This has got to be the worst movie ever to win an oscar!
This has got to be the worst movie ever to win an oscar! What was the academy thinking??!
shareI thot it was rilly rilly good. I rilly rilly did. I love albert finney. I rilly rilly do.
Here's looking at you, kid.
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It's called humor, Fred. Get a clue.
Here's looking at you, kid.
I agree about Million Dollar Baby, truly dreadful, and the fact that it won was an insult to cinematic taste in deeper films.
shareeatonp1165,
I couldn't disagree with you more. One of the best comedy/dramas of the past century. Totally disarming -- and charming!
No, I wasn't saying that about Tom Jones, I was talking about Million Dollar Baby from an earlier post. That was an absolute nightmare of a film. Tom Jones I did enjoy.
shareOoops! Sorry.
shareAll you morons who think Million Dollar Baby was no good understand nothing. It perhaps wasn't quite as good as Unforgiven, but don't you think the Academy, for its many faults, might see a little more than you idiots? It embraces many things and has a lot to say, for instance the uselessness of the Christian god when it truly counts and issues around risk and redemption. Essays could be written, and have been, but you swill don't deserve them.
Whew! . . . I guess you told THEM! Well . . . I haven't seen "Million Dollar Baby" so maybe I should just butt out -- but, I'm confused: In your first post, you suggest the Academy "might see a lot more than you idiots" (the "Academy" liked it -- the "idiots" didn't). However, in your second post you imply the Academy operates in an atmosphere of fear, avarice, bad judgement, etc. ("Citizen Kane" - 1941). Ahhh, isn't that a contradiction? Or, am I just a "moron" in the "swill", as well?
shareTrue Fiendish actually didn't make any sense at all in that post. Million Dollar Baby was as deep as a tide pool. And I am sorry but the Academy has been wrong sooooo many times, I realy don't rely on them for showing me, a "film idiot" as you said, what is a deep and meaning film. MDB had been done before in numerous levels, there was nothing dynamic or special about any of it and the writing was dull.
shareAll you morons who think Million Dollar Baby was no good understand nothing.Quite a note to start on, isn't it?
It perhaps wasn't quite as good as UnforgivenOn this much, at least, we agree; Unforgiven was an excellent film.
don't you think the Academy, for its many faults, might see a little more than you idiots?No. No, I don't. For all the evidence I need, let me point out the winner for "Best Original Song" for 1988: "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now", from the truly putrid Mannequin, which is notorious in my family for being the only film my Uncle Robbie has ever walked out on. And that song! OH MY GOD!!! It should be used in hospitals to induce vomiting!!! That idiotic decision alone is evidence enough for me that I need not pay the slightest attention to any sound the Academy makes. I never watch those stupid awards shows anyway; long, tedious, sentimental horses__t designed to advertise inferior product.
More evidence, if any were needed, that the so-called "Academy" is a beacon of unbelievably poor taste (if the above example were for some reason not enough for you): past Best Picture Winners: Forrest Gump, Titanic, Ordinary People... should I go on? Not that I think these films aren't passable entertainment in some cases, but they aren't the best of anything.
It embraces many things and has a lot to sayWow. You and I are not on the same page here; to me the Academy epitomizes everything that's wrong with what Americans think constitutes a good movie... and I say this as an American myself! In America, it seems the safer, duller, and more sentimental it is, the more nauseatingly schmaltzy and two-dimensional it is, the more likely it is to win an Oscar. It's sad to me.
for instance the uselessness of the Christian god when it truly counts and issues around risk and redemption.Okay... what? How is this relevant to the subject?
Essays could be written, and have been, but you swill don't deserve them.It's funny. I find the idea of some irritating film intellectual telling me "how it is" in some pompous essay more insulting than you calling me "swill". As far as I'm concerned, stick to your essays; you deserve them, to be sure. The rest of us will make up our own minds what constitutes a great movie, and those of us with taste will see that Titanic and the like are effectively worthless films.
Tom Jones is a great movie too, by the way.
I don't want some renegade necrophile princess as MY roommate! share
"All you morons who think Million Dollar Baby was no good understand nothing. It perhaps wasn't quite as good as Unforgiven, but don't you think the Academy, for its many faults, might see a little more than you idiots? It embraces many things and has a lot to say, for instance the uselessness of the Christian god when it truly counts and issues around risk and redemption. Essays could be written, and have been, but you swill don't deserve them."
'Million Dollar Baby' reeked, and you're a pretentious twit who fancies himself quite clever, but in truth would be outgunned in a battle of wits with a houseplant.