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Summary: AS GOOD AS IT GETS.....
Review: Very entertaining movie. Nicholson's portrayal of Melvin Udall, the obsessive-compulsive was.... well, classic Jack. Helen Hunt, although probably somewhat of an overkill on caliber of actress needed, played great opposite Nicholson. The interaction between Nicholson and Hunt kept the movie moving along well to the very end. Definitely a good one to add to the collection!
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Summary: Jack Nicholson at his best!
Review: Jack plays Melvin, an author with a compulsive-obsessive disorder who meets Carol (Helen Hunt), a down on her luck waitress with a sick child. Melvin's neighbor, Simon (Greg Kinear) is a gay painter who Melvin hates, just because he is gay. All three end up on a car trip from New York to Baltimore, each with their own problems. This is one of Jack's best comedic roles, Oscar quality, and Helen Hunt and Greg Kinear are also excellent. Jack convinces the audience that he is compulsive-obsessive with his constanly avoiding stepping on cracks, triple locking doors, and using several bars of soap to wash up. Kinear is a beleivable sensitive, gay artist and Helen Hunt is up to her usual standards, portraying the frazzled, love-lorn Carol. A romantic comedy with a dark side, this film is worth watching AGAIN! END
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Summary: NO HAY NADA IMPOSIBLE EN ESTE MUNDO
Review: ME PARECE QUE EN REALIDAD NOS MUESTRA COMO SOMOS EN NUESTRO INTERIOR, YA QUE DE ACUERDO A LAS CIRCUNSTANCIAS PODEMOS ACTUAR DE DIFERENTE MANERA CON LAS PERSONAS Y NOS SUBESTIMAMOS DEL AMOR QUE PODEMOS DAR A LOS DEMAS Y DE LO QUE TAMBIEN PODEMOS RECIBIR DE LOS SERES HUMANOS QUE TENEMOS A NUESTRO ALREDEDOR Y QUE NI SIQUIERA SABEMOS QUE EXISTEN, POR ESTAR DEMASIADO PREOCUPADOS CON NUESTROS PROPIOS ASUNTOS, LLEGANDO A SER EGOISTAS.¡HAY QUE AMAR A TODOS LAS PERSONAS QUE CONOCEMOS Y QUE NO CONOCEMOS! I DON'T NOT SPEAKING ENGLISH VERY GOOD. EXCUSE ME. BYE. END
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Summary: Love Jack
Review: This is one of my favorite movies. I have and can watch it over and over again. I will go watch anything with Jack in it.
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Summary: pretty boring........yup........boring........(snore)
Review: I watched this movie twice. Both times it sucked. I thought maybe if I watched it a second time, I would have better luck, but no. The first time I wanted to watch this movie bc I thought it was about the dog (who I could spoil all day!!!!). I don't even think it played too much of a role in that movie. There are a couple things I liked about this movie. Jack Nicholson's acting was nothing less than supurb. The dog was the best thing in the movie. I also liked the one line of the movie (as said in the title) 'What if this as good as it gets?'it was a shock of realism there and i liked that. Also, I loved the gay guy. He was...eh.....kinda funny..... I had to sit through everything else. If all that u wanta see Jack Nicholson in 'one of his best preformances' than u should get this movie. If not, don't waste good money on it.
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Summary: It's Jack Nicholson
Review: In reviewing this movie, it's important to note the fine performance by Jack Nicholson for which he won an academy award. The issue is whether Jack Nicholson is best actor or whether the award is for best performance by an actor.The award is, in fact given for best performance. With Jack Nicholson, you get the same person in every movie but wow, he sure plays that person well. What I mean is that John Wayne played a certain type of personality, so did James Stewart and many others. They were great actors but their range was limited. They could not affect accents and play personalities far beyond those for which they were generally cast. So to with Nicholson, you are always aware that it is Nicholson playing the role and, in effect, he is bigger than the role he is playing. You never truly believe that he is the character he is playing because you can never become unaware that he is Jack Nicholson. I would contrast this with someone like Tim Robbins who can play an emotionally empty victim of childhood sexual abuse in Mystic River, an entirely different role than he played as the cocky pitcher in Bull Durham. You forget that it is Robbins and believe you are seeing the incarnation of the character he is playing.
In this movie, Nicholson is an offbeat crumudgeon (hmmm, has he ever done that before?). He is a writer named Melvin who spends most of his time in his apartment working. He lives near a gay artist and has an obsessive/compulsive need to eat at the same restaurant and be served by the same waitress every day. He is nothing short of nasty to his neighbor and he is callous and demanding to the waitress (played by Helen Hunt who also wins an Oscar). A set of circumstances arises which gets him dragooned into taking care of his neighbor's dog when the neighbor is hospitalized. He grows fond of the dog, thus gets drawn into this neighbor's life. He also get's drawn into the waitress's life when he needs to resort to extraordinary efforts to keep her working at the restaurant to satisfy his compulsion to be served at the same table, every day, by the same waitress.
Predictably enough, being drawn into the lives of others mellows Melvin. The three end up in an adventure in which they travel together to Maryland and the relationship between Melvin and the waitress devolves into a romatic comedy. Anyway, Nicholson is great as Melvin. Nicholson is perfect for the role and there's the rub. Just as John Wayne was perfect for the role of a gunslinger out west, so to Nicholson is perfect for this offbeat role. Thus, I reprise my question about an Oscar for a role that the actor is almost typecast for. Nicholson won a previous best actor Oscar for One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest. As incredibly good as he is in his roles, does he deserve a second Oscar for playing his persona spectacularly well yet again? I have no answer but, I recommend this fine movie and ask that you consider this question.
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Summary: Throwing water on the parade
Review: I'm about as big a fan of Jack Nicholson as anyone, but I hated this movie. It bored me to tears. About halfway through it I was ready to get up and leave... something I've never done in a Nicholson film. Why? Because although the movie started out well enough, appearing to be an anti-pc flick with Jack well-cast as a misanthropic writer, it ended up being the ultimate pc, feel-good yawn-inducing, borefest. Oh my, a certifiable nasty person being turned around by a wonderful woman (with the typical kid who is crippled). Gee, what a novel concept...NOT!!! Face it, Helen Hunt can't act her way out of a paper bag. The movie was created by all the liberal pc crowd who know that anti-gay people just need a little loving to become socially acceptable. For a different story, how about Helen Hunt as a psychotic ax-murderer who fools people into believing what a wonderful person she is. Greg Kinnear as an obnoxious, gay movie reviewer ala Rex Reed. Jack Nicholson as the misanthrope who finds out that Hunt is a serial-killer and exposes her although he still remains a misanthrope. Now that would have been interesting.
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Summary: better than average movies, with fine performances.
Review: This movie stars Jack Nicholson, being his usual strange, intense self, along with fine performances by Greg Kinnear (better than I thought he'd be) as a gay artist, and Helen Hunt (also not bad, but not as revealing as I thought she'd be in her "art" scenes with Kinnear, but it doesn't detract from her also good performance, as a waitress with a sick child) as three people looking for the answer to the question: Is this as good as it gets? Life. Except for a "glitch" unrelated to the movie, I enjoyed it.
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Summary: 5 Stars And More - Nicholson, Hunt And Kinnear
Review: This is an extraordinary romantic comedy that can be seen again and again with pure delight. It is difficult to imagine how anyone could give this movie a rating less than 5 stars. Nicholson stars in one of his best 5 roles of all time. In spite of this fact, Nicholson is almost overshadowed by great performances by Hunt and Kinnear, especially Hunt.
The movie gives the viewer so much. It is wonderful and amazing. Seeing Nicholson's Melvin soften and melt with the dog and his gay neighbor is just terrific. The film showcases Hunt's acting ability and her stunning beauty. Persons who suffer with OCD will be greatly moved as Melvin struggles with that illness and makes considerable progress to a recovery.
The movie is warm, witty, romantic, funny and very engaging. Do not miss this treat and see it more than once. It gets even better the 2nd and 3rd time.
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Summary: Nicholson's Been Better
Review: This is not a criticism of Jack Nicholson's work here as a writer with OCD,however, for him it is an average performance. He has been better, most recently in "About Schmidt". Jack has spoiled us throughout his career with performances of such high calibre that anything less, at least for me, is a disappointment. I also bring this up because Nicholson won the Oscar for this role when he didn't bring home the gold for better work, but that's the nature of the beast. Helen Hunt, on the other hand, gave the best screen performance of her career as the struggling waitress who relunctantly allows herself to fall in love with Nicholson's headcase. I remember when this film came out that I found it implausible that Hunt could fall for Nicholson's character. The women I related this to who had seen the film were emphatic that she could, that woman are not as superficial as men in that regard. Such is my knowledge of the opposite sex. It should also be noted that good work is delivered by Greg Kinnear as a gay artist, a change of pace for him from the usual cads he plays as well as Cuba Gooding Jr. as an art dealer. This is a very good film but in retrospect I'm not sure it is worthy of the best picture nomination it snagged in 1997. On the flip side, it is light years better than the bloated overrated vehicle named "Titanic" that did win that year.
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