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re: Remember the Titans - Is there a cheesier sports movie than this?
Posted on 9/9/14 at 1:18 pm to Grit-Eating Shin
Posted on 9/9/14 at 1:18 pm to Grit-Eating Shin
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Posted on 9/9/14 at 1:56 pm to SmackDaniels
What?! I loved that movie
Posted on 9/9/14 at 2:09 pm to SmackDaniels
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And there wasn't near the amount of racial tension as was portrayed in the movie
A friend of mine's dad went to that high school during this time. He said it was worse, especially at the school. The football players essentially patrolled the halls and made sure no fights broke out.
Posted on 9/9/14 at 2:16 pm to gatorhata9
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A friend of mine's dad went to that high school during this time. He said it was worse, especially at the school. The football players essentially patrolled the halls and made sure no fights broke out.
You're friend's dad is full of shite.
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But screenwriter Gregory Allen Howard couldn't cull enough material from T.C.'s dominant state championship run in 1971 for the parable he wanted to tell. So he recast Alexandria circa 1971 as Birmingham circa 1963. And he posed the 1971 consolidation of Alexandria's high schools, which turned three full-sized high schools into one giant high school, as the racial integration of the city's schools, though in reality all three schools had been racially integrated years before their merger. The real record shows that T.C. had black and white students when it opened in 1965.
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Posted on 9/9/14 at 2:23 pm to SmackDaniels
C'mon man. Don't be a dick. It was a good movie.
Posted on 9/9/14 at 2:28 pm to SmackDaniels
Remember the Titans has one of my favorite sports movie quotes.
"Water is for cowards. Water makes you weak. Water is for washing blood off that uniform. And you don't get blood on my uniform! Boy you must be outside yo mind!! We are going to do up downs until Blue is no longer tired and thirsty."
"Water is for cowards. Water makes you weak. Water is for washing blood off that uniform. And you don't get blood on my uniform! Boy you must be outside yo mind!! We are going to do up downs until Blue is no longer tired and thirsty."
This post was edited on 9/9/14 at 2:30 pm
Posted on 9/9/14 at 2:28 pm to Thurber
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What about gridiron gang?
super cheese!!!
Posted on 9/9/14 at 2:42 pm to Green Chili Tiger
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Green Chili Tiger
Your link doesn't have the "gotcha" power you think it does.
Posted on 9/9/14 at 3:55 pm to SmackDaniels
The Blind Side is the fricking worst.
Completely ruined the image of an otherwise fantastic book.
frick Hollywood for that horse shite.
Completely ruined the image of an otherwise fantastic book.
frick Hollywood for that horse shite.
Posted on 9/9/14 at 4:18 pm to SmackDaniels
It's always bothered me that everybody was surprised they were winning when they were the only team playing with black guys
Posted on 9/9/14 at 4:21 pm to tylerdurden24
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The Blind Side is the fricking worst.
Completely ruined the image of an otherwise fantastic book.
frick Hollywood for that horse shite.
This. When they had Leanne Tuohy go down on the field during practice and games to tell "Freeze" how to coach, I almost walked out of the theatre.
Posted on 9/9/14 at 4:23 pm to Henry Jones Jr
I like the scene when Michael Oher uses his magical orphan powers to stop the airbag.
Posted on 9/9/14 at 4:25 pm to NawlinsTiger9
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I like the scene when Michael Oher uses his magical orphan powers to stop the airbag.
dude frick you. i just laughed out loud in class. i'm supposed to be diligently taking notes
Posted on 9/9/14 at 4:26 pm to NawlinsTiger9
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I like the scene when Michael Oher uses his magical orphan powers to stop the airbag.
That actually happened FWIW
Posted on 9/9/14 at 4:27 pm to Henry Jones Jr
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I like the scene when Michael Oher uses his magical orphan powers to stop the airbag.
that sentence is one of the funniest things ive read on here.
Posted on 9/9/14 at 4:38 pm to CocomoLSU
Without Remember the Titans we may not have Hayden Panettiere around. One good thing did come out of the movie.
Posted on 9/9/14 at 4:39 pm to NawlinsTiger9
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I like the scene when Michael Oher uses his magical orphan powers to stop the airbag.
Literally
'd What about that time when Sandra Bullock got all sassy bout her Saturday Night Special in the Memphis hood? Man, that drug dealer guy was really at a loss for words when she showed him up!
Posted on 9/9/14 at 4:52 pm to tylerdurden24
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What about that time when Sandra Bullock got all sassy bout her Saturday Night Special in the Memphis hood? Man, that drug dealer guy was really at a loss for words when she showed him up!
Pretty sure she would've been shot or raped or some combination of both. Magical orphan powers wouldn't have stopped that
Awful that she won the Oscar for that role.
And I keep forgetting that Hugh Freeze is played by Vernon T. Waldrop. "Whoa whoa whoa, you cayn't sway-uh at mah fee-yan-say!"
Posted on 9/9/14 at 6:18 pm to SmackDaniels
Give it a break. I say that because my wife is in it. She even admits to it's cheesiness.
Posted on 9/9/14 at 6:51 pm to SmackDaniels
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And there wasn't near the amount of racial tension as was portrayed in the movie.
We had a "race fight" in our high school auditorium in 1975. Happened first thing in the morning during homeroom. A black guy said something to a white girl & all of the white guys started fighting all of the black guys. The guidance councilor got on the intercom & screamed for the principle to come to the auditorium. All of the male teachers ran out of their classes to the auditorium. After the fight had been broken up & they had all of the involved guys in the principle's office, one guy threw another through a plate glass window.
The next day they got two black guys & two white guys that were involved to say on the intercom that it wasn't a race fight. Instead they told us it was basketball players fighting football players. All but one of the black guys played both sports. People in authority didn't deal with this stuff at all back then. Nobody was arrested & I don't remember guys being suspended from school or kicked off teams.
We narrowly avoided another big fight a couple of years later during football practice. Some high school guys not on the team were shooting off fireworks while we were practicing. Our white head coach went and told them to leave. An argument ensued, the coach slapped one of the kids and the other kid hit him in the back with a 2X4. No one saw the slap but everyone saw the 2X4 get swung. I'm pretty sure all of the white guys ran to help the coach (I know I ran up to help him) and the black guys ran to help keep the white guys off of the black guys. After a brief standoff, the fireworks guys left & practice resumed. Before practice was over, the father of the kid who got slapped rode up onto the practice field in his son-in-law's Grand Prix, got out & started lecturing the coach about how nobody but him could "slap my chaps." A white kid who had recently moved to Louisiana from Iowa got between the coach & the dad. The son-in-law told the kid, "I'll die & go to Hell & brimstone over a Motherfricker like you & you can quote me on that. I've been quoting him for 39 years.
When we first integrated, they didn't have proms for years because the knew a fight would break out. We had a banquet where you brought a date for a meal & then went home. No dancing between the races.
When I was in high school I had a gun pulled on me by a 30+ year old uncle for being seen at a black girl's house a couple of days before, so yea, there was a lot of racial tension in lots of places.
ETA: The Natural is probably the cheesiest sports movie but I love it.
I can't believe no one has mentioned, "Can't you see, he's my brother."
This post was edited on 9/9/14 at 7:02 pm
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