we walked out halfway through

Rating: 4/10 (17 December 2014)

This film was awful. It was just a montage of clichéd moments meant to pull at your heartstrings, dripping in sentimentality and yet I had no reasons to be emotionally invested in the characters-- they were all portrayed as foolish and unkind. What an incredible story this is based on. Even just reading the Wikipedia entry about Hawking is excited. This Hollywood production, however, is another story. Luckily we were the only ones in the theatre and so we could talk aloud about how bad it was, which made it a little more bearable, a la Mystery Science Theatre. Hands down, however, the best part of the movie was when we left- halfway through.