A Beautiful Mind

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Now for those of you who haven't seen Gladiator, let me tell you.  There is a lot of blood.  I used to think the grossest blood I had seen in a movie was Scanners, where some guys head blew up.  But Gladiator was bloodier.  Crowe chops some guy's head off. I've also heard complaints that Little Ronnie Howard wasn't historically accurate in A Beautiful Mind.  I have two things to say about that.  Number One: Yea, so.  Number Two:  The real crime against historical inaccuracy was in Gladiator where Russell Crowe kills the Emperor in the Colisuem in front of 80,000 blood-thirsty Romans.  Hold the band.  That didn't happen.  Not evern close.  That's what really bothered me about Gladiator.  It wasn't all the bloodshed, it was the historical incorrectness.  And that bothered me even more:  that I should find lies about history more objectionable, than bloodshed.  So Crowe plays John Nash, develops schizophrenia, marries a good woman is cured by Christopher Plummer (he was in the Sound of Music)  along with the love of a good woman and Nash's own indormitable spirit and they live happily ever after.  And a Nobel Prize is in there somewhere.

So that's it.  Good, but ultimately boring  Nobody's head got blown up, nor chopped off.  No irrepresible kids sang in leiderhosen about Edelweis.  And historical inaccuracy was not a factor for me. My laptop battery did go out before the movie ended indicating my battery is too weak, or the movie is too long.

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