It's a movie...it's a story...Just got back from "Finding Neverland." FABULOUS, FABULOUS, FABULOUS. There have been so many great movies this year. I recommend this to Freepers. Proves you can have a great movie without sex and violence.
Million Dollar baby is about Euthanasia- BUt only if someone REALLY REALLY NEEDS IT
no one why it was hailed best movie of the year- if that's not agenda pushing I don't know what is!
I think that the dispute over the movie is just that the movie is advertised as a feel good story about boxing and it is really about euthanasia. Medved says that there are a lot of people who just don't want to see that because it would upset them and that the movie promotion is purposely deceptive. I know that I could handle it, but I also know that my daughter might not be able to.
I've been ignoring it because I thought it was a biopic on Michael Jackson.
Saw "Million Dollar Baby" last week. Again, great acting jobs (Hillary Swank probably deserves another Oscar); great direction by Clint Eastwood. It is a very well-done movie. But it was horribly depressing. And I didn't get the point. I thought there were too many themes in the movie: Was it a film about a man who was searching for faith, but who in the end risks losing his salvation? Was it about two small time nobodies who together achieved something that was larger than either one of them could have achieved on their own? Was it a film about going all out to achieve something big, regardless of the cost? Was it a film about a father who lost a daughter, who then gained a daughter, who then lost her as well? [WARNING: SPOILER ALERT!]...Was it a propaganda piece for euthanasia? The competing themes collided to leave kind of a mish-mash at the end. A well-done movie, but not a great one.
RE: "It's a movie...it's a story...Just got back from "Finding Neverland." FABULOUS, FABULOUS, FABULOUS. There have been so many great movies this year. I recommend this to Freepers. Proves you can have a great movie without sex and violence."
While certainly well-acted and carefully crafted, Finding Neverland was a disappointment to me. I think the reason that it never really gained any kind of dramatic traction (and therefore was always a bit at arms length) is because of it's smooth material. The truth is that James Barrie, unlike Ray Charles or Howard Hughes, is just not that interesting a subject for a movie biography. While Barrie did create one of the great works of children's fiction, he also didn't live a life of compelling conflict (and conflict is the heart of drama), at least not as depicted in this movie. Barrie (Johnny Depp) is proper but whimsical and...well...oh so BORING. As a result, so is the film. Unlike Million Dollar Baby and Sideways, FN's Best Picture nomination is a bit of a mistake on the Academy's part.
There's no sex and violence in the movie (as if it really matters in the first place), but there's also no fire or purpose to it. It starts, it ends, and it is over.