Blue Chips
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Movie Reviews of Blue Chips
Movie Review: Probably the best sports movie ever
Summary: 5 Stars
I'm a very good basketball player, let's get that straight right off the top, but this movie is as close as you will ever get to capturing the essence of top shelf hoops. Odds are that you will never get to see me play hoops in person, so I would go for this DVD. There are several things I look for in a great movie and this one includes all of them.
1. Superstar actors- Nick Nolte answers the call here. Nolte is a whacked out hippie who, through a witness protection program, ends up coaching a college basketball powerhouse. He is as intense as Bo Pelini on a pixie stick binge after losing to Kst at home. He is totally believable as a big time college basketball coach. The play he draws up in the Indiana game, an alley oop with time running out to Leon Boodeaux(Shaquille O'Neal), would totally work against a Bobby Knight coached team. I thought Dennis Hopper was awesome as the assistant with issues.
2. Hot chicks- I love Katie Holmes and you do too. She is totally awesome in the movie as Penny Hardaway's girlfriend. How Penny deals with Katie's pregnancy along with running the point of a fictional basketball team shows his true range. How he did not get an oscar nod after this performance is still debated to this day at your house.
3. Great supporting cast- Matt Nover has always been an A list hollywood star and this film cemented him as one of the top leading men out there. You really feel like he is not going to Western unless his dad gets a tractor. You want his dad to get that tractor, you NEED his dad to get that tractor. Well, I'm not going to spoil it for you but his dad gets the tractor. You kind of get mad at Matt Nover because you feel he is responsible for the program getting in trouble, but his speech at the end about the problems his uncle dealt with growing up in Central Tennessee kind of makes you feel for the kid.
4. Sunny weather in the background- There are several points in this movie where the sun is out. If it is raining all of the time, no one really feels that good about things. If you put some sunshine in equation, life is just better. This movie features the sun on more than one occasion.
5. Livestock- There is a point in this film where you see a cow. That can't be all bad.
6. Bobby Knight- Bobby Knight plays the basketball coach of Indiana University in this movie. You really believe he is a coach in this film and not just a reality TV star like he is now. What is Bobby Knight? Warm and adorable as always.
Overall, this movie sums up college athletics more than anything I have ever seen. The booster guy named happy is kind of a dork, but the lesson learned here is that if you have money you get what you want. That is totally true. Combine my bankroll with my looks and you quickly see why the deck is stacked against you. I'm the final four and you are Barry Collier's NCAA tournament history.
Movie Review: "Blue Chips" Deserves A Blue Ribbon In This Writer's Opinion .... A First-Rate Sports Flick All The Way!
Summary: 5 Stars
Nick Nolte, age 53 here, is outstanding in his role as "Pete Bell" in 1994's "Blue Chips". Bell is a Bobby Knight-like basketball coach who is not at all happy when his team is on the losing end of the score. Knight himself has a role in this movie, as do some other well-known people from the real basketball world.
I find myself watching and re-watching the opening scene of this film, where Nolte storms into the locker room, wreaking havoc on the water cooler (and whatever else happens to be within arm's reach). It's a great beginning to a very good motion picture.
The DVD edition of "Blue Chips" was released by Paramount in March of 2005, and became a welcome addition to my collection of movie discs. The DVD offers up a beautiful-looking Widescreen (1.85:1 anamorphic) version of the movie. Colors are brilliant. No bonus features are offered on the disc however. Not even the Theatrical Trailer, which would have been kind of nice to have.
The 1997 VHS video edition of "Blue Chips" is not really too bad either, although it's not in the preferred Widescreen mode. But the VHS does offer a robust 2.0 Dolby Surround track.
If you collect sports movies, you should probably get yourself a video or DVD copy of 1994's "Blue Chips" for sure. It's worth the price for that opening water cooler-destroying scene and Coach Bell's later basketball-kicking tirade all by themselves. ;)
"I want this team to win so bad I can TASTE it!!"
Movie Review: Good movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Had to review this for a sport law class. Great movie. Learning lesson to future athletes about what's right and what's not. This could improve or start their moral foundation so please watch it before they do and create a positive fostered environment with your team.Movie Review: Great Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This was a great movie.The price was a good value also.Service was great an all around good experience with purchase.Movie Review: The other side of collegiate athletics
Summary: 4 Stars
Being involved in collegiate and high school coaching, I tend to go back and watch this film from time to time to remind me of what sports is all about. If you're a coach, it's about your devotion to your program and to your kids that you coach. It's the job, it's the challenge. It's the same as teaching a class of Math or History to a bunch of kids. The point is to teach them to become better at what they do and to also make them better on everything outside of the game itself.
If you're a ballplayer, it's about your devotion to the game and to yourself and to your team. You're as good as your team and it is up to you to understand the philosophy being taught in the game. The game doesn't just teach you about becoming a better ball player. The game teaches you about leadership, teamwork, decision-making, and responsibility. Whether you succeed at the game or not, you succeed in all other aspects involved.
Blue Chips is about how critical it can become at times to make right decisions at all levels of athletics. Whether you're the president of the college, the athletic director, a booster, a coach, or even a player, the decisions you make can have considerable effects and consequences for the overall integrity of the sport, your school, and career. Without going into too much detail about the movie, Blue Chips deals with under the table financing of high school players by boosters and people close to the college, in hopes of wooing these standouts to sign with the program. All levels of the program are involved in this true-to-life tale of deception, greed, and moral judgment.
I will disagree with other reviewers about the cast. I will argue that to tell the true story of this side of collegiate athletics, it would be normal to use actual athletes that were "larger than life" at the time. Overall, a good movie to watch if you enjoy the sports genre.
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