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nicolaskrizan

far from reality in several aspects – not in the book, strangely enough

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9 years 9 months ago

Pratsy

ultimate crappy hollywood biopic schlockfest. can u say "DULLSVILLE"

9 years 3 months ago

Andiemaquinas

It just make me love maths and economics even more hahaha (it's true).

An amazing movie, and of course, an amazing real-life story.

9 years 11 months ago

What it comes down to is that for a movie all about original breakthroughs, Ron Howard is one of the most astoundingly unoriginal filmmakers of our time. He chooses narratives that are highly formalized and largely predictable (everything at Princeton, the Connelly character) and uses some of the most cliché techniques to execute them (uninspired shot composition and movement, cheesy editing choices). His score feels like it was trying too hard to compensate in emotional attachment and, much like most of Howard's filmography, came across as the bad kind of sentimental.

That being said, Crowe's speech at the end is the most touching and worthwhile part of the whole film. (Also, Ed Harris and Paul Bettany are the highlight of the movie; Connelly's entire performance, much like the plot, has a melodramatic blandness to it.)

Most people love this film and I'm not here to argue that away (as if I could). But, if you belong to the small, highly-critical viewership, and you feel like you're probably not going to enjoy a film like this, trust your gut. Don't listen to all the people who have tried to convince you that it's an amazing film and that you're going to get something out of it, because you know your taste and it's honestly not going to happen.

10 years 5 months ago

Joker of Gotham

Great performance by Russell Crowe, I hate math
3.5/5

11 years 6 months ago

muzzlehatch

My God, what a great story, and what a horrible film. Ron Howard - the Michael Bay of "adult dramas".

12 years 1 month ago

Dieguito

Wacko

12 years 10 months ago

nxou

The film is very slow and caricatural at start which is a bit painfull.

But you can't be part of the humanity if the whole hell of wha'ts real pain dont pull you a tear at the end.

9 years 2 months ago

japhyryder

pretty much went through the same thing when i was in college. turns out I was just high on acid.

9 years 3 months ago

eumer

Sad...

Some scenes felt like a Sixth Sense rip-off and I still don't know how and what he'd achieve.
5/10 for not explaining this clearly

12 years 5 months ago

indiastokers

This movie just overwhelmed me with it's flawlessness and I just love it. It's very underrated.

12 years 8 months ago

Alias

The acting was definitely good, but the movie spends a little too much time on his personal life. The deciphering bits where so much more awesoe.

13 years 2 months ago

brian_fuller

François Truffaut claimed that the most difficult thing for film to do is to portray thought. How does one person show what another is thinking? A Beautiful Mind probably achieves that elusive goal as well as any modern film. I did truly think the thoughts of Crowe's John Nash character without even knowing I had stepped into his shoes. That one act of empathy (multiplied by the film's many, many viewers) may rank as Ron Howard's highest cinematic achievement.

Alas, reviewers are often allowed only a polarizing thumbs up or down. And the choice between two extremes is frequently shaded in personal hues.

Lurking behind the film's paranoid narrative and celebration of spousal support is the notion that a man's value to others equals his ability to work, to hold a job, to earn a wage. A piece of me -- the ramrod-straight spine of me -- agrees with that. I want the world to pull itself up by the bootstraps, to stop whining about the economy, to trade welfare for entrepreneurship, to make things instead of excuses.

But another part of me -- the part of me that went to see A Beautiful Mind in 2001-- was unsure of his employment status, was polishing his resumé, was looking at the future through uncertain eyes. The thought that I was worth something only so long as I was meaningfully employed was another heavy brick on already-sagging shoulders. So as much as I respect this film for its rare ability to put me in the mind of another man, I could not at the time -- nor even now in retrospect -- call it "beautiful."

13 years 8 months ago

Herman Van Haute

Great picture, advice for all tournemented people.

14 years 10 months ago

concordus

Loved this cinema.

Sountracks are TOP level

8 years 10 months ago