over hyped

Rating: Null/10 (25 January 2002)

I know that most critics, would like to leap at the chance of giving Russel Crowe credit for his performance in anything he has ever made, but i'm going to make my point. Russel Crowe is hollywood's most.... hmm... what's that word again?.... Oh yeah.... OVERRATED actor since Leonerdo Dicrapio. I know that most uneducated critics enjoy those tear jerking moving instant "classics" more than anything else in the world, but I have a few points to make about why you should think differently about this film, and all the others like it.
A. for all of you teenybopping 12-18 year olds that think that if the academy likes it, than it must be good, let me make one thing clear these oscar winning tear jerkers will pass on within the next 5 years (Does any one still consider Titanic one of the best films ever made like they did when it came out.)
B. Ron Howard is one of my favourite directors, and part of the reasons I thought less of this film is that it seemed to me that he was setting out to make one of those oscar winning tearjerkers, more than he was trying to make A point about the acual issue in the film.
C. Any actor, that was in an oscar winning performance the previous year will have an overhyped movie the next year, which is what Warren Beatty was implying in his quote "The Golden Globes are fun, The Oscars are buisness. Russel Crowe won best actor for Gladiator last year that is why A Beautiful mind is overhyped in my opinion.
I am not at all saying that this is a bad film, the performances are quite good, especially from Jenifer Connely, i'm just saying the people praising it like it's some sort of an event in film making really need to get their lips off of Russel Crowe's ass for a bit and start realizing what they are saying.