Uplifting Football Movies
Jun. 8th, 2014 09:55 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kybearfuzzI'm sure I've written about this sort of thing before, but I saw a preview on Saturday of an upcoming movie that made me roll my eyes. I despise dramatic sports movies, where they harp on the amazing healing powers of high school football, basketball, or whatever. I don't remember such things from high school. I don't remember the football players being heroic or iconic. I remember them being dicks, @$$holes, and bullies. So when I see a preview for such a movie where I'm supposed to give a damn about them, I falter, I gag, I roll my eyes and scowl. Feh...
The upcoming movie in question is called "When the Game Stands Tall," and involves a California high school whose football team had an 151 game winning streak. They are revered, they are loved, they are held in atmospheric regard. One guy talks about how his grandfather told him that his life will never get any better than this.
And then they lose a game. Apocalypse ensues.
According to the preview, one player who was on a college streak turns to the dark side and hangs out with the bad crowd. One player is immediately unloved by his father. The coach has a heart attack because of the stresses of dealing with the end of the streak...
... all because they lost a football game.
Luckily, the coach lives and rallies the group to win again. Whatever...
It's uplifting and wonderful, the amazingly, god-given healing power of high school football. I hope the movie ticket comes with a barf bag.
This is supposedly based on a true story. I can believe it, after living through high school myself. Personally, I can't imagine how anyone would believe that their high school years were the best of his life. It would lead to a long, disappointing life afterward.
I'll be passing on this one. I just can't fathom spending the time or money trying to stomach it. I'd rather rent the cheesiest horror movie I could find. At least I'm sure there would be parts I'd enjoy there.
The upcoming movie in question is called "When the Game Stands Tall," and involves a California high school whose football team had an 151 game winning streak. They are revered, they are loved, they are held in atmospheric regard. One guy talks about how his grandfather told him that his life will never get any better than this.
And then they lose a game. Apocalypse ensues.
According to the preview, one player who was on a college streak turns to the dark side and hangs out with the bad crowd. One player is immediately unloved by his father. The coach has a heart attack because of the stresses of dealing with the end of the streak...
... all because they lost a football game.
Luckily, the coach lives and rallies the group to win again. Whatever...
It's uplifting and wonderful, the amazingly, god-given healing power of high school football. I hope the movie ticket comes with a barf bag.
This is supposedly based on a true story. I can believe it, after living through high school myself. Personally, I can't imagine how anyone would believe that their high school years were the best of his life. It would lead to a long, disappointing life afterward.
I'll be passing on this one. I just can't fathom spending the time or money trying to stomach it. I'd rather rent the cheesiest horror movie I could find. At least I'm sure there would be parts I'd enjoy there.
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Date: 2014-06-09 12:15 pm (UTC)The best revenge I can imagine is how these guys who are so hyped up from high school football have to deal with life AFTER high school.
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Date: 2014-06-09 03:26 pm (UTC)I did run into one of my high school bullies about 14 years after graduation.
He was an alcoholic who had to work THREE jobs to support his drug addict boyfriend.
He was a very unhappy man.
I actually feel sorry for him now- and so many of my other bullies- though not all of them.
A ten year old girl who weighed 150 pounds bullied me when I was seven years old- and I can tell you I weighed 35 pounds at that time.
She would sit next to me on the bus, then hit herself and scream "Jerry ! Stop hitting me! Owww!!"
She told the principal that I had hit her- which was a goddamn lie - and I badly punished for my "crime."
She left the school in June of the following year when she finished the sixth grade.
I hated her for years after that, until I was 15 and my mom made me visit the girls' mom, and the mother said, "Linda was in her first year of college when she had a nervous breakdown and had to be hospitalized.
Yeah- bullies are not the cool people they want you to think they are. It's NEVER cool to humiliate or cause physical or emotional harm to others. Such individuals have BIG problems that come out and bite them on the ass later in life!
Have you seen X-Men: Days of Future Past or Amazing Spider-Man 2 yet? They're both good!
Hope you'll have a pleasant week!