Million Dollar Crap...well, maybe not

I just watched the horribly celebrated Million Dollar Baby...this year's winner of the awards for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor, and Best Director...none of which it deserved. And its really a shame...the subject and characters in the movie are really great, but it is executed in a very uninteresting and unsuccessful way. Its too bad that Hollywood felt it necessary to reward this movie for its blandness. Perhaps if Hilary Swank knew how to act...she does nothing more than aimlessly punch a bag and talk in a southern accent (which she won best actress for)...and Clint Eastwood really does nothing as her trainer, it's as if he doesn't have an acting bone in his body. The movie is not all bad though, sometimes your get real glimpses at the characters, especially in the end, and the cinematography is also very good (they milk the silhouette of a girl and a punching bag for all its worth). Its seems a bit thrown together...and it knows that its going to win all the awards, so it doesn't really play very well. Given more time and thought MDB could be a hell of a movie, but in the end its just plain average. In every category that it won something, there was a far more deserving candidate from Sideways...but oh well! Granda and Uncle were over for ribs tonight! I told them about my super hike up the mountain. Tomorrow Ari is coming and staying for a night before he goes to Lucerne...should be fun!