Million Dollar Baby (2004) First Time Watching! Movie Reaction!
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- Million Dollar Baby (2004)
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How Clint, after such a long and lustrous career, releases masterpieces like Unforgiven, Gran Torino and Million Dollar Baby in the twilight of his career is amazing.
Don't forget "Letters from Iwo Jima"
like he told toby keith, the trick is to not let the old man in.
Sully and the Mule are also really good.
Also Mystic River!!!
@@MichaelBalchaitis cry macho was a good laugh, too. Invictus, also.
Winner of 4 Oscars including Best Picture.
Get out the box of tissues.
The ending will destroy you.
This is Clint's baby - starred, directed, produced and music by him. Swank and Freeman are exceptional too. It's just a try not to cry challenge at this point
He sure knows how to make depressing movies. But they are usually great
it was also his revival in hollywood. he would go on to have a string of some hits and critical darlings after this movie, officially turning this into his 3rd age in Hollywood.
Freeman won well deserved oscar. As did hilary swank
“Clint Eastwood f-k me up” is a perfect quote. This movie and Mystic River from the year before are the kind of movies you only watch once but prove what a phenomenal director Clint is. I think this is also his best performance.
Swank has won two best actress Oscars for this and Boys Don't Cry. Neither an easy watch.
Clint Eastwood is a treasure.
One of the scenes that unexpectedly tugs at me is when Maggie saves food from her diner customers. I've had to do that in college and again in 2009 when the economy went bad. --------- I thought it was such great writing to show that Maggie had deep poverty, but she had belief and determination. --------- I cry everytime. Great reaction by Sam and Daniel.
"Boys Don't Cry" is another hard watch. True story & she won her first Oscar for that one.
The crazy thing is Frankie didn’t want to take his original fighter to the championship fight because he wanted to protect him. He gave in and took Maggie to the championship fight, and she lost her life. He must’ve felt horrible. But that’s what she wanted. That is what fulfilled her life. Such a great movie.
Probably one of the key features to this movie being such a success was that no one had divulged the gut punch twist that occurs towards the end of the movie, taking it in a whole new direction. People were going to see what they thought was a female boxing movie, and coming out overwhelmed by having seen a searing account of euthanasia.
It was eventually revealed, because I remember euthanasia being vastly discussed, in the media, while this was in theaters.
Clint Eastwood won best director, Morgan Freeman won best supporting actor, and Hillary Swank won best actress. I believe the film also won best picture. Its a beautiful film. Recommend watching Play Misty for Me, it is Eastwood's first directorial film.
Yes, it won Best Picture -2004
@@robmontoya8618 thanks
Even more insane than Fatal Attraction.
@@YolandaAnneBrown95726 facts
Thanks, Wikipedia.😂
One of only a couple movies that I simply cannot handle. It broke my heart.
This was by far the best reaction to and analysis of this film I have ever seen.
Wow, thank you!
Great reactions and phenomenal discussion. Keep up your great work! 👍
Maggie's story is like a twist on the classic Cinderella tale. Her good father dies, leaving her at the mercy of her dishonorable family, who try to keep her miserable. Frankie is her prince all throughout the film, and her boxing gloves are her slippers - her opportunity for happiness. Maggie's mother wants her to get married, but not to be happy. She wants her own daughter to be as miserable as she is. Don't be great, just marry a man and live in mediocrity.
Only a cruel twist in the story destroyed Maggie's dream, but her prince still saved her at the end...but not in the way that we expected.
Great analogy 👏🏾.
Great view and it destroys me every time I watch it.
I swore I would never watch this movie again and then y’all had to go and react to it. Dammit!!
Eastwood has always been such a consistently solid director, but this one is definitely one of his best. He won the best director Oscar for this for a reason.
Also, A Perfect World is a MUST. If you thought this one broke you 😂
I resonate so deeply with Maggie's struggle to become better without proper training. ---------- The scene when Maggie is training solo on her birthday cause she has nothing else good in her life. --------- So much of the practice moments in life are in lonely gyms and soccer fields when no one is looking. Getting good at something is such a lonely pursuit.
That’s a great line and it’s true
This is one of those amazing, beautiful, nearly perfect movies I never wanted to see again.
Yep. This is the first time I’ve watched it since my first time
It’s up there with Schindler’s List where it’s a very good movie but I can’t rewatch it
Exactly
Fun Fact: The actor who played "The Blue Bear" was a real boxer. While she's tough as nails, she's actually really nice in person. She experienced a bit of depression when people started harassing her on the streets, confusing her for the character she portrayed in this movie. They'd yell horrible things to her on the streets, and sadly she became something of a recluse. Similar to Jack Gleason and his portrayal of Joffrey in Game of Thrones.
Its so crazy and very scary that people can't separate the actor from the character!
I mean sure, I had trouble with this topic, too, when we had to read Ghoete in school and some of his work contained too many parallels to his real life. But that was exactly the moment were we got taught to separate the art from the artist!
Why are people like this?
I blame Jack Gleason for not returning Batman's Binoculars. 😂
To prepare for this film, Swank trained nearly 5 hours a day and gained 19 lbs of muscle.
Freaking love this movie! This movie is the reason why Clint is my favorite actor. I’m glad you guys have experienced this performance as well as Morgan Freeman and Hillary Swank’s amazing performances.
This was Hilary Swank's second Oscar for Best Actress. She won her first a few years earlier for Boys Don't Cry with another great dramatic performance. Definitely worth a reaction...
Boys Don't Cry is an excellent movie.
Boys Don't Cry is amazing.
Boys Don't Cry❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
"Boys Don't Cry" was horrible to me. I had to turn it off about halfway. I was so disturbed and disgusted....and I do not mean that
as an insult to the movie. In fact I mean it as a compliment. Not many films can unsettle me and disturb me that deeply. I can handle a lot of disturbing content, tough, challenging content, but I simply could not make it through and i credit that to the film being so well made and powerful as well as the performances.
@@USCFlash I am genuinely curious why you say it's a good movie, if you could not finish it. It might have absolutely failed in the part you didn't watch.
The writing in this movie is so subtle and next level, it takes this movie to that God-tier level. ----- When Willie leaves Frankie, he says, “You taught, me everything I need to know”. ---- The talks with Morgan Freeman reflecting on past failures. ---- The story of Maggie and her dads dog ‘Axel’, getting Frankie to pull the plug. ----- Amazing writing to let the dialogue guide us through the present by reflecting on the past. ---- This is the reason I watch amazing movies. Clint Eastwood never fails.
Margo Martindale, who played Maggie's mom, is an excellent actress. She plays the villain in season 2 of Justified, which is a great series.
The plays a good character in Dexter also.
I'm from Missouri. She has hick down pat.
Interesting trivia: the 2 main leads of SHAWSHANK REDEMPTION (Morgan Freeman and Tim Robbins) both won their Oscars one year after the other for Clint Eastwood directed films. Robbins won Supporting Actor for MYSTIC RIVER (2003) while Morgan Freeman won the same category for this film the very next year.
I thought Freeman's performance in Shawshank was much better than in this film, but then, that role was much larger.
@@Stogie2112 Same but I think it was a mistake to put Morgan Freeman in the Best Leading actor category for Shawshank. He probably would've won that year if he was in Best supporting actor.
@@MasonGrant0704 .... It was strange to see Robbins get no nominations. He and Freeman were both magnificent. If Robbins had been nominated for Best Actor, Tom Hanks would have still won, IMO.
@@Stogie2112 I agree, I think Shawshank and Pulp Fiction are far better movies compared to Forest Gump but Tom Hanks really carried that whole movie by himself and deserved it. Forest Gump had no business winning best picture or director.
@@Stogie2112 The interesting thing is that Tim Robbins actually got nominated one year after SHAWSHANK, and it was for Best Director instead. He was nominated for DEAD MAN WALKING, which won his then-partner Susan Sarandon the Best Actress Oscar. MYSTIC RIVER was his 2nd nomination overall but his first for acting (which he won).
Margo Martindale played the mother. She's a fantastic actress and definitely plays the villain well, particularly in the show Justified.
best season
I could only watch this movie once. Almost couldn't make it through your reaction. Great movie.
This had the biggest gut punch ending since One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
For me CHINATOWN tops the list in terms of gut punch. Also stars Jack Nicholson. Never have I seen a perfectly executed film quite like this, and it unbelievably stuck the landing in a manner I haven't seen a film top before or since.
Good point.
Lucia Rijker, who played the evil boxer from Germany, was a real-life professional boxer and kickboxer, and is regarded as one of the greatest female boxers ever. Her final record in Boxing (not counting kickboxing) was 17 fights, 17 wins, 14 by knockout.
The Mule is also very underrated and more recent Eastwood movie
I agree .... hopefully they watch it
This movie was protested by people with disabilities.
To me, I can't think of anything more loving than taking away someone's unbearable pain. ❤
Agree
Man, I knew this movie was good. But I forgot **H O W** good it is. Right up there with films like The Green Mile and Shawshank for pure, emotional storytelling.
Wat a great movie, wat a great reaction! Seeing U cry even got me choked & I knew it was coming! 😥
Hell yeah, I love this movie. Great acting all around...glad y'all loved it. Y'all definitely aren't the only ones that shed tears during this video lol.
Yup. Mellverse and EOM Reacts got really emotional after watching this movie.
Clint Eastwood also composed the score you hear for this film as well (he also scored MYSTIC RIVER, which he also directed). At the very least, Clint Eastwood has a hand in composing the melody of the theme music for most of the films he has directed.
I did not know he's a composer. Thx for that info.
I really like the scores that Eastwood composes. 'Changeling'(2008)is also good. Really sad movie as well.
Eastwood plays piano and loves jazz. That's why he has used LennIe Neihaus to score some of his movies. Lenny did a lot of jazz and big band arrangements.and played saxophone. He passed in 2020. He was 90.
@@hornerinf That's right! I forgot his involvement in music. Now I seem to recall that he said he did the Dirty Harry movies mostly so he could earn enough to put into jazz, tho I don't recall what exactly. Good reminder. Thx.
Because the theme of family regrets looms so large in this movie, I always thought that the reason Maggie decided she was ready to go wasn't just because she had traveled the world and become famous, but because she finally stood up to her family. I always thought that was the last thing she felt she needed to accomplish to have lived a full life.
A masterpiece, this movie destroyed me.
Great reaction guys this film won four Oscars best actress Hillary Swank best supporting actor Morgan Freeman and Best Director and Picture to Clint Eastwood giving a total of four awards for the same categories he won Best Picture and Director for 1992’s Unforgiven you guys definitely do the filmography of Sidney Poitier A Raisin In Sun ,Lillies Of The Field, In The Heat Of The Night, Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, and To Sir With Love are five of his best films ever made he was the first African American actor to win best actor for 1963’s Lillies Of The Field keep up the great work guys
An emotional rollercoaster with a heartbreaking ending.... A great film.
Katie Dallam was the inspiration to the book that was wrote. She got brain damage from a fight and was never the same. If you search her name in youtube you can actually watch the 7min fight that caused her brain damage.
A side note though she did get into a minor car accident the day prior to the fight , so a lot of people believe it was a combination of the car accident and the fight that caused her brain damage.
I remember I was depressed and unemployed and called to the radio and won tickets to go to the cinema... to watch this one :D .... sobre llovido mojado we say here
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This movie brought up the discussion of euthanasia practices and the legality or ethical reasoning behind it. Movie actually caused a lot of backlash in the media the way it was done. Swank got another Oscar as leading actress for Boys Don't Cry, based on a true story. It's a tough watch, warning you now.
Eastwood characters have never much cared about "the law". They do what is right according to their own creed and standards. That might not be moral either but it's an honest way to live.
Such a great movie. Everyone was great. Clint and Morgan are legends
A beautiful reaction to a beautiful movie! Just amazing film! Thanks for sharing guys!! Really enjoyed it!
Such a great movie. Love Clint, directing or acting he's one of my favs. Reminds me of watching all his westerns with my dad growing up. Great reaction y'all and Happy 4th of July🇺🇸🇺🇸🤘🤘
The scene where Frankie finally tells Maggie what Macushla (sp?) meant absolutely destroyed me.
Oh God time to get the box of tissues
The actress playing Billie "The Blue Bear" was a professional boxer and kickboxer, once dubbed as the most dangerous woman in the world. Her record: 17-0 in boxing, 36-0 in kickboxing. No female fighter had ever beaten her. She was a beast, until she fought a male Muay Thai fighter and got knocked out.
I love your guys feelings as to the films, keep it up..
Knew this movie would get you both, such a wonderful movie deserved all the awards it won, Clint’s directed movies usually have a dark ending at least melancholy but so well written and directed a good movie he stared in later in his long career is called Trouble with the curve co staring Justin Timberlake. Love your reactions this movie I can never not watch so good but so sad
Fantastic film, I've been watching Clint Eastwood since reruns of Rawhide. He's makes films and tells stories that he wants to see, not what Hollywood wants to see. 94 and still going.
So many parallels with Gran Torino. The crappy, ungrateful family. The annoying person who becomes the best friend. The tragedy….
21:42 Yup! That was my reaction as well! Followed by anger 😠
*talking about Sam lol
Cinderella Man is another one of those great boxing movies, Gladiator from 1992 and Southpaw as well
Been watching him since 'Rawhide' and "Outlaw Josie Wales" is my favorite of his as a movie star and this is my favorite of his as a film maker.
A female actress totally deserving of both her Oscars !!
Hey guys as an Irishman, I’m gonna help you out. Clint Eastwood got it wrong. He says mo chuisle means, my darling my heart, my love. The actual direct translation to English would be my pulse. The meaning to Irish people is the pulse of my heart. ❤️❤❤😢. I’ve seen many boxing movies, but this is the one I think is the greatest..
LOL I have never heard Sam using so many naughty words in a recap. Those people rank right up there with Percy in Green Mile as the worst of the worst. The rage is 10x more for me because my wifes parents are like this, perhaps not in this bad of a capasity but everything is about them and its such rage inducing.
Oh gawd! I remember the ending of this movie DESTROYING me.
Easy to see why Oscars were won. Excellent but tragic.
Personally I can't stand boxing, but there are many really good movie about boxers, either real or fictional: Rocky (1976), Cinderella Man (2005), The Fighter (2010), Southpaw (2015), Raging Bull (1980), Hard Times (1975), Ali (2001).
For another Hillary Swank movie that's "up to par", Boys Don't Cry (1999) for which she won her 1st Oscar.
Whew!! Are you ready??!!!
Unfortunately, Hilary Swank does not have many good movies to her name. If you had told me back in the 90s that Hilary would win Best Actress TWICE, I simply wouldn't have believed you. Prior to "Boys Don't Cry" and this, I only knew her from "Next Karate Kid" and a guest-star part on "Beverly Hills 90210". Now "Boys Don't Cry" is even more rough that M$B, as far as I'm concerned. See it if you want, but the one I'd recommend is Christopher Nolan's "Insomnia" with Al Pacino and Robin Williams. Two good movies in which she plays supporting parts are "The Gift" and "The Hunt" where she has an incredible fight scene.
She also has a fun role as a cop in the Steven Soderbergh heist comedy, "Logan Lucky".
@@Madbandit77 Agreed. "Here's to stayin' a while!"
The priest swearing at Clint, calling him a f-ing pagan had me 😂
In my pursuit to get you two to watch Courage Under Fire, (another great Denzel Washington film) I want to let you know that it is on hulu right now!
Everyone including myself was crying in the theater the night I went to see this wonderfully moving movie! GREAT reaction by you two!
A good Hillary Swank movie I think you'd enjoy is Freedom Writers... based on a true story 🙂
Def on the list of most depressing movies. Y’all should watch “A Star is Born” next , for a good pick me up
Clint Eastwood is a very sensitive director. He is an Icon.
Yeah this movie will destroy you. It's a such a great tearjerker.
As you can imagine, a lot of people (particularly people affected by immobilzing disabilities) found the ending of this higly controversial.
Regardless, Clint Eastwood is a stellar director.
As someone who is extremely disabled with numerous diseases, they(not you) need to shut their mouths then. I get to decide what I do with my life.
The right to live includes the right to die.
You guys asked a question about Billie the blue bear. Here’s how it would’ve went down. Boxers sign, a waiver so they cannot be charged with wrongdoing. However, the blue bear hit her after the bell went and from behind. This is what they consider an illegal punch known as a rabbit punch. Therefore, the waiver, you sign would not protect you from prosecution and criminal negligence. She would’ve definitely faced criminal charges. The boxing Federation would’ve also stripped her of her title and giving her a lifetime band. She would never box again, professionally.
Clint Eastwood has had such a long career with so many great movies. One of my favorites which scared me as a kid is Play Misty For Me. Hillary Swank is a great actress Million Dollar Baby and Boys Don't Cry are 2 of her best known but she has been in more than 30 movies.
RAGING BULL! RAGING BULL! (1980) ... and this is why a Martin Scorsese directed boxing movie , staring Robert De Nero and Joe Pesci
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@@TBRSchmitt oh very cool! will watch it tomorrow
Just a beautiful movie. It makes me cry everytime. And you guys made me cry once again. So glad you loved it.
Thanks a lot. I watched this reaction against my better judgement and ended up bawling my eyes out. So…thanks for that.
This is a tough watch, one of my favorite movies, but it wrecks me every time I watch it. Thanks for covering it.
Fantastic film!
Hilary won her second Oscar with Million Dollar Baby. Please see the film for which she first took home the Academy Award, Boys Don’t Cry. She is devastating in that.
This is such a beautiful film. Thank you for your reaction.
Ok, we just watched (insert movie here) how did you feel? BEST ANSWER EVER @ 34:13 "I feel like Clint Eastwood just f'ed me up!"
My first time “watching” it since in the theaters. Such a good movie but tough (emotional) rewatch. Gotta take 20 years off between. 😂
"So this is a boxing movie"
Oh boy.
The reveal of the name, 20 damn years later and it still hits me like a truck.
Clint directed both sides of the horrible WWII battle for Iwo Jima Island! And the one in Japanese is the greater film! - Letters from Iwo Jima, 2006. The Last Samurai’s star stars in it.
One of clints best
It was awesome to see Clint Eastwood and Morgan Freeman together. Hillary Swank was the Cherry on top of this movie! Great reaction and my favorite character is Danger... All Heart and he ends up coming back to the Gym! For more Hillary Swank watch "The Core".Thanks for sharing TBR🥊🥊
The Actress who played "The Blue Bear" is the great Lucia Rijker out of the Netherlands. She's probably the best female fighter we've ever seen and by all accounts a sweet person. I watched her fight many years ago and her Wiki page is just fascinating! "P.S., I Love You" and the best on a true story "Boys Don't Cry", a very good.
Another great reaction and why you guys are among my favorite reactors. You guys will love Clint and the movie In The Line Of Fire. After you two watch that you should also watch a movie with the same subject matter The Sentinel. A Hillary Swank movie to watch is Boys Don’t Cry. That one is probably more relevant today.
Thank you both. To Release tears together with you. to let IT Go. And travel together to the common bottom of our Souls.
Tough ain't enough. You'll see that on the wall in his gym
I cry verrrrry rarely for a movie... but this one got me big time! It was a great relief as he finally put her out of her misery.
An incredible sad turn.
Just to let you two know: you're always my go-to movie reviewers on all of RUclips. You guys are wonderful. Love you to do the film 'Kelly's Heroes' one of these days!
Clint is a legend. No greater combo actor/director than perhaps Orson Wells and Clint's output of GREAT movies is huge.
This is a great movie with one of the best endings, another one is A Perfect World starring Clint Eastwood and Kevin Costner which is criminally underrated if you haven't watched that.
'Boys Don't Cry' [ 1999 ] which won Swank her first Academy Award. The 2nd she got for 'Baby' - along with 3 others: Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Supporting Actor for Morgan Freeman !
Wow I can’t believe it’s 20 years. Audiences openly wept.
Amazing film, great cast.
It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia can make you smile and laugh about this movie’s horrible turn of events, I swear!
Maggie's mother was played by awesome character actress Margot Martindale. She won an Emmy for her role as Mags Bennett in "Justified" S2. Speaking of "Justified", PLEASE do it! You won't be sorry!
You should see Clint in"Heartbreak Ridge"!
Clint is such an amazing director. I watched this movie several times in the theater. One of those times I sat in the back row and realized that during some of the scenes in the hospital, I could hear the projector running. I realized that there was absolutely no sound and pretty much nothing happening on the screen. It felt like Clint respected the viewer enough to allow the viewer time to think and feel.
There were no good choices and I don’t think anybody can know what they would do unless they were in that situation.
I saw this advertised as coming up and I knew that it would destroy you but that you would be glad that you watched it.