I saw the movie Coach Carter. It wasn't a bad movie, although I think that whoever directed/wrote this flick over-cartoonized ghetto stereotypes. As far as basketball movies is concerned it was no Hoosiers, but it was fairly heart-warming. True story even. Or at least, based on one.
Speaking of cartoonized ghetto stereotypes: One word: Ashanti. That repeating neck-move thing would kill more people than the gatling gun killed warriors in The Last Samurai. (Off-topic, how is it that the only person not killed by the gatling gunfire in that last charge was THE ONLY WHITE MAN IN THE WHOLE DAMN SAMURAI ARMY?!! But anyway, I digress...)
The "high school dance" had ringers. I've been to a high school dance or two, a couple of them long after my own high school career (but that's another story...). Ain't nobody in high school a professional dancer, unless you were on Fame or something.
Slight spoiler -- although if you haven't seen the movie already you won't, unless you buy a bootleg or something. When coach Carter first starts coaching, the two top scorers on the team quit. I wonder what happened to them. They should do a movie about those two guys. I bet they made the And 1 team.
Posted by glenn at January 25, 2005 05:56 PM