The Imitation Game (2014 D: Morten Tyldum, S: Cumberbatch, Knightley)
 

Surprised there wasn't a script on this earlier. About Alan Turing and cracking the Enigma machine. It was on the Blacklist in 2011 or so, good script.

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This is getting some Oscar buzz, but then again, so did The Fifth Estate.

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Yeah but the movie itself is getting oscar buzz, the Fifth Estate never had that.

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Great reviews so far, 85% on RT. I'm seeing it on Thursday.

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Forgot I created this thread. Hope to see it this coming weekend.

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Saw it tonight. Fantastic movie, a leading awards contender for sure. Cumberbatch with by far the best performance of his career and has as good a chance at winning the Best Actor Oscar as any other contender. Best Picture contender too.

I got "A Beautiful Mind" vibe while watching this because of the similar story (biopic about a tortured mathematical genius). IMO, Imitation Game is better than A Beautiful Mind. As we know, "Mind" went on to win BP, Best Actor, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actress. I wouldn't be surprised if The Imitation Game took home all those awards.

Probably won't be my favorite movie of the year, but a Top 5 spot seems certain.

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I'm sure it's the "recency effect" but this was the best movie I've seen in 2014. Just a great performance by Cumberbatch. I too got the A Beautiful Mind vibe but that's one of my favorite movies so that wasn't a bad thing.

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This is the one movie from this season I'm most anxious to see. But since I don't go out to the movies unless I absolutely have to (other people needing something to do), I'll be anxiously waiting for it to hit Bd.

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Just got back from it, one of my favorites of the year for sure.

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Agreed with you on all points. This was an incredible movie. It's my #2 of the year, behind only Boyhood.

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I'm not really a Benedict Cumberbatch fan, but I wanted to see a film about Alan Turing and his efforts to beat the Enigma machine in WWII, so off I went.

The film, overall, is buoyed by Cumberbatch's performance of the eccentric Turing, and the supporting cast (Mark Strong, Keira Knightley, and Matthew Goode) is solid. The script gives the viewer insight to Turing's past, how it shapes his personality, and the race against the clock to use his mind to overcome the odds in decrypting the German's Enigma machine which allowed them to broadcast war plans and directives without the Allies being able to comprehend them. Each day lost in decryption failure meant lives were lost to the war.

I give it 3.5 stars, or a grade of B+.

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Loved this. Of all the movies likely to be nominated for a Best Picture Oscar, I hope this wins. I hope Richard Linklater gets the Oscar for Best Director though. If he doesn't I'm hoping Boyhood gets Best Picture even though I liked The Imitation Game more. Its just Linklater getting award recognition is so long overdue.

Also it bums me out that this thread hasn't even managed a second page yet.

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Non fanboy movies don't get much traction here. Upload a Star Wars trailer and you'll get 10 pages though! :D

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:lol: Ain't that the truth. No wonder people have a hard time finding the good movies if they don't live in a big city, but by God, any stupid bullshit with explosions, car chases or monsters in it will be on 3,500 screens.

I have never cared for Cumberbatch. But I saw this anyway, and it was incredibly good. Glad I didn't let my distaste for the lead actor scare me off.

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Yeah that stuff drives me nuts too but it makes sense, people like spending money to see spectacles on the big screen, Imitation Game probably loses very little from being watched on a home theater versus say Gravity which loses everything when viewed on a smaller TV.

My local AMC actually does have this. Once these movies get some Oscar buzz, they usually get a little more distribution, even if only briefly. But yeah, they're always claiming that big movie X made a bajillion dollars on 3,500 screens whereas little art house movie #7 only made a little bit when it's only playing 50 miles from nowhere. Skews the hell out of the box office, I'll bet.

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Hmmm...The Boyhood thread has 5 or so pages.

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Saw this on Sunday. Really, really liked it. Well made, well acted and interesting. Added bonus : saw it in our new local theaters with assigned seating and electric recliners = Awesome.

Loved that not only was Charles Dance in this, he plays his British commander exactly as Tywin Lannister, condescension, loathing and all. Any bonus Tywin is good news in my book -- and it actually worked well for this part.

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Saw this tonight. Completely sold out theater. Really great movie.

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Not my favorite movie of the year but well done overall.

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Saw this yesterday. Really well done movie. I liked it a lot. Great cast. Solid pacing. Great acting by all, Strong really really doesn't know how to act bad does he?

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Saw it. Very well made movie with great performances. Didn't know Turing Machines were the basis for modern computers. Amazing what this guy contributed. I hope we get to see more of Cumberbatch in mainstream releases, though I like him as Sherlock most of all.

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He's cast as Dr Strange. We'll keep seeing him in mainstream movies.

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He was in War Horse, Star Trek Into Darkness, 12 Years A Slave, Played Smaug in the Hobbit films (MoCap and voice), and other not as big attention roles.

Yeah. I really like it when actors like him and others (looking at you, Hiddleston) are able to a grand variation of roles.

....would be neat if Hiddleston and Cumberbatch meet up again in Infinity War possibly. They were enjoyable to see in War Horse.

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Didn't like this one at all. It played to every regurgitated Oscar bait cliche in the book, and it couldn't decide what kind of film it wanted to be. Is this about his life as a code breaker, or is it all about his homosexuality? The film seemed to play the latter close to the vest at times, then at others it wasn't nearly as inconspicuous. The flashbacks to his boyhood love brought only a sense of ennui, like we didn't know where that was going... and, consequently, it really went nowhere. All of the hackneyed scenes of discovery and conflict and quasi-romance felt like old hat. Then the ending, which glosses over what seems to be the most important part of his life's end by simply presenting a title card, makes it sound like the entire film was really about his sexuality. Was it? I feel like the whole "gay agenda" angle was simply a carrot dangling in front of Oscar voters' faces. The film barely touches upon all the persecution he endured, yet at the end we're supposed to be moved by events we hardly see? Blech.

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Looking back, one of the cornier elements was when the "it's the people we expect the least from..." line was uttered like ten times.

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Yea, my gf kept pointing that out. Ok, we get it Mr. Writer, you're really proud of that Hallmark line.

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Saw it today thought it was excellent, though I would have liked to learn more about the machine in the movie. One of those movies that falls apart a little after a while when you start scrutinizing it unlike Whiplash.

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Gonna see this tomorrow hopefully.

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While I thought it was well directed/acted/etc; the screenplay was pretty poor.

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i liked this movie very much. very Beautiful Mindish in the way it was shot and the music cues. similar all the way around. i wasn't that fond of ABM, but this i enjoyed a lot.

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It was too laid back for my taste, not cinematic enough, more like a Masterpiece TV series.

Didn't think the wrap around story of Turing being investigated for espionage worked at all. There's no mystery, the audience already knows what Turing was doing during the war, so all those present day scenes became unwelcome interruptions. If they wanted to have one scene at the beginning and end to frame the story, fine, but to keep cutting back to the cop's "investigation" was pointless.

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Saw this on Friday night, and expected an empty theater, but the theater was probably a third full.

I thought it was great. Cumberbatch was fantastic.

Funny aside: My kids wanted to see it because they're big Sherlock fans, but it's my philosophy to know as little as possible about a movie going in if I know I want to see it--and not to reveal anything to people I'm going with as well. My mother-in-law wasn't sure if she wanted to see it with us, so she asked what it was about. Not wanting to divulge much, I said "I think it's a historical drama." Of course my kids' red flags immediately went up. "What?! IT'S A HISTORICAL DRAMA?"

Turns out they loved it anyway, even being a historical drama! ;)

Thing is, I'd heard during Oscar buzz that Cumberbatch was playing Alan Turing, and despite not knowing anything else about the film, that told me plenty. I'd seen Derek Jacobi play Turing on the London stage many years ago in a show called Breaking the Code (recorded and released on DVD, thankfully). The treatments were pretty different--I don't remember Keira Knightley's character, or there being a team at all--but both performances were riveting. I guess I'm one of the few people for whom the character name was a pretty significant piece of advance information. :)

Not to mention, the phrase was such a mouthful that I had to read it on Wikipedia to figure out what they were exactly saying, though the gist of it was easy enough to figure out.

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Saw it. It was okay. I agree about that one line getting used too much. The jumps in time were just obnoxious. Knightly was great, as was Cumberbatch. And the guy from Alien 3.
The very last scene made me cringe due to the

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I really enjoyed the movie. I think Cumberbatch should be ahead of Eddie in the Oscar run (But if there were any justice Miles Tellar would win).

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It's a toss up between Michael Keaton and Eddie Redmayne at this point.

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I know.....Redmayne should get points deducted for his performance in Jupiter Ascending though. It would be nice to see Keaton win, but i still think Miles Tellar gave the best performance of the year in a leading role.

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Understandable.

I liked Miles Teller but something was missing from that performance for me, it was very good overall though. I didn't like Birdman but Keaton was great. I didn't like Theory of Everything but Redmayne did a good job. Benedict Cumberbatch was solid as Turing despite having to deliver some occasionally clunky dialog.

...man I sound picky as hell these days :lol:

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The deviations from what actually happened really irked me.
As a piece of fiction, it was a decent story; but "based on real events" quite terrible.
The fiction about Joan's puzzle solving skills being better than that of Turing, and the whole gay play at the end just made it seem like leftist propaganda.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Imi..._Game#Accuracy