Hoosiers (1986)

Don't listen to the negative reviews

A bit overrated, but still an amazing film

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

I got to experience this movie in Bu-Ray High Definition with my Dad I actually loved this movie Gene Hackman did a great job playing the coach and then what was cool a couple of months after I had seen the movie we had a wedding to go to because that is where some of our cousins live and some on of them was getting married so on the way there I saw the sign for the exit to take to go see the Hoosiers Basketball Museum and High School and you could also see where they filmed the movie I wanted to go but we were on a very tight schedule for the wedding me and my dad were very bummed anyway you should actually definitely really see this movie film.

Hoosiers is a movie about a coach who makes a comeback with a Hickory high school team.In my opinion this movie was touching, but very, very, repetitive. The whole movie was about the coach getting ejected from the game, and Hickory winning every game. The rest of the movie was good. I personally liked the story line of the underdogs coming back.I am giving it a 5.5 out of ten.If it was not so repetitive I would give it an 8. But overall a pretty good movie.You should really give it a chance if you are a sports fan, and like underdog stories.

If you were going to make the absolute best possible movie a sports movie can be, this would be it. You have a great lead in Gene Hackman playing a high school basketball coach coming to a small town to turn around a bunch of sad sack losers into a championship team. Overcoming teams from much bigger schools with much bigger players on their rosters. The locations and the atmosphere of the movie was spot on, they had a very bar minimum gymnasium to play in. The emphasis they put on basketball in small town Indiana was perfect since it really is the most important thing to the towns people since a small town like that doesn't have any pro sports teams of their own so they have to latch onto their high school teams.

I expect this review will be a bit controversial to some. I am going to say something that some of you will agree with and well will outrage some as well. What is this magic word that will divide the hopefully two people who see this at some point before this blog disappears, well it is "OVER RATED !!!!!!!!!". I hated this movie. I thought the very 80's theme music sucked, I thought Dennis Hopper who got an Oscar nod for this over acted. I thought the love interest angle involving Barbara Hershey and Gene Hackman was obvious. Every thing from the towns people hating newly arrived basketball coach "Gene Hackman" , to the local phenom stepping up to the figuritive plate just at the right moment, to the incredible and subtlety racist ending was obvious. Have you said the phrase "this thing just writes itself" well the chuckleheads who got the green light to do this must have uttered that constantly as they wrote this piece of garbage. Oh and by the way I know I forgot to say it earlier but "hoosiers" is an Oscar nominated film about a basketball team that wins the big game in the 1950's and was made in 1986. You can skip this one "over rated" "over rated" "over rated"!