-old, who won an Academy Award for her role in "The Queen," was quoted by GQ magazine as saying she used to dabble in marijuana and cocaine when she was younger.

"I loved coke. I never did a lot, just a little bit at parties," Mirren was quoted as telling the magazine in an interview, which was made available to the media Monday. "But what ended it for me was when they caught (Nazi war criminal) Klaus Barbie, the Butcher of Lyon, in the early 80s. He was hiding in South America and living off the proceeds of being a cocaine baron.

"And I read that in the paper, and all the cards fell into place, and I saw how my little sniff of cocaine at a party had an absolute direct route to this ... horrible man in South America," she was quoted as saying.

Mirren also reportedly said she used to steal during what she described as a "very poor" youth.

"I needed to shoplift for food," she reportedly said, adding that while she enjoyed "the accoutrements of movie star life" she still had frugal instincts, cutting her own hair and wearing dollar-store glasses.

Mirren said she was not a royalist but had become a fan of Queen Elizabeth II since playing her in "The Queen."

"It's a miracle she's never gone mad," Mirren was quoted as saying. "She is a remarkable person, who has achieved an amazing thing with a life she neither chose for herself, nor particularly wanted."

Mirren's interview is carried in the British edition of GQ, which goes on sale Thursday.

i so want to race rails with helen mirren

I so want to race rails on helen mirren

<3

But the Royals ARE a bunch of freeloading gits in bad clothes!

Finally saw this. More than anything I like how it feels like some weird distant period piece.

I adored every single minute of this film. I was stunned at how deeply I fell for it.

OK, I quite enjoyed it myself.

Still....

I liked this too, found it quite moving. Even made me feel sorry for the old gal.

(Coincidentally, I'm currently 200 pages into Sarah Bradford's Elizabeth)

http://thisisnthappiness.com/post/189441450/helen-mirren

heck, any excuse. can't believe this woman played QEII:

http://farbror-sid.se/image/l/090912-helen-mirren-95.jpg

She definitely does it for me.

She's not playing the Queen in that pic, is she?

don't spoil this for me man

what's yr man doing?

which yr man?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQh1G8yrfqg

mirren said the way she decides on a role is she reads the last pg of the script and sees if her charactet is on it

^a luxury only afforded to top-of-the-billing stars

... but more likely a bit of self-deprecating humor.

That explains why she never did "Waiting for Godot"..

OOPS SPOILER ALERT!

I tried watching this film but couldn't get into it. The problem for me is that in real life the Queen comes across as pretty much the most bland person you could possibly imagine so when they try to make the film interesting by making her into more of a dramatic character it doesn't really work for me.

My comedian friend met Mirren and greeted her with "Hey, it's a dame!"

The Blair/Brown movie from the same crew was much less interesting than I hoped (alternately, the deal between them was less interesting than it had been made up to be in general).

The Crown is the best thing Peter Morgan's done (not that that's saying a huge amount)