A Beautiful Mind

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Did anyone else catch this last night or seen it before? I know Mo said somewhere that he saw it last night. What did you think of it?

I thought it was an incredible film - Russell Crowe really surprised me, his acting was superb. I found it a riveting, heart-wrenching, harrowing film which was desperately sad in places & heart warming in others. Following the anguish and heartbreak of someone suffering from paranoid schizophrenia & how it affected him & his family was amazing. I was very close to my great-great-uncle when he developed severe alzheimer's & I can only imagine that this was kind of similar - one night he destroyed his house with an axe as he was trying to "get the men in black who were crawling over the walls and ceiling". He woke up my great-great-aunt in the process (it was about 2am) and she was absolutely petrified - and she was a remarkable woman who was rarely fazed about anything. Uncle Bill was sectioned after that and was never the same person again.

I can honestly say that A Beautiful Mind affected me deeply & at the end the tears were streaming freely down my cheeks. The only other films that have affected me like that were Schindler's List & The Green Mile :shy: :lol: . Oh, & Watership Down when I was about 7! :lol:
 
I missed the last half an hour for the second time as I fell asleep(for the second time)!!
 
Some critics have questioned whether it would have been a better and more powerful film if Ron Howard had not omitted various parts of Nash's personal life.
 
I know nothing about Nash's personal life anyway to be honest, Brian. I just thought it was a fantastically well done film.
 
It was good but I'm not the type to go overboard about films even though I do get emotional very easily. Maybe I wasn't paying close enough attention (between nipping back and forth into the kitchen to refill the drinks and snacks) but I still enjoyed it but it didn't 'get to me' as such.

I do like Jennifer Connolly (spelling?) though :shy:
 
Good film.

Jennifer Conelly is very beatifull but needs to eat a lot more, she was at her best with more kilos.


Rusell Crowe is a good actor but not one of my favorites.


By the way
I watched in the cinema last Saturday Cinderalla Man, not bad but I expected a little bit more form the boxing film.
 
I thought it was one of the most awful pieces of Oscarbation I've ever seen. I distinctly remember being sat in the cinema watching through my fingers because I was cringing so much. Thing is, I really wanted to like it because I have a lot of time for Ron Howard and Russell Crowe when they get it right (think Apollo 13 and The Insider respectively). I guess there's a point where you either let yourself go with it or not and I did a swift Antonius Pius.
 
Originally posted by Gareth Flynn@Sep 12 2005, 06:37 PM
I thought it was one of the most awful pieces of Oscarbation I've ever seen. I distinctly remember being sat in the cinema watching through my fingers because I was cringing so much. Thing is, I really wanted to like it because I have a lot of time for Ron Howard and Russell Crowe when they get it right (think Apollo 13 and The Insider respectively). I guess there's a point where you either let yourself go with it or not and I did a swift Antonius Pius.
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:lol: I did think that the acting was superb but I did'nt get a major epiphany by the end either . Mayby a nice glow though . Very good film but I wouldn't put in the same league as The Insider :rolleyes:
 
I watched it on DVD a while ago and really enjoyed it so I decided to watch "Footprints in the Snow" on ITV which was excellent.
 
my economics lecturer wasnt too keen on it when it was released, it was showing on the cinema at the time. Apparently, they missed some of the economics stuff out.....

I've never wanted to watch it after he said that.
 
If you like that what about LA Confidential?? It is my favourite film of all time (well this week anyway!!) - Crowe is fabulous, all star cast on a fantastic story line - you gotta watch it!!x
 
It was OK, but didnt really explain the Nash equilibrium theorem very well.

I am a student of Game Theory and only really watched it to see how well it actually explained the concept. It didnt.

The film was decent, i suppose, based on its own merits, but the lack of a real explanation of game theory and payoffs annoyed me.
 
I know. I just hate it when films don't explain theorems and stratagems in detail. I felt that 'Men in Black 2' left much to be desired in the way we were expected to accept metallurgical transmogriphication x acceleron particle theory without prior recourse to proton/neutron disestablishment. D'oh!
 
The E. Dead Group knew you were going to say that Kri.
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I couldnt be asked to see the film at all.

games theory and prisoner dilemma is ok at first, but once you go into it in detailed. I find it bloody confusing.
 
Well, I liked it - I thought it was very, very good. As a film that is - I don't know about Nash's life story so I'm not particularly worried about the bits they left out or whatever to be honest.
 
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