Congratulations Bull Durham! You're no longer the most overrated sports movie!

Rating: 3/10 (9 December 2005)

Remember the Titans is one of the most contrived, audience insulting movies that has ever been made. Where to start with the things that suck about this movie.....
1.) Not all black people break into song every few minutes of their lives.
2.) Not all white people listen to country music.
3.) All state championships are not won on the final play.
4.) A team would not be running the ball with 20 seconds left in a game, risking a fumble. They would have just taken a knee and the game would be over.
5.) There were more than 8 songs released in the 1970's. Apparently, Hollywood never got that memo.
6.) The little girl. Enough said.
7.) The "transformation" of the Gerry character happened way too fast to make it realistic. Over the course of a 2 week football camp, he went from telling the coach he didn't need any of "them" on the defense, to being the main guy who brought the races together.
8.) Even without knowing the real story, you could see the car accident coming light years away.
9.) No football team would ever just throw guys into a game on defense in the 2nd half of the state championship game who had never played on defense previously.
10.) Awesome waste of Kate Bosworth. "Now that you've won some football games with both black and white players, I'm willing to shake your hand Julius." If only she had gone to the training camp. Then she'd understand it all so much better.
11.) Let's throw in a California hippie to show that white people can be discriminated against too. The audience will never see that coming.
12.) We're supposed to believe that the "Sunshine" character would actually doubt whether he should go into the game because he can't throw an option pitch??
13.) Way too many impassioned speeches about being "perfect" and this being "our time". I was afraid they might run out of music to score these scenes.
14.) Love the slow clap and standing ovation for Gerry's mother. Of course, the TV commentators would announce when she enters the stadium as well. By the way, did they really televise high school state championship games in 1971?
15.) Ryan Gosling's character giving up his spot to Petey because "Petey's just better coach".
16.) This whole racism thing is important and all, but I really wanted to make the Virginia high school sports hall of fame. Now that's some big time stuff right there.
17.) Let's use the white coach's trick play on the last play to show just how far these two men have come so they're winners in life as well as on the field.
18.) Apparently, every time a new player comes into a game, he makes a game changing great play within the first two plays that he's in there, propelling the team to an easy victory.
19.) Darn those crazy backup quarterbacks. They'll getcha every time. Can we see a movie where the starting QB gets hurt, and the season goes to hell because the backup QB sucks? There's your reality.
20.) And finally, what a great message the movie gives by showing how winning football games is the solution to all the world's problems. Want to end racism? Just win some football games.