This movie sucked balls!! It was sooo boring! Why do you british people get SO into soccer and act all crazy about it like the people in the movie? Its just a dumb sport. Why did Brian Clough have to act like such a douche over a damn game? The guy the movie focused on was so unlikeable.
Someone, tell me, what was the point of this movie?
Why did you watch it if you already hated football?
The point was to describe Brian Clough, his rivalry with Don Revie and what happened in his short period at Leeds, which was a rare occasion of failure in his career as he was a brilliant manager.
Also I pity you for not being able to enjoy football. With the exception of the U.S and some parts of eastern Asia, every country in the world has gotten this game, which is really more than a game.
So did you get in contact with Martin Scorsese about your predictable and rubbish-sounding screen play?
Must annoy you to know that this "boring soccer movie" was written by the same guy who has had a very successful screen writing career so far.
The Last King of Scotland, The Queen, Forst/Nixon... good luck with the arrogance thing.
what a duche (i think ive adopted this word, i like it)
This is a great film and Sheen played it great, the problem with the OP is he cant get why Football is an amazing game, it's fast paced, tense, shocking etc etc and they have the World Series of America. nowhere else plays AF or Baseball, or basketball for that matter. they are slow, they stop every 5 min's, no passion no real glory.
its a game you play amongst yourselves really, wheres the fun in that
When will people realise we do not own this planet, we are merely the lease holders...
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Typical yank troll thread. "I am not clever enough to understand football, so I will call it soccer and talk bad about it and hope I get a reply so I claim a peanut sized victory!"
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Think I'd argue that the World Cup - avidly watched by tens of millions from each competing nation - is bigger than the Olympics - avidly watched by probably a couple of dozen with the rest of us catching the results on the rush hour news!
Okay, a bit of an exaggeration but bar job dodgers, how many seriously watch every event of the Olympics?
"It's because of movies like this that illegal downloading exists and you can be bored for free..."
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I pity so many Americans for this disgusting and pathetic child-like attitude.
shareYou can't taint all Americans because of one single thick opening post anymore than you can taint all Brits as being ignorant for completely failing to read all the intelligently written, pro-football posts written by several other Americans throughout this thread.
"It's because of movies like this that illegal downloading exists and you can be bored for free..."
I said "so many Americans". Not all of them. A lot of them have a disdain for "soccer" that I just cannot get my head around.
sharenowt wrong with calling it soccer...
shareThe last match I paid to go and see - Derby County vs Nottingham Forest, October 2002 was a very dreary 0-0 bore draw. Forest scored a perfectly legitimate goal in the first half which was ruled out by the officials but subsequently proved onside by the Sky replays at half time. £25 a ticket x 3 to watch that shower. Little effort from the two teams involved further encumbered by inept officialdom.
£75 to watch a game where not only does someone not win or lose, but virtually nothing happens and what precious little did was tainted by the game's continuing inability to accept what is present in every other modern sport. Technology.
No wonder the Americans couldn't care two craps about it.
I too love the game - most of us Brits grow/grew up playing it - but unfortunately, we get our personal love confused when handing over large amounts of our hard won earnings to watch highly paid professionals - who are often not much better than ourselves - play it.
"It's because of movies like this that illegal downloading exists and you can be bored for free..."
It's NOT just the Brits who are SO into soccer, it is the majority of the planet earth OUTSIDE the United States. The dimwitted OP doesn't realize that the world does NOT revolve around the United States (and I am an American).
shareThe 2006 and 2010 World Cup final matches had higher ratings in the US than the final games of the NBA Finals and baseball World Series from those same years (yes that's a once in four years event vs a best out of seven series). The Seattle Sounders get an average attendance of 36,000 per game in just their second year in MLS. The average attendance of an MLS game is within a thousand of both the NBA and NHL (yes it's an outdoor sport and those others are indoor sports), 16,000 to 17,000.
My point is, even the United States cares about soccer, more and more so with each passing year.
In any case, this guy is probably just trying to get a reaction out of people. Watching a soccer-related movie and then complaining that it is about soccer has to be a joke, right?
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I believe the director of this film is now an Oscar winning director!
Its that man again!!
There's no way Hooper should have got best director for such a formulaic and uninspired movie.
But lets stop responding to this stupid thread and talk football!
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cool story bro
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Pffft! mfeeman- so you don't like sports and you like to ride your 20 year old bike.
Good for you! - but why make posts like this - only the last sentence is relevant to the post while the rest of it is some kind of half baked manifesto to your own personal lifestyle that nobody is at all interested in.
This board is about an interesting but flawed movie called 'The Damned United' - not you.
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I agree with the OP, for a football movie there wasn't a lot of football, just lots of Michael Sheens dodgy impersonation of Cloughy which grew tedious early on also I thought Spall and Meaney were excellent as their parts.
The film could have been a lot better, it didn't mention any of the succesful Forest days for example, apart from broefly at the end, and Revies England spell may have been a fascinating part to include, but it wasn't.
A 6/10 I gave it.
Typically whiny athletically insecure American couch potato sports fan.
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