Sentences with phrase «sports movie end»

I don't require that a sports movie end when the outcome of the big game is decided, but neither do I recommend that it linger while the locals and visitors say goodbye to one another, tidy up every plot strand and demonstrate that their hearts are in the right place.

We do get a lot of pretty shots of West Texas and its football stadiums though, and the ending ranks up there with The Bad News Bears as one of the great sports movie endings of all time.

Not exact matches

Marvel has a pretty well - established history of remixing and streamlining the best and most iconic of the many looks each of its characters have sported over the years for their big - screen adaptations (in a funny bit of symmetry, the movie designs usually end up influencing how a character will look in the comics afterward).

If they're all going to end and all those people will eventually die and all those movies and sports teams will eventually be forgotten?

Reason why Team Radist can win it all — Captain Eric is from LA and in his personal sports movie, which will feature a comeback from a torn ACL, it needs to end with them holding the Crown.

The lead - up carries with it all the beats of the classic sports movie climax, although it must be said that most underdog victories don't end with a «f — k you.»

The end result is a well - intentioned and consistently earnest endeavor that is, unfortunately, completely underwhelming almost from start to finish, with the movie's unabashedly inspirational bent ensuring that it might play well among families and sports fans.

No one's walking into an extreme - sports spy movie for the plot or characterization — neither of which this film pretends to care about for very long — but not even the grotesquely over-edited action sequences bother to hold up their end of the bargain.

As a result, The Program, despite being a movie about a man who almost tears apart the honesty of sport, ends up as a film celebrating everything about the world of sport.

However, when it comes time for the big match that is evident in all sports movies, Cool Runnings gives us a break and saves the viewer from the usual first place ending.

Throughout Civil War, there are acknowledged costs to the movie's confrontations, from the bruises that almost every character sports by the end of the film to the bystanders who are killed in the crossfire.

What Clint Eastwood has done is turn the sports movie formula on its ear with this film, focusing on the human aspects of boxing and shifting focus directly to the ultimate price of such an endeavor with a twist at the end of the second act.

Mother, Jugs & Speed is one of many seriocomic work - related movies to come out in the mid-70s, not too dissimilar to Car Wash and FM, with an ensemble cast of eccentric characters, sporting a hip (for the time) soundtrack and a marriage of fun with drama at the end.

«A lot of sports movies are about people who, in the end, win the game,» said Zhao.

It's a shame Battle of the Sexes wasn't a bigger hit, because this movie chronicling the 1973 match between superstar and women's sports pioneer Billie Jean King and 55 - year - old former tennis legend Bobby Riggs is so sensationally entertaining, and so culturally relevant for this exact moment in history, watching it proves to be a continuous joy even if viewers know exactly how the pair's story comes to an end.

You can see it in both The Fighter, which is at its core the same sort of inspirational sports movie in the vein of Remember the Titans or The Natural that we've seen a million times, and Silver Linings Playbook, which boasts a nearly insufferable storybook ending that nearly undoes the strong work done earlier in the film.

It's a typical sports movie set up, and the «Once upon a time» of the subtitle should leave little doubt as to how this is all going to end.

We've seen this scenario so many times before in sports - related features that we know where the movie is headed, who Billy will have to fight for salvation and how the story will end.

And when the sport ends, the most effective worlds entice you to dig deeper, to be taught extra about their worlds by in - game lore, movies, and typically, even books.

In the end, all of the advice I received fell into the same growing theme: it does not matter what it is that provides you with the necessary balance between your work and your social life, what is most important is that you take the time to for activities outside of the work place, and activities that you really enjoy, whether it be catching up with the newest best - selling novel, joining a sports league, dance class, wine - tasting club, spending time playing board games or watching a movie with your family.