As Good As It Gets

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Summary: Laugh out Loud funny!
Review: To be honest, I didnt like this movie the first time I saw it, but I started thinking about it, and realized, I did like it, so once more I rented it and really enjoyed it. I thought it was very funny and to make it a whole lot better, my favourite actor is in it, Jack. It was one of his best performances definetly. The only reason I didnt give it five stars is that, I dont like Helen Hunt, she didnt play the roll well, someone else should have, but all around, it was very good. A movie definetly to be recognized.

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Summary: As Bad As It Gets
Review: Way too long, unfunny, and way ovderrated

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Summary: Kinnear Robbed of Academy Award
Review: Hunt was good, Nicholson was great but Kinnear is absolutely incredible. This is an excellent story definately worth watching. As far as awards go I don't fully agree that Hunt deserved the Oscar. Nicholson got it because of his name and Kinnear deserved it for probably the performance of his life.

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Summary: Obnoxious, fraudulent crap that insults on every level
Review: How to describe how loathesome this film is? 60-something pursuing 30-something Hunt, despite the fact that her mother (Shirley Knight) is Nicholson's age? The pathetic gay character (Greg Kinnear, stealing Rupert Everett's Oscar nomination) who is beaten and seems to have no friends or lovers? The mugging of Cuba Gooding Jr.? The endless, winding plot that goes nowhere and never builds? Hunt, trying desperately to turn a single mother cliche into something real, despite her leaden commentaries about the HMO system? The ENDLESS cuts to the cute dog? The film's nasty, venomous "humor" coming from Nicholson, which is then tried to be covered up in "Oh gee, isn't this awful" backtracking? A completely vile film that inexplicably became a huge hit; everything in it is false, right down to Art Garfunkel's version of Monty Python's "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life" that cuts out the profanity (and the bite). Avoid like the plague.

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Summary: Quality filmmaking at its finest
Review: Nicholson, Hunt, Kinnear and Gooding complement each other well. This was easily one of the best movies of the year.

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Summary: Good, but there's better...
Review: The movie has quite a diversity of characters and they are for the most part quite likable. I thought Helen Hunt deserved the Oscar, but then I think she is a great actress and also a very nice person. Somehow Jack Nicholson just seemed to be himself rather than an actor, so I couldn't get too enthused about his role. This movie is very entertaining and worth watching.

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Summary: This is about 'as good as it gets'!
Review: In this scathing comedy Jack Nicholson puts forward a subtle, Oscar winning performance as a man with obsessive complusive disorder. He plays one of the most horrid human beings to grace the screen in modern times, but manages to keep us laughing. Helen Hunt, Cuba Gooding, jr., and Yeardly Smith also give wonderful performances (not to mention everyone else in the cast down to the extras), but the biggest treat was Greg Kinnear. Kinnear up until this film did nothing to impress me, but after seeing this I would have given him the Oscar for his turn as Jack's 'gay neighbor'. The subtle acting in this film is supported by the subtle script in which James L. Brooks keeps us rolling in the aisles. Watch for Jack's ticks and quirks and Kinnear's new twist on an old part, not to mention Hunt's fluidity as Jack's love interest. As far as comedies go this is 'as good as it gets'!

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Summary: This movie could put anyone in a great mood!!
Review: I think this may have been one of Jack Nicholson's best roles yet. He did a wonderful job as being a pessimistic, prejudice crazyman that turns into a warm-hearted human being with the help of his co-stars, Helen Hunt and Verdell.

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Summary: An honest reality check of priortizing societal values.
Review: Every character we were allowed to get to know was forced to take a hard look at himself/herself thus finding the brutal truth about themselves. Consequently, their misdirected existance became a happier one because of it. The dog should have been given an oscar!(I'm not a dog lover)I loved this movie, one of only a dozen I have ever bought.

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Summary: FAntastic
Review: This is one of the best films I've ever seen A lot better than Titanic, which shouldn't have won Academy Award for Best Film. But this is truly art!