Movie - We Are Marshall

montanafan

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I saw it Christmas night and liked it, but having been there around that time, I appreciated it for reasons that others might not. The movie does have it's flaws, but I can see how it might be difficult to depict a true story in a completely satisfying way to people familiar with the events.

I was just wondering what more objective viewers thought about it.
 

Danman

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I saw it Christmas Day. My fiancee's family is from that area and her uncle heard the plane crash and saw the fire that night. Very sad story.
 

bignateyk

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bleh. Im getting tired of all these dramatic "true story" football movies that have come out since Rudy.
 

montanafan

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Thanks for the replies guys. It's nice to hear that people outside of the area who saw it liked it.

And bignateyk, it's not really a football movie, but it is a true story. It's more about the different ways individuals and a small town deal with grief and come back from a tragedy like that. And I liked that they didn't stray from the real story much. The only things they added were what happened outside of the Board of Directors meeting and they changed a short pass to a long one in one scene. They didn't have to add anything to dramatize the story. For example, the cheerleader in the film lost her fiance, but one real life cheerleader lost her fiance and both her parents in the crash as well.

I thought Matthew McConaughey did a good job being very un-Matthew McConaughey-like in the movie, but Matthew Fox ("Lost") was the real star of the film. It was a couple of his scenes and one of the actor that played Nate Ruffin that got to me.
 

TreyRandom

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My father-in-law's wife was attending Marshall back when that happened. Don't know if she's seen the movie yet. Will ask her next time I talk to her.