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The Imitation Game
Saturday, January 3, 2015 3:37 AM
SHINYGOODGUY
Saturday, January 3, 2015 12:38 PM
ECGORDON
There's no place I can be since I found Serenity.
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
Saturday, January 3, 2015 4:22 PM
THGRRI
Saturday, January 3, 2015 5:34 PM
Sunday, January 4, 2015 6:21 AM
Quote: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.
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
Sunday, January 4, 2015 6:32 AM
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.
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/folder/1uwh75oa407q8/Firefly
Quote:Originally posted by SHINYGOODGUY: Gee, let me see. How should I respond to your usual rhetoric and sophomoric attempt to humiliate and disparage.
Monday, February 23, 2015 12:12 AM
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.
Monday, February 23, 2015 11:40 AM
Monday, February 23, 2015 10:46 PM
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.
Quote: 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.
Quote: 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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