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Neens

Why oh why does this film feature on every single list of feel-good sports movies? I feel like I have been tricked into watching it! Don't get me wrong, it's a good movie, but it definitely isn't feel-good - and it's only half about sports. Going to have to watch an old episode of Friends now so I'll be able to sleep...

1 year 9 months ago

Beingtaki

Upsetting..!!
Quite depressing..!!
But liked it and not going to watch it again.

4 years 4 months ago

dippygirl78

Layer upon layer of sadness followed by more sadness

6 years 6 months ago

KaramAkerfeldt

Worst referee ever

6 years 9 months ago

Siskoid

For an Oscar winner, Million Dollar Baby sure is a mess. I've yet to like a film directed by Clint Eastwood since Unforgiven, though this has some of that DNA in it, insofar as it's about over-the-hill old men never quite recapturing old glories. It's just so damn out of focus, y'know? Nominally, it's about a female boxer, and that's an interesting entry in the dangerously samey boxing genre. I'm not entirely sure I buy her meteoric rise given everything the movie tells us about training boxers, but fine. That it leads to a tragic sports injury is likewise not something a lot of sports movies get into, so I guess it's a worthy twist. But it makes the last act about euthanasia (so THAT'S what those pointless scenes of Clint's coach arguing with his priest were setting up) and it's a highly melodramatic gear shift that makes you feel like you've been tricked into watching a movie you didn't want to see. I also have to wonder why Morgan Freeman's character narrates the story, because to do so, he has to read Clint's mind and knows things he really couldn't. And what does the Jay Baruchel subplot have to do with anything? It's like they crammed too many boxing short stories into the same film. And for all these twists or strange choices, I continue to cling to my impression that Eastwood's direction is somehow too "obvious" for my tastes. Freeman doing narration? SO OBVIOUS. Syrupy Spanish guitar to make the movie more arty? Obvious. White (or in this case Male) Messiah complex? Obvious. It's well shot and everything, but I just can't get a rise from his stuff.

8 years 8 months ago

CSSCHNEIDER

Intellectualism for dumb people.

9 years 2 months ago

Aisling

Was not enamoured with this - phenomenal performances, but the score was cloying and completely invasive!

9 years 10 months ago

Wholocked

Incredible film.. never going to watch again.. I still wince.. But it's fantastic and a must see

10 years ago

Jazzy

Depressing.

10 years 2 months ago

4lcatraz

Hilary Swank was amazing in this movie.

10 years 2 months ago

LMTR14

masterpiece!

10 years 6 months ago

igordebraga

Was a good boxing movie... until it decided to add tetraplegia and euthanasia and became too depressing. Great acting, but far from Eastwood's best or deserving of Best Picture\Director.

10 years 8 months ago

Camille Deadpan

This movie is tragedy all over and it's not my cup of tea. Eastwood did a very good job directing it tho.

10 years 11 months ago

sammysin

Damn, I really wasn't expecting it to head in that direction.

Unbelievably upsetting stuff.

11 years 2 months ago

adjectivenoun

This is one of the worst movies I've ever seen.

11 years 5 months ago