Comments by "Itinerant Patriot" (@itinerantpatriot1196) on "Drinker's VIP Lounge - Russell Crowe" video.

  1. Russell Crowe, Rene Zelwager, and Paul Giamatti give great performances in Cinderella Man and the boxing scenes are some of the best ever done but I will never watch it again because of the hatchet job Ron Howard did on Max Baer in that film. He made Max out to be a monster who killed guys in the ring almost for kicks when in reality Max was a solid guy who felt so bad about the guy who died in the ring during that fight that he couldn't box for a long time afterward. He gave the guys widow all kinds of support and even helped send his kids to college. But Howard does that. He did the same thing to Jack Swigert in Apollo 13, portraying him as a stumbling klutz who the other crew members doubted. In reality, Swigert was a great pilot and engineer who knew the Apollo command module so well NASA had him work on the training software for the simulator. Howard is a punk and a coward because the guy's he trashes are always dead and can't defend themselves after the fact. He claims he does shit like that to add drama and tension to the movie. That's film school BS. He feels the need to create an antagonist because that's what he was taught in film school. His movies have a cookie-cutter quality to them and I don't watch his crap anymore. And BTW, Braddock made Joe Louis give him 10% of his future earnings before agreeing to give him a shot at the title so he isn't the saint he's made out to be either. Ron forgot to mention that bit though. Guess there was no tension to a guy taking advantage of someone else is there? Personally, my favorite Russell Crowe movie is American Gangster. Him and Denzel are so good they play off each other without even being in the same shot until the movie is about over. Truth be told, I found Master and Commander a bit boring and I didn't like the ending, but that's me. I apologize for the Ron Howard rant. The Drinker brought up the movie though and I think Opie is nothing but a punk. I hated the Beatle thing he did as well, Eight Days a Week. There isn't a single new take/slant in it and when he said he was going to make it my first question was why. After I watched it my next question was why. There were plenty of antagonists available for that one but he passed on mentioning any of them. And no, I don't give two shits what Whoopie Goldberg thought about The Beatles. Okay, I'll stop now.
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