quite possibly the worst sports movie I've ever seen. I can't believe that I actually just heard a halftime speech involving "hold each other in your heart." I'm going to list a few of the things that are just ridiculous.
1. The football play looks, as my buddy Will always says of football movies, "more like war footage than a football game."
2. They sit down and have a freaking debate about where to play the game and who officiates it. I believe that's something that's decided beforehand.
3. They have a three person coin flip to decide who goes to state, rather than any other sort of tie-breaker.
4. They just ran a delayed draw on a 4th and 2 inches, which is something that not even Jim Donnan would call.
5. A cheerleader just pushed the opposing team's running back 3 feet.
6. They let the quarterback play with blood down the entire front of his jersey.
7. Got to love the quarterback turning into Tommy Frazier on the last play, running over folks, jumping over folks, and looking like an all American until they have a group hug on the one foot line and he falls down.
8. Yeah, the alchoholic father is going to give his son his state championship ring right after they lose the game. RIGHT.
They at least didn't have a completely sappy ending, so that helped, but overall I still think this was one of the worst sports movies I've seen. Maybe Varsity Blues was worse, I don't know, but this was pretty bad. I'm by no means an expert on high school football, since I only played in 7th-9th grade, but just being around football makes me realize that a lot of this movie was unrealistic. Maybe I just wasn't willing to suspend disbelief so I never got started in the movie, I don't know. Anyway, to quote Amanda, "I'm sure glad we didn't rent this [we checked it out of the library]. Still, it wasn't worth the gas to go to the library [which is all of .3 miles from our apartment]."
Peter
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