The Imitation Game

[Gob]

Just seen it as my birthday treat, or at least one of them.

Utterly captivating movie, highly recommended.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2084970/

[Guinevere]

Totally on my list. The swede saw it yesterday and wasn't thrilled. I hope to find the time - and a theater - to see this and Theory of Everything in the same or consecutive days. A day/weekend o Brit geniuses!

Mom and I saw Unbroken today. Every bit as good as the book. Every bit as brutal as I recalled and maybe a bit more because of visualizing it. I am sure the film, the actor who played Louie, and Angelina will receive Oscar nominations.

[Big RR]

Let me know what you think abut The Theory of Everything; I saw it a couple of weeks ago and have mixed feelings. I won't spoil it for you by posting them now.

[Lord Jim]

I definitely want to see The Imitation Game, it looks excellent...

I'm very interested in the subject matter, and have read several books on it. (I hope the film also gives proper credit to the Polish cryptologists for the work they did in the 30's on breaking Enigma, which they provided to British Intelligence just prior to the outbreak of the war in 1939)

[Big RR]

I hope it will be better than the movie "Enigma" a few years back, that basically recreated Turing as another (heterosexual) character (why was not really evident). The few trailers I've seen make it look like it might well be good.

[MajGenl.Meade]

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[Gob]

Totally on my list. The swede saw it yesterday and wasn't thrilled. .

What wasn't thrilling about it for him Guin?

[BoSoxGal]

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[Guinevere]

Gob --- his view is captured in this review he sent me --- "To anyone trying to turn this story into a movie, the choice seems clear: either you embrace the richness of Turing as a character and trust the audience to follow you there, or you simply capitulate, by reducing him to a caricature of the tortured genius. The latter, I’m afraid, is the path chosen by director Morten Tyldum and screenwriter Graham Moore in The Imitation Game, their new, multiplex-friendly rendering of the story."

I note, he is not a Sherlock fan.

[Gob]

Reasonable review. It was always going to be a fine line. I still found Turing/Sherlock believable though.

[Lord Jim]

So is this a movie that focuses primarily on Turing dealing with his sexuality rather than the story of the cracking of the Enigma code?

If that's the case, then it just became a whole lot less interesting...

Movies about people dealing with their sexuality, (homosexual or heterosexual) don't make the top of my "must see" list...

[MajGenl.Meade]

Bottom?

[liberty]

Totally on my list. The swede saw it yesterday and wasn't thrilled. I hope to find the time - and a theater - to see this and Theory of Everything in the same or consecutive days. A day/weekend o Brit geniuses!

Mom and I saw Unbroken today. Every bit as good as the book. Every bit as brutal as I recalled and maybe a bit more because of visualizing it. I am sure the film, the actor who played Louie, and Angelina will receive Oscar nominations.

Guin, did Billy Graham make it into the movie; I heard all the religious stuff was cut. Louie himself credited Billy Graham’s crusade with saving his life. He said he was so full of bitterness and hatred that he was drinking himself to death. When he was saved he was able to forgive his enemies and find peace.

[Guinevere]

The movie essentially ends with Louie returning home, then there is some text after with photos that explains he found forgiveness and met with all his captors (except the Bird, who refused). I can't remember if Billy Graham was mentioned, maybe? If so, it was very quick.

[Big RR]

So is this a movie that focuses primarily on Turing dealing with his sexuality rather than the story of the cracking of the Enigma code?

If that's the case, then it just became a whole lot less interesting...

Movies about people dealing with their sexuality, (homosexual or heterosexual) don't make the top of my "must see" list...

Jim--no, the sexuality of the character does not have to become a major part of the story, nor need the movie become a soap opera. However, ignoring a part of someone's character to somehow make him more palatable to the general public is wrong if the movie purports to reset a historical person IMHO.

FWIW, that's the problem I had with The theory of Everything; from everything I've heard about him (and from his ex-wife's book upon which the movie is supposedly based), Hawkings is a pretty arrogant jerk; IMHO this was played down quite a bit in the movie to make him more accessible to the public (and perhaps because he had something to do with the movie?). In amy event, he comes off as a different (and somewhat less interesting) character.

[Gob]

So is this a movie that focuses primarily on Turing dealing with his sexuality rather than the story of the cracking of the Enigma code?

Nope it's Turing as a whole person, so it's about him from a schoolboy to his suicide, but obviously the majority (90%) of the movie is about the cracking of enigma.

[Lord Jim]

Well that sounds good then, an historical biographical film should show all elements of the subject being featured.

I just wasn't interested in going to see a soap opera...

[oldr_n_wsr]

I broke down and went to the movies this weekend and saw "Unbroken". It got a little "long in the tooth" at times but it didn't suck.