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Post by anjhest on Feb 20, 2005 23:20:55 GMT -5
good thing i'm getting prescribedanti-depressants tomorrow.
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Post by Pelesfury - a way of life on Feb 21, 2005 0:54:56 GMT -5
:gossip: I have no idea what you are talking about :tard: :shrug:
:bernie:
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Post by anjhest on Feb 21, 2005 7:37:13 GMT -5
Million Dollar Baby is a movie with Hillary Swank and Clint Eastwood. Incredible, and incredibly depressing
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Post by Sugarmum on Feb 22, 2005 0:43:17 GMT -5
yeah, you only watch that one once.  |
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Post by T.C. on Feb 22, 2005 13:37:15 GMT -5
k..what's the big secret? what's so depressing about it?
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Post by anjhest on Feb 22, 2005 13:43:22 GMT -5
k..what's the big secret? what's so depressing about it? You really just need to see it. I don't want to spoil it! |
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Post by T.C. on Feb 22, 2005 16:55:38 GMT -5
Sugarmum... tell me...
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Post by HSW on Feb 22, 2005 17:21:04 GMT -5
All I know is that it's got Clint Eastwood, Hilary Swank and Morgan Freeman in it and it's about boxing.
Even so, I bet that it's something along the lines of Clint, old and washed up, is persuaded by Morgan to come out of retirement to help delinquent young girl. But at the end Clint divulges that he's dying of something, that this was his last tour-de-force, Hilary wins one for her surrogate father who probably pops his clogs before he can get ringside for the final triumphant fight. Hilary rushes to see Clint konked out, he gets carted away on a gurney, tears all round, the end.
Hopefully it's cleverer than that. But I'll know when I see it (probably in two years when it gets shown on TV).
;D
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Post by T.C. on Feb 22, 2005 18:01:55 GMT -5
yeah, I have no desire to see it either...
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Post by anjhest on Feb 22, 2005 20:11:55 GMT -5
Even so, I bet that it's something along the lines of Clint, old and washed up, is persuaded by Morgan to come out of retirement to help delinquent young girl. But at the end Clint divulges that he's dying of something, that this was his last tour-de-force, Hilary wins one for her surrogate father who probably pops his clogs before he can get ringside for the final triumphant fight. Hilary rushes to see Clint konked out, he gets carted away on a gurney, tears all round, the end. ;D Wow, not even close! I'll tell you, TC, but if HSW doesn't want to know, STOP READING! It will totally spoil the experience for you if you ever decide to watch it. SPOILER ALERTClint Eastwood's character isn't washed up... he's a working trainer and he owns a gym with Morgan Freeman, who is a former boxer. Freeman's character used to box but went blind in one eye and quit. Eastwood has basically taken pity on him and lets him live in the gym while helping him run it. There are some other interesting characters, which I won't get into. Eastwood is training a star boxer (and has been for 8 years) when the movie opens. This star keeps trying to get a title fight and Eastwood keeps telling him he's not ready, he needs to get through a few more fights before he goes to a title fight (something he apparently has been saying to this guy for a couple years). Hilary Swank ("Maggie") starts showing up at the gym, asking Eastwood to train her. He's an old grumpy curmudgeon and tells her he doesn't train girls. He tells Freeman to give her money back and send her on her way. She practices on her own but apparently has pitiful technique. She works as a waitress and literally counts pennies while she eats her dinner (usually a steak that she stole while bussing tables). She continues to pester him. He gets more annoyed. Tells her that, at 31, she's too old to start boxing. Meanwhile the guy he's training ditches him and goes on to win a title fight. Maggie talks him into training her and they have an agreement to continue on. So he trains her and she starts kicking EVERYONE'S ass. Literally. Knocks just about everyone out in the first round. Meanwhile she and Eastwood are developing a very tight bond (not romantic, just a lot of trust, admiration, blah blah blah) There's another female boxer out there who doesn't play by the rules (knocks people out while they're still down, etc.). After Maggie doesn't have any ass left to kick, he sets up a title fight with that female boxer. At the end of a round where Maggie has pummelled the girl pretty hard, she turns to walk back to her corner. A chair is thrown into her corner and at the same time, the other boxer charges and throws a mega-punch... Maggie starts to fall and Eastwood tries to move the chair, instead getting it (accidentally) into position for her neck to hit at just the right spot so as to shatter her spinal cord and turn her into a vegetable. she has to breathe and eat through tubes, can't move anything but her head, even her leg has to be severed after about a year of this because of circulation problems. really tragic. oh, and her mother and family try to con her out of her winnings. Earlier on in the movie, Maggie had purchased a house for her mother, and her mother's only concern was that now, she'd be unable to get welfare. pretty ungrateful. so maggie reminds her mom that the house is in her name, and she can sell out it from under her "fat lazy hillbilly ass" whenver she wants. after lots of heartbreaking scenes, Maggie convinces Eastwood to pull the plug and kill her. Freeman narrates the whole story and gives advice to white people when needed (I got that from SNL the other night, and it's pretty much true). |
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Post by anjhest on Feb 22, 2005 20:15:15 GMT -5
It was really a fantastic movie. The scene where she hits her neck on the chair is so shocking because it happens about halfway through the movie and you're just not expecting it at all. I mean she's the main character and spends the rest of the movie in a bed with tubes! It's awful because you're really rooting for her. And watching the movie, you think it's going to be about her overcoming the odds and becoming a champion. Instead she ends up as a suicidal vegetable.
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Post by T.C. on Feb 23, 2005 1:49:52 GMT -5
wow... thanks for describing the story in such detail... that was great.....
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Post by anjhest on Feb 23, 2005 8:11:29 GMT -5
wow... thanks for describing the story in such detail... that was great..... You're welcome! I really wish you would have seen the movie first, though. It was so incredible. I haven't been that moved by a movie since Dancer in the Dark |
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Post by Coraline on Feb 23, 2005 15:03:50 GMT -5
I haven't been that moved by a movie since Dancer in the Darkholy nuts that one slays me...  |
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Post by T.C. on Feb 24, 2005 3:25:04 GMT -5
never saw that either
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