Posted on 02/07/2005 3:03:09 PM PST by EveningStar
Yeah. I've been married and divorced a couple of times. I'm a little bitter.
But now I've got that world-weary, rugged and pissed-off attitude that you like so much in movie heroes. 'Cuz I care deeply about the cinema....
I hold that belief deeply..... LOL!"
Thou shalt kneel to the altar of sacred Hollywood....with all the other mind-numbed lemmings. Puleese...:-D
But yes, let's re-examine that ridiculous 'female boxing' premise to begin with... that sets up the story about chick who gets knocked on her arse so hard, she gets paralyzed. Which leads to a "compassionate" Harry Callahan...er...I mean Clint Eastwood, who "helps" her invalidate her life.
The "feel good" movie of the year no doubt.
You have a problem with what I wrote? I've read your posts and have found nothing insightful or profound. I don't expect that from you and have learned to deal with it. You should do the same.
RE: "I strength trained and sparred with the 8th US Army Middleweight Champion until I got into Muay Thai...."
Bully for you. But this still doesn't legitimize your inbred, redneck "keep women in their place" arguments. Whatever your physical strength, a man that would hold a woman down for reaching her goals out of an inflated sense of gender superiority is doomed to a frail, weak mental condition. God made man from His image, and He made woman from man; therefore woman is also in God's image, and should be respected as such just as much as men respect ourselves.
ROFL!
Rush had chronic back pain. They both abused drugs, but at least El Rushbo didn't snuff himself like Cobain and the chick in this movie.
He fought it and didn't blame anyone else. That makes him a good guy in my book.
Life isn't about being perfect, or even winning, it's about what you do when you are losing....
Rush's dependency- DOES HAPPEN AMONG THE CLEAN LIVING
Kurt Cobains- DOES NOT
Many others didn't feel it was deceptive. Do you have any other point, cuz you stated your point clearly, and I don't see why you keep perpetually repeating yourself.
It's disgusting.
Let 'em play whatever they want, but no blood sports with chicks.
Eastwood's on Jay Leno talkin' up the flick...
Many felt it was deceptive- thus the uproar.
that was my only problem with it,
OK, maybe I was a bit strong but the issue here is the advocacy (or not) of euthanasia in a movie. It is not about all the other utter crap that Hollywood puts out.
I agree. I liked the movie quite a bit. It did not glorify euthanasia, IMHO, even though it happened...and all the acting was very understated and excellent.
Female boxing is an abomination and is symptomatic of what is wrong with the world.
How so? Can you explain yourself?
How about mud wrestling?
Oh no, I asked him to explain himself
Well, in this case, her goal ended up getting her paralyzed and she couldn't take it so she begged another into murdering her. That kinda makes me think she should have been held back....
God made man from His image, and He made woman from man; therefore woman is also in God's image, and should be respected as such just as much as men respect ourselves.
Then why do you think it is OK for them to beat each others brains in in a men's blood sport?
I mean, heck, this movie you like kinda illustrates that they shouldn't even be there.
RE: "Ok, but for the record, I didn't like, The Aviator. There was a way better story that could have been told in that time frame, and no matter how someone tries to make up Leo, he still looks 22. They should have cast someone else to play HH."
I liked the Aviator for the grand, compelling, old-fashioned entertainment that it was, but I did think that the story sometimes bit off more than it could chew in tackling so many aspects of Hughes life at a time and cramming it all into 2 Hrs and 40 minutes. As a biography it felt both deliberate and abrupt at the same time, but individual scenes are spectacular, and the riveting plane crash sequence is worth the price of the ticket all by itself. Leo aquits himself only okay, but Cate Blanchett's Katherine Hepburn is a wonder, quickly moving from a broad parody of Kate's screen image to a more complex characterization of a woman made hard by the demands of her own fame.
I didn't think the Aviator was necessarily Best Picture material or that it was anywhere near one of Scorsese's best, but the movie has an assortment of riches that help me to understand what the Academy was thinking when it bestowed a best-in-field 11 nominations on the Aviator last month. We'll see how it all plays out on the 27th.
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