Glory Road
2006 Directed by James Gartner
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The incredible story of the team that changed the game forever.
In 1966, Texas Western coach Don Haskins led the first all-black starting line-up for a college basketball team to the NCAA national championship.
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I was a captive audience for this one (Saturday night with the in-laws, whatnot), and a second viewing did nothing to change my mind about it. My "C" review stands:
"Unless the filmmaking were completely inept, it would be impossible to make a movie about Texas Western that isn't superficially exciting, but every underdog basketball story doesn't have to be Hoosiers. Glory Road treats history as if it were a 7th-grade social-studies text laid out in a 16-point font, getting the basics right without trying to evoke any of the details that would make it memorable. In other words, it gets the Bruckheimer treatment."
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A very good movie and i was just catching it on tv and showed a real good and interesting story. it has a very interesting theme and the racist stuff gets very interesting but seeing this team work together was good to see also some stuff you might see coming but its still a good movie.
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I was a captive audience for this one (Saturday night with the in-laws, whatnot), and a second viewing did nothing to change my mind about it. My "C" review stands:
"Unless the filmmaking were completely inept, it would be impossible to make a movie about Texas Western that isn't superficially exciting, but every underdog basketball story doesn't have to be Hoosiers. Glory Road treats history as if it were a 7th-grade social-studies text laid out in a 16-point font, getting the basics right without trying to evoke any of the details that would make it memorable. In other words, it gets the Bruckheimer treatment."
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I'm a sucker for sports movies, especially those based on true stories. This hits every cliched note and yet I find it all very watchable.
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Just because you've a great story doesn't mean you have to do it lazily. Really awful acting but it's not much they can do with so shitty writing. Watch Coach Carter instead.
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The racist coach's name is literally ADOLPH
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A very good movie and i was just catching it on tv and showed a real good and interesting story. it has a very interesting theme and the racist stuff gets very interesting but seeing this team work together was good to see also some stuff you might see coming but its still a good movie.
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Standard sports drama.