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Too rushed

posted 10 years ago by machine1418
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Regardless of what I'm about to say, I still like this movie. I think it had great potential. The cast is great, there's some very intriguing behind the scenes stuff, the football action is very well done, it has great acting in spots, one of the greatest speeches in sports movie history and I think the editing is brilliant. The one thing that prevents it from being a great movie to me is the rushed Willie Beamen angle. He goes from a guy that's unsure of himself and in over his head to this cocky megastar in 3 weeks. That's much too rushed. We're forced to believe a guy went from a nobody to the biggest star in the NFL after just two regular-season starts. After just 2 games, he's on the cover of all kinds of magazines, has an endorsement deal with his face on a bus, has his own music video and has totally changed as a person due to the exposure. I can totally buy that if we're talking 6 games or more. Two games, that's not believable.

[–] goldpink23 10 years ago

@machine1418. I just finished watching this movie.It's weird that Oliver Stone made this movie run time so long but decided to rush Jamie Foxx character.Jamie did a decent job playing a nice guy and playing a mean/full of himself guy.However his transformation seem to sudden.

[–] Chadmw 9 years ago

Tom Brady went from a nobody to a Superbowl Champ and megastar in about 4 games

[–] machine1418 9 years ago

Tom Brady took over for an injured Drew Bledsoe very early into the season, but he didn't become a star until they won that Super Bowl. That was almost a whole season.

[–] robobalboa 9 years ago

to some extent I agree, I think they tried to show to him being a Muhammad Ali type in front of the press, and outspoken like he was on the show and he just popped, and people loved him.

A whole season of games to truly build up his character would have worked better, but then there'd be a montage of them playing a dozen or so games and that's really been done in about every sports movie i've ever seen outside of boxing movies, so maybe there was a motivation to make it a limited number of games from the outset.

[–] Robbmonster 9 years ago

How quickly 'Lin-Sanity' has been forgotten.

It happens. People love the next big thing, people love 'getting on at the ground floor', and they love a feel-good story. Having said that, I don't disagree with you. It may happen, but it sure is rare. Occasionally someone will just come along who 'captures the imagination' of the public.

I liked Any Given Sunday, well, the last hour of it, at least. I hated the visual style of the film, and the over-use of songs in the soundtrack. It seemed every time there was a cut, a new song would start playing. I'm sure Oliver Stone would probably use a phrase like 'hyper-kinetic' to describe the visual style, but it didn't work for me. There was a great story in there, but one that got buried beneath a tiring style.

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