February 3, 2005
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I heard earlier today that the “let’s get ready to…” announcer guy Michael Buffer HATES the movie Million Dollar Baby.
The reasons he gave was that he could not buy the believability of the
boxing scenes. He didn’t like how Hilary Swank looked as a female
boxer, he didn’t like Clint Eastwood’s “attempt” of being a cut-man, he
didn’t like how the audience looked so thin for these supposed big
boxing matches, etc etc etc, if it was on the subject of boxing in
Million Dollar Baby, he has a complaint about it. Oh, and he
didn’t like the way Eastwood & Swank talked in the movie.Now… I personally liked the movie and recommend it to everybody to
watch, BUT I DO recognize those flaws he mentioned, and have nitpicked
about them when I was watching the movie. But even with those
nitpicks, it didn’t matter to me because I still found the movie to be
great. But that’s the difference between me and Michael Buffer I
guess. His nitpicks prevented him to enjoy the movie, while my
nitpicks weren’t enough for me to share his opinion.Ofcourse, I too have been known to nitpick a movie that makes me hate the film,
so I can see where Michael Buffer is coming from. But I would
like to believe that I can tell a good movie from a bad, even with
nitpicks. There’s tons of movies out there that are pretty good, even
with some glaring mistakes that are hard to avoid. Good dramatic
films can still be hampered by melodramatic situations, action films
can still be laughed at because people can’t shoot a gun properly, and
comedies can simply be held back a bit by a bad joke. But even
then, some of those films with those mistakes still come out to be good
movies.So I suppose that should be the question of the day then..
How far can you nitpick a movie, before you should start to hate the film?
