Movie Review: The Imitation Game

Happy New Year, everyone!

After months of agonizing waiting and trying to ignore other people’s reviews, I fiiiiiinally got to see The Imitation Game!!! The theater were in was sold out and had a line out the door (we had to stand in the cold to get tickets!), and even though we arrived very early, we had to sit on the third row because the theater was so full. Whoa, so much interest in this film!

( Spoilery discussion and review )

My other Benedict Cumberbatch reviews can be found here. :)

Movies I’ve Seen in 2014

All the movies I’ve seen this year so that I can keep track of them. Please ask if you’re interested in any of them! :)

Previous year: 2013

::: Animation :::

• Big Hero 6 (would love fanfic of this movie)


• The Boxtrolls


• Despicable Me 2


• Howl’s Moving Castle (because I read the book)


• How to Train Your Dragon 2


• Frozen


• The LEGO Movie


• The Penguins of Madagascar (review here)


• Planes

::: Documentaries :::

• The City Dark


• Cosmos (with Neil deGrasse Tyson; beautifully done)


• Disney’s Oceans


• Divorce Corp (terrifying)


• Free to Play


• Inequality for All


• The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz


• It’s a Girl


• Jodorowsky’s Dune


• Last Call at the Oasis (California droughts)


• Mission Blue


• Orgasm Inc.


• Pandora’s Promise (about the feasibility of nuclear power)


• The Paw Project (about declawed kitties, so sad)


• Pink Ribbon


• The Queen of Versailles (surprisingly affecting)


• The Revisionaries (about the Texas state school board censoring textbooks)


• Turtle Power: The Definitive History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (I’m a fan)

::: In-Theater Movies :::

• 300: Rise of an Empire


• The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (embarrassingly bad)


• August: Osage County


• Birdman (I don’t understand the hype about this one)


• Captain America: the Winter Soldier


• Dawn of the Planet of the Apes


• The Edge of Tomorrow (very enjoyable)


• Godzilla


• Gone Girl (twisty and lurid; kept me guessing)


• Guardians of the Galaxy (not a fan; review here)


• The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (with both Martin Freeman and Benedict Cumberbatch; review here)


• The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1


• Interstellar (a glorious sensual experience in IMAX)


• The Interview (rented from Amazon)


• Into the Woods (felt sanitized)


• The Imitation Game (review here)


• Maleficent


• Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom


• The Maze Runner (very enjoyable)


• The Neighbors


• Nightcrawler


• Noah


• Pride (with Andrew Scott; amazing--review here)


• The Raid 2 (amaaaaazing Indonesian action movie)


• Sin City: A Dame to Kill For


• TMNT / Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (horrific; childhood-destroying)


• X-Men: Days of Future Past

::: Other Films :::

• 22 Jump Street


• 47 Ronin


• About Time


• Admission (I love Tina Fey, though this wasn’t very funny)


• After Earth


• Anchorman 2


• The Babadook (amazing film, brilliant acting, not really horror)


• The Bachelor Weekend / The Stag (with Andrew Scott; review here)


• Bad Grandpa


• Bad Santa


• Behind the Candelabra


• The Bling Ring


• Boyhood (I admire that this was filmed over 12 years, but I didn’t enjoy it)


• Burton and Taylor


• Lee Daniels’ The Butler


• Byzantium


• Captain Phillips


• Carrie (the 2013 version)


• Citizen Kane (for Sherlocky purposes)


• The Counselor


• Diana (with Naomi Watts)


• Dumb and Dumber To


• East of Eden


• The Fault in Our Stars


• Foxcatcher (Channing Tatum is amazing; not so impressed with Steve Carell)


• Fruitvale Station


• The Grand Budapest Hotel


• The Host


• The Homesman (weird and different Western; I like the focus on problems women had on the frontier)


• Horns (with Daniel Radcliffe; review here)


• The Incredible Burt Wonderstone


• Inside Llewyn Davis


• Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit


• Jersey Boys


• Kill Your Darlings (with Daniel Radcliffe)


• Lawless


• Legacy (2013 BBC movie, with Andrew Scott)


• Locke (review here)


• Lovelace


• Midnight’s Children


• A Million Ways to Die in the West (not funny)


• Muppets Most Wanted


• Nativity (with Martin Freeman)


• The Normal Heart (aww, Matt Bomer; review here)


• Oblivion


• Only Lovers Left Alive


• On the Road


• Oldboy (not nearly as good as the Korean version)


• The One I Love (yay, Elizabeth Moss!)


• Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters


• Philomena


• Ride Along


• Robot and Frank (very cute)


• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty


• Side Effects


• Snowpiercer


• Think Like a Man (I love Kevin Hart)


• Tusk (viscerally disgusting)


• We’re the Millers


• White Christmas (1954, with Bing Crosby)


• The Zero Theorem (almost didn’t make it through this one)

::: Film (Non-English) :::

• Back to 1942 (Chinese)


• L’Homme Qui Rit (French)


• Headhunters (Norwegian; directed by Morten Tyldum, who directed The Imitation Game)

::: TV / Drama :::

• Animal Planet’s My Cat From Hell (with Jackson Galaxy)


• Bates Motel


• Bob’s Burgers


• Brooklyn 99


• The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (basically how I get my news nowadays)


• Doctor Who (with Peter Capaldi)


• Fargo (with Martin Freeman)


• Fleming: The Man Who Would Be Bond (Lara Pulver is in this!)


• House of Cards (season 2, amazing)


• Last Week Tonight with John Oliver


• Orange is the New Black (season 2, amazing)


• South Park


• White Collar (the final season…*sobs*)