"We Are Marshall"

This would be a good post on the thread seen months ago about sports issues turned into a movie. SMU will always be linked to NCAA death sentence.

 

Just saw the movie this afternoon -- we had to watch JoePA beat Tennessee first, of course -- with the fiancee and liked it. I liked that they didn't show the crash or explain it, but rather focused on those left to pick up the pieces.

 

I thought on the trailer they show the people sitting in the airplane, getting the announcement that they are about to land, and then it shakes and the screen goes black.

Is that not in the movie?

 

The greatest play in the world. The I formation.

 

That's where it stops. From there, you see how the major players in the movie all hear the news and it goes from there.

 

What about Omar Cook?

 

I love the scene with the woman's voice through the gate speaker when Ackroyd and Hanks drive up to the Bait mansion: "Oh, thank God! Vibrator repair?"

 

It's in there. I just saw it.

Go see this film. Not a hardcore football story ... but I liked it. MM was a stretch, but he's good for some of the quirky stuff.

Another solid performance for the underrated David Straithern (sp?). There's something very believable in his performances ... I'll let the supposed film critics decide what it is, but I think he's outstanding.

 

"We Are Marshall" was very well done, and I got a kick out of MM's portrayal of Jack Lengyel as a bit of a huckster during his early days at Marshall. I went to high school with some of Lengyel's family and knew him as the Navy AD (as well as a coach at the high school), but had little clue of his connection to Marshall until I was in college.

Another thing I didn't realize (and this has been echoed on this thread) was how diverse Marshall was in the early 1970s. I'd attribute it either to the fact that it was so isolated and wasn't north or south, or the fact that it was such a new school (Marshall only became a university in 1961).

And while I don't necessarily ever agree with Buck Weaver on a matter of things (see: election, 2004 ), "Alive" is arguably one of the best sports movies, in that it transcends sport.

 

Went to see it over the weekend. Needed to wipe away a few tears as I left theatre which tells me it was a pretty good movie.

It had a Rudy like quality to it, with a better soundtrack. Not to many better pre game songs than "Paranoid"

Matthew McConaughey's mannerisms were a bit odd. He was a bit of a close talker. Seemed like he was talking out of side of his mouth like Mary Jo Buttefucco. He did not come across as the classic coach. He was more "Jack Sparrow like" in his interpretation of Coach Lengel.

 

Pseudohallogenic compound Cyanigin, uh huh.

 

I really, really enjoyed this movie. And I cried. And I'm a dude.