“The King’s Speech looks like a perfect Oscar movie, but it’s not any more. I’m not confident in that. Even though it plays much funnier and lighter and not so stuffy as you might think, It doesn’t seem like a movie of the moment, whereas The Social Network does.” — TheWrap columnist Steve Pond speaking to Gold Derby‘s Tom O’Neil.
And yet, Pond adds, “Is The Social Network the movie of the moment for most Academy members, or is it the movie of the moment for people who are younger?
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