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Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo (2005)
This is the worst movie I have seen in the past five years
This is a terrible movie, the very worst I have seen in the past five years and I attend at least one movie each week. This movie will win the Razzie award for Worst Movie of the Year, if the Razzie people will even consider it. It is so bad that they might not even consider it.
The movie is gross, most of the time without being funny, and just a really poor movie. I am amazed that Happy Madison Productions and Adam Sandler would put their name to such a lousy movie, especially when the company has done some pretty good stuff in the past.
I sure wish I had read some reviews of this movie before I paid my hard-earned money for the tickets. I could have seen Dukes of Hazzard.
I am warning you. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS MOVIE!
Million Dollar Baby (2004)
Million Dollar Baby is a Statement Movie
The last time I posted a review on this site was about the movie, "The Cider House Rules." I wrote at that time that that movie took an absolutely extreme example of a controversial subject, abortion, and made a statement in support of the practice. The same thing happens in this movie.
The statement here concerned "euthanasia." Obviously this is a controversial subject and the religious conservatives oppose the practice in all cases. So this movie builds a situation whereby almost anyone would accept that euthanasia might be acceptable, even to the point of doing it as an act of love by one who gambles his soul to carry out the deed.
The vast majority of moviegoers will never even be aware of this message as was the case for abortion in "The Cider House Rules." But the message is there and is just one more attempt by Hollywood to propagandize a position on a moral issue to make it seem that the religious folks can be wrong.
The viewer can make up his own mind about the subject of euthanasia but Hollywood does not attempt to make it clear that there is a moral issue at stake here. It does present the church side of the issue but in a very subdued manner without much argument in opposition to mercy killing.