Thread: I think Friday Night Lights is one of, if not the best sports movie of all time
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Old 03-16-2005, 10:56 AM   #34
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Originally Posted by BCWWF
The premise of the story is that this football team is one of the most storied in the state of Texas, which if you know anything about Texas you know that thats a big deal. They come into the season and are supposed to be a state champion contender, lead behind a great running back (black guy with attitude problems). Instead, the running back gets injured early in the season and things start to fall apart, but the team comes back together and makes the playoffs after winning a coin toss. They roll through the Texas State playoffs until the championship game (in real life it was the Semi finals) where they meet the best team in state. They end up losing the game.

I don't see how a coach giving an inspirational speech is cheesy, if you've ever played for a team that meant something then thats what coaches do. That being said, its not even like that. The coach isn't a super inspirational guy, and he doesn't give a huge emotional speech that turns everything around.

If you'd watch the movie instead of blindly attacking it you would see that the plot is different from the average sports movie and what you call cliche is what its actually like in West Texas, even though I don't think there are many cliche's at all.
I am not going to watch it. It looks shit and full of cliches, and Texas is a fucking terrible place, full of fat people.
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