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viveckvivu

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Its an ordinary sports movie. Nothing new. But Josh Lucas was the best in this movie. The movie is great because of Josh Lucas in it!

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Posted dec 9, 2007 6:42 pm pt

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I love watching true to life stories and this is one of the best and touching story. I like how Don drived his team and how the "white" teamates understand their "black teamates". How Don's wife support him all the way. But the...
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I love watching true to life stories and this is one of the best and touching story. I like how Don drived his team and how the "white" teamates understand their "black teamates". How Don's wife support him all the way. But the ending was the most touching where it informs what happened to everyone....

I love it.

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Posted nov 6, 2007 2:16 pm pt

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Disney really seems intent on finding great sports stories to bring to the big screen. We saw the great Remember the Titans, The Rookie, and Miracle, but with Glory Road, Disney seems to have found a bump in the road.

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Disney really seems intent on finding great sports stories to bring to the big screen. We saw the great Remember the Titans, The Rookie, and Miracle, but with Glory Road, Disney seems to have found a bump in the road.

Glory Road is the inspiring true story about the Texas Western University (present day UTEP) NCAA basketball team starting five African Americans in the national championship at the behest of coach Don Haskins (portrayed by Josh Lucas). Don Haskins begins the movie becoming the coach of Texas Western, after being a high school girls coach. He quickly realizes that basketball isn't a high priority at the school and has trouble recruiting some top players. He then decides to recruit differently, and takes in black players. There is of course some unrest at the higher ups from the college upon hearing that Haskins is planning on starting black players; it is seen in the movie that black players are only for the bench. Then the team starts to win, and they keep on winning and suddenly find themselves in the national championship against a Kentucky team coached by the legendary Adolph Rupp. The rest is history as the saying goes.

Glory Road is a pretty good sports movie. But what keeps it from being with the likes of Remember the Titans and Miracle is the fact that the movie doesn't focus itself on the players themselves and the troubles they're having. There are problems, and near the end of the movie the black players lash out after losing their one and only game. But these problems don't focus on the drama of the characters, and are instead events that happen, making the lash out somewhat surprising for the viewers. And this is a large problem for the movie. The basketball scenes are very well done, but there isn't enough behind the scenes drama to help with the end of the film.

Overall, Glory Road is a good sports film. If you love Disney's other sports films or any sports film at all, then you'll enjoy Glory Road.

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Posted jun 30, 2007 1:02 am pt

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When I first saw the preview I though, oh no another Disney sports film, by the end of the movie I had changed my mind completely. Josh Lucas does a great job playing Don Haskins a basketball coach who changed the game by starting an all african...
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When I first saw the preview I though, oh no another Disney sports film, by the end of the movie I had changed my mind completely. Josh Lucas does a great job playing Don Haskins a basketball coach who changed the game by starting an all african american team in a championship. This movie is very well done. THe story is very good. Probably in my top 10 movies.

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Posted may 17, 2007 10:12 am pt

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Your typical dramatic sport movie. New coach in a new town, player rebellions, coach wins over team, team begins to gel together and work as a cohesive unit, then they grow apart, then the big speech from the coach, and then finally the team get...
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Your typical dramatic sport movie. New coach in a new town, player rebellions, coach wins over team, team begins to gel together and work as a cohesive unit, then they grow apart, then the big speech from the coach, and then finally the team get back on track for the big game. Although this is a very predictable movie, it's also very enjoyable. Plus, the game changed the face of college basketball, and pushed the civil rights movement more in the mainstream. 8/10.

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Posted mar 4, 2007 4:59 pm pt

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Another movie based on a true story and another sports one at that. I was just really getting into NCAA College Basketball when this movie came out. It came out a few days before my birthday so I saw it as a present. I liked the story of adversity...
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Another movie based on a true story and another sports one at that. I was just really getting into NCAA College Basketball when this movie came out. It came out a few days before my birthday so I saw it as a present. I liked the story of adversity and the religious undertone of the movie. Just like most sports movies it had comedic parts and inspirational speeches in it. I loved it.

Overall: 5/5

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Posted dec 16, 2006 4:36 am pt

• [+] Variety
  
  80
  Slick enterprise buoyed by a Motown-flavored '60s soundtrack and an appealing ensemble cast.

  by Brian Lowry | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
  80
  From its sepia-toned palette to the Motown hits that drive its terrific soundtrack, Glory Road is utterly authentic. But most astonishing is an unrecognizable Jon Voight as Adolph Rupp.

  by Ann Hornaday | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
  75
  Glory Road's strength is the way in which it blends social awareness into the sports genre.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
  75
  Where it succeeds is as the story of a chapter in history, the story of how one coach at one school arrived at an obvious conclusion and acted on it, and helped open college sports in the South to generations of African Americans.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Tribune
  
  75
  The movie's great end-title sequence redeems everything. Under the credits, we see and hear the real-life game veterans as they are now--including, movingly, ex-Lakers coach Riley.

  by Michael Wilmington | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  75
  Lucas rarely breaks his glower to express anything other than tough determination. It's an attitude that's clearly modeled on that of storied Nicks' coach Pat Riley, who, it so happens, played for Kentucky that now legendary final game.

  by Ken Fox | Read Full Review »
• [+] Miami Herald
  
  75
  In the end, a sports movie is only as good as the adrenalin rush it provides in the climactic match, and there, finally, Glory Road hits on all cylinders with nonstop action and a powerful emotional impact.

  by Connie Ogle | Read Full Review »
• [+] Salon.com
  
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  When a movie plays every card, it's bound to win a hand or two. You can't exactly call that approach craftsmanship. But in the case of the Jerry Bruckheimer-produced inspirational sports drama Glory Road, it at least amounts to a kind of blunt effectiveness.

  by Stephanie Zacharek | Read Full Review »
• [+] Wall Street Journal
  
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  This isn't a great film, but it's a surprisingly good and confident one, with a minimum of the showboating that often substitutes, in the feelgood genre, for simple feelings.

  by Joe Morgenstern | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Hollywood Reporter
  
  70
  Stirring tale of a team whose big win speeds the integration of intercollegiate sports.

  by Kirk Honeycutt | Read Full Review »
• [+] Dallas Observer
  
  70
  As American history, Glory Road is by turns inspirational and thrilling. But, in keeping with Hollywood's gift for exaggeration, a couple of things about it are completely bogus.

  by Bill Gallo | Read Full Review »
• [+] Portland Oregonian
  
  67
  Heart and verve in surfeit makes the film rise above its flaws often enough to win you over.

  by Shawn Levy | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
  63
  At least a more satisfying basketball saga than last year's "Coach Carter."

  by Mike Clark | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Daily News
  
  63
  As movie fiction, I guess it is entertaining enough.

  by Jack Mathews | Read Full Review »
• [+] New York Post
  
  63
  As Coach Haskins would say, it wins because it sticks to the fundamentals.

  by Kyle Smith | Read Full Review »