Went out with some friends this weekend and saw Cinderella Man with Russell Crowe. I knew I wanted to see this movie the first time I saw the trailer. Ron Howard is a great storyteller and Russell Crowe is a great actor, even if he does have some "anger management" issues.
This movie lived up to my expectations in every way. By the time it was over, we all felt worn out! It was hard not to get emotionally, and for some of us, physically involved in the story (Yes, I'm the person sitting behind you clapping and cheering and punching the air like an idiot...) :-P
His opponent Max Baer was portrayed as a truly horrible man but in this morning's paper, I read a different tale according to local historian Bill Pettite and Baer's son Max Baer Jr. aka Jethro Bodine:
"They say the film makes Max out to be a thug who relished his role in the ring deaths of two of his opponents.
'That movie has smeared Max Baer," Bill said. "He was an easygoing kind of guy, not a killer.'
'That's a lie,' Max Jr. says in the tabloid. 'My father cried about what happened to (boxing victim) Frankie Campbell. He had nightmares. He helped put Frankie's children through college.' "
I'm glad he wasn't the beast I saw in the movie 'cause I reeeeally didn't like him!
Posted by PamCHBF at June 12, 2005 07:55 PMRon Howard directed the new movie The Da Vinci Code. Opie lost brownie points with me.
Posted by: kball at June 14, 2005 10:36 AM