A Milepost in Basketball History
Added 2/6/2010
Glory Road is a milepost in Basketball History. It demonstrates the desire to win in a coach that was willing to go after the best basketball players regardless of skin color in order to have a chance to win the NCAA.
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Glory Road (Full Screen Edition)
Added 1/17/2010
40 years ago, Don Haskins went on the recruiting trail to find the best talent in the land, black or white. 7 blacks and 5 whites made up the legendary 1965-66 Texas Western Miners. They were mocked and ridiculed for their showboating and flaunting of black players on the court. Yet, in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, Haskins and his Miners came together as a team united to reach the National Championship game against powerhouse Kentucky. This movie is a stand-up-and-cheer basketball tale taken from real life. "Glory Road is a very satisfying movie.
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Good movie.
Added 12/6/2009
This is a pretty good movie. It is another great addition to my DVD collection. Action throughout so you never have an opportunity to get bored while watching it.
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Glory Road: A Road Worth Driving For
Added 5/18/2009
Disney's newest addition to the `low-life, controversial team who pulls together with the help of a coach' movie is "Glory Road". Directed by James Gartner, this movie is based on the events which lead up to the first all black basketball team to not only play in a NCAA final but to win it as well. This emotional drama, with its classical ups and downs, follows all the same racial twists that we have come to expect from this genre. The only problem is that Gartner placed more emphasis on the drama aspect rather than the cold, hard hitting facts. This lead to the twisting of information to an extent which left certain circumstances left out or wrongly emphasized.
Josh Lucas stars as Don Haskins, the famous Texas-Western basketball coach who integrates black players onto his controversial team and creates what is said to be the biggest upset in college sports history by winning the 1966 NCAA basketball championship game. All this takes place while the team is riddled with racism due to inclusion of black players.
In the movie, it shows Haskins stepping directly from high school girls coach to division 1 college basketball and in his first season he not only managed to integrate 5 black players onto his team, but had them win the title too. Unfortunately, as facts often are, this was a slight euphemism at the very least. Don Haskins did coach high school girl's basketball and he was signed to Texas-Western, but in 1961 rather than 1966 as the movie declares. The movie also says that he scouted five black players and it was because of him that Texas-Western integrated their team, but the team actually already had three black players before he arrived. Yet another liberty taken was the fact that Haskins actually took five years to turn the team around rather than the one year as the movie describes.
The acting was decent, I say only decent because in terms of getting the audience to share the emotions of the situation at hand- a better and more convincing job could have been done. While this movie isn't loaded with Oscar winners, it still manages to portray the meaning behind the movie, some might argue even better. This is possible through the use of less known actors and so not allowing familiarity with the type personality certain actors bring with them. The cinematography as a whole was also only decent as the lighting at times was a little weak and while the music is proving to be popular, the dialogue is sometimes hard to comprehend. For example, there are a few scenes in the gymnasium where audio and lighting should be top of their priorities due to the uneven light streaming in through the windows and echo caused, yet the recognition and comprehension of certain players is harder due to this over-looked aspect.
Although the docudrama took liberties by changing a few facts, the general message still gets across which is, quite frankly, the point of seeing such a movie. This movie is targeted towards the younger generation; they would be bored out of their minds if they had to sit through five season's worth of games and off court situations before the good stuff came rather than the single season as the directors changed it to. The message that the children will receive from watching this movie is that no matter what, never give up. It will show them determination and success is achieved through the effort and resilience in ones heart. That through the hardships comes a time of wisdom and happiness.
This movie is rated PG and runs for 1hr 58 minutes.
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Remember the Titans but in College Basketball
Added 4/8/2009
This is a definite feel-good movie. Although, I still find it incredibly hard to believe that our country was once so BARBARIC as to not allow people of color the opportunity to play sports with other students (white), the movie does a great job of showing how a team can unite and overcome the bigotry that surrounds them. I enjoyed how the white students on the basketball team eventually overcame their biases and how the black players also learned to like their white teammates. For a sports movie, the scenes are exciting and the acting is not bad considering most actors in the movie are not well-known.
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A Milepost in Basketball History
Added 2/6/2010
Glory Road is a milepost in Basketball History. It demonstrates the desire to win in a coach that was willing to go after the best basketball players regardless of skin color in order to have a chance to win the NCAA.
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Glory Road (Full Screen Edition)
Added 1/17/2010
40 years ago, Don Haskins went on the recruiting trail to find the best talent in the land, black or white. 7 blacks and 5 whites made up the legendary 1965-66 Texas Western Miners. They were mocked and ridiculed for their showboating and flaunting of black players on the court. Yet, in the face of seemingly insurmountable odds, Haskins and his Miners came together as a team united to reach the National Championship game against powerhouse Kentucky. This movie is a stand-up-and-cheer basketball tale taken from real life. "Glory Road is a very satisfying movie.
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Good movie.
Added 12/6/2009
This is a pretty good movie. It is another great addition to my DVD collection. Action throughout so you never have an opportunity to get bored while watching it.
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