A movie like they USE TO make them! GREAT!

Rating: Null/10 (30 January 2005)

I just saw "Baby" yesterday and I'm still half in a daze over the impact it made on me. The characters were excellently portrayed. So what if all of the actors cast for their parts have remained little changed from other similar roles? They may be typecast, but isn't it better to get actors with experience in their role situations than trying to get others to ADAPT to characters very UNLIKE their own personalities? Would you want the three main characters to be portrayed by Matt Damon, Eddie Murphey, and Kate Winslet? Could they ADAPT? Who cares if they could? The casting director did his job. The cast is perfect and the writing was right on the mark.
I am a boxing fan and I have been since my teenage days (I'm now 62) and I was impressed with the near accuracy of the films boxing sequences. Even the ending---which leaves many unanswered questions--was perfect.
I hope that the motion picture academy recognizes the brilliance of this film and bestows several Oscars to its participants.
ONE THING MORE:
I must confess that I haven't read ALL the comments made earlier regarding this film, but I suspect that few if any of the commentators noticed something I did about the movie.
It contained little or NO PROFANITY and little if any SMOKING! How great to realize that these are two ingredients we can do without--in the movies AND in our lives.
WHY DOES THE FILM INDUSTRY USE THE TERM "contains ADULT language" in its ratings? The term should be "contains PROFANITY!" NORMAL adults don't speak with profanity. People I care to associate with need not use profanity---even when they get EXCITED!! How do they manage to express their aggression without profanity, some of you may wonder. It CAN be done and IS done by most adults.
Is the lesson we want to teach youngsters---adults swear like crazy and that's O.K.?? Kids, you just wait until you are grown up and then YOU can turn into a real ADULT idiotic potty mouth who only knows seventeen words beyond "Muttha fu----."
Industry----use the phrase "contains PROFANITY" instead of "adult language" PLEASE!
Enough said--more than enough-- Clint, keep up the great movie-making. This one will be hard to beat.