A Beautiful Mind (2001)

Winner of 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, A Beautiful Mind is directed by Academy Award winner Ron Howard and produced by long-time partner and collaborator, Academy Award winner Brian Grazer. A Beautiful Mind stars Russell Crowe in an astonishing performance as brilliant mathematician John Nash, on the brink of international acclaim when he becomes entangled in a mysterious conspiracy. Now only his devoted wife (Academy Award winner Jennifer Connelly) can help him in this powerful story of courage, passion and triumph.

FAVORITE RON HOWARD MOVIE EVER!!!

This is, no doubt, my favorite Ron Howard movie ever. The drama, the acting, the actors, the plot, everything about it is fantastic. Russell Crowe is magnificent in this movie. He is convincing, serious, and perfect for the role of John Nash, the famous mathemagician. No one could've been better in this role than Russell Crowe, it's as though he Ron Howard made this movie just for Russell Crowe. Definate best picture movie. Not my favorite, but definately one of my favorites, like right under my favorite. Anyone who hasen't seen this movie must see it, trust me, it's definately worth it. December 23, 2008

Awesome Movie for an Awesome Price

I had seen this movie before, but I purchased it to get free shipping on another larger item. I was very happy with the sale price of this dvd. The movie is very interesting and I would recommend it to anyone. December 22, 2008

A Beautiful Mind?

A fascinating movie with interesting plot twists. I'm not sure I would use the adjective beautiful to describe his mind. At least there's a happy ending. December 10, 2008

Fantastic Movie

This film definitely deserved all it's academy awards. This movie is amazing from start to finish and Russel Crowe does an amazing job portraying an intelligent man struggling with such a debilatating mental illness. This film will definately pull on your heart strings and get you inside Nash's mind and what it might have been like to be him. You also get to see the brillance of this man who won a Nobel Peace Prize. The special features add to the movie, answering some questions that the viewer still may have.

If you end up enjoying this movie, I highly recommend checking out the book as well. It's just as engrossing. I absolutely love this movie. But be prepared to tear up during the movie! Every time I watch it I do. November 18, 2008

Good but needs more explanations

Since I was so determined to see this movie because I really wanted to see it when it was released but I never got around doing it... I figured I would make it up.

First of all, amazing acting from Russel Crowe. I am impressed. He seems to have a very broad register of roles and he delivers. He plays a very complex and different character, but he does it quite convincingly. I do not know John Nash and I haven't read his biography of which this movie is based on; but if the person in the movie resembles the real John Nash, I think he would have liked to partake in our discussion about introvertion! (Originally wrote this in a forum where the question about introvertion was brought up)

Jokes aside, first of all, I should start with saying I didn't consider the movie bad, but there were some parts I really wanted more elaborated to give it a higher score in my eyes. One of those is that we never really understood much of his friends etc, and how his schizofrenia was discovered. I also wanted more background detail of his life, and in frustration I even went to Wikipedia.

Suffice to say, I felt I got to know John Nash very well but all the other characters were like sidedrags. I didn't really know their names and I didn't understand why they were there at all. Also while I realize the movie is primarily about John Nash the person, not John Nash the matematician, it focused more on his schizofrenia than his mathematical work. Now, I find schizofrenia a very interesting mental illness, and while it was one of the major driving forces to see this movie I also wanted to know more about his work! It is briefly mentioned he invented the Nash Equilibrium among other things, but we never get to know what it truly means. Once again, Wikipedia resolved the problem.

I think the movie did well as a biography though, and I even saw two copies of the Swedish king and queen! ...I think. They looked very similar regardless.

It was a touching movie, but it could have been a little deeper. I didn't even understand Charles was his "best friend" until Dr. Rose mentioned it. As previously mentioned as well, while not maybe plot holes, they were at least holes that could have been filled and fleshed out a little more. While I understand this could have caused the movie to run closer up to 3 hours, I don't see much of a problem if people can have Lord of the Rings and Star Wars marathons... October 30, 2008

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