re: Thread Change: Let's Overanalyze Varsity Blues

Love the movie, but the voiceover at the end talking about how he never played football again when they clearly still had playoffs always bothers me on a re-watch.

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Either that or he meant he never played football again after they either won the state title or lost in the playoffs.

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That's how I always took it. Would've been nice to know what happened that year though. The only thing though, is that the movie makes such a big deal out of District titles. That's what Kilmer was most proud of, and that always seemed to be the goal. So I guess in the grand scheme of things, that's why the movie ends there instead of the state championship. But seems like even a small throwaway line like "Even though we lost in the State final that year, we continued the Coyote tradition of winning District titles" or some bullshite like that would've helped.

FIRE THAT frickIN PIGSKIN

Did Mox finally get to lay the wood to Julie? Got his friend's position and screwed his sister. Should have screwd his friend's girl too.

I wish Bud Kilmer was the coach of my high school football team. He’s everything you want in a coach. I thought that when I was 18 watching the movie for the first time and 20 years later believe it even more so.

Mox was an embarrassment to West Canaan. I’d have cut his arse and played whoever was 3rd string.

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I wish Bud Kilmer was the coach of my high school football team. He’s everything you want in a coach.

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Yeah, except for the whole "endangering his players and not giving a shite about their safety" thing.


Also, any thoughts on Wendell: ?

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What I laugh at is how selfish and terrible of a teammate Wendell is. He's all mad about Kilmer not getting him TDs. Well, Wendell, maybe if you've run the ball all the way down the field, mixing it up and throwing it may be a decent strategy...especially if you've got a QB like Lance. Or even if it's legit that Kilmer doesn't want to give you TDs because you're black, don't get mad at Max (or the other players) for that. Like he bitches at Mox and he's all like "You don't understand, bro...you white." But as soon as Mox says "I'll get you in the endzone, Wendell is like "Okay, we cool, Mox." So all you want is your TDs for your own personal recruitment nad you don't give a frick about anybody else? Got it.

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Nah Wendell had a legit gripe based on how recruiting worked back then. You had to 100 percent leverage your coaches to get connected with recruiters and colleges unless you had crazy stats that grabbed attention and it was clear that Kilmer was not doing that for Wendell

Especially in Texas, I believe FNLs touched on this in the first season, there used to be 1-2 guys that would scout local Texas games and programs and his ranking had an insane effect on players scholarships.

I didn’t take that scene with Mox as bitching to him about his issue like it was his fault, he was just frustrated because Mox wasn’t actually paying attention to what was clear as day happening to him

Also there’s a big gap in their plights that Mox couldn’t understand. Mox has no issue quitting because Kilmer is a dick and he just wants to have fun and he’ll get to go to Brown, where he doesn’t even plan to play football, so really who cares for him. I took the implication that Wendell needs a football scholarship to be able to go to college, and so his issue is much much larger than Mox’s, so he was frustrated with Mox brushing off his problem like he did.

That’s another one of those other crazy things about the movie:

Varsity Blues was ahead of its time in exposing the issues of CTE and mental health in a kind of serious way

And then over there is Mox’s little brother participating in a cult (I had completely forgotten about this, too. What a crazy little detail to put in for seemingly no reason)