Watched the movie, Creation about Charles Darwin, starring real life married couple Paul Bettany and Jennifer Connelly.
6/10
While I appreciate that the producers tried a different tack with Darwin, trying to humanize him and making him 'user friendly' for the masses by focusing on his personal life (the movie was based on the book Annie's Box), it didn't really make the impact it should have because you don't really get into the public reaction to his writings, so it's all on a personal and local level and thus rather soap-opera/movie-of-the-week-ish. I found myself wanting more on the conflict in his writings and publishing as I believe that would have been even more dramatic and worthy of the movie. There were lines that were really intriguing that SHOULD have been explored in the movie,
"I see you've received Wallace's letter? Forget it. He has 20 pages, you have a book."
"Your enemies - and you have them - are ready to burn you at the stake if they knew what you were about to publish."
"But you need to publish. We can win this in our lifetime. We must win."
but weren't and it's a shame. The makers of the movie had the production values and talented actors to make a powerful movie, but they underutilized them and wimped out, IMO. A shameful waste of talent.