Nominees:
A Beautiful Mind
Gosford Park
In The Bedroom
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge
Winner:
A Beautiful Mind
A Beautiful Mind
Gosford Park
In The Bedroom
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
Moulin Rouge
Winner:
A Beautiful Mind
Story: From the heights of notoriety to the depths of depravity, John Forbes Nash, Jr. (Russell Crowe) experienced it all. A mathematical genius, he made an astonishing discovery early in his career and stood on the brink of international acclaim. But the handsome and arrogant Nash soon found himself on a painful and harrowing journey of self-discovery. After many years of struggle, he eventually triumphed over his tragedy, and finally - late in life - received the Nobel Prize. Hilarity ensues.Trivia: The problem that John Nash writes on the blackboard in his lecture is a real one (unlike in other movies, where math on boards is usually either too simple or fake). There is an important theorem in mathematical physics that directly says the answer to this is 1. Later, when he discusses the problem with Alicia, he makes additional restrictions for the solution, without which the problem is much harder, so he is pretty confident she didn't solve it.
So, tell me what you think? Did you like A beautiful Mind? Would you have picked another movie as Best Picture? Why?
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Uh Oh, another Russell Crowe movie, I'm guessing here, but I think Kim won't like it. I liked A Beauitful Mind, but...
I wouldn't pick it.
So who would I have picked?
Gosford Park - nope - Multiple storylined drama set in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guest and downstairs servants at a party in a country house in England.
In The Bedroom - uh uh - A New England couple's college-aged son dates an older woman with two small children and an unwelcome ex-husband. Then something terrible occurs in this wrenching, emotional drama.
Moulin Rouge - well...no - A poet falls for a beautiful courtesan whom a jealous duke covets in this stylish musical, with music drawn from familiar 20th century sources. Although I did like it and it's use of modern music (like Richard Roxburgh and Jim Broadbent singing "Like a Virgin")
Which leaves...Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring - In a small village in the Shire a young Hobbit named Frodo has been entrusted with an ancient Ring. Now he must embark on an Epic quest to the Cracks of Doom in order to destroy it. The first of Peter Jackson's masterful trilogy that retells J.R.R. Tolkien's masterful trilogy. The amount of rich detail in these movies is absolutely amazing.
Never saw A Beutiful Mind. I saw Gosford Park unfortunatley. Moulin Rouge was really good, but I guess I would go with LOTR as well. Just seems to fit the best picture mold. Maybe they were worried they would have to give it best picture three years in a row so they just waited for the last one?
OK, I saw A Beautiful Mind and I liked the movie. Russel Crow, as I said, is a good actor, I just don't like him as a person which means I'll usually forgo a movie with him in it. But, Beautiful Mind was fine. I wouldn't have picked it for best picture this year either. LOTR seems to have been the best for me this year too. I liked Moulin Rouge (I have a picture of me standing in front of the real Moulin Rouge in Paris) but didn't the first time I tried to watch it. I rented it and didn't even finish the whole movie because I thought it was stupid. Then I watched it all the way through a couple of months later and ended up really liking it. But we all know how I feel about Nicole Kidman and it's just not her personality, she can't act. Her role in this was fine because it was meant to be overacted and I can't believe she can sing.
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