Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sports. Show all posts

Thursday, July 24, 2008

Game 6


IMDB: Walk Hard: Game 6
  • OVERALL: 67
  • VISUAL: 65
  • STORY: 64
  • ACTING: 71
  • BETTER THAN: The Break-Up
  • NOT AS GOOD AS: For the Love of the Game
  • WAS MISSING: About 20 more shots of Buckner missing that grounder.
  • SEE IT FOR: "Life is true. We can still win." The more Keaton is prompted to say this, the more he's trying to convince himself of it, to no avail. Sadly, I'll do the same with "Keaton doesn't make bad movies."

Thursday, July 17, 2008

The Flying Scotsman


IMDB: The Flying Scotsman
  • OVERALL: 93
  • VISUAL: 92
  • STORY: 96
  • ACTING: 91
  • BETTER THAN: American Flyers
  • NOT AS GOOD AS: Triplets of Belleville (Les Triplettes de Belleville)
  • WAS MISSING: Journey's "What It Takes To Win" playing during every defeat and victory.
  • SEE IT FOR: Cycling at its greatest and most obsessive, as well as the (attempted?) overcoming of internal struggle far greater than any world record. Courageously brilliant.

Thursday, July 10, 2008

The Benchwarmers


IMDB: The Benchwarmers
  • OVERALL: 59
  • VISUAL: 64
  • STORY: 59
  • ACTING: 53
  • BETTER THAN: Ed
  • NOT AS GOOD AS: The Sandlot
  • WAS MISSING: The Benchwarmers trading card series.
  • SEE IT FOR: Rob Schneider playing the stud to everybody else's loser, but to do this you'll have to stomach Spade's monk-do and Napoleon's... well... certainly no dynamite here.