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Title: Overhyped Hollywood Schmaltz
Review: Am I the only person who misses the days when Clint Eastwood made real movies? While his whole career from an artistic sense has been pure downhill since The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly, Million Dollar Baby marks a new low point for the former macho man. A three disc special edition for this slop? Who are they kidding? Do they think this is The Battle of Algiers?The sad fact is that while the quality of world filmmaking continues to increase, Hollywood films continue to get worse and worse, stifled by corporate and union bureaucracies and a total lack of original thought. Million Dollar Baby was not even one of the ten best films of 2004, but it earned the best pic prize because the Oscars are not so much a measure of artistic merit as they are a shameless self-promotion vehicle. It hasn't been this bad since the 1960s, when dreadful flics like Tom Jones and Oliver won the big prize.
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