The Program
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Movie Reviews of The Program
Movie Review: Great Movie For Football Fans
Summary: 4 Stars
This is an excellent movie for football fans. It is the most realistic football movie I have seen. The Program is a most believable depiction of college football and college life for the players. I played college football and feel that I am hard to impress as far as football movies go. The Program impressed me!Movie Review: Two Great Movies
Summary: 5 Stars
The Program is, in my opinion as a former football player, the best football movie of all time. I used to watch it to get worked up for a game. No jokes, no exaggerations, just real college football. True, all the drama is a bit much in one school, but ESU (the college in the movie)acts as a microchosm for all of college football. Very exciting guy flick with just the right amount of romance for the girls. Still though, total guy flick.Con Air is much the same. Total action guy flick about a prison break on a flight of cons, but with some non-forced romance from the sensitive hero just tryin to get home to see his wife and baby. He was of course, wrongly imprisoned and is on the flight because he made parole.
Rarely can you find a better combo of movies.
Movie Review: Best football movie ever
Summary: 5 Stars
If you look through the other 39 reviews, the majority are 5 star ratings and that's all you need to know!!Excellent movie from start to finish. Some hard facts to swallow (steroids, back handers etc...)
But that is the reality of this movie. As a amateur football player here in Ireland,
it thought me alot about team work and especially how to play hard hitting football.
We all watch this great movie before games to pump ourselves up.
It's not just a must see, It's a must BUY!!
Has to be released on DVD soon.
"STARTING DEFENSE- PLACE AT THE TABLE"
Movie Review: Definitely a first rate movie
Summary: 5 Stars
Other reviewers have covered the accuracy of this movie better than I could so I will not attempt to comment in that respect. As a die-hard college football fan, I didn't see too many things that jumped out at me.The movie takes us through one season of college football at a fictional school called "Eastern State University". But unlike most directional schools, this one seems to be some kinda good at football.
Mostly, the action centers around the lives of the star quarterback, a Heisman candidate, and the highly recruited true freshman tailback.
To be perfectly honest, I wasn't expecting much. ... I thought it might be something neat to watch. I was very surprised that it turned out to be good.
Here's a few thoughts:
* The movie is rated R, but it could easily have been PG or even G if not for the gratuitous use of profanity.
* I kinda wondered if this is supposed to be the University of Georgia. They finish their season with Georgia Tech and there is a banner that says "SEC" hanging in some shots. Although the banner could be there just because nobody bothered to take it down - when they show a wide shot of the stadium, it looks like South Carolina's stadium.
* The logic doesn't quite work out with what they needed to do for a bowl game. By 1993, the bowl alliance system had started and by winning their conference, they were already assured of going to an alliance bowl regardless of what happened with GT.
* There is one play where a defensive player sacks the QB to end the game. But he does so by ripping off the poor guy's helmet. Rules have changed a little in the last ten years, but I'm pretty sure that was still illegal then.
Overall, it's a good movie for a college football fan. The plot is a bit cheesy, but a college football fan can enjoy it anyway.
Movie Review: Not bad at all.
Summary: 3 Stars
I never thought I'd watch a movie about jocks (I'd rather just watch them play) and enjoy it. But "The Program" wasn't so much about jocks, per se, as about *people*...with very realistic hopes, fears, dreams and failings.Plus, a certain 6'7" Hoosier proves that he's under-rated...by *singing,* and doing a good job of it.
Here's to the release of a DVD version; hopefully, complete with the controversial deleted scenes. Us movie buffs should not have to suffer for the irresponsibility of others.