15 Most Overrated Movies Of The Decade (So Far)
14. The Kings Speech
Five years on, and it's now frankly embarrassing that The King's Speech won Best Picture at the 83rd Academy Awards. Not only did this piece of curated Oscar bait not deserve that (nor the accompanying Best Director statue), it didn't even deserve to sit alongside the strongest set of nominees in recent memory (Inception, Black Swan, True Grit, The Social Network, 127 Hours and Winter's Bone, all much more deserved winners, were in contention that year).
Sure, the recent Oscars was chock full of thinly veiled movies angling for awards, but none were as blatant, nor as successful, as The King's Speech.
Colin Firth is oh-so British as King George VI, who must overcome a highly embarrassing stammer with the help of a commoner, Geoffrey Rush's Lionel Logue. That's already ticking the trifecta of England, royalty and class-divide, and throwing in a historically inaccurate, but contextually powerful, Churchill cameo just tops it off. Tom Hooper, who made Brian Clough's time at Leeds with deftness in The Damned United, directs in such a sage and stoic manner it's hard to get past how important the film thinks it is.