Holy Crap -

Hey Luis, it's a damn fine piece of cinematic brilliance - although we did miss a few of the opening previews but those mostly suck anyway (the exception being a preview for "American Sniper" (this is the flick Ghost was talking about above. I read the book which was awesome and if Clint captures on film even 1/10th of what Chris Kyle endured on his various deployments, he's going to have a blockbuster on his hands!).

However, the Imitation Game was pretty damn good too! The only quibble I might have is that A) it's too insulated - there's no sense of urgency in what they were doing AT Bletchley Park and it's just kinda taken as read that the audience knows this a-priori - being a history buff I did but that doesn't mean the rest of the world does! B) they're telling a half dozen stories in the movie so that in the end they never manage to effectively tell any of them. C) why didn't they actually tell the audience what, precisely, Turing was DOING that made his ENIGMA deciphering machines work? What the hell WAS that big thing with -what looked like - a bunch of spinning pneumatic tubes colored in earth tones and what was it doing to decipher the German military codes (we don't need the phone-book type dry, rote professorial lecture instructions but some techie to English translations would've gone a long way). It's almost as if the producers and directors decided that the audience would be too dumb to understand so they treat us like children the whole time.

Like I said though, these were minor quibbles. Otherwise it was a damn fine piece of film-making! I highly recommend seeing it!

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