[ishabibble]

Similarly, the commercials for 'Million Dollar Baby' were also made to look like it was a female 'Rocky' movie.

How does that Al Franken saying go again, "The Lying Liars and the Lies They Tell"? Hollywood is committing suicide, unassisted.

[sweet_diane]

"Hollywood is committing suicide, unassisted"

Good line! And it appears to be quite true.

[Sioux-san]

Million Dollar Baby was a true "bait and switch." I wanted to see the movie for the precise reason that it was played up as a female Rocky flick - good characters, good story, right? Wrong! It turns out to be another euthanasia movie getting rid of people who are damaged. Thank God I read a review that was honest about this movie and the reviewer had the decency to "spoil the secret." Sorry, Clint, love ya, but you didn't get any of my money for that one.

At the time Million Dollar Baby came out, I was working with a young woman who is engaged to a young man who was in a terrible truck accident. He is a quadriplegic now living his life in a motorized wheelchair. They love to go to the movies and went to Million Dollar Baby totally unaware of the story line. Needless to say, the young man was pretty depressed afterwards. Despicable.