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Hey, I rented this movie(A Beautiful Mind) a few days ago and I'm needing to watch and return it tomorrow before going out of town. Problem is, more than one person has told me this movie is 'disturbing'. lol....all I need right now is to have my head messed with. Generally I enjoy things that are a little odd, but if this movie is too out there, I might want to skip. I rented it for free with a coupon, so i'm not totally against doing so.

Anyone seen this and have an opinion that could help me decide whether to watch or not? Thanks!

Actually I really loved this movie. I think as far as "disturbing" goes, it really messes with your head--after a while, you don't know what is real and what is in the character's head (because this is what he is grappling with too--he doesn't know what is real and what he has made up). But I wouldn't call it scary by ANY means, and trust me I'm the biggest baby there is about this stuff. I recommend giving it a go, I loved it thoroughly. If you can handle the way The Matrix made your brain feel, you can handle this.

Ashley wrote:Actually I really loved this movie. I think as far as "disturbing" goes, it really messes with your head--after a while, you don't know what is real and what is in the character's head (because this is what he is grappling with too--he doesn't know what is real and what he has made up). But I wouldn't call it scary by ANY means, and trust me I'm the biggest baby there is about this stuff. I recommend giving it a go, I loved it thoroughly. If you can handle the way The Matrix made your brain feel, you can handle this.

YAY! lol thanks i'm going to watch right after dinner then. Matrix was fine with my brain, so i'm good. hah...as far as switching between reality and 'in the character's head' stuff, i've seen the movie 12 Monkeys. Man was that ever odd. lol....hopefully this isn't as much so.

Muchly appreciate the quick response b/c i'm rushed here. God bless!

Man, I LOVED A beautiful Mind!! (ok, so I'm a maths freak...). My only objection to it it the language and sexual references. Without those, it would have been the best film ever!
But anyway, the acting is brilliant, and the surprise totally threw me. I was like ''NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"
I also cried in the movie.

Yeah a Beautiful Mind was great. Probably the best acting Russel Crow's ever done.

I agree that "A Beautiful Mind" is very good. You see what is going on in the man's head, you experience what he's seeing. There are also mental-hospital scenes and other places that made you a bit angry and sad, 'disturbing'. But it makes a good movie! I hope, that you enjoy watching~

It is based on a true story as well, which makes it all the more ineresting. IT is one of those movies that is almost good enough for me to buy, but not quite. my math tacher loved it.

piloswine wrote:It is based on a true story as well, which makes it all the more ineresting. IT is one of those movies that is almost good enough for me to buy, but not quite. my math tacher loved it.

Depends on what you called true. It omits certain facts about the main character, but that aside its a very good, excellent movie.

bigsleepj wrote:Depends on what you called true. It omits certain facts about the main character, but that aside its a very good, excellent movie.

True, but most movies that are "based on real events" dont tell the story the way things actually happened. The Great Escape was based on an actual escape but many characters were lumped together, ect.

piloswine wrote:True, but most movies that are "based on real events" dont tell the story the way things actually happened. The Great Escape was based on an actual escape but many characters were lumped together, ect.

True, but "A Beautiful Mind" ends up being more deceptive about Nash than truthful while the Great Escape remained true to events if not to chracter. One fact that has always nagged me is that Nash an extra-marital affair with another woman which produced a child and that his wife left him for quite a while before coming together again. The movie makes it look like they stayed together through thick and think while it wasn't so. Off course I'm not attacking Nash for having the marital affair (he's human after all) but the movie for ommiting such a fact that actually makes its current ending seem like a scharade. It's like "The Nash Story: The Good Parts Version".

Edit: Some discrepencies:

* While this film is inspired by the life of John Nash, there were elements from his life that were deliberately omitted: a) he was married several times b) in the past, he had several hetero- and homosexual affairs c) He fathered a child out-of-wedlock in his twenties.

* John Nash didn't receive the Nobel prize alone, but with colleague Reinhard Selten and Hungarian-born János Harsányi. "Game Theory" was initiated by Hungarian born John von Neumann and Austrian born Oskar Morgenstein in 1944.

Good movie as it is, this sheds a different light on the subject. It also shows that Ron Howard was "playing it safe" which filmmakers should never do.

...is a terrible thing to waste.

yes it was a well done movie, but it left me feeling sorta depressed and sad for the guy (not telling what happened though).
[spoiler]in real life the guys wife doesn't stay with him and he has a much harder time of it.[/spoiler]

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Well Volt, we didn't tell them what was or wasn't real, which I think is still a HUGE part of it....and from the sounds of it, the one in question already knew a little bit about it, they just wanted to know to what extent. That's more like self-induced spoilerhood.

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This was one of the first movies to make me cry. Seeing go thru insulin therapy just crushed me. i liked it enough to buy it.

thanks for the added real life info BigsleepJ. definitely makes me look at it differently...