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Summary: Diffferent Angle of "Goodwill Hunting" - Overrated
Review: Ron Howard's "Masterpiece"? Hardly. The true story of Nobel Prize winner John Nash, focusing on his long struggle with schizophrenia. Never quite "fitting in", the young Nash developed not one, but 3 imaginary "friends" who haunted him far beyond the point when he realized they were hallucinations.With his "condition" climaxing during the Korean War Era, with the Cold War on everyones mind, Nash was obsessed with the idea of being a government spy whose Mathematical genius and natural talent for "cracking codes" was invaluable to the CIA. Decades later, the once arrogant graduate student, now an accomplished PhD Professor, is honored by his peers for his enlightening findings in the field of Mathematics, which changed the world of Science forever. Receiving the Nobel Prize in 1994, Nash gives credit for all of accomplishments to his wife, and cites that true love is greater than any science. The VHS video features an additional documentary of about 20 minutes, looking behind the scenes of making this film. The real John Nash was interviewed, as was his long suffering wife who saved him from self destruction. A remarcable life story, however a less remarkable film. Embellished accounts of facts to assure drama, along with many comments on the treatment of mental patients in the 1950s (still considered the dark ages of mental health), this could easily be condensed into a 60 minute "NOVA" video at a fraction of the production cost. Best Picture? You're kidding.***
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Summary: Oscar Winner!
Review: Did this movie deserve Oscars for Best Picture and Best Director? You bet! A Beautiful Mind is a wonderful movie based on the life of John Nash (Russell Crowe) after high school. John Nash is a mathematical genious who developed the equilibrium theory at Princeton. In the meantime, he is dating the beautiful Alica Larde (Jennifer Connelly) and also dealing with schizophrenia. That is when he starts to have visions with a man named Parcher (Ed Harris) who tells him that he must help the U.S. This is a great movie based on a true story. It also happens to be suitable to all ages, so anyone in the family can enjoy it.
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Summary: An Excellent Movie
Review: My complaints about the movie would have to be that it was too long, and in some parts I found it to be a bit confusing. However, I thought everything else about the movie was well done. The character developement of Alicia Nash was well played, and the delusions were amazing. They pulled you in, and you thought it was going to be some sort of spy action movie, but felt betrayed when you realized the truth. All in all, I would recommend it.
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Summary: Picture Perfect
Review: A Beautiful Mind is one of the most amazing and intriguing films that I've ever seen. It keeps your attention without skipping a beat and concludes most fabulously, with mathemetician John Nash played brilliantly by Russell Crowe. The story will keep you thinking for days, and you will see the world in a different light.
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Summary: Ewww! This won "Best Picture"? Watch for Jennifer's role!
Review: This should have won the Oscar for Best Non-Threatening Based on a True Story with Great Actors in a very predictable anti-climatic film (Exhale!). Seriously how did the critics not expose this film for what it truly was. It's been mentioned many times but this film was "Oscar bait" in every sense of the words (Even more than Forrest Gump which won over the inspiring Shawshank Redemption, the groundbreaking Pulp Fiction, the delightful Four Weddings and A Funeral, and the moral,thought provoking Quiz Show). The movie's only merits is the great camera work and Jennifer Connelly (who was the only character I felt for). I can't believe the same guy who made the tense and entertaining "Apollo 13" and EdTV (I like that film for some reason- maybe for it's honesty, which this film lacks) made this "everything-by-the-rules" movie. I admit the first half was good, but the second part was just boring and totally unrealistic for being a so-called "Based on a True Story". It would of been way better if the movie would of focused on Alicia more than on John Nash. At least then it wouldn't have succumbed to making the movie do that awful part with the speech at the Nobel Prize ceremony (How predictable and cheesy). Even though I was throwing out negative thoughts, I think for the most part it is an ok movie. But to think that this was the best of 2001 over *insert the film you believed was the actual best film of that year* is totally unoriginal and just following a shallow view. Totally did NOT deserve all of the accolades it recieved. (Wait "Fellowship of the Ring" won over "A Beautiful Mind" at the British Oscars. Justice has prevailed! Well thankfully they didn't fall for the same garbage that they fell for on this side of the Atlantic)
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Summary: An exceptionally irritating movie
Review: They don't pass out pens to revered professors at Princeton. And John Nash was, very briefly, a very good mathematician. This manipulative tale plays upon all sorts of prejudices --eg "if you're that smart something else must be wrong" and somehow manages to ignore the fact that during this period, at Princeton, the urbane, sane, funny, and more brilliant John von Neuman not only invented game theory (to which work Nash's is essentially a special case), but also was responsible for the architecture of the stored memory computer (still the model for our CPUs fifty years later), and designed much of the theoretical and practical system by for US command and control of its nuclear forces-- in short he did what Nash is presented as fantasizing about. So we have a celebratory film about a mathematician who did some good work, then went mad, and is now not so mad. That is not exactly a beautiful mind. . .
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Summary: Beautiful, indeed.
Review: You know how you watch a David Lynch movie and it pulls a twist on you and you are hooked then it ends? All of that investment washed away you know that feeling?
Ron Howard doesn't. He knows the need for a payoff and he delivers. This movie knocked me out.
Russell Crowe brilliant. Jennifer Connelly brilliant. Everyone involved gave their best and all were rewarded for it both in box office and awards.
The awards edition DVD has great extras. Behind the scenes of the movie as well as the casting. The Oscar acceptance speeches. The make-up and effects involved. By the way there is more CGI in this movie than one would expect and it's all unnoticable. No gratuitous CGI for ROn.
The only weak parts are the commentaries both writer Akiva Goldman and Ron Howard get seperate tracks and it would have been nice to have them bounce off of one another. That said I also have to say that each give a great perspective on the scenes and actors involved because each had a different and notable experience.
This is great for any collection and certainly a great movie all around.
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Summary: John Nash's life
Review: A beautiful mind is a great film about noble price winner John Nash.
We can the schizophrenia disease too, It's a very strange disease.
It explain us the life of the people who have this disease.
Russell Crowe is more than good in the role of John Nash, he is truly outstanding. As I compare his performance in "Gladiator" to his performance in this movie, which stretches his abilities significantly in areas that "Gladiator" merely explored, I have come to realize that Russell Crowe is a one of the great actors of our time. Perhaps schizophrenia is not as seamless as portrayed in the movie, but with 120 minutes to work with, I was thoroughly convinced. It wasn't just the story, which is, in itself, awe-inspiring. It was how that story was told and the message it proclaimed loud and clear that made it a winner. The audience was pulled right into John Nash's mind. We saw and felt his delusions. We thought they were real. And we were right there with him as he gradually came to realize that they were just a product of his mind. Then, as story developed, we learned a valuable lesson, one that relates to all of us whether we admit it or not. If it is possible for Mr. Nash to live with his demons and go on and make a valuable contribution to society, then all of us can learn to live with ours.
So I very enjoyed it.
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Summary: a beautiful movie
Review: Russell Crowe is incredible as the West Virginia genius, John Nash. Jennifer Connerly, does a fine job as his wife, Alicia. The big shock of the film works;we find out that whole portions of John's day to day life exist only in his head and have for years. Looking at it later, you can see the very subtle hints that people and things are just fantasies. Nash's best friend only appears when he really needs him. Ed Harris appears, in highly stressful or emotional times, like his wedding day. This is a great film and only has a few tiny flaws. For example we never really understand why a girl like Alicia would fall in love with a man so different from her and her friends. Overall, I loved this film enough to buy it.
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Summary: A Beautiful Movie
Review: This movie told the story so completely that the viewer himself could easily feel, momentarily, just as confused, frustrated, and overall dillusional as Mr. Nash. Russel Crowe did a beautiful job, as did the prducers in making you think that his hallucinations were real and to think that all of the people who knew otherwise were spies. It was so perfectly done that you can actually feel immersed in the insanity. The only thing you can say after having watched it is WOW!
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