Not that you need to to enjoy a sports movie but, I don't even like football (although I know how the game is played from growing up around it) and this movie was beautiful. Beautifully shot, acted, plotted, paced.
I've seen other football movies and sports movies, but this is the one that got my heart.
So, just had to come here to say that.
Love it but I think Hoosiers equals it.
The best sports movies are not about the sport depicted. They're character studies.
Never seen Hoosiers. I'll have to check it out.
shareagree about the character studies wholeheartedly, my three favourite sports movies are Warrior, Rocky and Rudy, mainly because the heart and impact revolved around the characters
shareThis movie had a bunch of pointless scenes and dialog. Basically just throwing it in because it was a part of the book, but incoherently. Plus one friggen cliche after another. Then they lost making the entire movie pointless. Should have been made about the other team. But I guess because they were black, they don't get a movie.
It's just full of eye rolling moments from bad acting, bad dialog, and a bad movie. No depth and completely unenjoyable. You'd have to be a moron to think this was a good movie.
But, dude, that's exactly it! I am a moron! Cheers to that.
shareThe Panthers losing the final game doesn't make the movie pointless, plenty of great movies and stories end with defeat. And in case you didnt notice, alot of Permian was black. 6 main athletes were followed in this movie, 3 black (Boobie, Comer, Ivory), 2 white (Billingsly, Whinchel) 1 latino (Chavez)...so yeah probably "because they were black" they didn't get a movie, not because the Permian Panthers have a hell of a history and a book written about them.
shareIt does make the movie pointless if there is nothing else to it. Don't even compare it to great movies that were great regardless of how it ended. There are a million small towns, full of dumb losers, who peaked in high school, and thought everything that happened in their shytkicking town mattered, and then went on to be parents and instilled the same moronic dumbass philosophy in their children so they can relive their 3 glory years of playing high school football.
Like seriously? To make that the focus, and main plot of an entire movie, when it's been the side plot of dozens of others, because it's not a strong enough, or poignant enough sentiment to carry a movie by itself. No one with half a brain gives of shyt about the Permian Panthers and their history, or the millions of kids who could've made it to the big time if they didn't get injured. So if you do, I feel sorry for you. That's not a good movie. That barely qualifies as an article in the sports section. It's probably a successful book because there are enough self indulgent losers, who did peak in high school, to want to buy that junk because they it's their story too. Failed athletes who have nothing else in their lives, except shyt parents and a delusional overbearing wannabe coach, and think there is nothing else in life but sports. It's friggen pathetic.
Not as pathetic as some angry kid writing an angry diatribe about some movie he doesn't like. You don't understand and that's fine. Dry your tears and go take a nap.
shareYou sound like the person who didn't play much. You don't get it
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