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‘Creed III’ and the Top 10 Boxing Movies

The Big Picture

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I Don't Like Million Dollar Baby

I like Million Dollar Baby personally, but I find it to be equally as manipulative as the fighter in opposite directions. It just felt like a filmmaker who was trying to reset his career by using an old storytelling style and just doing the shmaltziest version of it. My Number Seven, Hard Times from 1975 is a Walter Hill movie about Baron Uncle Boxer played by Charles Bronson. Every single thing that happens to the boxers in the film, you know, the mismanagement of their health, guys dying or having brain damage from fighting,. Guys being screwed out of money is literally happening right now, 75 years later. So it happens in every movie.

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