'Time Bomb'
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Saw The Imitation Game. I liked it very much. I remarked to my sister that it was a terrible movie title. But when it was over, it made more sense.
Butterscones Crumpetcakes was great, as was everyone else. Charles Dance will have a hard time getting away from Tywin, though.
I just watched that too. I wasn't impressed, honestly. The movie is paced really strangely and feels more like a highlights reel than a cohesive film - it hit all the obligatory biopic notes and most of the obligatory Britain-in-WWII notes, but the framing device was muddled and awkward. The performances are strong mostly because everyone is playing to type. (There's Benedict Cumberbatch as a borderline autistic smart guy who solves puzzles! There's Charles Dance as the guy in charge of a powerful army who talks down to everyone! There's that guy from Downton Abbey as the guy people feel they can tell secrets to but is politically a little farther left than is socially acceptable at the time! And Keira Knightly, as the girl!)
And Keira Knightly, as the girl!
The brilliant girl.
I liked The Imitation Game, but did not love it. I feel like it would have been a better movie without the framing device and flashbacks. Those flashbacks were totally unncessary, right?? All I thought about during then was how impractical it was to have young boys in white pants. I am amazed that was such a hot property unproduced script. I can see how the story would be hot, but that script? Meh.
Maybe my reality-based drama metric is off kilter. I've been limiting myself to genre shows and movies for a couple of months due to my total disenchantment with reality.
I think my expectations were high, and was bound to be disappointed.
Which isn't to say, I didn't enjoy most of it. I would have been happy to watch a film that was set in the WWII era.
I ran across a really hilarious action sequence from the Indian movie Singham today: [link]
Capsule movie reviews for Man on Fire, Locke, Better Luck Tomorrow, The Amazing Spider-Man 2, Frailty, The Raid 2, Godzilla, The Fault in Our Stars, The Wolf of Wall Street, Jurassic Park III, In the Loop, Bride and Prejudice, Wall Street, and The Grand Budapest Hotel.
Oh, man, this is awesome. I thought it was for real at first: [link]