Friday, June 22, 2007

SPORTS MOVIES FOR THE SUMMER

BALLS OF FURY (preview)
From the guys who brought you Reno 911, comes a story about the underground world of Ping Pong. Are you all serious? While we think this is going to have it's funny moments, and be a repeat viewing, why do we have to revert back to the old cliche of underground world of some lame sport? Is that seriously the only way to make it funny or sell it?

GRACIE (preview)
One Girls fight to play on the boys high school soccer team after her brother dies in a car accident. This is the Davis Guggenheim's follow up to the Academy Award winning film, "An Inconvenient Truth." This movie stars every out of work actor you recognize from the 90's, most notably Elisabeth and Andrew Shue. It is the first time that this brother-sister combo will grace the big screen together, and the first time since Melrose Place got cancelled in 1998 that Andrew has gotten a part in anything.

MR. WOODCOCK (preview)
If I wanted to see Billy Bob Thorton as an asshole coach I would have rented Friday Night Lights, Bad News Bears, or School For Scoundrels. Why would I need to pay $ to see that again? He must be taking career advice from Al Pacino, who has made a living over the last 10 years just by picking parts in which he can yell.

THE GAMEPLAN (preview)
Anybody want to see The Rock as a star football player whose team is turned upside down when he realizes he has a daughter? I didn't think so.

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