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2014
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2006
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2006
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42
2013
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when you want to make a feel good story, a rags to riches story, a story about home and heart and where home is, a story of the underdog taking the lead, then this is how you do it. there are so many movies out there that follow this formula so when you set out to make a movie in that vein you need to do it better than most before you or else you will be left in the dust. follow mcfarland's lead and you'll have a winner on your hands. in a film like this you want to have characters you can route for. mcfarland takes its time to set up the characters and the set-up and it never shortchanges... read
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there are certain expectations that come with a sports movie based on real events, produced by disney, starring kevin costner as the lily white coach moving to a poor, agricultural latino area and training a bunch of teenagers to become state champions. the expectations are met, and the execution is not bad. sure, all the beats are there, with very little else (the ocean scene is maybe one such moment), and the characterization is truly bare bones. wysiwyg. rather, it could have been worse: it could have delved more on the savior narrative, or on poverty porn, on the hardships and the woe,... read
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mcfarland usa perfectly illustrates what disney does best. they take inoffensive stories that aren't challenging to the current social structure, take no risks cinematically, add no innovative or challenging elements, take all of the normal genre trappings and then execute them well. to me, that's kind of a boring approach. often, there isn't really anything interesting going on because of their aversion to risk and taking chances. of course, it makes sense that they do this. disney is really good at running a business and the movies they make often reflect the business side of things. to read
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