[Andy from Beaverton]

Medved almost single handed has dealt a death blow to this pitiful deceitful movie.

[eddie willers]

Medved almost single handed has dealt a death blow to this pitiful deceitful movie.

What kind of box-office has it done?

[bdeaner]

I respectfully disagree with you that "Million Dollar Baby," as a film, is deceitful. If you watch carefully and read the subtext of the film, the ending is telegraphed from the very beginning. There is tons of foreshadowing.

Perhaps you can blame the marketers for giving the public a false image of the film, but the film itself doesn't mislead the viewer, in my opinion. I didn't know about the ending, but I predicted it within the first 20 minutes of the film.

Don't get me wrong. As I said in a prior post, I disagree with the implied endorsement of assistant suicide. But the film can also be read as an indictment of the absurd brutality of violent sports.

[7thson]

I think Clint has dealt his own death blow some time ago, specifically with Mystic River. He directs two actors who are known by conservatives to condemn America. Now he makes this movie. I wonder what the likes of Down and Ebert were saying about Clint when he made entertaining films such as Dirty Harry and Every Which Way But Loose?