amazing, just amazing

Rating: 10/10 (10 August 2009)

Im not a big fan of sports movies, lately they are 90% "clichés", and the rest is bad comedy.
However, Hoosiers has nothing to do with that, (perhaps because it was recorded more than 20 years ago), the acting was flawless, character development was quite good, showing each character personality and issues without taking the focus out of the sport.
The script is very good, you can see it was carefully thought, realistic, believable, and deep. It's hard to see a flaw in this film, i was amazed at the dimension of u.s school basketball culture, and how it's importance in people life is displayed in the movie with absolute credibility.
I also got to see a couple clichés during the movie (but the movie turned out to be so good that i actually think it may very well be the one movie that started them) and a couple scenes that should be a cliché in today's movie-making.
Probably what i loved the most about the movie was that it's not pretentious at all, and these days that's so common that it's a relief to see a great movie not relying on forcing the movie in any way (music, nudity,violence,drugs,etc) and been as powerful as this one is. I truly recommend it.