Film #14 of No Rewatch November

Well this was a piece of trash. I didn't care about a single aspect of the movie, not the characters, not the story, and especially not any of the football games. I hated the digital look of the movie, as the look does nothing to support the 80s setting. The look of the movie, coupled with the lack of 80s style football equipment made the games look like any game from any other football film. I'm done thinking about this meaningless flick, but I will let you know that the film ends with one of the graduating players throwing a football to a group of young kids. It doesn't get much more heavy handed than that.

Κάθε φορά πωρώνομαι ακόμη περισσότερο. #superbowlday

Blown away by this film. Every element just seems to fit and complement the other brilliantly. The cast are superb, specifically Billy Bob Thornton and Derek Luke. The direction is brilliant, and the film is shot with finesse; mixing realist camera techniques with some beautiful cinematography. The story is powerful and inspiring, and supported with absolute perfection by its' mesmerising soundtrack.

The best sports film since Space Jam.

Maybe it was because I was waiting for Amber Heard’s moment, which basically was all of 3 minutes at the beginning of the movie and it wasn’t even enough to get a more than a second of camera time to figure out it was her; but this movie was a big let down. For it to have gotten big enough reviews to have its own tv show, where was it. It doesn’t even have one of those feel good in the end endings. Since it was about the team in general, it focused on three of the players more than anything and they weren’t even all that interesting. None of them had a background that you could truly feel for, except for “Sam Flynn” who was Tim McGraw’s son. And we now know why Tim McGraw always wears a cowboy hat, the man is balding bad. LOL. Overall, it was decent but doesn’t get my love.

Great film that has excitement with the sports scenes but it also shows a lot of the reasons behind why they are so driven to do well

Buena, aunque la serie es mejor.

Based on a true story, unfortunately.

The show seriously ruined this movie for me...

Connie Britton plays Coach's wife, but has like one line!
What is even the point???

It was also too cheesy and Thornton's Coach was creepily nice and supportive of everyone, but not in a subtle Coach Taylor way.

I laughed at Buddy Garridy's 80s mustache. Cos this movie is set in the 80s.

One of my favorite movies of all time. Strikes an emotional chord with each viewing. Football isn't my favorite thing and sports movies are not my favorite genre by any means, but I'll never forget this movie. It is beautifully made, and my all-time favorite band, Explosions In The Sky, score the entire thing, start to finish.

For a football movie it's pretty good.

It would've been nice if it didn't take almost ninety minutes until Connie Britton said something resembling a complete sentence, or there was more than one woman with any dialogue that didn't involve dropping the n-word or getting in a reluctant player's pants. But given how Berg does right by these kids and their struggles, and how fine a job he does capturing the spectacle and violence in the in-game action -- even when he has to break out the redemption cliches during the final game -- I'm willing to look past that speed bump. & while I've yet to catch up with the TV series -- it's on the list -- I imagine Britton's small screen turn as Mrs. Coach more than makes up for her silence here. Also: Tim McGraw!

Somewhat entertaining but the constant hand-held camerawork really gets in the way of a good story, which is only really interesting when football or Derek Luke are on screen.

Likeable enough sports fare. Billy Bob was Billy Bobbian. Lucas Black cried a bunch. Terrible movie arm tackling.