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So far, this film is a one note peformance by Eastwood. One mood, grouchy. Same mood as in evey other film, but at least when he was young he was menacing. Swank is barely believable, in my book. Not nearly as believable as Theron in Monster. Anyway, only 45 minutes in, by the way, I DO like the movie so far.
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'twas beautiful. The movie would not be, IMHO, without Hillary. she is a power. I believed her. The same, in Boys Don't Cry. Could watch her all day....
too much beating for me. Funny, I can watch the UFC, where they are really getting hurt, but beatings in movies, off it goes.
What is the point of this? You have zero credibility because you have taken yourself out of the picture's rhythm.No the performance isn't as good as Theron's, but then again it was a different movie about a different person.
Morgan Freeman got away with "grand theft picture", of course. He almost always does. Great perforamnce by Freeman. One note performacne by Eastwood, he is a lousy director. Yeah, I know, awards, I know. BS, he is worse at directing than acting. Look at the lousy performances he allowed in the picture. The uncoordinated kid boxer is a joke, should have been cut from the picture. The mother of Swank is over the top, and the brother is doing a Clint imitation talking through gritted teeth. Most Eastwood movies have LOUSY acting jobs in them. This is no exception, and sometimes the staging is amateurish, such as the hospital scenes between the family and Eastwood. Swank was very good in the hospital scenes.
Also Swanks physical transformation was very impressive; but is it acting?
Good movie; definitely not worthy of any Acadmy Award. Cetainly Farenheit 911 was a far better picture, and far more important. Which will be remembered three years from now by people who saw both?
See my post below re/Oscar. Why would you expect anything more discerning from AMPAS?Not the great film some critics claim, but Oscar has given BP to far worse.
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...only the clueless or an attention seeker would attemp a review part way through.> Good movie; definitely not worthy of any Acadmy Award. Cetainly Farenheit 911 was a far better picture, and far more important. Which will be remembered three years from now by people who saw both?>
Sorry, there's no comparison. As much as I enjoyed seeing Bush get skewered in F9/11, it was a shameless attempt at propaganda - exaggerating and misrepresenting the facts to support your point of view. Had Bush lost the election, you may have had an arguement. Unless you view it as a fictional story like the other best film nominees.
IMO, Million $ Baby was the best film I saw last year, perhaps not the strongest year in films in recent memory, though. And with Terry Schiavo so prominent in recent politics and the news, it's certainly more relevant and memorable than F9/11 is now.
...people press'stop' and go get food, run errands, post on AA, and assorted activities one would never consider in a movie theater. It ruins the continuity of the film especially on an emotional level since it wasn't made to be watched in snippets. Maybe you'd do better with the old Buster Crabbe Flash Gordon serials at home...;-).
...even worse are the "review bites" that appear online.Sit back, watch the film in it's entirety ...then comment.
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I thought that this was the best acting Clint has ever sone and that he should have been nominated for an award.
Morgan Freeman and Hillary Swank won for supporting actor and Actress respectively - deservedly so.
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...and Clint was nominated for best supporting actor...I believe this was his only nom. for acting.
Then again, when you have two OSCARS for directing, the pain of loss just has to be less.
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Gary
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Don't mean to take a jab but you're getting punchy. I'll bet he'll be hooked by the end.
You know the rest, donīt you?
issues raised by the film. Like they could not wait to discuss it until the film is released on home DVD so as not to give away the ending. I realize the topicality, I do not want to discuss so as not to ruin it for people here.
Well I have read the ending in that interview with Mr. Eastwood. I think a good film can withshand that.
I mean just a happy or un-happy ending can not make a whole film!
Of course between two options, I will always choose the non-konwing one!
BUT, still they do soften it with a "pet the puppy" ending. Some courage, not a lot. The BBC\Channel Four would have left it on the sad note.
For further comment I will have to ....see it.
So till later!
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For what she does she does it very very well.This list is likely about STARS than talent -- There is more talent on the obscure stages of London and NY than most pretty faced actors and actresses -- big deal that's been true since the beginning of film.
hollywood is not the least bit interested in film as art but film as entertainment and it amazes me how so many seemingly intelligent posters cannot grasp this very very simple conceopt -- instead of whining about Ace Ventura not being up some deep brilliant film like "The Grand Iillusion" let's use a BRAIN for a change and figure out WHY this might be.
Let's do a remake of the Grand illusion and see how much money the film will make -- as a concept 10 million. So I am a producer and I see that gee they want me to invest 20 million and the projections of the accountant and marketers is that this movie will tank with no name though excellent actors. So how about I get Mel Gibson and Tom Cruis as the leads -- now the projection is that it'll return 75 million...not bad -- but hey if we have a giant cyclops who breathes fire and turns out to be a Terminator -- well cool the prjection is 210 million...hey let's change the title to Terminator 4 and bring back Cameron -- now we have 450 million.
SEE how art can fall pray to money (Capitalism DOESN'T work for art) Most of the best stuff is created by people who scrape a movie together or are making with their own clout) And many prostiute themselves in horrible movies in order to be able to finance the ones they want made.
It's not Hollywood's fault if Most Americans are morons. (I mean most of them voted for George Bush -- add these slacked jawed folks of Deliverance to the list that watches Jerry Springer and well lots of luck selling your art house flick to them --- don't blame Hollywood for making a few bucks -- capitalism reigns supreme -- all anyone cares about is dollar signs) -- but yeah it's the best system to run a country -- well so they say.
Well ô boy! That is a large field what you are talking about. On the other hand why would Hollywood not act as we mostly all do? Trying to make some money....The more the better.
Picasso and all the rest did make or wanted to makes big money. Some times I think art is just a by product...He-he...
There are so many possibilities!
The result count.
I like her in Notting Hill, a harmless comedy, but well put and improving with time. It use very well the with of the stars.
And it has some humanity in it...
BTW. I would have vote for Mr. Bush.
Am I a moron?
It's a good romantic Comedy -- smarter than most and it also shows there is a bit more to Roberts than the usual. She may not be the best actress but she certainly far from the worst -- she is more popular than her ability perhpas but so what -- I give her and singers like Madonna credit for knowing exactly what people want from them and then giving the customer what they want and what they expect.As for Bush -- I suspect a film like Fahrenheit 9/11 did more for the Bush camp than the Kerry camp. Because Moore plays fast and loose with some facts then people view EVERYTHING he puts in his film as a total outright lie or slander. Oliver Stone had the same problem because people would pick out and "correct" 9 small issues which were incorrect and toss the whoel film into a conspiracy film rhetoric -- never mind the 3 key issues which have been corronborated at the highest levels of the CIA. (No one harps on those because those are untouchable truths).
Canadian journalists have stone cold provable corroboration that no American will watch unless they have a dish and were paying attention and I'm sorry to say Moore missed out on some goodies here and Kerry blew it completely when the opportunity arose to obliterate Bush in one of the electoral debates -- issue was about the drug industry(relation to Canada and drug costs) and Bush outright LIED. Crooked as a dog's hind leg.
Of course the problem is did Kerry not know to attack or would he do the exact same thing as Bush? -- Ahh -- people forget that Michael Moore also never liked Clinton either.
Bush is a Texas uneducated sleazy hothead who is the ultimate religious reactionist -- and sorry we need people who use intellectual Reason to lead the world --- not fannatics who shoot first and think later. kerry may be a lot of things that can be viewed as worse but it would be nice if the president and therefore leader of the free world could formulate at least a quasi-half decent sentence all by himself.
I fully agree with your first statement.
Fahrenheit was a very bad film, if a film at all. If only Mr. Moore would have been good at it! There is nothing better than consrtuctive critics. And fine irony is a pleasure for me, so it is a lost occasion.
This " opus " will be lost in time, and I think it is already.
Kerry had this arrogant and wanting to be right for everyone way, that make me run. he sold himself very badly. He could have make it with more instinct.
In fact I think that he was the sole cause for the Democratic Party to loose.
But who talk of yesterday snow?
Historians.
All politicians are lying...More or less. If you donīt like it avoid politics...As I do...He-he...
And yet, some one has to vote....And choose between two bad.
As in France at the moment...
I do think that mr. Bush is not so inept as you present him.
For some of his weakness he made some other things better...But a long story without end... Every one should follow his instincts and do what it is right for himself to do.
Beside the far right I respect every each and one view, so long there are mutual respect...
***BTW. I would have vote for Mr. Bush.
Am I a moron?No, but if you keep talking like this you will get expelled from Germany.
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