'Million Dollar Baby'

[Roderik_London]

Clint is like good wine...The older he gets the better...

[skahound]

For those of you that haven't heard, there's a firestorm of controversy surrounding this film and the issues it deals with. I'm so sick and tired of people that don't understand that films are (in most cases) pieces of fiction portrayed on a screen. It's hard for me to believe that I'm sitting in the theatre next to people who lack the mental capacity to 'read between the lines' and comprehend what a movie is truely about. IMHO they are the same people who take things like The Bible literally and don't appreciate it for what it really is - a work of fiction.

Do not click this link if you haven't seen the movie (SPOILER ALERT)

http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/07/film.million.dollar.backlash.ap/index.html

[fishingnut]

it crazy i tell ya

[bananapeel]

imo, she really captured the character in this film, and made you believe in her.
sad, but proper ending.

yes, including adding the 15 pounds of muscle she trained for the movie.

[tallinn:express]

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superb!!!!
Eastwood and Hilary Swank?s performances are first rate and it has a story that will have you cheering and crying. ?Million Dollar Baby? deserves to be honored as one of the year?s best.

ps. im still waiting for "The Aviator" and "Ray"

[dersuuzala]

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i felt kind of violated and robbed when the movie was over.

How so? I thought it was a VERY fitting ending and signified much of what each of the characters was about and what they'd been through.

just because i was expecting the movie to be the usual "person triumphs against all odds to win" sort of thing instead of such a downer.

it's like going to see the incredibles and finding out that mr. incredible gets diagnosed with cancer halfway through the movie.

[skahound]

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just because i was expecting the movie to be the usual "person triumphs against all odds to win" sort of thing instead of such a downer.

it's like going to see the incredibles and finding out that mr. incredible gets diagnosed with cancer halfway through the movie.

Makes sense, I can see why you'd feel that way. I kind of enjoyed the controversial subject matter, it really pulled at my emotions.

[digitalghost10]

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SPOILERS



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hilary swank's character makes it to the top fight and is whooping butt but the other boxer knocks her out with a cheap blow and she lands on the stool in the corner. she breaks her neck and is paralyzed from the neck down. the rest of the movie is about swank wanting to die and eastwood not being able to kill her because he's so attached to her. in the end, he kills her and runs off. the end.

i felt kind of violated and robbed when the movie was over.

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I feel the same about the ending. That really pissed me off, it was incredibly cheap and anti-climatic. You would think all the build up would be for something far more reaching, triumphant and redeeming. Yet we are treated to death on two levels, physical and sprital for the sake of ego. Other than that it's GREAT!

[skahound]

Ah, but with death came new life on different levels. Did you forget that?

[Jibgolly]

where else could the movie go?
with a broken neck comes pain and suffering.
any different ending would have been a blatant distortion of the truth.

[peloquin]

im going to see this today, looking forward to see it. i accidently read the spoiler, but oh well

[peloquin]

okay, it was fucking great. my girlfriend was a bit upset that they didnt explain clint's charachters problems with his daughter and his past.... i don't think they needed to. the movie was excellent, and is deservedly nominated for 7 oscars, if you buy into that stuff...

9/10 imo

and as stated above, clint does get better with age, i just watched unforgiven the other day. i gotta watch mystic river again now

[Digger]

oh my god, exellent movie, keeps me with all my attention the hole movie.....and man, the final were good, like it, why should it be different?.....cant.....anyway like it very much.....
if you want a different final watch rocky,

[alienaut]

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Good movie. Very sad and honest sometimes the people you trust turn their back on you.