I think this movie is awful. Just a complete waste of time and money. The fact that Keanu Reeves followed Neo up with this blows my mind and I’m still holding out hope that this is a Gene Hackman look-a-like in the movie. It has a 6.2 though, so clearly people liked something about it. Help me out. Please point out some of the moments of this movie you enjoyed.
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shareSo what you're saying is that the only movies that should be made are movies that you might like? Different strokes bub. You didn't like it, fine. That's your opinion. Some people, me included, enjoyed this movie(as I do with most sports movies). It's a decent movie based on true events, believe it or not. But, again, you didn't like it, that's your choice. Don't begrudge others from liking it.
shareCould someone please just point out a good part of the movie? Don't tell me you liked it and not tell me why. For those of you who would point out that this movie is "based on true events" though, it's completely fine that you like this movie. I would have to guess though that there are some intelligient people that enjoyed this movie. It's has a 6.2. If there's someone out there who liked this movie while also realizing that this isn't an NFL film documentary and they could tell me a part they liked, I would love to hear it. Help me like this movie.
shareI don't have "good part" of the movie to point out, JamieFSC, but I did like it nonetheless. Not every movie has to be intellectually stimulating, or have an unforseen twist, or even have complex characters. I liked it because it didn't have any of those. It was just a funny movie that I could casually watch and relax during.
I'm no genius by any means, but I do consider myself somewhat intelligent and I enjoyed the movie.
Not getting down on you, JamieFSC. Your last post really looked like you want to like the movie, but need a reason. Just enjoy the funny parts and ignore the lack of complex plot, undeveloped characters, etc. If you're old enough, have a few drinks, kick back, and enjoy.
Tell me the funny parts.
shareWhat is your obsession? If you need people to tell you the good parts or funny parts then you don't need to be watching this movie. Is your life that devoid of meaning that you feel the need to "get" this movie? Let it go, guy. Let it go.
But if you want good parts, the scene where they start dancing in jail. This is where they started bonding as a team.
HAHAHAHAHA.....the part when they started dancing in the jail was hysterical. Oh man I almost sh#t myself I was laughing so hard. Did you guys see Steve Martin on SNL this week...hilarious. You know what else is funny Leonard part 6, Ghost Dad, and the Bubonic Plague.
shareOne of my favorite parts (actually, 2 parts) was when Shane's truck was flipped over by Martel's bully bunch. Then Shane sets the alarm anyway . And the next time, when 2 of Shane's linemen empty half their clip into Martel's car.
The barfight was good too.
You're right, I'm going to change my vote from a 2 to a 1.
share"It looks like I just jacked off an elephant" was a funny part.
Dancing in the jail was pretty funny.
After all of the guys start puking and they all hold onto each other to move the huddle was funny.
Basically anything with the cop was pretty funny, I love Jon Favreau.
The cheerleader tryouts were funny.
I really like the part when Falco goes onto the field after half time and everyone starts cheering, I don't know why but its one of my favourite parts.
Also, when Nigel is supposed to kick the ball, and Shane takes it himself and scores a touchdown...that was a good part.
I find Keanu's acting to be terrible, but on the whole this is actually one of my favourite movies, I don't know why I just think it's good.
You are also probably some one who was devoid of athletic involvement in school. You probably watched the movie and the whole time you were sitting there you were probably having flash backs of the times you were the football team's target of ridicule and pranks. So ofcourse you wouldn't enjoy it.. and I understand. I get flashbacks when I watch it too. Mine are just happy.
Real quick question: If you hated it so much, why are you devoting so much of your time to tell people how much you hate it? You really must not have much to do, if you go around searching IMDB for your least favorite movies, just to post sarcastic, whiny little bashes about them.."
And not all football players are mean. As soon as you learn and accept this, the sooner the healing can begin...
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"lets play football b***h"....
sharewhy don't you just give up? what's the point in explaining to you why this movie is good? you don't like and period - do you really think that someone will give you the answer and from this point you will like the movie??
I just like this movie, it always cheers me up and I don't analyze why it is cheering me up - it's just do
I like the fact that it's an underdog sports movie and yet, they manage to take a dig at overpaid, spoiled modern professional athletes. One of the fans said as much in the interview with the TV reporter. (The interview was airing on the TV in the bar.) I like sports and I like to think I'm intelligent, but I don't like many professional athletes and their outrageous sense of self-entitlement. Martel was not that far from being an accurate portrayal of many modern-day sports stars.
So that's what really makes this movie for me, that it takes some shots at the millionaire pro athletes in the middle of the underdog/comeback story. I also found it interesting to see that this wasn't a typical fairytale where everyone lived happily ever after or you didn't really hear about what happened after the events of the movie. We all knew that once the final game was over, most of those guys would be back to their everyday jobs or whatever they were doing before (being a prisoner, being a bodyguard, cleaning boats).
I liked the coach's line in the final voiceover about how greatness always stays with a man, no matter how brief the moment. That seems to apply to amateurs as well as pro athletes. Many amateur athletes (especially in endurance sports like running and triathlon) do not train hard to make millions of dollars. Most will never make any money off of their sport. They do it for the sense of accomplishment and for doing something positive, even if it doesn't last. Far better to have done that training and tried then to have sat around eating potato chips all day and not have done anything at all. The replacements in the movie jumped at the chance to live their dream of playing professional football even though they knew they wouldn't be in the game for very long. They knew they wouldn't become multimillionaires or Hall of Famers. But they made the most of the time they had. I think that's a pretty decent message for a movie.
At the same time, the writers/director didn't hit us over the head with the message and make an overly serious movie. That was the right approach for the material. No, this is not one of the "best movies ever made". But it's definitely on my personal list of all-time guilty movie pleasures.
Well for one, you probably didn't like it because you were probably never even asked to participate in an organized sport (or a pick up game for that matter) let alone play a sport so you probably would enjoy it as much as, say some one who may have played flag football once or twice in their life. The point I'm trying to make is it's a football movie, that is about football. It's not about race, it's not about one person's story with a few football sequences thrown in there. It's about football straight up. It has some inspirational moments in it (Pain heals, chicks dig scars, glory lasts forever) (which people that never played football might not get inspiration from because they were never in a situation like that, and don't understand just how it feels), and it's also hilarious, (anything Clifford Frankln says, Andre and Jamal Jackson shooting up the car, Danny Bateman's crazy stuff). So if your gonna come to this board and piss and moan about htis being a waste of time and money, then haha for wasting your time and money and go get a life. To quote Fumiko "If you don't like it,...get the *beep* out."
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If you like this movie you are mentally handicapped. I have played football for almost 18 years (pop warner/high school/semi-pro) this movie has as much to do with real football as Back to the Future has to do with actual time travel. I agree about the sexy Asian cheerleader but come on people this movie is awful. I don't think at any point during this film anyone who was involved in it thought it was about football. They knew it was sh#t and made it for a paycheck.
sharegreat idea Logey00 - just bore us to death with your life frustrations
or perhaps buy yourself a dictionary and read two definitions:
1. fiction
2. documentary
I'm sure you'll be shocked with what you will find there
Hey Logey00, if you play football for 18 more years, why don't you try wearing a helmet this time? It's pretty obvious from your posts that you didn't for the first 18 years. If you didn't like this movie, that's fine. But don't try to make yourself seem intellectually superior by saying you don't like it. Frankly, the rest of us don't give a damn.
shareAdam, I’ve changed my opinion of this movie and it goes back to a couple of strong points you made. "You don’t like and period" and "It’s just do". Well said my friend.
shareYou pansies that don't like it should stick to the Woody Allen section, allegedly that garbage is comedy.
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This movie was not made to win any oscars. It was not even made to be able to withstand a critical eye on any kind of art standards. there are no great performances and no serious thought on direction. it was supposed to be funny, over the edge funny. and underneath it was supposed to say one thing, that a group of men that strives for a goal (pun intended) sometimes achieves miracles.
believe it or not but there are rules in "funny". when you re making a complicate joke people are supposed to get the premise to find the joke funny. you re establishing the premise and then , those who find it interesting are in the joke and will laugh. ask any comedy writer and he will agree with me. the premise here is what would happen if you suddenly replaced all the players of a professional football team with an absurd mix of the least expected characters. an ex-sumo wrestler, a drunkard irish pub-owner, two gangster-rappers, a metro sexual guy, an insane cop and ... you get it. if you dont find this funny and you re not at all interested in what would happen in such a situation then you will not find the rest of the movie worth your time. are there cheap jokes ? definately ! but the movie has established this fact from the very start. it doesnt takes itself seriously and neither should you. Does anybody think that a sumo wrestler could run down the field and score a touchdown in an NFL game? its supposed to be absurd. and at the same time its hilarious. the "villain" in the story is a friggin cardboard character with no redeemable features. does the character has any worth ? no , he is only there to make the good guys look good , he s nothing but a tool to move the plot conveniently. and when two gangster rappers empty their clips on his car , it makes you feel good cause he is an *beep*
the movie also talks in a different level to some people. the game itself is not important. Football could be easily replaced with another sport. it speaks of the camaraderie that grows in a group of men. of a dream to win glory , and for some men to get the second chance where they blew theirs when they were still young. there is a rush of adrenaline when you really really try to win , and in a team sport you there is a bond of trust that you must build. for a few fleeting moments all there is , is a desperate surge to cross a line on a football field or put a ball in a basket. its a primitive sensation that will never leave you once you have felt it. and team sports were made for the sole reason to reproduce it. it shows clearly in the script that thats what they were meaning to show with specific lines interspaced in the absurd circus that is the rest of the movie. words like "battlefield" and phrases like "thats why girls dont play the game", and the little epilogue with gene hackman's voiceover where he drives the point home that these men , the replacements, won their game, cleared their lockers and cought a ride home with no advertisement deals for shoes or soda-pops.
all in all it is a very funny movie that also elegantly evokes a precious and long lost feeling.
ps. JamieSFC, what blows my mind is that Keanu Reaves followed his role in Matrix with Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions. but i dont really hold that against him.
i remember seeing the trailors and thinking it was going to suck...but i actually enjoyed the movie...it had lots of humor and the characters were definately likeable...the movie itself was basically a ripoff of every other football movie, but the characters (as cliched as they might have been) saved it...and oh yeah, Gene Hackman was in it...lol
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Do I think this a great movie? No, not in a million years.
But it was entertaining. This is the kind of film that 6/10 ratings exist for, IMO.
I put writing my 'To-do' list near the bottom.
Ummm, it is possibe to like Woody Allen, Mel Brooks, the Coen brothers and The Replacements, you know. It doesn't have to be one or the other.
shareThis movie was pure puke, and man Gene Hackman doesnt care anymore what movie he stars in...I hope it payed well!
shareI can't make a total judgement on this film because I just caught the last 20 minutes or so on TV. However, I couldn't stand watching much more of it. Most of the lines Falco spoke in the little bit I saw were so cheesy they were horrible. Were they meant to play this way? Lord, my husband would most likely love it.
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