The Theory of Everything: Stephen Hawking biopic is immensely moving “I think I just used science to trick you into watching a movie about feelings!” I apologised to my fellow science-loving film-goer after leaving The Theory of Everything. Although, to be fair, the posters make it clear that this is not the big screen depiction of Stephen Hawking writing A Brief History of Time, this is the true …
I really want to see this along with the recent Turner and Turing flicks. My nearest cinema is a very long way from home and has seats with all the comfort of a Gitmo torture appliance. Why can't the distributors dump their cosy arrangement with the cinema chains on BRD/DVD release dates and sell them when willing punters are offering to buy them?
Forget about complaining and just torrent the stuff. They won't learn anyway.
As Mr. Orlowski says "Who would stick it to the artist?". Well, the potentially paying but seriously miffed public, that's who.
Really, I have recently:
1) Seen myself in the utter impossibility to legally obtain the LHC movie "particle fever" over the Internet because of "regional restrictions" (duh? wuh?)
2) Had to fight with region-encoded DVDs and region-locked DVD readers. In 2014. I lost, btw.
Many a biopic has been made while the subject was still alive. There's the advantage of being able to get details straight from the horses mouth and the disadvantage of them trying to block things. Once they're dead you've lost the opportunity to get the former but can include any scandalous anecdote you wish. Just imagine how different a biopic of Jimmy Savile would have been pre and post death. in the end they are a bit of light entertainment based very loosely on a real person with the aim of making money. They are not thouroughly researched documentaries.
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