Corny, sappy waste of a good story and Ian McShane

Rating: 3/10 (23 January 2007)

How can so many people give this movie such a high rating? I'm sorry, but this movie is so cliché and corny it had me shaking my head in disgust much of the time. It starts by claiming to be a "true story" which it most definitely is not. A more conservative "based on a true story" would have been much more appropriate. To begin with, the cheer "we are Marshall" didn't exist till thirty years after the plane crash. And when Bobby Bowden, then coach at WVU, agrees to help the Marshall coaches saying "OK, we don't play you guys this year" he should have said "OK, we haven't played you guys in over fifty years and have no plans to ever play you". Matthew McConaughey's overacting is to the point of being goofy. But the stupidest part of the whole movie was depicting all the Marshall people groaning in despair when Marshall didn't win their first game after having almost their entire team and athletic department die in the plane crash. No one I know expected them to win any games that year, let alone their first one. Oh ... Ian McShane was good, as always.