Yeah, well, I've got to give them my theory on movies, eh? Ok, here's my theory on movies, eh? You want to know how to wreck a movie, eh Take a jar of moths into the theater, eh? And then, like, release them at a point in the movie when you know what's going to happen, and all the moths will fly up to the projection booth window and cloud it up and you can demand your money back! Beauty idea, eh?
Just saw Pawn Sacrifice, absolutely dreadful.
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It was a good movie don't let one make you decide not to see lol
I just watched the movie and I found it much to my liking. I counted one historical inaccuracy after another; however, it is forgiveable on account that non-chess folk might actually get into chess and do some reading eventually on the topic. it's the same issue with Peter Jackson's interpretation of LOTR or Hobbit. the purists will notice every little inaccuracy between the books and films. the Morphy back story was a load of crap in the movie. spassky being champ in 66? and the resignation of Fischer in game one did not occur until 20 or so moves after Bxh3. spassky gets up and stares at Bobby then starts applauding before a hand shake? little things like that.......... while all of this bugged me I mostly just shrugged it off. I loved the film work, acting , costumes, cars and news clips. I guess while it has its weak points I am glad I still went to it instead of not.
Well I liked it
Acting is shocking.
He does this and then I does that and then he does this and then I go bang!
It should be for audiences under-12.
You will like this movie when you view it as a comedy: spidey weaving mating webs, announcing "check" aloud while grinning at Liev. My two favorites are when he queens the pawn and states, "king me," also the capital lettering in B-D5, K-E3, like it's battleship. "Bobby, you just played the game of the century (with 44 years reamining) how's it feel?" "Well, ya know, I dunno, like okay, feels pretty good I guess."
yeah it's really bad :(
With an amazing character like that, and an epic cold war backdrop you would think they could do something great with the movie....ah well
This movie is another insult to Fischer. You have cinema like Bergman, Bela Tarr, Kieslowski, Coppola... and then you have Hollywood and the subsequent school of americana-drama-at-all-costs. Just to please the mass. I hope they're grateful the man is dead, otherwise he would curse them to death.
They decided to make a movie about one of the most complex personalities ever - bad choice. It's all very shallow, a grotesque caricature, full of errors, with no depth, no real insight.
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Knight R14 to T12 check on KingQ11.
There are no flight squares, White's only choice is KnightQ11 takes T12.
Queen S15 to P12, checkmate.
I really enjoyed the movie. Like it even more than i thought i would. Then again i went into this knowing hollywood would butcher it.
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Sorry, meant to post #66 and #67 in one of the puzzle forums.
Haven't seen the film yet.
It was a good movie-all the teeth nashing god but it was not twice as good as the martian no way-that was a great movie.
Do you like Hollywood giving chess some well-deserved attention? Yes? Go see it!
Scenes of a new chess movie: "PAWN PUSHER":
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/fun-with-chess/new-chess-movie-pawn-pusher---see-snapshots
Bobby did spew quite a lot of anti-American vitrol, especially in his latter years That's not an exaggeration at all. In fact, while the film makers did present a fairly narrow, simplistic image of Bobby by focusing heavily on one side of his personality, they didn't really exaggerate much in what they did portray.
Spassky was a gentleman , more than a good friend of Fischer. Here is the video were he admitted that Fischer was a better player then but he also felt insulted from his behavior! So let's not mess up the reality with feelings we suspect might be exist.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=t6SOP2nIvXM