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Summary: Russell Crowe Does NOT win 'Best Actor'???
Review: I don't care how anyone feels about Russell Crowe personally....to not award him the 'Best Actor' Oscar was amisguided effort by the academy to overlook 'real acting ability.' His portrayal of Mr. John Nash was not only superb, but moving and emotional beyond expression in mere words.What were they thinking????
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Summary: The Academy Awards got it right!
Review: "A Beautiful Mind" certainly is the best picture of the year. Based on a the true story of the paranoid schizophrenic, John Nash, who went on to win a Nobel Prize, Russell Crowe took on a difficult and demanding role. Jennifer Connelly, who plays his understanding wife, won an Oscar for supporting actress and her performance was also excellent. The highest accolades, however, must go to Ron Howard who directed it and Akiva Goldsman who wrote the screenplay. They certainly deserved the awards they won and, while good actors can be found everywhere, it is that special combination of knowing just what words to say or angle to shoot a scene that made this the perfect film.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. This theme rang true as I watched the film, and will live with me long after. It's a beautiful concept and "The Beautiful Mind" is a winner on all counts. I give this film my highest recommendation. Don't miss it!
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Summary: This is one of the BEST movies I have ever seen.
Review: For the first time, the movie is better than the book! I made sure I saw the movie first... the book was quite boring in parts, way too much mathmatical stuff in it, but many things that you were not made aware of in the movie, such as his wife divorcing him, yet they got back together many years later, and she was always there for him. They remarried after his nobel prize. Russell Crowe should have won best actor, he was OUTSTANDING in this. This movie grips you from beginning to end. One is never quite sure what is real and what is not....
I loved it.
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Summary: A real beaut!
Review: This has become my very favorite movie. It reached me on different levels each time I viewed it and each time I was just as moved.
I know it is a movie about schizophrenia but it can also be related to addictions or obsessions and can help those not afflicted understand to a greater depth and with greater sensitivity those who are.
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Summary: Flawless performance.....perfect movie
Review: Not only does Director Ron Howard find a way into the schizophrenic mind in a way those watching can actually see, but Russell Crowe gives a dynamic performance. Russell Crowe slips his own skin in this movie and totally becomes John Nash. I watched for cracks in the performance and found none. I was moved to tears that Mr. Crowe did not get the Oscar for this performance. The movie is well written, moves along at a great pace and is brilliantly acted. A winner all the way around......
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Summary: The most wonderful experience...
Review: I've had at a movie in years! Russell Crowe and Jennifer Connolley were absolutely incredible!! I think Russell Crowe didn't get the Oscar just from his usual antics in the industry but most definitely deserved it from his beautiful performance. This movie pulled at every emotional part of my body. The only movie of 2001 deserving of Best Director and Best Picture. An absolute must see for everybody and a collector's item!!
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Summary: Enlightening...
Review: I wanted to see this movie from the first time I saw a trailer for it. (And not just because of the delightful Russell Crowe, either!) I'm glad that I made the trip -- twice -- to see this incredibly informative, enlightening and well-documented journey of one man's trip through the world of mental illness. The thing that I believe struck me the strongest when I walked out of that theater was this: I had been inside the head of a man (John Nash) who has this illness, and didn't even know it until well into the film! The first half (or so) of this movie was shot from nearly a first person viewpoint, but was done so skillfully that the viewer isn't even aware of it. At first, I was a little annoyed to see that my first perceptions of the storyline were wrong. Then I started to see a little glimmer of understanding. Soon, that glimmer was a full-blown light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel understanding. That was the whole point. To see the world as someone with that kind of illness sees it. Not to feel sorry for that person, not to even really empathize with them, but to truly BE them. I WAS John Nash for the first portion of this film, I think I now have a clearer, more defined understanding, and for that, I'm grateful.Wonderful movie, which truly deserves the Oscars that it won.
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Summary: Great film!
Review: I loved this film. Russell Crowe was great! This is one of the best films of the year. The performances were out of this world! Ron Howard proves that he has grown up, and moved on to bigger things. This was a great film, with a great message about a disorder that is so hard for so many people around the world. Go see it, and be moved. The only problem that I had with this film was that the whole time that Crowe's character was seeing things, NOT ONCE did he see a Smurf. If he had seen atleast a few of them, the impact of the film would have been greater! Aside from that, go see this marvelous film from Dreamworks!
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Summary: It is not because of Oscar Best Film, but Russell Crowe
Review: It is amazingly to see Russell plays well in the film Gladiator casting as a general. In this score again proves himself is a professional actor of all time.
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Summary: Formula Tearjerker
Review: "A Beautiful Mind" is well-made and well-directed, but not inspired. This is formula for box office and Oscar contention. Much of the facts in John Nash's life has been altered, but that is not the biggest problem. It is entirely unclear why everyone in the film goes out of his/her way supporting the hero (or anti-hero) who is really an anti-social nerd with big personality problems. The audience is directed to empathize with Russell Crowe, not John Nash. If someone less hunky, say Kevin Spacey, plays the main character, it will not have the same effect. Many of the scenes are forcibly poignant, such as when Jennifer Connolly breaks down, Russell Crowe being accepted by his students and peers, and the Nobel accepting speech. It would have been a better character study, if the director were not so keen on turning the main character into a "lovable" person at the end.
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