Million Dollar Baby

[dlbpharmd]

I saw this movie yesterday. Based on the movies that I saw last year, this probably is the best, and I definitely recommend it to anyone, but don't expect to leave feeling uplifted. Eastwood definitely gives the performance of his career, and it seemed to me that Hillary Swank deserves another Oscar for Best Actress.

[danlo]

I'll see it, eventually, in one form or another. I love Eastwood's directing style-True Crime, Unforgiven, Mystic River and, yes, even A Perfect World that the local TV station ran this weekend. What did Swank win her Oscar for? Sling Blade? We were trying to go see Finding Neverland but didn't get around to it...

[Avytaya]

Hillary Swank won her Oscar for "Boy's Don't Cry"-and it was well-deserved! Finding Neverland was wonderful, sorry you missed it!
-Avy

[taraswizard]

I am no spoilery in this message but replies might be spoilery.

Yesterday, Roger Ebert the local film critic, was on a local radio commenting about Million Dollar Baby and various critics. His point was that selected critics and commentators including Michael Medved and Rush Limbaugh have deliberately leaked the ending of the movie in order to hurt box office ticket sales. (According to Medved, as I have heard him on the air say, the movie is no more than propaganda for a particular political POV regarding a singular topic, and it is a POV he does not share) Ebert said last nite that Medved in December, at the time the movie was in very limited release, went on Robertson's 700 Club and leaked the movie's ending for the explicit purpose of hurting its box office receipts.

[dlbpharmd]

I do not believe that the movie is political propaganda.

[taraswizard]

Just repeating what I've heard Medved say or what I've been told he's said.

Well, I went to see the movie this afternoon. OMG, OMG. If this movie cleans up for Oscars it will be only because it deserves it. This is such an outstanding movie, it touchs you on so many levels. Eastwood shows himself to be a brillant director, and Morgan Freeman has rarely been better. Title character Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) deserves all recognition she gets for this movie.

Comcerning spoilers, it would be hard for me to imagine the impact of the ending, if one was not spoiled. Being spoiled does take away that impact.

IMO, if this movie was a polemic for the political position some have said it is I would have not made the way it was made

Remember "tough ain't enough"

[dlbpharmd]

The movie was not spoiled for me and I was totally blown away.

[dlbpharmd]

This link is to a CNN article giving more explanation to the whole propaganda issue. Be warned: the article contains spoilers to the movie.

www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/07/f ... index.html

[Fist and Faith]

OH!!!

MY!!!

GOD!!!

I just saw it today. I hadn't heard anything at all about the movie, so I was entirely unspoiled. I cannot believe it!!!!!!!!!!!

[Brinn]

Pure masterpiece....Clean, simple, tremendously powerful. Bravo Mr. Eastwood.