'Theory of Everything' trailer proves that love ends in a big bang

Posted Thursday, August 7, 2014 at 5:04 PM Central
Last updated Tuesday, August 12, 2014 at 8:14 AM Central

by John Couture

You know, I will watch just about any film for just about any reason. Case in point, now that I'm starting to get settled into our new house, I've actually watched three movies in the last week (The Grand Budapest Hotel, Elysium and About Time).

I know what you're saying, other than commenting about my eclectic taste in films. You're saying to yourself, "Why would he watch About Time?" That's a very good question and two hours after I started the film, I asked myself the same question. It was like the film was mirroring the plot and never wanted to end.

But to more accurately answer your question, I watched it for one singular reason and that was to check out the acting chops of Domhnall Gleeson. Yes, I'm that much of a Star Wars geek that I wanted to check out one of the stars of the upcoming Star Wars: Episode VII so bad that I'd actually sit through this film.

My thoughts? Wait until Frank if you want to check out Gleeson. OK, maybe that's not entirely fair as the film was actually tolerable, despite the most preposterous time travel premise since Hot Tub Time Machine. It boiled down to being an incredibly personal tale of time and loss and how even with the power of time travel, time is precious and we should embrace each day fully. And yes, Domhnall Gleeson more than holds his own against a strong cast.

The one thing that stuck out to me was the whole time travel premise and how Stephen Hawking would be laughing in his creepy computer-generated voice the whole time if he ever watched it. OK, I didn't really think that, but it's the best segue I could come up with to today's trailer debut for The Theory of Everything.

The Theory of Everything is the Stephen Hawking film that covers his life surrounding his diagnosis with a motor neuron disease and seemingly splits its time between his ground-breaking research in physics and his romance with Jane Wilde. The trailer below plays up the romantic angles and doesn't even flinch at making allusions that the romance was one for the ages that was only rivaled by his work in game-changing work in physics.

I'm guessing that the film will stop short and not focus on that 26th year of marriage when Hawking divorced Jane to marry one of his nurses a few months later. But the real star is Eddie Redmayne who looks poised to get some Oscar buzz for his performance.