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The Imitation Game

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Saturday, January 3, 2015 3:37 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


The Imitation Game - is a neat, bundle of spy vs spy meets a Beautiful Mind. Based on the true story of the modern day father of computers. It's about Alan Turing, a little-known mathematician scholar with the social grace of a bull in a china shop, who has a secret of his own. He devises a machine that the film suggests cut 2 years off bloody WWII.

Excellent film, solid acting, good script and spot-on direction. Cumberbatch deserves an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the misunderstood mathematical genius.



SGG

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Saturday, January 3, 2015 12:38 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.


It's on my list to see, but hasn't made it to my town yet. The Oscar nominations will be announced in twelve days, and if it gets several then it might.



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Saturday, January 3, 2015 2:07 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
The Imitation Game - is a neat, bundle of spy vs spy meets a Beautiful Mind. Based on the true story of the modern day father of computers. It's about Alan Turing, a little-known mathematician scholar with the social grace of a bull in a china shop, who has a secret of his own. He devises a machine that the film suggests cut 2 years off bloody WWII.

Excellent film, solid acting, good script and spot-on direction. Cumberbatch deserves an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the misunderstood mathematical genius.



SGG


Alan Turing is little known? Really?
Perhaps the most publicly known Smith's Prize winner ever?
Did CNN forget to provide Breaking news coverage of the anniversary of his accomplishments, and then the White House also failed to provide you with Talking Points about how racist and homophobic he was?

Imitation Game was supposed to be released on Christmas Day, but I have not yet found it showing near me, ditto with American Sniper. I didn't know it was about Turing.

Nice to see a studio copy of Beautiful Mind, itself a consequence of Apollo 13.

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Saturday, January 3, 2015 4:22 PM

THGRRI



Alan Turing receives royal pardon

Alan Turing, code-breaker castrated for homosexuality, receives royal pardon

Alan Turing, a British code-breaker during World War II, has received a royal pardon nearly 60 years after he committed suicide.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/12/24/world/europe/alan-turing-royal-pardon/in
dex.html



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Saturday, January 3, 2015 5:34 PM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.


Even though he's been in the news again recently due to that pardon, I would still say that Turing is not that well known a personality. Ask random people on the street about him or the Turing Test and I doubt if 5% would know what you're talking about.



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Sunday, January 4, 2015 6:21 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


Gee, let me see. How should I respond to your usual rhetoric and sophomoric attempt to humiliate and disparage.

The Weinstein brothers produced a gem, maybe not a blockbuster of a film, but a jewel sitting atop a heap of trash that's out there recently. It reminds me of the King's Speech. A piece of history overlooked by most American/Hollywood churning machines.

I heard the remarks of an Italian filmmaker today on Public Broadcasting (WNET) and I quote, "In America you use films to make money, in Italy we use money to make films."

As far as CNN is concerned, I don't watch it. As far as White House Talking Points, answer me this: Did the Bush Administration ever send you their Talking Points?
As far as Turing being a racist and homophobe, that was not in the movie, and I don't know enough about his life to comment on that. Apparently, you do.

As to his accomplishments and fame, I refer you to EC Gordon's reply on this thread, he puts it more eloquently than I ever could.


SGG


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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
Quote:

Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
The Imitation Game - is a neat, bundle of spy vs spy meets a Beautiful Mind. Based on the true story of the modern day father of computers. It's about Alan Turing, a little-known mathematician scholar with the social grace of a bull in a china shop, who has a secret of his own. He devises a machine that the film suggests cut 2 years off bloody WWII.

Excellent film, solid acting, good script and spot-on direction. Cumberbatch deserves an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of the misunderstood mathematical genius.

As far as CNN is concerned, I don't watch it. As far as White house Talking Points, answer me this: Did the Bush Administration ever send you their Talking Points?
As far as Turing being a racist and homophobe, that was not in the movie, and I don't know enough about his life to comment on that. Apparently, you do.


SGG


Alan Turing is little known? Really?
Perhaps the most publicly known Smith's Prize winner ever?
Did CNN forget to provide Breaking news coverage of the anniversary of his accomplishments, and then the White House also failed to provide you with Talking Points about how racist and homophobic he was?

Imitation Game was supposed to be released on Christmas Day, but I have not yet found it showing near me, ditto with American Sniper. I didn't know it was about Turing.

Nice to see a studio copy of Beautiful Mind, itself a consequence of Apollo 13.


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Sunday, January 4, 2015 6:32 AM

SHINYGOODGUY


You will not be disappointed, it is a good film, solid, well-directed and entertaining to boot.

SGG


Quote:

Originally posted by ecgordon:
It's on my list to see, but hasn't made it to my town yet. The Oscar nominations will be announced in twelve days, and if it gets several then it might.




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Sunday, January 4, 2015 8:43 AM

SECOND

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two


Quote:

Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY:
Gee, let me see. How should I respond to your usual rhetoric and sophomoric attempt to humiliate and disparage.

On Christmas Eve, there was something other than jolly laughter sailing on the night sky. . .
Xena, Warrior Princess, riding a sleigh that's being pulled by the cast of Firefly.
http://mevthedreamer.deviantart.com/art/Artjam-firefly-Xena-sleigh-504
732421


An artjam takes three random subjects and combine them in one piece of art somehow.
"How many members of the crew were there? How many reindeer does Santa have? Perfect."

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly

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Monday, February 23, 2015 12:12 AM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by ecgordon:
Even though he's been in the news again recently due to that pardon, I would still say that Turing is not that well known a personality. Ask random people on the street about him or the Turing Test and I doubt if 5% would know what you're talking about.


The same amount would not know who the Vice President is.
We can all agree Turing is not a Kardashian. But we can also agree that Kardashian followers and other equally brilliant Obama voters won't see this film, cannot use computers, and also likely think that facebook or iFruit is a computer. And have no clue how close they came to speaking native German or Japanese, if they were ever even born.


I enoyed the subject matter, but the film could have been put together better. Seemed tailored for the ADHD crowd.

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Monday, February 23, 2015 11:40 AM

ECGORDON

There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.


I still haven't seen it, but might this week.

JSF, you earlier stated that Turing was a racist and a homophobe. How can one be both a homosexual and a homophobe?

Also, I have to wonder whether it is difficult or easy to live in such a black and white world as you do? I'll add Auraptor to that question as well. In another thread he criticized The Theory of Everything for trying to humanize Stephen Hawking. You can't humanize someone who is already human, but you can dehumanize them by putting them into a category based on self-defined parameters. That is what is most wrong with the political climate today. People demonize others that hold different values as themselves, rather than trying to find common ground and work toward solutions to the problems facing the country that both sides love.

Do you actually place Kardashian lovers and Obama supporters in the same group? If so, how do you come to that assessment? For the record, I am not an Obama supporter, didn't vote for him either time, but neither did I vote for the Republican candidate. It was the Libertarian in 2008 and a write-in vote for 2012. These days in Texas, voting Democrat is as useful as not voting at all. My dislike for some of Obama's policies at this point just about balances with my dislike of those of George W. Bush.

Centrists like myself just can't win in either case.



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Monday, February 23, 2015 10:46 PM

JEWELSTAITEFAN


Quote:

Originally posted by ecgordon:
I still haven't seen it, but might this week.

JSF, you earlier stated that Turing was a racist and a homophobe.


incorrect. Please read more carefully when characterizing others, such as me in this instance - we expect more of you.
My mentio was of what the White House under Obama would say, being always the opposite of truth, and always attributing racism and homophobia to all except the racists and homophobes.
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How can one be both a homosexual and a homophobe?

Also, I have to wonder whether it is difficult or easy to live in such a black and white world as you do? I'll add Auraptor to that question as well. In another thread he criticized The Theory of Everything for trying to humanize Stephen Hawking. You can't humanize someone who is already human, but you can dehumanize them by putting them into a category based on self-defined parameters. That is what is most wrong with the political climate today. People demonize others that hold different values as themselves, rather than trying to find common ground and work toward solutions to the problems facing the country that both sides love.

Do you actually place Kardashian lovers and Obama supporters in the same group? If so, how do you come to that assessment? For the record, I am not an Obama supporter, didn't vote for him either time, but neither did I vote for the Republican candidate.


ditto. Could not vote for the most liberal on the ballot, and couldn't vote for Bobo either - both times.
Remember that voting for a non-write-in provides electoral funding in the next election for the alternate parties, voting for a write-in evaporates any future support.
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It was the Libertarian in 2008 and a write-in vote for 2012. These days in Texas, voting Democrat is as useful as not voting at all. My dislike for some of Obama's policies at this point just about balances with my dislike of those of George W. Bush.

Centrists like myself just can't win in either case.


ditto.
again.

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