My Darling, My Blood: Million Dollar Baby

Intellectual Conservative ^ | 18 February 2005 | Nicholas Stix

[Hildy]

Thank God you're here. I've been trying to say that on another thread, but not as well as you just did.

[Hildy]

You're insane.

[mrustow]

Thanks! That is sure one nice picture! (One needs to avoid profiles with her, 'cause she's a bit long in the jaw.)

[jackbill]

I wouldn't pay to see this piece of garbage - Clint Eastwood notwithstanding. Trash is trash.

[mrustow]

I've seen all five "best Picture" nominees and Million Dollar Baby is, hands down, the best picture. Not as good as Passion of the Christ though.

I keep forgetting to write down to rent The Passion, when I go to Blockbuster. Eventually, I'll see it.

Passion of the Christ will still be viewed as a classic in 100 years. Million Dollar Baby will be just another good old movie.

Since I don't expect to still be around in 100 years, I guess I'll have to take your word for it. Or not. What people commonly think is a classic isn't important today or 100 years from now. I understand you to be saying that you think The Passion is objectively better than MDB. As I said, I'll have to see the former, before I can say.

[Lando Lincoln]

I couldn't agree with you more. Thanks for the sanity.

Lando

[madprof98]

The prune-face crowd here can't stand to even hear about something they don't agree with.

Gosh, Hildy found some soulmates! And she's found the perfect film for the morally challenged "nuanced" set as well. Perhaps you cinematic sophisticates could all take it in together before the next "right to kill" rally.

[Hildy]

Well, I see you're living up to your screen name.

[185JHP]

BTTT

[Deb]

I almost mentioned "Whose Life Is It, Anyway", which I liked better than "The Sea Inside". Maybe because I'd rather have Richard Dreyfuss die than Javier Bardem.

[Deb]

You are so wonderful...continuously.

[Darkwolf377]

Maybe you shouldn't skip your remedial reading course. Then you'd be able to see where I wrote numerous times that I am completely anti-euthanasia.

I guess thinking about the issue is too much. Much easier to be petulant because others don't share your silly idea that one must be pro-euthanasia if one likes a movie featuring euthenasia in it. (I guess all those Saving Private Ryan fans wanted our soldiers to die horribly in WW2. And Schindler's List fans want to throw people into ovens.)

[Question_Assumptions]

I don't have to see the movie to recognize a straw man argument when I see one. That the character was jerking a priest around to annoy him or whatever else he was doing doesn't change the fact that the point is silly and the priest's reply even sillier.

[jordan8]

Wymyn boxers are creepy, who'd want to watch a film about one?

[BykrBayb]

It may very well make a lot of money, but morally speaking Clint Eastwood might as well have played the part of an abortionist or a Nazi euthanasia freak.

How many Nazi euthanasia freaks did you offend with that comment? At least one that I've seen.

[Sir_Ed]

What a touching review...of course, he forgets to mention that this so-called "Catholic" ends up murdering his protoge because she becomes paralyzed, and I guess is then transformed into a "useless eater."

Thank God Joni Eriksen Tada and Chris Reeves didn't have that wonderful "Catholic" guy as their best friend, else they'd have been murdered, too, right?

Ed

[Rummyfan]

Baby is a boxing picture, only the fighter is a girl. With "Maggie McNamara," Hilary Swank paints the most intense portrait of a fighter since Robert DeNiro's Jake LaMotta in Raging Bull (1980).

A minor point but the character's name is Maggie Fitzgerald.

You will cry all right (I sure did) but I had problems with the ending. Too many irrationalities..... first and foremost why would such a character as Maggie, so full of life and fight, ask her manager and surrogate father to 'put her down'?

[Rummyfan]

But that leaves Ben Affleck. For him, you're going to need a Delphic Oracle, because his success is one of the great mysteries of the age. He ain't pretty, he doesn't claim to be gay, and I don't think he's that political

Ben, along with his former flame J Lo, is a member of that club, Going Far On No Discernable Talent. He is also a big Dem supporter, and during last summer's Dem convention was seen all over Boston with the party bigwigs.

[Hildy]

Here's the problem with your argument...you're putting your view of life and its meaning onto somebody else. All Maggie had was her strength and her identity as a boxer. Maybe that was the thing that was covering up all her other emotional problems. We don't know, nor she we have to. If somebody, of sane mind, declares they do not want to go on living without the use of their limbs, who are we to say they are wrong? Who are we to force them to live in despair? Who are we? And, may I say, how dare we?

[Rummyfan]

Here's one.

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