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

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oh OK then, not bothered to actually see other bits than those I'm forced to witness...

Like The Queen on the phone to Tony Blair telling him off.

Like her accepting some flowers "for me? oh thank you..."

Or that bit that's been reported where Cherie Blair slags off the Royals as being a bunch of freeloading gits in bad clothes etc.

Supposedly HM (That's Helen Mirren, ooh did you see what I did there?) is 'certain' to get an oscar nom for her portrayal.

BILE BILE VILE BILE!!!!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 4 September 2006 08:53 (eighteen years ago)

It's excellent (but I have to declare an interest).

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Monday, 4 September 2006 09:06 (eighteen years ago)

I have to delare no interest.

― Alba (Alba), Monday, 4 September 2006 09:26 (eighteen years ago)

i have to declare that i have no idea what the thread's about.

― jed_ (jed), Monday, 4 September 2006 09:30 (eighteen years ago)

I saw the Queen on the phone to Tony bit. Tony looked like a cross between Ant and Dec.

― ailsa (ailsa), Monday, 4 September 2006 15:01 (eighteen years ago)

helen mirren is going to run out of queens to play soon

― kyle (akmonday), Monday, 4 September 2006 16:41 (eighteen years ago)

There's always another Capote film.

― Danny Aioli (Rock Hardy), Monday, 4 September 2006 16:44 (eighteen years ago)

Ordinarily this would have no interest for me but as Stephen Frears is directing I may pay it a bit more attention than otherwise. Feel a little sorry for Michael Sheen ending up typecast as Tony Blair.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 4 September 2006 17:14 (eighteen years ago)

He was excellent in 'The Deal', though (which was indeed excellent as a whole).

― chap who would dare to start Raaatpackin (chap), Monday, 4 September 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago)

Yeah, writing a drama by cutting out stories from the newspaper and casting bad Rory Bremners in the lead roles is an ace idea.

― I Supersize Disaster (noodle vague), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:36 (eighteen years ago)

Daily Express Film Of The Year, here we come. :(

― Obvious Ninja (Haberdager), Monday, 4 September 2006 20:39 (eighteen years ago)

Exactly. And a David Cameron review.

― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 06:35 (eighteen years ago)

i had a dream where i had sex with both lizes as played by mirren

― anthony easton (anthony), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 06:44 (eighteen years ago)

"and then we liz up..."

― M. White (Miguelito), Tuesday, 5 September 2006 15:41 (eighteen years ago)

i'm sure this is going to be on itv really soon so why oh why is it filling every cinema in london?

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:10 (eighteen years ago)

Why oh why did Diana fill every street in London that August/September week?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:13 (eighteen years ago)

There were a lot of bits of her?

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:13 (eighteen years ago)

hitsheadagainstbrickwall.jpg

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

hitscargainstbrickwall.jpg

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:19 (eighteen years ago)

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― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:23 (eighteen years ago)

I've never saw what the big fuss was about Helen Mirren, I actually fancy the Queen more (when she was younger I mean)

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:25 (eighteen years ago)

That might be the wrongest thing I have ever read.

― Why does my IQ changes? (noodle vague), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:27 (eighteen years ago)

mirren was a foxy young woman but yeah, no charlotte rampling.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

She just got her baps out a lot, big deal

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:29 (eighteen years ago)

But did you fancy Queen more than the Queen?

― Marcello Anka (nostudium), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:30 (eighteen years ago)

She just got her baps out a lot, big deal
-- Oh No It's Dadaismus! (dadaismu...), September 15th, 2006.

she's got bone structure.

― EARLY-90S MAN (Enrique), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:31 (eighteen years ago)

Well yes, but I still think the Queen was cuter in her prime

― Oh No It's Dadaismus! (Dada), Friday, 15 September 2006 12:33 (eighteen years ago)

I'll wait for the US remake.

― StanM (StanM), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:00 (eighteen years ago)

one month passes...

"'m sure this is going to be on itv really soon so why oh why is it filling every cinema in london?

-- 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.

― EComplex (EComplex), Sunday, 22 October 2006 21:11 (eighteen years ago)

Final Primal Suspect, last night:

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

BOOM F BOOM!!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 23 October 2006 06:21 (eighteen years ago)

Blair's turnabout was unconvincing (which, maybe, mirrored reality - but we're never given a sense of why he's suddenly such a Royalist). Perhaps that's a British thing, understanding why anyone could support the monarchy, living through Diana's death and so on. Other than that, fantastic. Very funny at times.

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

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 30 October 2006 19:55 (eighteen years ago)

two months pass...

From the other thread I started before I knew this one existed:

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?

― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:38 (eighteen years ago)

Helen Mirren is fxcking sexy.

― Je4nn3 Fuhfuh (Je4nne Fury), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 18:42 (eighteen years ago)

So, apart from Helen Mirren apparently being frumpishly hawt, no one has insights into my question?

― peepee (peepee), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:22 (eighteen years ago)

Supposedly, the writer (Peter Morgan?) had a slew of unnamed sources who were coroborrated by other unnamed sources who told him what happened or the general feeling that would help him fill in the blank spots.

I'm surprised how much I really enjoyed it.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:31 (eighteen years ago)

Which source should we blame for the Symbolic Stag?

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.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:36 (eighteen years ago)

the Symbolic Stag was kind of weak.

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.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 22:52 (eighteen years ago)

Yep, not spectacular but more enjoyable than I thought it would be, classy and quite interesting. That's all I have to say, really.

― chap (chap), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 23:00 (eighteen years ago)

Summary: Person seems out-of-touch with the cares and feelings of the general public, makes a speech on TV, the General public go "Ahh, she's OK really, let's not lynch her."

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

― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 25 January 2007 09:09 (eighteen years ago)

Don't encourage Channel 4. I wouldn't put it past them to do a Jade biopic.

― JTS (JTS), Friday, 26 January 2007 01:18 (eighteen years ago)

why do people make a fuss about Frears?

― jed_ (jed), Friday, 26 January 2007 01:48 (eighteen years ago)

i think you're forgetting about a little film called 'the hi-lo country'

― roger goodell (gear), Friday, 26 January 2007 01:56 (eighteen years ago)

The Grifters was great. I'm also a fan of High Fidelity.

― The Ultimate Conclusion (lokar), Friday, 26 January 2007 02:01 (eighteen years ago)

dirty pretty things, high fidelity, sammy and rosie get laid, my beautiful laundrette, prick up your ears....these are all great movies

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 26 January 2007 03:49 (eighteen years ago)

although i somehow had never known about the hi lo country until now. it looks great also

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 26 January 2007 03:51 (eighteen years ago)

what a piece of shit

― a.b. (alanbanana), Monday, 5 February 2007 00:39 (eighteen years ago)

mirren can make dignifed the most pulp goop availble, the problem with this is how lurid they were trying to go, the tone was inconsitent

― pinkmoose (jacklove), Monday, 5 February 2007 00:41 (eighteen years ago)

this looks like a horrible tv movie

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Monday, 5 February 2007 03:39 (eighteen years ago)

Scottish highland porn was enjoyable, but it's very forgettable otherwise.

― milo z (mlp), Monday, 5 February 2007 06:51 (eighteen years ago)

One of those movies that couldn't really have been any better or worse. It just sort of sits there being what it is. It's sort of the "I don't really care much one way or the other" BP nominee of the year -- see Brokeback Mountain, Sideways, Gosford Park.

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?

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:08 (eighteen years ago)

On the other hand, United 93 sure helps me understand what it's like to be a Brit.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:10 (eighteen years ago)

I don't think Gosford Park was nominated for BP, was it?

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.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:12 (eighteen years ago)

Yes, it was.

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.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:15 (eighteen years ago)

you alright, jaymc?

― roger goodell (gear), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

i was surprised to see the SUV scene in 'gosford park', considering it takes place in the early '30s.

― roger goodell (gear), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:16 (eighteen years ago)

Har har.

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:17 (eighteen years ago)

you see what i did there, right? : D

― roger goodell (gear), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:18 (eighteen years ago)

gosford park is great, i thought everyone loved it.

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

― geoff (gcannon), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:18 (eighteen years ago)

Ha, Gear. Yeah, I guess it was. I thought that Altman's nomination was one of those ones where an auteur director gets nominated even though his film doesn't.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

you alright, jaymc?

Ha, the encyclopedia lost a page.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:20 (eighteen years ago)

GEAR IS NU ILX'S NEW ENCYCLOPEDIA BROWN

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

i thought everyone loved it

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

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:21 (eighteen years ago)

I'm not really arguing against The Queen or Gosford Park, I'm just saying they're sort of meh to me.

― Eric H. (Eric H.), Thursday, 8 February 2007 00:22 (eighteen years ago)

six months pass...

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.

― Mark G, Monday, 3 September 2007 08:46 (seventeen years ago)

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.

― Ned Trifle II, Monday, 3 September 2007 08:54 (seventeen years ago)

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.

― Surmounter, Monday, 3 September 2007 08:56 (seventeen years ago)

Good punchline yhup!

"Your majesty, you will be going out live"

PLEASE DO NOT SWEAR!!!!

― Mark G, Monday, 3 September 2007 09:10 (seventeen years ago)

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.

― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 08:52 (seventeen years ago)

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

― Alan, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 10:18 (seventeen years ago)

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

― Alan, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 10:19 (seventeen years ago)

ten months pass...

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

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 17 July 2008 04:24 (sixteen years ago)

she looks fucking amazing.

― Surmounter, Thursday, 17 July 2008 04:43 (sixteen years ago)

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

― yungblut, Thursday, 17 July 2008 04:45 (sixteen years ago)

incredible!

― jed_, Tuesday, 22 July 2008 17:19 (sixteen years ago)

one month passes...

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.

― velko, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:19 (sixteen years ago)

i so want to race rails with helen mirren

― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:20 (sixteen years ago)

I so want to race rails on helen mirren

― Noodle Vague, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:27 (sixteen years ago)

― milo z, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:39 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Child of the 70's-80's, Tuesday, 2 September 2008 17:43 (sixteen years ago)

seven months pass...

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

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 05:53 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Kevin John Bozelka, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 06:02 (sixteen years ago)

OK, I quite enjoyed it myself.

Still....

― Mark G, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 07:15 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 08:09 (sixteen years ago)

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

― Myonga Vön Bontee, Tuesday, 7 April 2009 08:17 (sixteen years ago)

five months pass...

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

― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 18 September 2009 01:20 (fifteen years ago)

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

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

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Friday, 18 September 2009 01:24 (fifteen years ago)

She definitely does it for me.

― Bill Magill, Friday, 18 September 2009 15:23 (fifteen years ago)

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

― Mark G, Friday, 18 September 2009 15:53 (fifteen years ago)

don't spoil this for me man

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Friday, 18 September 2009 15:55 (fifteen years ago)

what's yr man doing?

― Mark G, Friday, 18 September 2009 15:56 (fifteen years ago)

which yr man?

― What are the benefits of dating a younger guy, better erections? (darraghmac), Friday, 18 September 2009 15:57 (fifteen years ago)

two years pass...

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

― scott seward, Saturday, 14 July 2012 17:18 (twelve years ago)

three years pass...

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

― johnny crunch, Sunday, 3 April 2016 17:02 (nine years ago)

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

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 3 April 2016 17:13 (nine years ago)

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

― a little too mature to be cute (Aimless), Sunday, 3 April 2016 17:53 (nine years ago)

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

OOPS SPOILER ALERT!

― Mark G, Sunday, 3 April 2016 23:26 (nine years ago)

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.

― mirostones, Monday, 4 April 2016 15:25 (nine years ago)

nine months pass...

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

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 19:42 (eight years ago)

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).

― Kiarostami bag (milo z), Wednesday, 1 February 2017 22:23 (eight years ago)

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

― Number None, Wednesday, 1 February 2017 23:09 (eight years ago)

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