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Loving vs A united Kingdom


Which of the two films do you prefer and why?
Both stories are are obviously similar but takes from the reverse standpoint.
Personally I preferred A United Kingdom.
The story flowed better and it seemed more exciting.
There where lots of dull bits in Loving and Joel Edgerton seemed half asleep through most of it.

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I thought A United Kingdom was much more powerful than Loving. I really enjoyed that one, Loving not so much.

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I'm glad we have both.

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Damn both movies show just how effing stupid our species is. Rejecting a king because his wife's skin is not a dark enough shade? Putting people in jail for getting married? Both movies make no sense.

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That's the way it was in the USA in the 1950s and earlier.

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They're taking similar set ups, and doing wholly different things. A United Kingdom was a very standard sort of narrative movie, very by the numbers, Loving defied those same sorts of expectations at almost every turn. While Asante's movie sought to (not undeservedly) blow its scale up to gigantic, international proportions, Nichols' masterstroke was how he shunned everything else in order to keep his story focused on this family.

I liked Loving's approach infinitely more because it made for a far more interesting movie. A United Kingdom was a very good version of something we see so often, but Loving was something else all together.

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The story flowed better and it seemed more exciting.

I really enjoyed both but I thought A United Kingdom was too dramatic and I appreciate Loving's visible effort to stay restrained and treat the story as a historical one with a human element, rather than going for big melodrama

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