If you do, I suggest that you do NOT rewatch it. It sucks so bad.
It came out when I was in college, we went to see it in the theater, and I remember it being obviously not a masterpiece, but a good bit of entertainment. Stuck in the long off-season, I figured I would watch it with my son for some college football diversion.
Holy crap, it does NOT hold up. You, like I, probably recall 4 or 5 memorable scenes from that movie. Well, one of those has been cut from all iterations so you won't see that, and the rest of them comprise about 90 total seconds sandwiched around two hours of the most boring, whiny, stupid crap imaginable. It has to be a career worst performance from James Caan, who plays the least-coaching coach in movie history. He doesn't look like he has any idea why he is there. It is interminably dull.
One scene you probably don't remember, as I didn't, was a particularly unplasant and scary attempted rape.
That said, the football/crowd scenes were among the better I've seen in a football movie, they did a decent job capturing that. When they isolate on a player it looks fairly cheesy, but the plays themselves look pretty good.
Queued up Necessary Roughness after that. Much better. The story is silly but makes sense and progresses accordingly. It's definitely not nearly as funny as you remember, it's still got that 80s comedy thing going of there being very few actual jokes, mostly a lot of things with the cadence of jokes without being an actual joke. But it's pleasant enough, good natured, and there are still a good 5-6 jokes in it and one real "F--k yeah!" moment. I probably wouldn't go out of my way to see it if you haven't lately, but I wouldn't feel the need to avoid it.
It came out when I was in college, we went to see it in the theater, and I remember it being obviously not a masterpiece, but a good bit of entertainment. Stuck in the long off-season, I figured I would watch it with my son for some college football diversion.
Holy crap, it does NOT hold up. You, like I, probably recall 4 or 5 memorable scenes from that movie. Well, one of those has been cut from all iterations so you won't see that, and the rest of them comprise about 90 total seconds sandwiched around two hours of the most boring, whiny, stupid crap imaginable. It has to be a career worst performance from James Caan, who plays the least-coaching coach in movie history. He doesn't look like he has any idea why he is there. It is interminably dull.
One scene you probably don't remember, as I didn't, was a particularly unplasant and scary attempted rape.
That said, the football/crowd scenes were among the better I've seen in a football movie, they did a decent job capturing that. When they isolate on a player it looks fairly cheesy, but the plays themselves look pretty good.
Queued up Necessary Roughness after that. Much better. The story is silly but makes sense and progresses accordingly. It's definitely not nearly as funny as you remember, it's still got that 80s comedy thing going of there being very few actual jokes, mostly a lot of things with the cadence of jokes without being an actual joke. But it's pleasant enough, good natured, and there are still a good 5-6 jokes in it and one real "F--k yeah!" moment. I probably wouldn't go out of my way to see it if you haven't lately, but I wouldn't feel the need to avoid it.
