The Ultimate Old Geezer Film

Rating: 1/10 (8 March 2002)

I walked into the movie theater.. getting ready to see "A Beautiful Mind". I had remembered looking in the papers and reading reviews for it. Every single review was not four stars but three and a half stars. How goofy is that!? Anyways - I walked in the theater. I was probably the only person in there under 30. That depressed me. I quietly sat down next to a bus load of senior citizens. The movie theater was silent. The movie started and I tried focusing on it. Halfway into it, I left. I have never done that to a movie before. I was falling asleep. So I went into Crossroads - which was pure trash.. but I got more of a thrill out of THAT than "A Beautiful Mind". So after Crossroads got out, I decided to go back into "A Beautiful Mind" - which surprisingly was still dragging itself along.. for another HOUR! So after that got out.. I overheard some of the old geezers. They were saying things like "That film was.. uh (cough, cough) brilliant". It was actually pretty funny.
I could see Ron Howard sitting in his fold-up director's chair with his bull-horn and baseball cap thinking about his oscar-winning speech as he's directing this oscar-dribble. What I'm trying to say is - this film was purely made to win the oscars. And with Oscar-dribble, I mean it's one of those movies that is completely oscar-worthy, and nothing else. The film-makers were full of themselves everone gave into it. I would not recommend this movie to anyone. It's purely oscar trash.