cubanmiamiboy Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I went last night to see this. keira Nightley is on it, so aside from her fixated, predictable onscreen demeanor for period films, it is a great final product. I envision Academy Award nominations and winnings for Benedict Cumberbatch as Alan Turing. Link to comment
Helene Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 I'm up for a movie about smart people. I just realized Matthew Goode is in it. (The actor who plays Finn Palmer on "The Good Wife." Will who?) Link to comment
sandik Posted January 3, 2015 Share Posted January 3, 2015 My partner saw it and liked it -- I've only seen the trailer. I do think that there are nominations out there for BC. Link to comment
dirac Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Thanks for posting, cubanmiamiboy. Surefire Oscar bait, indeed. Turing v. Hawking, played by the latest hot young Brit actors. Perhaps they will cancel each other out? Link to comment
Helene Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Like Richard Chamberlain and Michael York in "The Three Musketeers"? Link to comment
cubanmiamiboy Posted January 5, 2015 Author Share Posted January 5, 2015 Spoiler alert: Expect NIghtley's ever present "period" faces... Link to comment
sandik Posted January 5, 2015 Share Posted January 5, 2015 Like Richard Chamberlain and Michael York in "The Three Musketeers"? Oh, but I loved that film -- Richard Lester was so good with chaos. (we still quote King Louis in my family: "see the tears?") Link to comment
dirac Posted May 5, 2015 Share Posted May 5, 2015 Finally saw this. Very disappointed, I regret to say. Loaded with cliches. Turing deserved better. Cumberbatch was all right, given what he had to play. The screenwriter, Gerald Moore, gave a touching speech at the Academy Awards. I didn't realize it would be better than most of what he contributed to the picture. Link to comment
SandyMcKean Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Cumberbatch was nothing short of brilliant.....IMHO. Link to comment
Helene Posted May 6, 2015 Share Posted May 6, 2015 Cumberbatch might have been brilliant in the material he was given, but the material he was given was hardly so. I loved his performance and enjoyed the movie as a formula, but I had to treat it like a fictional account to do so. (Like in "The Hunt for Red October," there was plenty of male eye candy here.) There's a big difference between robbing a book, when the original source is still there, and misrepresenting a real person and making it into a sob story, when what happened to him was morally reprehensible and deserved more than a placard at the end. Hollywood has little faith in the dramatic appeal of real, but more subtle and incremental, progress that doesn't lend itself to the standard soundtracks. But I knew that going in and took it as a "based on a true story" movie. Link to comment
dirac Posted May 7, 2015 Share Posted May 7, 2015 Historical dramas are in some ways far less egregious than they used to be and are held to higher standards generally these days. Given that the truth in this case was already dramatic enough, it was disheartening to see what was substituted for it, and I saw no particular reason to issue the movie a pass. I like Cumberbatch very well indeed but given the misleading treatment of Turing as a person I wouldn't say he was worth the price of admission. Link to comment
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