Too bad Hollywood rarely capitalizes on the easy in that sports offer for subversive commentary.
Slap Shot did it so fucking well. As did The Bad News Bears.
The most recent example I can think of that added anything beyond the heavy handed crap most sports movies are relegated to (cue another "culturally divided team bonds through dancing to Mo-Town" sequence and I will set the fucking building on fire) was Friday Night Lights.
Moving right along: saw UHF again. I can't believe Michael "Stanley Spadowski" Richards became R.J. Fletcher. Weird.
Watchin' The Big Sleep right meow.
Slap Shot did it so fucking well. As did The Bad News Bears.
The most recent example I can think of that added anything beyond the heavy handed crap most sports movies are relegated to (cue another "culturally divided team bonds through dancing to Mo-Town" sequence and I will set the fucking building on fire) was Friday Night Lights.
Moving right along: saw UHF again. I can't believe Michael "Stanley Spadowski" Richards became R.J. Fletcher. Weird.
Watchin' The Big Sleep right meow.
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