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by millinocket  in Movies,  - Top 200, Aug 13 '03
Pros: Halle Berry is pretty
Cons: The movie is not
Sometimes it seems like a movie loses itself in its stars. I’m not even talking about the mega-budg ...
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by jo.com - Top 10, Mar 24 '02
Pros: The acting and the story...everything
Cons: I would have liked to see the end played out a bit more.
The last movie in my husband and my movie marathon yesterday was Monster’s Ball. It was the best of the four and the only one not nominated for best picture. Some of my introduction is repetitive but I think it is important.
I...
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by pmills1210  in Movies, - Top 500, Feb 24 '02
Pros: Thornton, Berry, Boyle, Ledger, script
Cons: Some story elements needed a bit more explanation
The main characters in “Monster’s Ball” experience an epiphany. Both learn from the circumstances in their lives that hatred merely breeds even more hatred, and that this feeling can leave them all alone in the world. Hank Grotowski (Billy Bob Thornton)...
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by flamepillar - Top 50, Nov 18 '02
Pros: Music, "corrections" burning, and believe it or not, P-Diddy's performance.
Cons: A little bit of unbelievable cruelty
Monster's Ball. WOW. What in the world do you say about a movie like this? Well, I have found that a lot of times, the harder it is to talk about a movie, the more I like it. I mean, just look at American Beauty. I love American...
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by mattjoe - Top 100, Apr 10 '02
Pros: Not only is there a good plot, you get to see boobs
Cons: the drawn out begining sequence of Hank sleeping
Halle Berry clearly deserved her best actress Oscar for her role in Monster's Ball.
What seemed to be a completely unhyped film should turn out to be very well attended and rented thanks to her recognition.
Monster's Ball tells the...
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by CyndiA - Top 50, Feb 25 '06
Pros: Vivid story. Important themes. Great acting.
Cons: This was too much for a night home alone.
If you want a relaxing movie to unwind with after a week of hard work, you do not want to rent Monster’s Ball. Here I am with a free evening and the boys off camping, and I grab a film that made my chest hurt watching it, and I’m still ...
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by vemartin - Top 50, Feb 16 '02
Pros: Outstanding performances by Halle Barry, & Bill Bob Thornton.
Cons: Well, nothing as far as I am concerned.
The movie had ended, the credits were rolling and the lights have come up, and yet we sit (my spouse and I), unmoving searching for a meaning from the images we just saw cascade across the screen. And we were not alone; across the crowed theater people...
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by macresarf1 - Top 100, Feb 04 '02
Pros: Acting, photography, editing and a story of the consequences of the Death Penalty and Racism.
Cons: The contrivance of the plot requires we show some forbearance.
MONSTER'S BALL is a film almost designed to enrage (or enlighten) two large groups of the American public. It invites them and us, in a Southern State [Georgia, but shot at Angola in Louisiana], to a party which traditionally precedes an electrocution,...
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by deaser26 - Top 500, Feb 23 '02
Pros: a couple of decent moments, a Bob Dylan song
Cons: the plot, the acting, the lack of dramatic release
A Night on the Town
And so the utterly sexy Joydrop and I went on a date last night. We had spent the day buying a nice new washer. We also made an interesting and fun trip to Priscillas, where we were able to peruse various "toys" for...
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by remnjava - Top 500, Mar 24 '02
Pros: Good acting, Berry, Thornton, Ledger, Calhoun
Cons: X rated sexual scenes, some holes in plot, racist language
My husband REALLY enjoys seeing all the movies nominated for Oscars this time of year. This is usually the time of year we see the most movies, and this year would prove to be no exception. Unfortunately, this was only playing at one movie theatre,...
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by lynus - Top 200, Jun 18 '02
Pros: Excellent cast of actors and their fine subtle performances.
Cons: A bit slow and the first 30 minutes is wasted.
Monster’s Ball is an actors paradise. Material where acting is not just what you say, but also what you are thinking – and how you are capable of exploring, expressing, and entertaining those thoughts to a camera and ultimately your audience....
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by grimjack2 - Top 500, Feb 12 '02
Pros: Acting, Emotionally raw, Doesn’t pull punches.
Cons: For some, the same as the Pros.
I don’t always like to start my reviews by describing the plot, but I don’t mind doing that here because the plot isn’t really what the movie is about. Billy Bob Thornton is the head of a squad of guards assigned execution duty at a prison. His father...
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by tiasmom - Top 500, Feb 18 '02
Pros: Mind-blowing performances, gripping plot
Cons: Leaves some things unanswered, ending is a bit sudden
I had to move this review because the link that came up for me when I did a search was for DVD and VHS. I posted my previous review there not realizing this.
I had to go out of my way to see Monster’s Ball, a film I had been...
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by marilynn.. , Aug 10 '02
Pros: Depicts the tragedy of racism and capital punishment. Sensual--emotional
Cons: Very intense violent scenes and sexually explicit scenes.
Monster's Ball is a highly dramatic film about two families whose lives become entwined around execution, hatred, and death.
THE CAST
Billy Bob Thornton--Hank Grotowski
Halle Berry--Leticia Musgrove
Heath...
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by jarvococker , May 16 '03
Pros: Powerful subject matter; great lead performances by Thornton and Berry.
Cons: Film often feels like it owes too much to plots of other better films
MONSTER'S BALL is an expression Georgia State corrections officer Hank Grotowski (Billy Bob Thornton) and his colleagues use to refer to the evening of solemn revelry before a prisoner is condemned to execution. A more perfect title could not be suited...
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