Million Dollar Baby

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 14, 2005, 2:02 pm

I give this movie my highest recommendation. Clint Eastwood's choice of adaptation, screenplay, and actors is absolutely top notch. This is amoung the best acted movies of last year. It deserves every single award it recieved, and then some. Clint Eastwood has directed some great films, but this is his masterpiece.

I'm not putting up any spoilers or plot summary at all. Just go watch it for yourself and enjoy what may be the best movie of 2004.

miir · Post by **miir** » July 14, 2005, 2:08 pm

Absolutely nothing bad I can say about this movie.

Top notch acting, direction, production, cinemetography, story, pacing, etc.

Clint Eastwood seems to have the golden touch... Million Dollar Baby, Mystic River, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, True Crime, Unforgiven... all solid, solid films.

Fairweather Pure · Post by **Fairweather Pure** » July 14, 2005, 2:11 pm

I also really enjoyed Perfect World, with Kevin Costner

miir · Post by **miir** » July 14, 2005, 2:30 pm

Fairweather Pure wrote:I also really enjoyed Perfect World, with Kevin Costner

Bolded the reason I avoided that one like the plague.

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » July 14, 2005, 9:37 pm

Clint Eastwood is one of the best filmmakers in Hollywood right now. It's pretty amazing when you see him just being interviewed on TV or in a magazine. He's completely dialed in.. The guy is in his 70s and he still knows what is cool and what works.

Zamtuk · Post by **Zamtuk** » July 14, 2005, 10:43 pm

miir wrote:
Fairweather Pure wrote:I also really enjoyed Perfect World, with Kevin Costner
Bolded the reason I avoided that one like the plague.

actually, it is the only role aside from tin cup where he was really good. that movie is really worth watching.

valryte · Post by **valryte** » July 15, 2005, 1:12 am

What can I say, if you haven't watched it, fucker get in your car and go to blockbuster and get it! Put it in your dam NetFlix queue now! Hell, go buy the fking thing! Truely the best film of 2004!

kyoukan · Post by **kyoukan** » July 15, 2005, 1:19 am

girly tough ain't tough enough!

I challenge any other actor living or dead to say that line without the audience going hysterical at how lame it sounds.

Winnow · Post by **Winnow** » December 25, 2005, 7:45 am

Much much better than anything I had anticipated before watching it.

95/100 (a Sunday through Thursday viewing day movie)

I hope Eastwood can keep making movies into his 80's. He was born in 1930. Stay healthy Clint!

"I think you have to enjoy getting older. That's the most important factor. If you sit around and think, 'Well, at 21, I was doing this,' or 'at 31'--or what have you... A lot of people maybe do their best work when they're 40 and then tail off. But I think that's a mental attitude. I’ve done my best work, I think, now."

-Clint Eastwood, 1997

Trek · Post by **Trek** » December 25, 2005, 2:42 pm

This movie finally showed up from Netflix, I just had it randomly in my queue. I agree with everyone else, nothing bad I can say about this movie.

Neziroth · Post by **Neziroth** » January 1, 2006, 8:03 pm

I can say something bad about it

Clint Eastwood's fucking annoyingly fake "Hardass" raspy voice that he thinks works oh so well.

That's not his real voice is it? If it is he should get plastic surgery on it.

Awesome movie once I got over that, though.

Canelek · Post by **Canelek** » January 2, 2006, 3:45 am

Eastwood is harder than Dolemite, sparky.

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As far as the movie, it was really great until towards the end. Then it was just fucking depressing. Then again, you need that ultra-depressing theme to win over the academy award fuckwads.

Bojangels · Post by **Bojangels** » January 2, 2006, 11:27 pm

Only part I thought was sad was when they

[Show]: beat up that retarded kid.

I thought the movie was good though. Kept my attention. I don't think it was all that, it was good but not the best movie of the year.