Sentences with phrase «than sports movie»

However, the brilliant thing about Battle of the Sexes is that it is so much more than a sports movie.

While tracking a 13 - hour countdown leading up to the first draft pick at Radio City Music Hall, Draft Day feels more like an investigative procedural than a sports movie.

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The 2015 paper, published in the journal PNAS, suggests that Facebook «likes» can reveal more about people than just interest and music, movie, book, and sports preferences.

This is why Americans spend over $ 70 billion on lottery tickets each year, which is more than we spend on books, music, movies, video games, and sports tickets combined!

Frankly I can think of more Hollywood movies for sports heroes of minorities OTHER than Jews.

The Mighty Ducks does not hold up as a «good» movie, but if you are looking for the ultimate piece of early «90s sports nostalgia, there is no one better to deliver it than Emilio Estevez and his ragtag team of hockey cast - offs.

Just 17 % of residents say they purchase a beverage larger than 16 ounces when they go out to eat, to the movies, or to a sporting event.

I «am 5» 6 with long dreads laid back guy with a good heart of gold love to help people an love to cook an travel an watch movies an play sports an i love to make people laugh i try to be happy everyday an thank god for getting me up out the bed everyday but other than i don't play games so if you...

I am an outdoors enthusiast and am an active volunteer in my community.I enjoy scary movies, sports, video games, camping and fishing.I'm an excellent cook and a hell of a baker.Get to know me and you shall see that there is much more than can be described.

Although we joked about «Warrior» above, we actually really enjoyed Gavin O'Connor's MMA film, perhaps even because of (rather than in spite of) its commitment to exploiting every underdog sports movie convention in cinema history.

I originally agreed with this site's less - than - enthused review of the first movie, which was «edgy» in an obvious, trying - too - hard way, occasionally wearing its «R» rating with all the misplaced pride of a middle school boy sporting a chocolate milk mustache as if it were a Sam Elliott - style soup strainer (although — kudos!

While «Crooked Arrows» certainly isn't a good film by any objective standard, it has a good heart, and proves far more tolerable than many blockbuster sports movies.

Follows a leadenly predictable path that will be more than familiar to anyone who's seen a recent sports movie, or any Sandler movie.

More than any other type of songwriting, rap lyrics are peppered with pop culture references, from movies to cars to sports to fashion to other rap songs.

And work, more than any of his roles to date, especially describes his latest project, a new entry to the inspirational sports movies canon: Bleed for This.

We hope the word of mouth is there for it because if Oscar is going to honor a sports movie this year let it be this one rather than I Tonya (which has scheduled it's one - week qualifying Oscar release in NY & LA for December 8th) since this one is actually well - made across the board and beautifully acted with Emma Stone making a strong case for herself in the gorgeously overstuffed Best Actress race.

Without straying from my remit and giving the game away, it's difficult for me to elaborate much more than that — but let's just say that any dwindling suspicions of this being just another formulaic sports movie are well and truly put to rest.

The Dolby TrueHD 5.1 Surround track is certainly definitive, though it's of little consequence to a movie like this one, which sports something less than a dynamic mix.

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This is a different kind of underdog sports movie, one where percentages and balance sheets and backroom trades are bigger drama than home runs and double plays.

Though no one seems to have made anywhere near as many sports movies as Costner, he adds yet another one to his repertoire in Draft Day, which is more Moneyball than Bull Durham.

Fans of the sport might get a little more out of the movie than casual viewers, but it can be enjoyed by anyone in my eyes.

Though it's nice to see a minority other than African - Americans being represented by Hollywood, the movie looks like it was assembled using parts from other inspirational sports dramas.

When: February 20th Why: Proving that there are worst sports than swimming («Pride») to make a movie about, «McFarland, USA» tells the true story of a high school gym coach (who by terrible coincidence is named Mr. White) and his all - Latino cross country team.

But generally speaking, the NFL hasn't approved use of the teams or name in any movie that depicts anything less than a golden portrayal of the sport (hence, Oliver Stone «s «Any Given Sunday» getting the shaft).

What emerges more than just a typical individual - training - for - sport movie is an interesting human drama, one with an effectiveness that is hard to pinpoint and a magnetism that is undeniable.

The story mode is an absolute blast, with fun writing, acting and amazing facial animation, and sports a far better villain than the Justice League movie... Injustice 2 is by far the best fighting game this year, and may very well be the best fighting game on PC.»

It becomes a compelling enactment of athletic philosophy that, better than most sports movies, individuates the thrill that makes athletes compete.

At the recent press day, Core, Ramirez, Bracey, wingsuit stunt pilot Jeb Corliss, professional free climber Chris Sharma, Alcon producers Andrew A. Kosove and Broderick Johnson, and 2nd unit director Philip Boston talked about how they went about creating the ultimate sports movie, how the actors viewed their characters and built the bro - mance, the challenges of coordinating a production that shot around the world in 11 countries and on 4 continents, why all the 2nd unit work was shot prior to the first unit work, why vision and authenticity were paramount, why the imagination, energy and focus required to shoot a film in camera is much greater than when visual effects are used everywhere, and why it took courage to make this film.

Had «Early Man» chosen to satirize sports - movie tropes rather than merely indulge in them, the results might have been more fun.

He's well matched against Jordan, who is less aw - shucks than his older counterpart but enormously touching as he grows attached to Balboa — and attracted to Bianca (Tessa Thompson), who has more warmth and depth than the usual sports - movie love interest.

Blackball is little more than an amalgam of many of the most popular sports movies covering traditional gaming sports played by mostly older men in serious fashion.

It's harder than ever to make a sports movie that isn't like every one before it.

This true story about light welterweight boxer and perennial underdog «Irish» Micky Ward makes for less of a sports movie than a domestic drama about blue - collar brothers struggling to stay a family while the forces of drug addiction and parental ambition tear them apart.

Seitz raises several astute questions about the nature of spoiler culture: Why television shows and movies are somehow more delicate than, say, a sporting event, where the responsibility to avoid news of the game's outcome, or a spectacular play, falls solely on the shoulders of the person consuming the media.

By contrast, the movie's at it's sharpest parsing the infinite ways in which Harding was found wanting by a bourgeois sport uneasy with working - class strivers; more than once, it's made known that she's «just not the image» the skating world wants to promote.

Reporter: How much different is it working on any of the sports movies as opposed to something like «Stranger Than Fiction» or «Winter Passing,» where I'm going to guess there is less than 22 percent ad - libbThan Fiction» or «Winter Passing,» where I'm going to guess there is less than 22 percent ad - libbthan 22 percent ad - libbing?

Up until that point, women shooting hoops on the big screen was unheard of (it's been equally unexplored ever since) and it remains refreshing to see a sports movie playing out from a woman's point of view and especially one that refuses to indulge our more traditionalist view of the genre, focusing on the long game rather than the easy win.

In the movie directed by the duo who gave us «Little Mary Sunshine» — featuring women who want to get their young daughters into a beauty competition — Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) is the kind of hustler and self - described male chauvinist pig who want to prove that since women can not beat men in athletics, the sport of tennis is justified in paying male players eight times more than women.

They had the opportunity to do what surfing movies have done so well in making it seem like a sport you'd actually want to spend a lifetime doing, but instead it looks like the boys want to do it for the money more than anything else, and they aren't doing for the love as much as for the fact that they spent so much time doing it that they have no real marketable skills otherwise.

She is a bigger talent than Disney usually recruits to helm their sports movies, but the results aren't terribly different, as the film still falls into the «good, but not quite great» zone it shares with most of the class.

The first is the big sports movie, and you can't get much better than hockey for a sports movie.

Although all of the «facts» may not be accurate, this movie depicts the taxing individual effort it takes to compete in an endurance sport where running fast is less important than running fast for a long time.

That's not to say that the movie is any better than the typical underdog sports drama, but it's a refreshing change of pace for Kevin Costner and the genre itself.

There's not many sports movies (or movies period) that I like more than it.

But, since this is a sports movie, the love of the game is still a factor; we can see it in Pacino's eyes, now hangdog and more expressive than ever with age.

It's also important to remember that less than 7 % of the differences in student learning are attributable to in - school factors, such as teacher quality — with more than 90 % of the difference being a function of out - of - school factors, like test prep tutors, private music lessons and the resources to purchase instruments, after school sports, and access to travel, concerts, books, and movies.

Now coming to the tablet's credentials, the Elocity A7 is among the very first to sport the advanced dual - core 1 GHz NVIDIA Tegra 2 (T20) processor that is more than capable of rendering not only games that require considerable computing power but 3D movies and Adobe Flash as well.

I'm not sure why a journalist is any less entitled than a movie star, sports personality, or musical legend to embark upon a serious book promotion campaign.

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