Leatherheads (Widescreen)
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Movie Reviews of Leatherheads (Widescreen)
Movie Review: Whatever
Summary: 3 Stars
It's hard to remember the last time I felt so ambivalent about a film after watching LEATHERHEADS. This George Clooney offering was such a hodge-podge of ho-hum I kept checking my watch and wondering what was happening over on the The Weather Channel. Surely something more interesting, I remember thinking. Impressive cinematography, minute attention to the looks, sounds, and vibes of 1925, and dynamic special effects bringing old sporting venues back to life were what held my interest, and kept me from hitting the channel selector.
Clooney plays an over-the-hill player/owner of a bankrupt professional football team (back during the days when football on the national sports scene was little more than an afterthought). He's a bit of a con man (like we've never seen him in that vein before). Renee Zellweger re-introduces (for the umpteenth time) the tough-talking, no-nonsense, female reporter who must use her brain and beauty to get ahead (pardon the pun) in a hopelessly misogynist world. Bring boring John Krasisnski into the mix (playing a college football superstar and "war hero"), and LEATHERHEADS becomes an uninteresting love triangle with a semi-interesting football climax. What's on TLC?
--D. Mikels, Author, Walk-On
Movie Review: The ending was worth it
Summary: 3 Stars
The beginning of this movie is so very slow, it almost made be give up on it. For the first half-hour (at least, it felt that long), nothing really happened. Okay, yes, I know there were plot points, and there was a story, but it was boring. It was hard not to make the universal 'speed it up' hand gesture at the television. I admit there were a few good lines, but it was hard to see where the plot was heading.
Once they recruit the college player, however, the movie slowly starts to turn around. I still wasn't horribly impressed, but it started to get more interesting. By the time we learn his real story, I'm hooked (personally, I think the real events were more interesting...). And the last play of the football game... truly priceless.
Any football fan should definitely watch this movie. Yes, it's slow in the beginning. Yes, it takes awhile for the plot to develop. Yes, it's still only a three-star movie because it makes you sit through a lot to get to the good part. No, you can't just fast-forward to the end because, it turns out, the plot is relevant. Still, it's worth watching... and it will at least be something to give you a football fix in the off-season...
Movie Review: Football B.C.E (Before Commercialization as Entertainment)
Summary: 3 Stars
No Yellow Flags for holding when an opposing team, already ahead 14-0 throws a bomb and runs up a score. No attempt by refs to have the two teams still in the game with two minutes left on the clock with an opposing team behind by less than 7 points, No ref engineered drives making 4th downs into miraculous firsts with an offside call or unsportsmanlike conduct. No accent on entertainment like some wrestling match. This movie is about the sport of football before it was ruined by rules, hoopla, investments by corporations for commercials, and other changes that all led to the control of football because of investment money after Super Bowl VII (The year Miami went undefeated 17-0).
This movie is a period piece, very similar to "Eight Men Out" in style and filming and even the portrayal of characters. It informs us of when football became more professional, in an era of freedom unlike the game you see today.
It is meant to be taken lightly and the plot revolves around a team acquiring the first "real star" player from the college ranks. With all this and a recently fought war to make the world safe for democracy makes this film one which should be seen for fun.
Movie Review: Not the best Football Movie
Summary: 3 Stars
In a movie about football there's surprisingly little football. Or at least nothing I really cared to watch.
This is another Clooney movie where he is both an actor and the director, but unlike Good Night and Good Luck I didn't really care too much about what was going on.
Clooney is a man who really wants to keep professional football going and must find a way for that to happen. He manages to recruit the best player in college football, Carter Rutherford. In addition to that he's also a WWI hero. But is he really? Added to that mix is Lexie Littleton, a reporter, who is trying to figure out if Rutherford is really all he's made out to be.
Through this whole movie it just goes. I mean there's not much comedy, there's not much romance, there's not much football. There's not much of anything to really keep you glued to your seat. The actors in this movie are really talented so maybe it was the script. I don't know. The ending wasn't what I expected and frankly...I wouldn't have gone with that ending.
Watch it if you want. But it's not a must see movie.
Movie Review: Pretty Good and Goofy Movie
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie was based on a combination of the 1920s Red Grange/Ernie Nevers stories. Grange played for the Chicago Bears and Nevers played for the Duluth Eskimos, and they were 2 marquee players who helped put pro football "on the map." While it isn't perfect, this is a pretty darned funny movie. Clooney shows real flair in front of and behind the camera and the dialogue comes at you pretty fast sometimes, like a 1940s comedy. John Krazinski is also pretty good as the hot shot (Carter Rutherford) whom Clooney's character (Dodge Connelly) relies on to keep his team, the Duluth Bulldogs, financially afloat. The only real complaint I have is that 1. Zelwegger really isn't that beautiful (the kind of lady guys would die for) though she tries hard to match Clooney in the "looks department" and, 2) I wish they had more football scenes. Also, too bad they didn't do more with the "CC Pyle" character, who played Krazinski's agent. He showed some real talent. A good flick! See it!