Beautiful, beautiful movie... a little long, but fantastic!

Rating: Null/10 (12 March 2003)

ok ok ok... so it was almost 3 hours long. and yes, some of it gets redundant. and yes, i know it was one GIANT music video. but you know what??? it was AWESOME! i had to comment on this movie myself, because too many people did not appreciate it. everyone knocks it for stupid reasons, yet no one seems to acknowledge the intensity of this movie. i mean, no matter what someone thinks of this film, even those who hated it, should still have been able to say one thing about it: it is intense. maybe you find yourself not caring too much about the characters, but i don't know if Stone was necessarily going for that anyway. i think he wanted you to FEEL what it would be like, to be in that situation, at that particular moment, as that particular character... for instance, you can FEEL the pain "Cap Rooney" feels when he is laying out on the field in extreme pain, in the opening of the movie... you can FEEL what it would be like for "Willie Beamen" to come off the bench as a third string QB and suddenly be the leader of the team... and it's through the editing, the music, and the cinematography that all of this comes so alive. overall, if you ever wanted to know what it would FEEL like to play in the NFL, watch this movie. i LOVED it... a beautiful film. nice work mr. stone.