Bring in the milk...bring in the milk...

Rating: 1/10 (31 January 2005)

This was absolutely the worst movie I've ever seen. I've never wanted to find out where a director lived so badly after seeing a bad movie so I could go to their house and demand my ten dollars back for wasting three hours of my life. Each scene was twice as long as it should have been, the acting was melodramatic and overdone, and the plot went absolutely nowhere. Leonardo DiCaprio was easily the worst possible choice for a lead--first, he looks NOTHING like Howard Hughes. Second, he doesn't age at all--putting a mustache on him didn't quite do it for me. The set design and visual aspects of it were probably its only saving grace, but that isn't nearly enough to right all the wrongs this movie has done. If I can sum up the experience in one instance, it was that when he was losing his mind in his screening room and urinating into old milk bottles two hours into it, my girlfriend and I were both praying that he would just pull out a gun and shoot himself in the head and end the misery--but it went on for another hour. After seeing that this movie earned ELEVEN Oscar nominations, I couldn't possibly understand what in the world would cause anyone to think it's that great, unless that everyone who voted for it was either bribed or on Ecstasy.