I thought this movie was pretty darn good. I didn't think that it was oscar material and I didn't want to see this movie becuase it beat LOTR, even though LOTR made more money and it was a more popular movie. I thought the story was great and it caught me by suprise. I was watching the movie and I didn't know who was real and who wasn't. That's the part I really liked about the movie. The director gave us the experience of deciding who/what is real and who wasn't. Ron Howard is a pretty darn good director and he deserved this movie. Crowe did a fantastic job with this movie, but I agree with the oscar nomination for Denzel Washington.