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The Aviator (2004)
If this is the best that the Oscars can come up with...
If this is the best that the Oscars can come up with then they really should be trying harder...
On the whole a quite boring film, and Leonardo DiCaprio is again miscast. You just cannot take him seriously, are there no other actors out there!!
The film was also lacking in not giving more background to the origin of the Hughes family wealth, okay we know it came from tool bits, but more here would really have been interesting.
In the same way that a film with 'Tom Cruise' in nowadays is going to be an overblown bloated fish.. so this epic of a film felt.. - oh dear, just had a recall of the dreadful 'Gangs of New York', another Leonardo classic!
Back again to Leonardo I'm afraid, maybe with someone a little more commanding in the role it would have given it a bit of bite, I doubt it but you never know.
Don't waste your hard earned cash on this, watch 'The Bourne Identity' or 'Leon' again and feel good!
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
If this is the best the Oscars can do...
If this is the best that the Oscars can come up with then they really should be trying harder...
On the whole a quite boring film, and I do like Clint Eastwood as a rule.
The story held nothing new, and although the acting was okay, there was nothing about the film as a whole that would make you recommend it.
Don't fret though Clint, the other Oscar top shot 'The Aviator' was just as bad!
Hey guys, why not try making some truly original films, instead of just rehashing old ideas into tired old mediocrity.
Take a look at some of the films being made in Europe (and I have no doubt elsewhere in the USA, Hollywood excepted), there are some outstandingly original films being made.
The sooner Hollywood stops equating 'the more millions of $$ we throw at a project the better it will be' the sooner we may get some decent stuff to watch.
Mockingbird Don't Sing (2001)
Don't waste your time with this boring film.
The premise would appear to be...
take a 5 minute news story within which you can impart all the facts and then spin it out into a most boring and dull film.
There was really no point to making this film, and even less point in my watching it through to the end.
Whenever you see 'based on true facts' or similar it should start the alarm bells ringing in your head that someone somewhere has had the great idea (or more realistically, they have had no original idea) to turn an extremely sad story of child neglect into a film, give it a catchy title and some meaty trailers and let it loose on an unsuspecting public. This was indeed the case here, so be warned.
The filmmaker will no doubt go onto do some needless dreadful remakes of classic films.