The Theory of Everything

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Has anybody seen this yet? Saw it today. Eddie Redmayne is absolutely stunning. I highly recommend.

I thought it was brilliant, and Eddie Redmayne was incredible.

One of my friends went to see it last week. 2 days later she was at work and Stephen Hawking came down the corridor. As he went past she thought "wow, that's Eddie Redmayne". It took her a couple of minutes to realise....

I went to see it last night and really enjoyed it. Was a little disappointed to find out that Brian (his roommate) wasn't a real person but an amalgam of people.
Must be slightly odd to be one of his children and watch it although I suppose.
I cried a bit at the end

Ok, I have got to go and see this I've decided. My turn to choose the family movie!

I liked it. I know it's not going to be film of the year though.
The acting was good but if you know the Stephen Hawking story there are no suprised. The film just jogs along nicely.

I will go against the love in here and say I only found it okay.

Eddie Redmayne was amazing, a very impressive performance, and zi think the actor playing Jane was also strong.

However, there were too many holes - ie please explain why he is still surviving, that was just left hanging - and his work confused me. Not just because the subject is alien to me, but because they never really explained why he did an about face on his theory, why it was brilliant to believe one thing then the other and how you make a living from it?

And, given I pretty much knew the broad outline of the story I was expecting something more from this, and came out of the cinema feeling I had been presented with a perfectly packaged sanitised version of his life.

Cormorn the film was from Jane's perspective. The screenplay was from her autobiography and not from SH's POV.

That said you've more or less said the same as me, I liked it but no suprises and I know it's not going to be the best film of the year for me.

please explain why he is still surviving, that was just left hanging

I think that's art reflecting life.

This was a story about a relationship more than it was a biography.

Finally seen this. The very real life Roger Penrose was on the panel of a talk I attended - he was very gently teased by the other speakers about his portrayal on screen. So I really couldn't resist.

It was all rather lovely but, I have to agree, somewhat superficial. (Perhaps because they wanted the widest possible certification?) Eddie Redmayne was astonishing, Felicity Jones as lovely as ever and Maxine Peake utterly terrifying in the cold-hearted minx role.

I guess it's the view of England that's packaged for export. Everywhere beautiful, everyone poised and pretty and staggeringly polite. It needed more grit.

Can't read your thread because terrified it'll spoil it. I've been looking forward to this for ages. I'm going this weekend. Can't wait. Marking my place for once I've seen it. I enjoyed Benedict Cumberbatch. as Stephen Hawking in Hawking, so I think Eddie Redmayne is going to have to be extra special to beat it.

I don't think they are entirely sure why SH has lived so long, certainly there's nothing to say about it that would have added more clarity to the film. I read something with an ALS expert that suggested that he probably just had a 'lucky' variant' of the disease, possibly combined with good care.

It was certainly a bit of a soft-focus film, but you can't knock the performances, sets, cinematography or storytelling. I loved it. Although for the first half of it all I kept thinking was, "Oh I'm watching the British version of A Beautiful Mind". Incredibly similar films.

I thought Eddie Redmayne was excellent. I also saw the benedict cumberbach Hawking drama and Redmayne slightly steals it for me however I think the Cumberbach drama overall was a little better

We saw it at the weekend, I thought the film was really good, a bit lightweight when compared to the Imitation Game.

Annoyingly I had DH (physics masters) pointing out that the workings on the board were not quite right and/or hadn't actually been written at the time SH was at Cambridge. In the end I banned him from speaking and drank more wine.

We were not fans. The acting was good but it was possibly the cheesiest film we had ever seen.

fanjo - that was DH's view too, he was completely bored by it and thought it really cheesy.

I really liked it but thought it lacked depth, it could have been so much more than it was.