Pawn Sacrifice (2015, Zwick), Tobey Maguire stars as Bobby Fischer
09-20-15, 07:29 PM
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Pawn Sacrifice (2015, Zwick), Tobey Maguire stars as Bobby Fischer
I saw this movie yesterday and loved it. Tobey Maguire can of course do "wild-eyed manic" like no one else. The movie is a take on the life of Bobby Fischer. They somehow managed to make chess cinematically interesting, and the exploration of Fischer's mental illness was really well done.
Go see it.
09-20-15, 07:37 PM
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Re: Pawn Sacrifice (2015, Zwick), Tobey Maguire stars as Bobby Fischer
Yeah, I was surprised that a Zwick movie passed almost unnoticed, in addition to being written by Steven Knight (Dirty Pretty Things, Locke, Eastern Promises)
10-01-15, 09:43 AM
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Re: Pawn Sacrifice (2015, Zwick), Tobey Maguire stars as Bobby Fischer
Saw it earlier this week and I really didn't care for it at all. Maquire's performance was okay but I think he was miscast - he's too short to play Fischer, IMO, and lacked his physical presence. And, if I wasn't already very familiar with the story I'm pretty sure I would have been totally confused by the end.
