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I watched Pride last night as part of a "diversity awareness" program. It's about an all black swim team from an outskirts of Philadelphia who manage to get really good really quickly and stay in school and keep their rec center.
It was also really predictable, and very corny. The plot was a bit like the Music Man, if Harold Hill wasn't a con-artist and was a inspirational sports movie dealing with race.
I did enjoy myself, as I was sitting behind two guys that also are cursed with having to do running commentary on films, and the actors and actresses were very, very pretty and the seventies fashions they chose for the film were quirky instead of just hideous. There was also free food.
We also came to the conclusion that if you know it's a sports movie, the more blacks or other minorities you have on the team, the more likely that they're going to win the game. Apparently, the only exception to this is "Hoosiers" were the all white people team wins against the all black people team. But then the producers stuck black people all over the place in effort to make Indiana appear less racist in the 1950s.
I continue to rec Torchwood like mad, with no success. I am now known as the "crazy British television fan." I'm going to try to rec "In & Out" to the person who is doing the diversity movie series. And only gets really corny in the last twenty minutes! ( for people who seen the film, the graduation scene. )
It was also really predictable, and very corny. The plot was a bit like the Music Man, if Harold Hill wasn't a con-artist and was a inspirational sports movie dealing with race.
I did enjoy myself, as I was sitting behind two guys that also are cursed with having to do running commentary on films, and the actors and actresses were very, very pretty and the seventies fashions they chose for the film were quirky instead of just hideous. There was also free food.
We also came to the conclusion that if you know it's a sports movie, the more blacks or other minorities you have on the team, the more likely that they're going to win the game. Apparently, the only exception to this is "Hoosiers" were the all white people team wins against the all black people team. But then the producers stuck black people all over the place in effort to make Indiana appear less racist in the 1950s.
I continue to rec Torchwood like mad, with no success. I am now known as the "crazy British television fan." I'm going to try to rec "In & Out" to the person who is doing the diversity movie series. And only gets really corny in the last twenty minutes! ( for people who seen the film, the graduation scene. )
