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Let's do Platoon, but with a football instead of M-16's

posted 13 years ago by gdeangel
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Somebody tried to come up with heat-of-war Vietnam comparable scenarios so that they could duplicate the success of Platoon, and the best they could come up with is professional football: Looks good on paper, right - you have drugs, prostitutes, peoples of diverse socio-economic and racial backgrounds forced to bond or bust each other up, fast pace rush sequences of physical peril, emotionally invested but inept dinosaur-looking leaders making inspirational speeches, broken families, maybe even some blood and gore - heck, let's have an eyeball get blown out of a players head or something, that'll do it for sure. Can't miss, right?

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA.

There are plenty of good war movies out there besides Platoon. There are good football / sport movies with an "its war" gritty nature (example: the original Rollerball). This movie isn't either of them. Skip it if you haven't already wasted your time watching it. I can't believe it got made - total garbage.

[–] DragonKingXBR 13 years ago

"Any man's finest hour - his greatest fulfillment to all he holds dear - is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle...victorious"

-Vince Lombardi

In case you missed the quote card at the beginning of the movie. This was the whole point of Stone and crew making this movie. It wasn't just all about drugs, prostitutes or even broken families, but more about working hard and being willing to risk everything to be the victorious one so that at the end of the day, the Sharks could say their careers mean something. When was the last time you did something brave to improve your life? What was the last thing you had such a passion for that you were willing to put it before everything else in your life?