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i wish the substance were real. i would simply not abuse the rules provided to me and respect the natural order of things lol
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@eyebooger A Few Good Men tends to have surprisingly spotty availability on streaming for something that I think TBS played a ton back in the day, but if ad-supported isnāt a dealbreaker for you, it appears to be on Pluto now.
@ all other posters: I regret to inform you that the new month does not appear to have put The Insider on a service that you have. I will continue to watch obsessively for it.
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Got me to check and Pluto added a bunch of amazing movies for this month.
Little Monsters
Runaway Jury
Cloverfield
Rachel Getting Married
Awakenings
Killer Joe
Philadelphia
Starship Troopers
Legally Blonde
Nightmare on Elm St 1-6
Any Given Sunday (!!!)
Gladiator
Sleepless in Seattle
Blood Diamond
Zodiac
Looper
Body of Lies
Knives Out
The Mummy
Inception
Itās a good month to look past a few ads.
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Whatās the best football movie of all time?
My money is on Any Given Sunday. I would have said Jerry Maguire, but thatās more a movie about a football agent than about football.
The Waterboy is somewhere on the list?
The Replacements is one of the worst.
I like Rudy but donāt think itās better than AGS.
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Any Given Sunday is whatever. The Pacino speech really works, but otherwise I was bored.
I agree that Jerry Maguire isnāt really a football movie. Remember the Titans perhaps the best? But I donāt think itās special. Football movies havenāt been great. Friday Night Lights (movie edition) is useless. The Blind Side isnāt great. Brianās Song works decently well, though it does reek of cheap manipulation. I did like We Are Marshall well enough.
Draft Day is honestly near the top of the list. Itās indefensibly stupid, yet I enjoyed myself the whole time. More than I can say for most football movies.
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I forgot about this one!! Agree, itās inexplicably entertaining.
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I did not like Any Given Sunday. I liked The Replacements and one of my high school classmates was a football player in it. He might have been in Any Given Sunday too.
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I think you nailed it. I give it a 4/5. I would have given it a 4.5/5 and almost would have said it would have been one of, if not, my favorite movie of the year, if not for the lagging middle.
I even checked to see who the editor was surprised that it was Sean Baker himself. Odd to have such a command of the camera throughout, and be tight on the editing on the first part and then indulge on the second part. I feel like he must have been surprised how golden the middle part was and couldnāt bare to trim it down.
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I like the football in AGS. I watched Replacements and felt like every part of it was too predictable. Keanu should have been enough to save it, but not even his presence could make it a winning movie for me.
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Iām assuming I would not enjoy sitting down to a viewing of Varsity Blues today, but as an immature 19-year-old it certainly hit the spot.
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No doubt. I feel the same way about the series Blue Mountain State.
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It really is something special.
āI made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I, uh, I pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who has ever loved me. And lately, I canāt even stand the face I see in the mirror.ā
I feel like Colin Farrell in the phone booth every time I hear this.
Trying to think of other speeches/diatribes that meet the zeitgeist at this level. Crimson Tide Washington/Hackman? Scott always has to borrow from QT for his best work.
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Pretty partial to this one.
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I rewatched this in the spring and you know what?..itās still hilarious
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Ah well different strokes for different folks
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I also like Pacinoās earlier speech to Beaman about what makes a great leader and why people will break their bodies to follow a great quarterback.
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