The Queen

The review puts the film into its context pretty well. I won't bother to inflict a cinematic outing on myself to see it, but I'll look out for it when it comes round on cable. Friends went to see it and went ga-ga about the Queen/Prince Philip dynamic. From the trailers, Mirren seems to be posing as a thespian's idea of what a Queen should be - perhaps too much trying to be Elizabeth I again. This Queen has, I'm assured, a roaring sense of humour and I can't imagine that she herself was as out of touch as has been asserted. Her various courtiers and advisors, yes - they could probably outroyal and outpomp the monarchy - but having the sort of grandchildren she had, and has, a liking for popular television, and an unrelenting morning briefing on international affairs, it's simplistic to assume that the Queen is out of touch. Monarchy irrelevant, yes. The Queen in some glass case? Not a bit.
 
I'm not a Royalist or an apologist for the remnants of monarchy still attached to our society, Brian, but you know very well she is hardly out of touch with what's going on. Why, I believe that she has been heard to reproach overexuberant Corgis with 'shuddafuggup, ya skankin' bastids, awight?' in an amusingly Estuarine accent. Surely proof, if proof is needed, that all's well with the House of Windsor.
 
If out of touch means being unable to understand the ridiculous national outpouring of grief that occurred then count me in too.
 
Seen it, and thought it was mediocre at best, although Helen Mirren is superb.

Watched Children Of Men last night and thought it was very good.
 
I nearly lost me job when Diana died because I was working in a Fish and Chip shop att he time and the owner wanted to close for the funeral "out of respect". I asked if I would still get paid as I didn't kill her.
 
Originally posted by Gareth Flynn@Oct 17 2006, 09:19 AM
If out of touch means being unable to understand the ridiculous national outpouring of grief that occurred then count me in too.
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Ah but you are Irish - we all know what you would have all been like had it been Dana :lol:
 
It won't be the first time I've mentioned it, and probably not the last either but with all sport cancelled on the day of the funeral I caught an early flight to Dublin and a late flight back to go racing at Fairyhouse.
 
It was a tasteless 'roadside shrine' event on a national scale. When people started leaving soft toys along with the millions of flowers I really wanted to throw up. All part of what one journalist called 'the new Infantilism' (much later, at an emotional distance safe enough not to get himself lynched) and, yes, I'm with Gareth and the Royals if they failed to understand or ally themselves with the 'national mood'.
 
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