Definitely not Second Greatest

Rating: Null/10 (17 October 2004)

OK. The movie was OK. It took forty-five minutes to end, and really could have had a lot more on the cutting room floor, but I'll let the idea that it deserved best picture of 2003 slide for now. But there's no chance in hell that it's the number 2 all time movie. That's just nuts. I liked it, don't get me wrong; it was nice. But it was really just a blockbuster without any real meaning. When I left the theater, there were no questions I asked myself. Maybe someone could say I learned something about friendship, but really it was just pure entertainment. Saying this movie even ranks with the greatest movies of all time is just plain crazy. The only reason it even won Best Picture was Hollywood's newly founded appreciation in the epic. There were definitely better movies made in 2003, for instance, The House of Sand and Fog. The movie, sure it was good, but it definitely doesn't deserve a lot of the hullabaloo it's received.