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His win is well deserved

posted 10 years ago by Thekeybaldemasterrises
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say what you will, but his performance drove this movie, and being attached to a company that helps support people diagnosed with ALS, he did it justice and I'm happy he won.

[–] Dracarys13 10 years ago

Agreed. Couldn't help but smile when he won. I loved his performance- and Felicity's. I thought everything came together really well- acting, directing, editing, score, etc.- but what made the movie was the performances. I would've been happy with any of the nominees winning, to be honest (haven't seen American Sniper yet but I like Bradley Cooper), but I was really emotionally affected by Eddie. I was torn between him and Michael Keaton, who also did a fantastic job.

[–] greybabydaddy-1 10 years ago

Absolutely yes.

There is NO such thing as magic and love is dead.

[–] Pmdmnym 10 years ago

Me too! Very happy.

[–] katiefanatic-791-306918 9 years ago

absolutely well deserved! no movie can get me to start bawling my eyes out and not stop 20 minutes in, not even 'titanic'.

[–] Pmdmnym 9 years ago

I hear ya! I couldn't stop either!

[–] PhenomenalDiva 9 years ago

Well he is a white man!

[–] e-l-r-w 9 years ago

Agreed :)

[–] DreamsAgain 9 years ago

I just watched this movie (finally) and loved it.
I can now see why Eddie won the Oscar.
He was amazing.
:-)
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[–] ItalianGreyhound 9 years ago

No, that was a very undeserved Oscar win. Some of the most horrible overacting I've ever seen.

[–] katiefanatic-791-306918 9 years ago

right, because i'm sure you spend tons of times with ALS patients to know, like he did. watch this clip of stephen when he could talk, from 39:30 to 39:45 and tell me if you can understand what he was saying and if redmayne was 'overacting'. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0A0J3WHgUx0

[–] ItalianGreyhound 9 years ago

That still doesn't change my opinion. Everything about Redmayne's performance screams overacting. Period. The best performance that year (Jake Gyllenhaal in "Nightcrawler") wasn't even nominated....

[–] Samuraibro 9 years ago

You're entitled to your wrong opinion.

[–] mark-1589 9 years ago

ItalianGreyhound wrote: "No, that was a very undeserved Oscar win. Some of the most horrible overacting I've ever seen."

Opinion has been noted and filed in the circular bin where it belongs.

I'll take the word of Stephen Hawking himself who said he sometimes felt like he was watching himself.

[–] Dark_Star09 9 years ago

agreed, knew most of the story from the Documentary: A Brief History of Time, but his performance was well worthy of the win.

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls079023906/

[–] joisepeterson 9 years ago

I loved his performance. He took the time to study the effects and stages of the disease as well as spending time with people who suffer from it besides Stephen Hawkings.

The loose limb controls, his fingers crippling and of course the face contorting was brilliant.

[–] bottleshock34 9 years ago

I agree with everyone here except for the negative person who is obviously a jake G fan.
Eddie deserved that oscar brilliant performance and not an easy one too great job.

"Some of the worst things imaginable have been done with the best intentions"