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An Honest Liar
An Honest Liar (2014)
9/10
Really enjoyed it, though I found latter parts a bit "too much"
5 August 2015
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I really enjoyed this documentary for the most part. The parts discussing his rise to fame in the skeptical community, early life, and antics are what make this documentary wonderful. If the documentary alone was more on these things, and maybe focused briefly on his more recent personal life I would have given it a 10. Honestly as much as I admire Randi and his life choices, I do think the documentary dragged way too much on his homosexual relationship. They build up to it, but focus far too much on it. Maybe if it spent 5 minutes on it or something that'd be great, but way too much time was spent on it when I would have loved to see more of the "side parts" where they discuss more of his historic attacks on charlatans. I know in the USA that's the "big thing", but it really seems out of place in an otherwise very well communicated, clear documentary that does him justice.

Strongly would recommend.
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The Best of Me
The Best of Me (2014)
6/10
Very manipulative movie, has some inconsistencies, I liked the actors
6 June 2015
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I watched this movie with my girlfriend and we were able to sit through it and enjoy the movie for what it was, but after we finished watching we just burst out in discussion about a lot of missed opportunities and strange inconsistencies in the film. The first thing that will grab your attention is one scene where they are talking while he tinkers with her car but puts his physics book down in the hood. You never see him remove it, so your mind races to think "hey maybe she'll give it to him later", but nope, never happens. On another note, it doesn't make sense to show one character to be drinking and about to drive, then in the very next scene have them go to the hospital due to an crash (drink and drive) that isn't that character, it's confusing.

The movie takes a misleading turn towards the end like they ripped your heart out, and showed it to you while they drank the blood with a straw. The ending was sad, but one thing at the end really left me disappointed as it was going for a good ending (and it tugs you towards this constantly), but no it slams your hand in the door on the way in.

I really enjoyed the performances of Tuck, the younger Dawson, and young Amanda. I really liked the way they went between time periods to unravel the story, but just it really derailed once they stopped doing that, and threw a curve ball right at your hip. I'd recommend it for the good bits, but I warn you that the inconsistent bits and the ending may feel very manipulative.
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The Imitation Game
The Imitation Game (2014)
1/10
Horribly inaccurate. Do not use as factual information
5 February 2015
There is a strong urge for me to create this spoiler-free review. Let me preface this. I'm a theoretical computer scientist, so somebody who does work in a very related area that was founded by Turing's work (use it almost daily). For a film that boasts that it is "based on a true story", it is a travesty to portray such a well- documented persons' life and the events related to this movie so inaccurately. The liberties taken by the film are so dishonest that nobody should use this as a factual story. Turing wasn't so simple to lay out, his papers are a testament to this.

If you want to get to know the actual story, get the actual biography the film is based off of, or even better (like I do), read his actual papers. I own most of them myself in collections from the 40's-50's.

Go into this film to enjoy the acting, DO NOT use this as a real- true story tale. It has been demonstrated to be very inaccurate from the history of the Enigma to overshadowing Turing's most important contributions with emotional pleas that Turing held more as self-convictions than anything. He was a brilliant scientist, but this film just was so annoying as the inaccuracies got in the way.

To make this blunt: This is the Patch Adams to films about mathematics and war. Totally inaccurate.

I give it 1/10 because the acting is great, for what they're attempting to do. Truth-telling makes or breaks it for me, a computer scientist. If you're a young computer scientist or interested in this subject, get a more reliable source. Not this film.
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Bad Words
Bad Words (2013)
10/10
Loved this movie!
26 April 2014
I saw this movie earlier today in theatres and it was so funny. I thought I would enjoy it and I wasn't disappointed. The movie rating for this movie should definitely be R though (has a ton of adult material in it). It is worth noting where I saw it, it was 14A, and not R (but is given as R here).

The humour worked and brought you in until the end. If you think it will just be a "kiddy poop" humour movie, you may be underestimating this movie and the way it manipulates its humour to the audience. It builds up a lot of good things while showing light into the characters. Characters felt genuine yet sometimes their exaggerated consequences. It made fun light to childish humour and brought it to a new level of creativity. Jason Bateman rocked in this movie. If you are looking for a good adult comedy that isn't scared to use anything to make you laugh in creative ways, you'll enjoy this.
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