Cinderella Man was brilliant and you know it

Rating: 10/10 (3 July 2005)

I'm sorry, but I find it completely ridiculous that people push aside and insult any movie dealing with boxing because they claim it is a remake of Rocky. I often hear people complain about how Maggie Fitzgerald from Million Dollar Baby was made out to be a fem-Rocky Balboa, and, despite how ridiculous it seems, even how Jake La Motta's life was depicted incorrectly in Raging Bull to make him emulate the desperate lifestyle of Balboa. I mean, come on! There's no doubt in my mind that Cinderella Man has proved to be one of the most entertaining and most inspirational movies of our time. Maybe it's just that people like to complain, or that they've naturally associated any and every boxing movie following the latest of the Rocky franchise with weak imitation and unoriginality, or maybe their opinions are focused too much on the way that the pessimistic critics of big-time newspapers tend to find something horribly wrong with every movie ever brought into existence. Okay, I'm through with my rant now. Besides, another unarguable point (which many individuals have brought up before)is that Cinderella Man is in fact based on the life of James Braddock. They lived during the Depression and people actually did live like Braddock and his family did in the movie. He actually was an underdog who was forced to fight in order to provide food for his family, even after he was supposedly retired and past his prime. And there actually was a heavy-hitting machine of a world champion named Max Baer who Braddock had to step into the ring with... okay I'm done with my rant now. :)