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This movie is as valid today as was back in the thirties.All the cast is superb:from Katharine Hepburn to Adolphe Menjou,Ginger Rogers ,Eve Arden or Andrea Leads.It's fantastic to see a script so well written ,that moves from comedy to drama perfectly.This is the inspiration to masterpieces like All About Eve and many others.In the movie all the theater figures are present:the rich and manipulative businessman ,the old and pathetic actress, the melancholic young that dreams for a better theater life ,etc etc.And the dialogue is so great it's difficult to believe.I always saw Ginger Rogers as a great comedy actress and this movie is the proof.She almost stole the show (Kate Hepburn included) and Andrea Leads bring us the proper dramatic part of a movie that is like a old treasure full of pure gold.Personally, i invite you to discover this old masterpiece. It's much better than many others movie classics.

This movie is not a typical boxing movie.Thew script is perfect in a classic way,the actors are great and the surprise near the end hit your heart like no other movie has done in recent years.Clint Eastwood is a good storyteller in John Ford's tradition(many shots are like Ford's movies) but with modern themes and without obvious sentimentalism.(Ford used it sometimes,although did masterpieces like The Searchers, The grapes of Wrath or Stagecoach among many others).May the only failure of this great movie is the portrait of the girl's family (too obvious and manipulative for my taste),but this is a hell of good movie.Bravo for Clint,i'm only 22 years old ,but your cinema likes me much more than many young directors of today.

OK,this movie is not a masterpiece,but i can't see the reasons many people give to dislike this movie.Its length??The usual length of all Scorsese's movies.The character identification with the audience??I've never was identified with Travis Bickle or Jake Lamotta.The movie is perfect in every single shot.The editing,the scenes design,all is really perfect.Howard Hughes was a spoiled rich man that defied the great American power(Scorsese criticizes again the American corruption beyond the eyes of an outsider and extravagant rich man).Cate Blanchett is perfect as Katharine Hepburn.At the beginning of the movie i was terrified (i thought his performance was going to be caricaturesque) but at the end i understood the kindness and the nerve of the greatest of all the Hollywood stars in Blanchet's face.Leonardo DiCaprio was a child phenomenon;an underrated actor because people ignores his first movies(This Boy's Life ,What's Eating Gilbert Grape? ,or his Rimbaud portrayal in Total Ecplise) in which he did everything (drug addict, revolutionary and evil poet, mentally retarded ,etc...).With the fame of this movie and his second Oscar nomination,the Titanic stigma disappear at last.No one could deny that his the great actor of his generation.(and better than Pitt ,Cruise and the rest of the pretty boys(except,may be,Johnny Depp or Ewan McGregor whom are great actors).I'm glad for Leo.Scorsese homages Old Hollywood style with nerve and precision:Citizen Kane,The Philadelphia Story(Hepburn's family), Bringing up Baby or his own Raging Bull are revisited in this film. This movie is entertaining and original.It tells the story of a man and his own demons inside of him.May it's a very long movie (a few minutes less and it would be a masterpiece) ,but is a movie that will achieve greatness with the passage of time.I'm sure of that.