Friday Night Lights
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You've seen one sports movie, you've seen them all. Sports is a waste of time. We sign kids to multi million dollar contracts because they can make baskets with a basketball, but we cut teachers saleries. We let the jocks go to school for free, they usally don't even have to go to class, they usally can't even read or write. The college has someone take they're tests for them, but the same college does not let other people in becuase they were 2 points lower on the SATs then what the college says is acceptable? But its ok for the college to let the kid that can play a sport in, because it makes the school look good.
I wish everyone would stop making such a big deal about sports so the jocks would be forced to work for a living like the majority of people out there.
I wish everyone would stop making such a big deal about sports so the jocks would be forced to work for a living like the majority of people out there.
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TracerBullet42
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Dude, this thread is about the movie...I was interested in hearing what people who saw the movie thought about it, and instead am finding bitter rants from people who haven't seen it. Please keep such comments to yourself.KenM said:
How do you feel when people rip on you for playing D&D without looking into it? You're doing just that...
/OFF TOPIC RANT
I wonder how this movie rates against Hoosiers...
Dark Jezter
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A Silent Wail, is that you?KenM said:
MEG Hal
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KenM said:
You have seen one fantasy movie you have seen them all.
You voted and did not see it---I have officially decided ENWorld polls are as worthless as any other sites polls.
I decide to vote if I see it/read it etc...and comment why you do not want to see it but to bash a movie sight unseen, that is just something a jock would do
.I will see it on DVD and it looks good, I did not vote BTW!
MarauderX
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Q: Can you put both feet in your mouth at the same time?
A: Obviously, yes.
Q: How many feet do you have? Do you think the majority of jocks go on to professional sports? Not sure which college you went to, but at mine the sports jocks that were recruited took the easiest majors because they spent all of their free time practicing their sport to try to be competitive to maintain their scholarship. Sure the schools look good, they are trying to stay popular to attract the better students and programs for more funding. The jock is bringing something to the school that others can't - it's a niche, and if she isn't good enough she loses it. The school uses them, they use the school - it's often a deal.
And this movie isn't about that jock life. Go see it, you might even try to understand someone who isn't the same as you are.
KenM said:
A: Obviously, yes.
KenM said:
Q: How many feet do you have? Do you think the majority of jocks go on to professional sports? Not sure which college you went to, but at mine the sports jocks that were recruited took the easiest majors because they spent all of their free time practicing their sport to try to be competitive to maintain their scholarship. Sure the schools look good, they are trying to stay popular to attract the better students and programs for more funding. The jock is bringing something to the school that others can't - it's a niche, and if she isn't good enough she loses it. The school uses them, they use the school - it's often a deal.
And this movie isn't about that jock life. Go see it, you might even try to understand someone who isn't the same as you are.
Kanegrundar
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KenM said:
Ken, just out of curosity. What are your feelings about people that game and played sports in school? I was never into baseball for the chance to go pro (not much chance of a scout coming to my little speck of a town) and my parents never became overbearing in their desire to see me succeed on the diamond. It kept me in shape, gave me a greater respect for teamwork, and helped build some social skills. Plus, I'd spend my weekends gaming my heart out. Once I got to college I played intramural softball, rugby, and flag football all the while keeping up with my regular gaming group.
IMO, more gamers should get out and try a sport. Maybe if some of the guys I game with would get out and play even some golf, their health would be better. Sports aren't evil, it's all in the perception of those playing and the parents of said players. Plus, let's face it, you're being just as elitist and snobbish as the jocks that you vehemently despise.
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Shadowdancer
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Then you aren't very good at interpreting what you saw in the trailers, because that's not what is in the movie.KenM said:
Actually, the movie isn't even about sports. It's about coming of age, or in other words, growing up. In the movie, it happens for those kids by playing football, and overcoming adversity both on the field and off it. Some of that adversity has little or nothing to do with sports.
And actually Odessa is not a small town. It's a small city -- 90,000 population -- but hardly a small town.
And the message from some of the parents is to do good in football so the player can get a college scholarship, get a degree to get the education needed to get a good-paying job and get out of Odessa, where the prospects for a better life are limited. There's nothing wrong with that, since those parents probably can't afford to send their kids to college any other way. If the players are smart enough to do the college work, and have no other option to afford to go to college except getting an athletic scholarship, I see nothing wrong with them trying to get that scholarship, if it will allow them to improve their prospects in life.
And one real-life spoiler bit:
The star player who is counting on football, and only football, to get him through life. The one who is counting on becoming a pro and making lots of money on only his athletic talents. He gets hurt in the first game, and his career is over. No college scholarship, no pro career, no big money. The movie doesn't come out and tell you this, but there is a scene in which that player, after the injury, is watching the garbage men pickup trash in his neighborhood. He is seeing his future -- literally. The real Boobie Miles (the player in the film) is today a garbage man in Monahans, a small town near Odessa.
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Shadowdancer
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Oh, I gave the movie an 8. It's a very good movie, and probably the best "football" movie ever made, even though it's really not about football.
But still, rating it a 9 or a 10 seems too high for this movie. Then again, I rarely give any movie a 10 rating, and it's gotta be damn good to even get a 9. The LOTR movies were all 9s, if that's any help. Citizen Kane, Rashomon, Godfather -- those are 10s.
But still, rating it a 9 or a 10 seems too high for this movie. Then again, I rarely give any movie a 10 rating, and it's gotta be damn good to even get a 9. The LOTR movies were all 9s, if that's any help. Citizen Kane, Rashomon, Godfather -- those are 10s.
IMO Colleges and other schools should be there so people can LEARN and gain knowlege in an acedemic way. Not so people can practice whatever sport they are playing for the team.
I have tryed sports, I was humulated and failed at all of the ones I tryed, so excuse me if I have a negitive view of all the meathead dumb ass jocks that have gotten a free ride in life.
I have tryed sports, I was humulated and failed at all of the ones I tryed, so excuse me if I have a negitive view of all the meathead dumb ass jocks that have gotten a free ride in life.
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