Quarterly Review #1

So, with my last blog of the movie Rebecca, I had blogged my twenty first Best Picture winner. Twenty first out of eighty four is one quarter of the way through, so I have decided to do a quarterly review!

I debated what this would look like. Should I say what my favorite movie has been so far (Annie Hall, in case anyone was curious)? And then I realized I was very, very, very tired of blogging movies I didn’t really like. I wanted to blog a movie I enjoyed! A movie I loved! A movie like… THE LION KING!

When I was little, every single day my favorite thing to do was watch The Lion King. Never before has there been a better animated movie than this, and I will venture to say there never will ever be a greater cartoon than this movie here. I own the soundtrack. I have the nightlight. I’ve seen the play. I love The Lion King.

For you dodos that don’t know the story, here it is. Simba is a lion cub who is born to Mufasa and Sarabi. He is the future king. And he just can’t wait! Teehee. Simba yearns to be brave just like his father. So when his evil uncle Scar tells him about an ELEPHANT GRAVEYARD that is out of his territory, he and his friend Nala decide to go pay a visit to this ELEPHANT GRAVEYARD.
This graveyard has hyenas who want to eat them. Simba and Nala were unaware of this fact. Luckily Mufasa saves the day and no one becomes lunch!

This makes Scar rather angry. He wanted Simba dead so he can become king. So he devises a brilliant and diabolical plan to claim kingship.

Scar brings Simba out onto a rock. And tells him to stay. So Simba does. And then the hyenas start a stampede of I think water buffalo that threaten to kill Simba! But never fear! Mufasa is here!

Mufasa saves Simba and brings him to safety. As he himself tries to climb out, he slips and reaches Scar, who throws him to the buffalo. So now Mufasa is dead and trampled. It is the saddest moment of movie history ever in the planet. Simba tragically finds his father and believes Scar when he tells him that Simba is responsible for Mufasa’s death. So Scar tells Simba to run very, very far away.

Simba ends up in the middle of a desert, passed out. Until Timon and Pumba find him! And teach him to forget his past and learn hakuna matata! CUE SINGING!!!!!

Simba grows up! And then one day, Nala returns. It’s magical. Everyone can feel the love. Nala tells Simba he must return and take his place as king. Scar let the hyenas run the pride lands and there’s no food. Simba is scared to because of his past. But because of a crazy monkey he changes his mind and returns!!!

Simba fights Scar and gets him to admit that it was Scar who was responsible for Mufasa’s death. Then the hyenas eat Scar. Simba takes his place as king and everyone lives happily ever after till the next movie. THE END!!!

Can I say, possibly the best movie ever? It’s funny. It has FANTASTIC songs. The story is amazing. It’s drawn wonderfully. There is nothing about this movie I don’t love with every inch of my heart. If you haven’t seen this movie yet, something is dreadfully wrong with you. You must immediately go out and watch it now. Stop reading this. I’m serious.

I love this movie so much.

Rebecca

Rebecca
1940

I so wanted to like this movie. So much. But never before has a movie made my head hurt so before! But anyway, this is the jist of it.

Right as the movie starts, we hit annoying thing number one. Miss Main Character has no name. Well, I mean I’m sure she has one. We just never get to know it. It was entirely irksome in every way. Moving on. MMC (Miss Main Character) meets this really, really, really attractive guy in Monte Carlo and decides to marry him. So off they go to his estate! Oh there is this minor detail about him. He used to be married, but his wife died under “mysterious” circumstances. Yeah.

Everyone at the house is still madly in love with the old wife, Rebecca. MMC tries to run the house but it is kind of hard. To try and establish herself as the wife she holds a costume party and accidentally wears the same costume that Rebecca wore last year, because the evil Mrs. Danvers told her to. Obviously, everyone goes crazy, including cute husband. So Mrs. Danvers tells MMC she should just jump out of her window. Which she nearly does, until a call comes from the shore. A boat has been found.

Annoying thing number two. THIS ALL TAKES TWO WHOLE HOURS TO COVER AND NOTHING TRULY INTERESTING HAS HAPPENED! Okay. I am calm and collected and will continue now that I got that off my chest.

The boat has a body in it. Rebecca’s body. But how is this possible? She is buried already. Let us go to handsome husband and ask.

It seems she was having an affair. With her cousin. EWWWWWWWWWWWW. And she was pregnant. She and her husband got in a fight and she fell and died. Totally an accident. So Max, that is his real name, took her out to the boat and sunk her ship. Then identified a random other body as Rebecca.

Now cute husband is in trouble as we know Rebecca is not who he said she was. So they go to trial and have too do some digging to find out if she was suicidal or not and would sin her own ship. Can I just say that would be the stupidest form of suicide on the planet? Sinking your own ship and hoping to drown? Idiotic. So obviously she did not do that.

They go to a doctor to confirm she was pregnant as she had a appointment that day. He says no, she was not pregnant. She had cancer. So they determine her suicidal by that fact alone and everyone goes free. Woohoo!

Attractive husband goes home to find the Mrs. Danvers has burnt his house and herself to the ground. The end.

Strangest. Ending. EVER. It was hysterical. I am not sure they meant for it to be funny though.

Alfred Hitchcock directed this film. On that sole purpose alone, I wanted to love it. Psycho and The Birds are two of my favorite films ever, especially the former. He is just an utter genius, usually. I do not know what happened here.

I was, until the last thirty minutes, very bored. I was very glad I had Lucky Charms to play with, otherwise I would have lost my mind. Hitchcock should never ever bore anyone. I was very disappointed.

Gone with the Wind

Gone with the Wind
1939

So, I am going to be honest right now. While watching this movie, for the second time in my life, I hardly paid attention. BUT IT WASN’T MY FAULT I SWEAR.

If you actually want to know what’s happening in a four hour movie about the Civil war that has a terrible main character, you should not have your friends, specifically ones named Tim, watch it with you. They are entertaining, but highly distracting. So please forgive me if I don’t know names, or details, or what happened. It’s not all that important anyway.

So. This is what I know. Scarlett is a terrible person who uses everyone she can. She is the main character. I also know there is this really ugly guy Ashley. Yes, he is a guy. It’s odd. She loves him. He loves her. He marries this girl Melanie because he’s an idiot and ugly. Scarlett marries this other guy named… I’ll call him Bill. Bill then dies! Woohoo!

This movie is four hours long. I cannot believe I had four hours of my life stolen by this. Technically eight since I have seen it before. Ugh.

So now, Scarlett is in fake mourning. But this other dude Rhett likes her. And there is this huge war thing going on and people keep dying.

So um… I am trying to think of what happened next. I really should have actually watched more of the film.

Scarlett goes down to Atlanta to visit Melanie and Ashley. He admits he still has feelings for her and the Yankees attack. Rhett helps her escape. And then, something most tragic happens.

The horse dies. But it’s all good! He died right outside of Tara, Scarlett’s plantation. There, we find out her mother has died. And there is no food. Scarlett then goes out, finds a carrot and stabs herself with it. Not really but that’s what it looked like to me. She swears she’ll never go hungry. Good for her. The end of disc one.

The war is over! Scarlett shoots a guy and blows his face away, simply because he was on her property and stealing from her. I told you she wasn’t nice.

But she has found something out about Tara. She has to come up with three hundred dollars in order to keep it. Why? I haven’t the foggiest I wasn’t paying attention!

Her first plan is to ask Rhett for the money. But he says no. Oh poor Scarlett! What will she do now? She get’s married to some random dude her sister wanted to marry! Isn’t that just the logical solution?

So Tara is saved. But after awhile this husband dies too. Geez. Then… Hmmm what did happen next. Gosh. Stupid four hour movies.

Oh! She marries Rhett!! Then, they have a kid. And that kid dies. Then Melanie dies. And since that leaves Ashley open Rhett leaves because frankly, he doesn’t give a damn. I just summed up an hour in a paragraph. Be extremely impressed.

But, Scarlett still has Tara. So she can go home to it. The end.

Yeah that’s all I got for a summary. I am sure more things happened, probably important things. Buuuuuuut… I don’t remember. Next time I watch a movie, I will be sure to pay attention.

Ha. Yeah right.

Lord of the Rings

Lord of the Rings~ Return of the King
2003

Once upon a time five years ago two little girls bet each other they could read the entire series of The Lord of the Rings before the other could. The loser had to supply the other with M&M's for the 12 hour marathon they were planning of LOTR. They raced and read and in two weeks the youngest won by just a smidgen. She gloated and rubbed it in the others face that she had WON! But you know what? That poor little child never got her M&M's for their marathon. Ever. Even for the many marathons they have had since then. Supposed M&M’s were bought this person swears, but this is not true, the little child knows. She was robbed. ROBBED. Even to this day she is still owed M&M's from a certain someone who's name starts with an R and ends with E and has an S and O in it. Not that I will name names.

I am one of the little girls in that story, the winner. The champion, the jipped. Ever since those years Lord of the Rings, or LOTR, has been a part of my life, both the movies and the books. This specific Oscar night is still engrained in my brain as it really angered me because it stole all the awards from Pirates of the Caribbean. Now I know better. Now I know how amazing these movies really are.

I say movies for a reason. You really cannot count these as separate movies. They all are one story and they flow together purposefully. In fact I have never seen one without watching all three.

The basic story, for those of you who live under rocks, is there is this ring of power. It's bad. It must be destroyed. So a group of a bunch of different creatures like hobbits and elves and men and dwarfs and Gandalf the wizard get together and travel to destroy it. But there is this evil dude named Saramon (All these names are WAY too hard to spell) who wants the ring himself and controls these gross blue monsters called orcs that he uses to get the ring from them. BUT!

The good guys win in the end after a bunch of super fantastic battles. The end. Pretty simple.

But it's SO GOOD. It has funny moments. It has romance. No I am not talking about between Aragon and Arwen for the record, Arwen sucks. I was referring to between Eoweyn and that other guy who is so much cooler than Aragon whose name escapes me. It has the "revelry" between Gimli the dwarf and Legolas. They count the people they kill in battle and have drinking contests and just in general pick on each other. But you know what makes this movie a best picture winner?

The special effects. Even still today, nearly a decade later (geez I am old), they are still mind blowingly awesome. The Oliphants. The orcs. Gollum the creepy schizoid dude. All computers generated. All spectacular. The battles are just, epically done. I love it. Even though this movie by its self is four hours and all together they are twelve, they don't feel like it! They keep you hooked and engaged. And this is coming from me, squirrel girl. So what does that tell you?

I will tell you right now, I am extremely biased. Return of the Kings is one of my favorite movies on the planet ever. I just love it. It totally deserved its spot on the Oscar Best Picture list. And I so need M&M's STILL. Not that I am bitter at all.

Oliver!

Oliver!
1968

Two years ago, back in ninth grade, I fell in love with Charles Dickens. For lit class we were to read one of his books over the summer. The book assigned was Oliver Twist. Instantly, I was amazed. What a wonderful story! That book to this day still is one of my very favorites and has a special place in my heart.

So when I heard there was a movie version that was a musical, I was ecstatic. What could be better than my favorite book with songs? I tell you nearly nothing. But, as I watched this film, I ran into one major problem.

IT DIDN’T STICK TO THE BOOK!

Why must movies do this? Do they really think they can improve on perfection? Are the directors and writers that stupid? I highly doubt it. But like most movies based on fantastic books, this one strayed from its original just like a little lost puppy strays from its owner.

Oliver is an orphan. He lives in a work house and is poorly fed. All of the boys draw straws to see who gets to go ask for more food and guess who’s the lucky winner? Oliver right! So he goes up and famously says, “Please sir, I want some more.” This lands him sold off to a undertaker. That sounds so joyous doesn’t it?

Well, just like everyone so far in the movie, the undertaker is not treating Oliver very nicely so he runs away to London. There he meets up with the Artful Dodger, who is possibly the cutest little kid I have ever seen in my whole life. To them it’s clear they’re going to get along. Teehee.

Oliver is taken back to Dodger’s place. We now know that Dodger is a pick pocket and a pretty good one too! He works for Fagin, the guy with a pointy beard. Fagin and Dodger begin to teach Oliver how to steal and soon he’s good enough to go out on a job. Somewhere in here we meet Nancy and Bill. They’re together. Nancy is nice. Bill is bad. Alliteration is amazing.

When Oliver goes out for the job, he ends up taking the blame for Dodger’s stealing a Mr. Brownlow’s wallet. But that’s okay; Mr. Brownlow’s nice and takes Oliver home to live with him. They then find out Oliver’s mommy is Mr. Brownlow’s dead niece. It truly is a small world after all.

Back at Fagin’s, Bill and Fagin are worried that Oliver will squeal on them. So they use Nancy against her will and steal him back. Poor Oliver. Just when he was happy somewhere he’s stolen away again.

This is when Nancy’s conscience begins to grow. She goes to Mr. Brownlow and tells him she will deliver Oliver to him at midnight that night. She I told you she was nice! But Bill wants to take Oliver out that night for a job since he can fit through the window. Luckily, when at that job, Oliver ruins it and knocks stuff over, waking everyone up.

Now Bill, Fagin, Nancy and Oliver are all chilling at a pub and it’s midnight. So in order to distract Bill and Fagin and sneak Oliver out, Nancy get’s the whole pub singing and dancing a song about oom pah pah. I kid you not! And it works! It’s so awesome! I love Nancy! And exclamation points!

Unfortunately, it didn’t work perfectly. Bill follows them and beats Nancy to death. Which is honestly quite sad. She was quite wonderful. Oh well moving on. Bill and Oliver run through town avoiding the angry mob that wants to kill them. It doesn’t work to well because Bill is shot and Oliver goes home to live with Mr. Brownlow. The En-

Nope! Fagin contemplates going straight. As in not being a thief anymore I mean. He expresses it in a beautiful song, until the Dodger shows up with a even more beautiful wallet full of money. They decide they make a glorious team and skip off into the sunset. Literally. The end.

Well, this would have been a lovely movie. The songs were just splendid. But, I am a literature purist. My movies based on books must be at least somewhat like the books! In the book Dodger gets shipped off to Australia for being a thief! Not that I am complaining about the particular ending in this movie, but I have to like the book more. It’s just who I am. Another problem. They cut out an entire major character Rose. Um, I still don’t get why, I really liked Rose. She was wonderful. I could go on about little details like Bill was hung and such, but I am tired and don’t feel like it. If they had just stuck to the book it would have been a grand movie.

Rain Man

Rain Man
1988

I am completely speechless. Err, I mean wordless. Never has a movie impressed me so much before. I have seen, many, many movies over my sixteen years on this planet, and I don’t know if I’ve ever been rendered speechless before because of one. This was just, so good.

Charlie is a complete jerk and is only focused on himself. And then his father dies, leaving him with none of the three million dollar fortune he left behind. He gave it all to his brother Raymond, a brother he didn’t even know he had. An autistic one to boot.

Charlie learns that whoever holds custody over Raymond is the one who gets the money. So Charlie of course does the rational thing and kidnaps him. It’s not exactly kidnapping as Raymond technically came willingly, but yeah. Anyway. They are in Cincinnati. They need to be in LA because Charlie has scheduled a court hearing for custody. So a plane would be a good idea right?

Wrong. Raymond freaks out because he can remember that every single airline had a crash. He can even remember the exact date. It’s quite remarkable in fact. But anyway they cannot ride the plane because Raymond refuses. So it’s a road trip for them!

But now, they cannot ride on the highway. That’s not safe either. It’s off to the side roads! This is pissing Charlie off quite a bit. I am sure you would be irked if this was happening to you.

As they truck along, Charlie begins to notice Raymond’s amazing math abilities, like he can times 314 and 5432 and get it right or something like that. He also can just look down at something and know immediately how many of those objects are on the ground. Like that there were exactly 246 toothpicks on the ground. So if you had a brother like this, what would you do? Take him to Las Vegas and win 86,000 dollars of course! Which is what they do. Yay them! We will ignore that counting cards is usually frowned upon because in this case it’s flipping awesome.

By now we have noticed a change in Charlie. He has started to learn to bend to meet his brother’s crazy requests and has undergone a change of attitude through that. In Vegas, Raymond asks his brother to teach him to dance and when he agrees we see a new Charlie.

But we still have this court thing to deal with. They have a doctor meeting to see which the doctor will recommend for Raymond, going back with his old doctor and living in the institution or living with his new brother. After a series of questions to them both, Charlie steps in and makes the decision.

The next scene is at a train station where the brothers part, but only for two weeks, the new less self absorbed Charlie promises. With that Raymond gets on the train and the movie is over.

This movie was phenomenal. I have never seen a better acting job then the one given to us by Dustin Hoffman, who played Raymond. I cannot even describe it. Words would not give him justice, but he was convincing without going over the top, a hard thing to do. Tom Cruise also was very good playing the character of Charlie. And he was also really really cute twenty years ago, so it was an added bonus! I felt that the movie drew you in and actually made you care what was going to happen to the brothers in the end. The story itself was just fascinating. I just loved this movie. It is one I am very glad to have discovered on my trip with the Oscars.

Forrest Gump

Forrest Gump
1994

Today I had absolutely no intentions of watching Forrest Gump.

My day started out with seeing the new Twilight movie Eclipse. If they cut out everything but the werewolf vampire fight it would have been a good movie! As I was riding home I was hoping that my mother had left the door unlocked as I have no key to my house. But guess whose door was not unlocked? Mine!

So, instead, I was trapped at the Dunn’s house and had nothing better to do than watch this movie.

And while I am complaining bitterly can I also say I had to watch the edited version?! The edited version! How much does that suck? If a “bad” word came up suddenly there would be no sound. Wouldn’t it be weird if that happened in real life? Like if someone was talking then cussed at you and no sound came out but their lips still moved? I would be freaked. Okay. I have thoroughly ranted.

Forrest Gump has an IQ of 75. So he’s not the brightest bulb of the bunch. Dumber than a bag of hammers. Ladder doesn’t go all the way to the top. Dimmer than a mole convention. Lights are on but nobody’s home. You get the picture. But he’s nice. So nice in fact he starts telling his life story to people waiting at the bus stop with him.

When he was very little he had braces on his legs to straighten his back. One day he met the love of his life Jenny on the school bus and they became “peas and carrots.” They are best friends all through high school.

One day because of bullies, Forrest finds out he’s a really good runner. So he ends up going to college and playing football because of how fast he is. After college he goes into the military.

He becomes pretty good friends with this guy named Bubba. Bubba’s obsessed with shrimp. He goes on for like, five minutes about the kinds of shrimp and what you can do with it. It’s a little disturbing. So Bubba convinces Forrest to go into the shrimp business with him. There gonna get a boat and everything. It’s too bad that Bubba dies though in Vietnam. I kind of liked him

During the same attack that killed Bubba, Forrest uses his running skills to save the lives of fivish officers, including one of Lieutenant Dan. Lieutenant is the hardest word in the world to spell. Lieutenant Dan looses both of his legs and is real bitter about that. He blames Forrest for saving him. Forrest was also wounded in the attack. He was shot in the butt.

So while recovering at the hospital, he discovers he’s really good at ping pong. The army adds him to there team and the beat China. Woo hoo! Then they discharge him. Also woo hoo! Somewhere in there he was reunited with Jenny, but I don’t remember when, that was three hours ago.

Because he promised Bubba, he has to go became a shrimp person. He buys a boat and legless Lieutenant Dan, who is not as bitter at him, joins him. They catch a bunch of tires at first but after a storm takes out everyone else’s boat they catch A LOT of shrimp. And through investing in Apple become gajillionaries. Woo hoo!

But then, Forrest’s Mama dies. It’s sad. But he moves on. And starts mowing grass. Jenny comes back randomly. They chill and he asks her to marry him. She says no and they sleep together. Cause that makes sense…

Jenny then leaves and Forrest decides to go for a run. A big run. A three year run all across the country. After he is done, Jenny calls him to tell him something. He has a son. And she is sick. So they get married and she dies. The end.

I dislike this movie. I kind of finished it feeling “What was the point of that?” Maybe I don’t get the hype and stuff about Forrest Gump and I’m missing a major point or something, but it was just kind of, meh. It had it’s funny parts, and some good acting, but it was just, there. I don’t particularly get this movie. Maybe it takes a special person to do so, or a special person to miss it completely, but I don’t get why it won at all. And I am still really sad Jenny died! I mean come on! What a horrid way to end a movie!!!!! Sheesh.

Ben Hur

Ben Hur
1959

*Yawn.

I yawn for two reasons. One, I am writing this at eleven fifteen at night. Would you like to know why? Because Ben Hur decided to be 212 minutes long that’s why. Guess who really doesn’t like Ben Hur?

Reason number two for yawning is out of those 212 minutes, exactly ten of those were interesting! This is where you feel extremely sorry for me. Roughly three hours of my life was stolen tonight.

Judah Ben Hur is this rich Jew. He has this Roman friend whose name is too hard to spell. So they were best buddies until Roman friend went mean and asked Judah to betray his people.

While watching this I drank AMP. I really don’t care about Judah that much and don’t feel about explaining his story. I’d much rather talk about squirrels. Aren’t they cute? I think their tails are quite bushy. But, because I am a nice person, I will go back to Judah. I may get side tracked again.

Because Roman friend is all bitter about Judah sticking with his people, when Judah’s sister knocks some tile onto the governor of Rome’s head, Roman friend throws them all in jail, even though it was an accident. Judah ends up on a ship for three years rowing. His mom, who was randomly thrown in prison too, and sister wind up with leprosy rotting in jail.

While on the pretty little ship, Judah’s hate for his Roman Friend impresses this roman general who ends up saving Judah’s life when the boat sinks. Judah then saves the man from drowning. When they get back to land Judah is given to him as his slave and then adopted as his son.

Oh! Speaking of slaves! Judah had this slave! She wanted to get married. So he gave her her freedom and kissed her since she didn’t love the guy. This is important and I just remembered her.

Anywho… Judah misses his mom and sister and wants to go home.

This is getting as boring to write as the movie. You know what else is cute. Cows! Have you ever really looked at a cow nose? It’s just adorable! And their eyes are just so big and brown and… cow like. It’s beautiful really. Cows. I want one.

While he’s been in Rome Judah learned to be a really good chariot racer. So he decides to go home, meets a guy who owns horses on the way and enters a race to beat Roman Friend. In the race Roman Friend gets trampled and dies. I just covered an hour of movie time in two sentences! Be impressed!

But Judah’s hate has not died with Roman Friend! Because he now knows his mom and sister have leprosy. And he’s pretty ticked off about it. Especially since his girlfriend didn’t tell him. But it’s okay because Jesus randomly comes in, and while he’s being crucified not only heals the mom and sister, he also takes away Judah’s bitterness. Yay happy endings!

Oh my goodness gracious. I have never dreaded watching a movie before. Actually I lied. I am dreading seeing Eclipse, because, um Twilight is a fail, but I really digress. Other than that, I’ve never dreaded seeing a movie before! Because I have had the misfortune of seeing this movie many many a time. And every single time I go, “Why me?”

It’s just so dang long. And soooooooooooo boring. Besides the part where the ships start hitting each other and the chariot race I really would have rather watched paint dry. Really.

Actually the chariot scenes were icky. People kept getting run over by horses. That’s no fun to watch.

To me, the story was just rather unappealing. There was absolutely no need for it to be so long. They could have cut some things out. It is just very ironic to me that this film won the award for Best Editing. I highly doubt any actually went on.

As for everything else in the film it was fine. Judah’s girlfriend was an awful actor. Awful. Everyone else was fine though.

I like horses. They are pretty. I don’t like riding them though. I really should stop rabbit trailing like this. Maybe I should stop loading up on sugar before I watching movies and sit down to write stuff. It might just be a good idea.

A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind
2001

I utterly, and completely, and ridiculously abhor math with a passion. It is by far the worst subject to ever creep upon this planet. It’s truly evil. Will I ever use algebra or geometry or whatever again? No. So why exactly do I have to learn it? WHY?

John Nash however loves it. He loves it a lot. He talks about it in ways I cannot even understand. He earned a full scholarship to Princeton because of how much he loves math. He doodles huge equations on the windows of his dorm rooms. He really, really likes math. It’s really, really weird.

But unfortunately, he really, really sucks with people. The first lines spoken out of his mouth in the film are, “There can be a mathematical explanation to how bad your tie is.” Such a charmer. Usually he just sticks to silence which is a good idea for someone like him.

For his entire existence at Princeton he chills in his dorm room, doodling, never actually going to class. Why would you know, do something as silly as that? Until he comes up with this brilliant economical thingymajigger that I am not even going to being to explain because he is smart and I in this particular area am not. So because of this great breakthrough he lands he and two of his semi-friends a fantastic job at MIT. He also gets to help out the government and teach classes, the latter of which he hates.

And this is all I will tell you for now. Because if I continue, it would completely ruin the movie, and this is a fabulous movie so I wouldn’t want to do that. I will say this though. This movie is not as much about math as it is about dedication.

John’s wife Alicia is a perfect picture of dedication and love. No matter what life threw at her and her husband, no matter how much better it would have been for her to leave him, she still stuck by him through it all, until the finale scene where he receives a Nobel Prize for all his work.

As far as production and all that jazz, this movie was fine. Russell Crowe mumbled his words quite a bit which irked me just a tad, but other than that he portrayed the brilliant John Nash well. He walked odd and in general came across as a socially awkward person, which is just what he needed to do. But who was the really great star of the film was Jennifer Connolly, Alicia Nash. She… was good… I cannot tell you why though… Just watch this movie okay? It was good.

I really do hate math. So much. But this movie I liked!