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Summary: Best Picture [bad movie]
Review: A Beautiful Mind will go down in history as one of the most overhyped and least deserving of the Oscar winners. The acting is fine, but the story is so overblown and phoney that it is practically comical...
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Summary: Incredible performance by Russell Crowe
Review: This performance deserved the Oscar. Russell Crowe is one of the most diverse actors I have ever seen. He is right in there with Tom Hanks for me. This movie was good and sad in so many ways. It is an incredible story. I cried with the Professor. Anyone who hasn't seen this one should. Ron Howard is to be commended for his directing and as I said Russell Crowe gives just a breathtakingly incredible performance.
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Summary: Lovely in every way
Review: Oh my goodness! A lovely movie right from the very beginning! The amazing soundtrack to the film seems to suck you straight into the plot, which begins with young Mathematician John Nash (Russel Crowe)on his first day at Princeton University. Everything starts when he meets his room mate. This is strange because Nash specifically said that he didn't want one. However, that turns out to be no matter because Nash and his roomie (Paul Bettany, who does a great job, only wish there could have been more of him) get on very well.Nash saves his spiraling Princeton career with a mathematical theory which he applies to picking up girls in the bar with his friends. As a result, he is secured a job at a government office along with two of his pals from college. While at a class that he is unwillingly teaching, Nash meets his future wife. (Jennifer Connelly, who'd only been mostly popping up in supporting roles until this film)Everything seems perfect until a zealous, and perhaps crazy, government worker gives him an undercover job breaking "Soviet Codes". Here you begin to wonder. Can we trust that all of this is real? It turns out that we cannot. Nash has an incident giving a lecture, and his wife commits him to a mental hospital, where he is diagnosed with schizophrenia. The rest of the film chronicles how Nash overcomes his problem and goes on to win the Nobel Prize. About the only complaint that I have about this movie is Crowe's West Virginia accent that he dons when playing Nash. There are several points during the film where the lines are garbled just a tad, and makes it hard to understand. The other thing that I have is that when the older Alicia is shown, well, she doesn't look like an older version of her character. She looks...like Jennifer Connely with Gray hair. A bit of a dissapointment, considering that the rest of the makeup in the film is wonderfully done. But, other than that, this film is great. It is beautiful, it is amazing, and, most importantly, it is interesting. If you're up for an intellectual film, this is the one to watch.
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Summary: Forrest McSweeney and A Beautiful Mind
Review: Great job! Great Job Ron Howard. whatever attention you are getting from this movie you deserve it! And a spectacular job by Russel Crowe. You didn't pull a Tom Hanks but what can I say, Denzel Washington is good. The one thing bad about writing a review for this movie is that I can't say much about the actual movie plot. All I will tell you is that it has a huge..HUGE!!!..dramatic twist right smack in the middle of the movie.This twist is what makes this movie so good, because Crowe has to change acting style and appearance so much throughout the movie and he did an unbelieveble job. I really can't say much other than Crowe plays a supersmart Carnegie Scholar named John Nash who has a very interesting story to tell about his life. The movie was excellent but I thought the character development was a little lax. In my own opinion, they didn't spend enough time on a few other people. A lot like what I thought happened on Gladiator. Yes, they were supposed to spend lots of movie time enhancing the image of John Nash, but that is just my opinion that they should have built up a few more characters. Plus, there were a few other small stuff that turned me off of giving this movie five stars. they mainly all had to do with Russel Crowe. If there was a border line between four stars and five stars then this movie would almost cross it. Nevertheless, this movie still was awesome in every way, and Russel Crowe did a fantastic job. It was totally worthy of the oscar and more. Unfortunantly when I saw this movie in the theatre a cell-phone went ballistic. Hopefully, this will not happen to you with your DVD.
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Summary: Not deserving of Best Film of the year
Review: The Lord of the Rings was a superior film in every way; acting, drama, design, cast, effects, story, directing, production, etc. etc. etc. etc. In 5 years from now people are going to say, "Beautiful wha?" "Huh?" The Lord of the Rings is a timeless, epic masterpiece that was robbed by the academy because of the simple & sad fact that they felt like they owed their own (Ron Howard) after snubbing his earlier (and better) films. So sad.
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Summary: A Tribute to a slow movie
Review: I was very disappointed in this one. It was so slow in places that I almost went to sleep twice. The story might have been better if it were really taken from true life. The movie only showed his second wife and did not show his children from his previous marriage that from all accounts he abandoned. Realism is usually better than a contrived story line.
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Summary: This is Such an Amazing Film! I Loved Every Minute
Review: Okay, first thing's first: I admit that I cannot vouch for the accuracy of this film. I've never really heard about John Nash until I saw the film, and I had never read the book. Is this based on a true story? Yes. Is it accurate. I would like to hope so, but I cannot say that it is so. What I DO KNOW is that this film touched and entertained me on so many different levels. "A Beautiful Mind" is such a great movie.....it's hard to put in words. But I will try. The movie is based on a true story. (Yes, it's true. How accurate it is, I do not know. Nor, do I tend to find out.) This is about a man named John Nash, a genius who suffers from an illness that causes him to be dillusional. (I do not know how to spell the word that describes the illness, so I am not even going to try to spell it. You know what it is.) It gets to the point where he cannot tell reality from illusion. This is the story of a brilliant man and his struggles with life. And how love from one woman most likely saved his life. The acting is incredible. Russell Crowe does in outstanding job in this movie, and really was robbed at the Oscars. Jennifer Connelly also does a terrific job, and very much deserved her Oscar. And who can forget about Ed Harris, huh? What about him? He too needs to be acknowledged for his role in this very important film. The movie was very well directed, congrats to Ron Howard. I never seem to be let down when I watch any of his movies. This wasn't the easiest picture to make, but Ron did an outstanding job. And the overall product shows that. The DVD is amazing. Picture quality; top notch. Sound; impressive, but lacks in some scenes, though I doubt that's the DVD's fault. Would've been nice to have it available in DTS. Lots and LOTS of extra features. So if you enjoy extras on DVDs, you won't be disappointed. This really is a great movie; one of the year's best. The movie won "Best Picture" for a reason. If you want to see a great, moving, and touching film, see "A Beautiful Mind." Bound to be a classic, despite all of the controvercy over it. I will watch this movie as much as I can, and I'm sure I will feel the same way when it's over. A spectacular film.
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Review: Not that I expected a documentary, but playing John Nash's delusions straight for the bulk of the film and then jumping out and yelling "Surprise!" reminded me a bit of the Ewings trying to pick up their lives after Bobby died, in "Dallas," and then having him show up in the shower the following season because Pam was dreaming for all of last season. It was a cheap trick.This film exploited Nash's schizophrenic hallucinations at the expense of the very real handicaps he had to overcome, and I didn't appreciate it one bit.
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Summary: Similar to "Mr. Holland's Opus"
Review: If you liked "Mr. Holland's Opus", then you will probably like this movie. The setting is mathematics instead of music, but you do not need to understand mathematics at all. This is similar to the way that chess was presented in "Searching for Bobby Fischer". Not surprising, the music is from James Horner ("Searching for Bobby Fischer"), as you can tell from the first couple notes.
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Summary: Good movie, even if it does stretch the facts
Review: "A Beautiful Mind" is based on the life of John Nash, a brilliant mathmetician who also happened to suffer from schizophrenia. Although the film has received criticism because it is not 100% accurate, it is a great story. To be honest, most true stories need to be embellished some anyway in order to be entertaining. I cannot divulge too much information about the plot of the movie because you will get some major surprises along the way that should not be spoiled, but just know that you will laugh and cry and be frustrated along with the characters. Why 3 stars? While this was a solid movie, definitely worth a rental, I can't say that it makes my list of all-time favorites. It is a great story that deserves to be seen, and there is nothing necessarily wrong with it. There's just not much more to it that makes it worthy of 4 or 5 stars.
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