The Queen (2007)

This is a movie I never would think about viewing b/c it looks too boring. But I'll tell you I'm glad we changed our minds in line. We were going to see "Catch and Release", Marie loves Romantic Comedies but it looked like something you would look at in a dictionary under "romantic comdies". So I thought we would live a little and watch an old British lady entertain us for 2 hrs.

Honestly it was pretty good. The actress for the queen was excellent. It focuses on the time of Princess Diana's death, but not on Diana. The world always seems to bring her death up every year. Anyway, back to the movie, it is not long or drawn out like you think it would be like. Instead it has a good flow of drama on every corner. I had no idea how far disconnected the queen was from her nation. If it wasn't for Tony Blair I believe that country would have over thrown her. Why you ask..because the country wanted to morn publically while the queen was old school british where they morn in private in their own way. Respectable as it was, the nation had grown to love PD b/c she displayed her emotions in public and she was young as the nation around her so everyone loved her.

After about 5 days of Tony Blair trying to spell it out for the queen she finally made a public speech about the tragedy. Walking away from the movie you understand the queen's side as well as the nation's side. While this is too weird of a movie to add to my collection I will still watch it on HBO if it comes on and give it !!!!!!!! out of 10.