We Are Marshall

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wncvolfan

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I haven't seen any comments on this movie on the boards. I saw it last night and I thoroughly enjoyed it!
We Are Marshall. Very emotional stuff. If you're not a Marshall fan you'll probably be one after you see it.
 
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I have been wondering if the movie would stand up to the hype. I really want to see it. So, from your starting a thread on this, I am thinking the hype does the movie justice.:dance2:
 
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i considered it the best sports movie since Remember the Titans and possibly before. The biggest reason? It was real. and by that I mean none of these wrestling type tackles and 1988 high school football players wearing under armour crap. I can't stand all this over the top crap like Friday Night Lights. Plus I really thought they did a good job of the casting. I recommend it for anyone.
 
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I'm wondering whether I'll like it. I thought Remember the Titans was completely hokey and predictable.
 
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GAVol said:
I'm wondering whether I'll like it. I thought Remember the Titans was completely hokey and predictable.
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well, like titans, it's obviously predictable because it's a true story. they're not going to make a movie w/ bad endings. I enjoyed it because it was a good accurate portrayal of what happened. you have to realize the story line wrote itself.
 
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If Rutgers was 2 wins away from having their own "we are rutgers" movie being made for them.
 
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I guess I'm probably one of the few on this board who was an adult at the time the plane actually crashed. It shocked the sports world back then even though Marshall was a division II team at the time.

I'm one of these guys who looks for deviation from fact in movies and if there was anything major, I didn't spot it.
I was especially impressed with the painstaking work to duplicate uniforms and equipment from that period. If you go see it, notice the face masks and pads the players used.
If you're expecting lots of game footage, you'll be disappointed because there's not a lot. It only focused on 3 games- the last one against East Carolina before the crash and two from the following season.
I have a good friend who was raised in Huntington and who goes back there a lot. He said the movie company was very careful to keep everything factual
and was very considerate of the people's feelings.
I don't know if it will get any Academy Award nominations or anything like that but it certainly is a great piece of work in my opinion.
When the film ended, there was complete silence in the theater and as we left nobody said a word on the way out. Even the rowdy young people were very subdued. That should say enough for it. I absolutely recommend it for anybody who loves their school and their atheletic programs.
One scene in particular where the schools offficials were in a meeting discussing dropping football, the meeting was interrupted and one of the three surviving players from the lost team quietly directs the board to a big window looking out onto the campus. It looked like the whole student body was gathered and they started chanting "We are..Marshall! We are..Marshall!" in unison. If that doesn't bring a tear to the eye and send a chill through you, nothing will.
 
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wncvolfan said:
I guess I'm probably one of the few on this board who was an adult at the time the plane actually crashed. It shocked the sports world back then even though Marshall was a division II team at the time.

I'm one of these guys who looks for deviation from fact in movies and if there was anything major, I didn't spot it.
I was especially impressed with the painstaking work to duplicate uniforms and equipment from that period. If you go see it, notice the face masks and pads the players used.
If you're expecting lots of game footage, you'll be disappointed because there's not a lot. It only focused on 3 games- the last one against East Carolina before the crash and two from the following season.
I have a good friend who was raised in Huntington and who goes back there a lot. He said the movie company was very careful to keep everything factual
and was very considerate of the people's feelings.
I don't know if it will get any Academy Award nominations or anything like that but it certainly is a great piece of work in my opinion.
When the film ended, there was complete silence in the theater and as we left nobody said a word on the way out. Even the rowdy young people were very subdued. That should say enough for it. I absolutely recommend it for anybody who loves their school and their atheletic programs.
One scene in particular where the schools offficials were in a meeting discussing dropping football, the meeting was interrupted and one of the three surviving players from the lost team quietly directs the board to a big window looking out onto the campus. It looked like the whole student body was gathered and they started chanting "We are..Marshall! We are..Marshall!" in unison. If that doesn't bring a tear to the eye and send a chill through you, nothing will.
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the theatre i was in was very subdued... until i screwed it up. went w/ a friend and at the end they show actual clips of real marshall footage. being from Johnson City and in JC at the time, I got a little excited when they showed footage from the Mini Dome, and I pointed out to her that it was the Dome. it was so quiet everyone heard me and others started talking about it being the mini dome after that.. oops
 
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volfanbill said:
the theatre i was in was very subdued... until i screwed it up. went w/ a friend and at the end they show actual clips of real marshall footage. being from Johnson City and in JC at the time, I got a little excited when they showed footage from the Mini Dome, and I pointed out to her that it was the Dome. it was so quiet everyone heard me and others started talking about it being the mini dome after that.. oops
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Hey, that's really cool. And I'm sure no Marshall folks would take offense at you guys spotting a landmark and commenting on it. I'd have been excited, too.

BTW, help me out here. Isn't that where ETSU played football and didn't they recently suspend football there? Or have I got the wrong school? If I'm right, any idea why they quit playing football?
 
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wncvolfan said:
BTW, help me out here. Isn't that where ETSU played football and didn't they recently suspend football there? Or have I got the wrong school? If I'm right, any idea why they quit playing football?
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the Mini Dome is where ETSU played and they dropped football a few years ago because it was costing so much money. there is currently an attempt to revive the program though. there's a thread about in the sports forum: http://www.volnation.com/forum/sports-forum/23368-etsu-football.html
 
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Jasongivm6 said:
What about Poor Richard's? Is it still there? I saw some hotties in that place.:salute:
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that was one of my favorite places to hang out actually. great food for lunch, and it was a fun little bar at night.
 
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OWB said:
Like Titanic.
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My sister started crying in the middle of Apollo 13 for no apparent reason. We finally got her to admit that she walked into the theatre not knowing whether or not they made it bacj, :wacko:
 
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GAVol said:
My sister started crying in the middle of Apollo 13 for no apparent reason. We finally got her to admit that she walked into the theatre not knowing whether or not they made it bacj, :wacko:
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Not sure what to say on that. I'm sorry?:dunno: :unsure:
 
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mattew mcconaughey had so many cheesy one liners in the previews that it made me not want to watch it. I have heard it's good though. Maybe I'll check it out.
 
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too bad the team has been through such a decline the past few years... legalistically speaking. it's one of the most thugged out schools now
 
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I saw "We Are Marshall" last night and I highly recommend seeing it. Matthew McConaughey was fantastic! Since all of this happened before I was born, I didn't know the history behind it. There aren't many movies that make me cry, but this one did, I guess because it was a true story. I will always look at the Marshall football team differently now.
 
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