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Hoosiers (1986)
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Could have been better
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"Hickory, Indiana, is a small town with a fair team. New coach, "Norman Dale" (Gene Hackman) comes in and begins to ruffle feathers with everybody, including the team, with his style of coaching immediately. It is obvious that he is an outsider. He ruffles even more feathers with teacher, and acting principal, "Myra Fleener" (Barbara Hershey), who is taking care of the school's former star player (Maris Valainis). He also hires the town drunk (Dennis Hopper), whose son is on the team and, himself, is a student of the game. Despite all the problems he has brought to the team and town, he somehow gets what the team, and the town's residents, what they have been wishing for for a long time. Ok, the first thing I have to say is that it is very obvious how this movie ends as the movie is literally in its first five seconds. How they get there is interesting, but the performances are not that great for the most part. If you ask me, the script is not that strong. To me, the movie was prett ... "
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AFI's 10 Top 10: Sports
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"The sports Top 10 is a difficult list to assess. How many truly good sports movies are there, and I ask this as a sports fan? Raging Bull (1980) is arguably the greatest film of the 1980s, and Rocky (1976) was a little labor of love, far from the semi-joke blockbuster that it is often remembered as in light of its sequels. They likely deserve their places at the top of the list, especially Raging Bull. As to the rest of the films, I have a lot of affection for Breaking Away (1979) and really, it's a lovely little film that I'd put higher on the list. I also like Hoosiers (1986) and Bull Durham (1988), but they both have obvious flaws (as Anne-Marie noted, the basketball film falls short in its depiction of the on-the-court action; the final is especially poorly paced and shot and edited in an oblique way. I've always thought that Bull Durham's final act stretched on a little too long, needlessly deferring Annie and Crash's final settling in together). For the remainder, well, I don ... "
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ANOTHER Sports Movie. Oh joy.
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"I'm not real big on sports, let alone sports movies. But this was suggested to me by a friend, so I gave it a watch. Although slightly formulaic and a bit sentimental, I thought this story (loosely based on Milan High School's underdog basketball team) was well acted, specifically by Gene Hackman (who is good even when a film itself is bad) and Dennis Hopper (who garnered a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination). My gripes are the sucky synth score (also nominated for an Academy Award, for some unfathomable reason) and the completely unbelievable attraction between Barbara Hershey and Gene Hackman, who have no chemistry whatsoever. Your average feel-good sports flick. "
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