Varsity Blues
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Movie Reviews of Varsity Blues
Movie Review: An appealing movie
Summary: 4 Stars
I liked this movie. A lot. Yet, it's a relatively standard teen angst/sports flick--but the engaging cast makes it worth watching. Varsity Blues isn't great film-making, but it's great storytelling. You care about the players and their friends and the characters are believable.
You also hate Bud Kilmer, the win-obsessed coach that treats high school players like disposable cameras at a wedding--use them for important moments and then toss them. Jon Voight plays Kilmer with so much intensity that you cringe when he's on the screen.
Some people object to the portrayal of reckless drinking and sex, but the film also has a moral lesson for life that eventually supplants the teenage misbehavior and rebellion phase.
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Movie Review: Varsity Blues
Summary: 4 Stars
It is a very good movie. If you want to see a good football movie, this is it.Movie Review: "Let's Be Heroes"
Summary: 4 Stars
The '99 film `Varsity Blues' is definitely one of the best high school coming of age-teen angst-sports films within the genre. There are plenty of good ole boy hysteronics and football action to keep the male audience focused, a couple of pretty girls and of course James Van Der Beek and Paul Walker to keep the girls involved. The two keys to this film that set it above other films of this nature is the performance of Jon Voight as the thoroughly unlikable Coach Bud Kilmer and Ron Lester as the big, soft-hearted lineman Billy Bob. If you're looking for something enjoyable and undemanding you could do a lot worse.Movie Review: The hot for teacher song scene is fun
Summary: 2 Stars
really not a great showing of what texas high school football is about. But how would I know I only played there, coached there, played college ball there and then played pro baseball in that state but what would I know I just escaped from Taurine and I am trapped inside amazon's website being forced to watch ridiculous nonsense. It is a cool movie if you are a senior in high school but it is so fictional it is funny. Friday night lights is so much better, but if you watch a movie like Gladiator with Russ Crowe then you really get a feel for what it is like to get kicked in the head and eat dirt at the same time.Movie Review: fun and true
Summary: 5 Stars
Okay, this is not a deep thought provoking documentary; it is, however, an uncannily accurate depiction of small town life in general and small town football in particular. Of course there are the riotous moments of teen insanity specifically unique to small towns (have you ever played quarters with a pet pig in your vicinity?) and Tweeder stealing the police car is just classic, no matter where you are from. Underneath the comedy, though, there is a lot of truth to these characters and this story. Football is a small town religion, and every Friday night is a worship service at the altar of the pigskin. The movie captures this feeling well, along with the frustration of feeling trapped in a small town and wondering if you will ever get out -- and if you do get out, where will you go? Nevermind that Van der Beek's accent is not terribly authentic, or that this ***spoiler alert*** has a somewhat sappy ending. If you grew up in a small town, you can probably put a name on each of these characters; if you didn't, get the movie and find out what it's like.