As you probably have heard Clint Eastwood’s Million Dollar Baby (IMDB link) took home four Oscars. Don’t be fooled; read this account from Gotcha Movie Forums on how Eastwood ruined another perfectly good script:

Million Dollar Baby? Try Million Dollar Ripoff! This is another case of a hollywood elitist taking a perfectly good fun-loving adventure script and making it into an artsy farse! I’m so pissed!

Million Dollar Baby was originally about TV’s Six Million Dollar Man’s grandchild, a wonder baby who was the heir to a superhero empire of crime-fighting and adventure.

After shrugging his (yes, it was originally about a boy) responsibilities by spending too much time in the arcade, stuffing his face at all-you-can-eat buffets, and throwing around a typical GenX haughty attitude, the Million Dollar Baby is forced to fend for himself and get a job. Several failed careers later, a tweeny-aged Baby cashes in on his powers with a career as a professional wrestler (not an amatuer boxer).

Clint ruined this movie bad. The only reason the producers went along with him was because they thought the “female Karate Kid” could really sell some tickets.