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Finished it, it improved quite a bit.

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In Reply to: Why do you review movies half way through? posted by RGA on March 26, 2005 at 19:34:26:

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?

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Well...duh. - Harmonia 13:28:23 03/27/05 (1)
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.
- Farenheit 911 should have gotten. Whoa, here come the flames! nt - Duilawyer 20:00:12 03/27/05 (0)
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Of course it improved... - mkuller 11:44:36 03/27/05 (0)
...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.

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