nakahara wrote:

I love this one! Gorgeous Sherlock.

miriel68 wrote:

Zatoichi wrote:

Yes, with 8 Oscar nominations and great box office takings I think we can just forget about a few condescending critics..

I think in a while no one will remember all the smirky remarks and bias of many critics against TIG. Still, it is difficult to swallaw a wave of reviews such as this:

"The Imitation Game has numerous problems – there’s no focus, it lacks any interesting visuals or sounds, and the characters are mostly nonexistent. But most distressing is the fact that it utterly fails to engage with Turing’s ideas in any meaningful way, even as it sexes up the historical events he was involved in and attempts to change the strange but amiable Turing into some sort of bizarre combination of Cumberbatch’s Sherlock and Sheldon from The Big Bang Theory."
And while the same reviews criticises TTOE as well, in his opinion:

The film’s supporting cast makes at least some impression, which is more than can be said for The Imitation Game. There are even moments of genuine humour here and there.

Everyone has got a right to like/dislike a given movie. It doesn't take a genius, though, to see that the opinions such as above are based on pure spite.
The degree of aggressiveness against TIG is distressing and it makes me sad that the critics are so eager to find flaws in the film that somehow they are not interested in the movie's powerful ethic message.

Yes, everyone is free to express their opinion about the movie and point out the aspects that didn't quite work. But to say that BC wasn't any good as Turing - that's plain nonsense! I didn't see Benedict on the screen, nor did I see Sherlock, to me it was Turing.

I finally got to see TIG yesterday. It had been such a long wait and I was so emotional about this movie already before seeing it that I was afraid it could be a disappointment (you probably know how that happens sometimes when the expectations are really high). But luckily it lived up to all the expectations .

A movie critic wrote in an Austrian newspaper that TIG is a conventional historical movie with a simple story giving it only 3 stars out of 5. How could someone write that? In my opinion, it was nothing but that.

A very beautiful couple indeed. And they look so content and relaxed together.

I interpreted Sherlock's “not really my area“ as “I'm not into relationships”. As John continues asking if he has a boyfriend then, Sherlock starts to wonder if John is hitting on him – hence the look. Maybe he's a bit puzzled because he didn't think John was gay?
This is the way I see the scene but I know there are many more ways to see it .

An interesting article in the Daily Dot:

http://www.dailydot.com/opinion/benedict-cumberbatch-sherlock-sexiest-man-alive/

Do you agree with the analysis?

I'm from Finland, but living currently in Austria.

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tonnaree wrote:

Bronte89 wrote:

besleybean wrote:

As the kiss is from Anderson's fanatsy sequence...I'm not sure how much it tells us about anything!

 
I love it even though it's fake.

I in no way ship Sherlock/Molly, but that kiss was hot as all hell.

I don't ship them either but for me, it is the best movie kiss ever (even though it didn't really happen). I've watched it quite a lot of times and I would be lying if I said I haven't fantazised about it

This Is The Phantom Lady wrote:

I could watch gifs of him talking all day long... he is extremely expressive! 

Me too! I know what I'll be doing the next hour or so...