Draft Day
 

Did anyone see this ROFL?

I'm going tomorrow. I'm hearing it's pretty good, so I'm not sure why you're ****ing laughing.

I really havent looked much into this movie but isn't it focused on the Browns draft day?

Probably why...

There is a reason for it

It's actually decent, holy shit. 62% on RT.

I may have to pirate.

Criminal and heathen

I'll rent this later

Rental or Netflix

Im going to go see it tonight. Co-workers went and saw it last night and said it was very good

Like Kevin Costner so may go and see it!

Saw it last night. ****ing hated it.

(No spoilers below... I'll put them in tags when I do come across plot points)

The entire movie just seethes NFL propaganda put out by the league. They're capitalizing on one of the wildest and most popular offseason events in all of sports to make more money. I get that. Whatever. It's fine. I knew they'd get Goodell, Chris Berman, and all these draft figureheads to play themselves as well. That wasn't what annoyed me.

What annoyed me was the way they told the story to dumb down the product-- it's just more of the same from this shithole league. The story revolves around three guys the Browns are wanting to draft- an electric RB (oh the irony of the Browns taking a RB with a high draft pick) a pass rusher who loves his family, and a blue chip QB. Guess what they do? Roll out the human interest stories to give these players depth, and then match them up with Kevin Costner's 12-hour emotional change he undergoes. It praises humbleness and passion at the complete expense of logic. In other words-- it's reaching out to women and other demographics of people that just only kind of like football because they don't understand shit about how it works.

And I'm not just saying that as some nutty conspiracy theorist. Goodell gets onto the stage at Radio Music Hall to start the draft up. Guess what happens? The crowd cheers him. ARE YOU SHITTING ME? That would never ****ing happen. You go into this KNOWING the NFL had a hand in making this movie, but you never expected them to hit you over the head with this kind of bullshit propaganda at the expense of how events would REALLY go. This was an opportunity for the NFL to take the opportunity to laugh at itself a bit. It still would have resonated with non-hardcore football fans, but it also would have drawn in some appreciation from people who are getting sick of the NFL's shit. They didn't have to bring up concussions or anything like that. Just... boo Goodell. Make some of these owners look like real humans instead of gods.

Do something other than put out a dialogue of cheesy lines everybody has heard before. My god, the dialogue in this movie is horrifying. I swear, there's a moment when Denis Leary uses the "He looks like Tarzan but plays like Jane" line, and there's a PAUSE in the dialogue before Kevin Costner's line, probably because Reitman thought, "Let's give the audience some time to giggle at that clever and totally original turn of phrase!"

Oh, and did I mention the entire first half of this movie is a boring piece of shit?

Worst of all is the plot. Here are the spoilers:



It didn't have to be 100% realistic. I get that. But for the love of God, try not to turn this into a flaming piece of shit. You're already making a MOVIE about the NFL draft, an entertainment event that involves people walking up to podiums and announcing picks. The setting is an NFL war room. You're already very limited in the plot points you can generate to make things interesting without resorting to tiresome cliches. Either you make the characters deep and memorable or you make it boring and draft-like. You DON'T mix the two.

Now I really want to see it. LMAO

Oh, and they also threw in this dorky first-day intern who works for the Browns as comic relief. Count Dooku stars as the Browns' owner, so clearly they thought this movie needed a Jar Jar Binks. Well, there's your Jar Jar.

Outstanding.

SNR review is spot on which is why I was laughing. ..that and the

Just got back from seeing this movie.

****ing terrible. I like Costner, and he's not the reason why this movie was terrible.

This movie was for someone that knew absolutely nothing about the NFL. Might as well been targeted to a bunch of women, a lot like what SNR said.

They did one thing right though. In the movie, the people (front office) for the Chiefs called in about acquiring a draft day trade for someone else's QB LMAO. I mean they hit the ****ing nail on the head on that one, almost wondered if they purposely did that in order to keep the movie at least somewhat accurate.

But overall this was very poorly scripted for those who follow the game esp. The dialogue was horrible. And what happens as far as draft trades go....this would only happen in Madden on PS2. I mean what happened in this movie as far as trades makes the RG3 draft day trade look like peanuts. It was ridiculous. Worse than the Ricky Williams trade I'll just leave it at that.

It was corporate manufactured regurgitated propaganda garbage spewed out by the NFL right before draft day.

For the love of god.....Netflix this. Don't waste your money.


one more thing (edit)

I'm acutally surprised they didn't trash on CLE as much as they did to the Jags and Bills....my lord. The movie had the Jags GM play like a guy who just didn't know wtf he was doing or why he was even there, and looked like a deer in the headlights.

Just as I predicted a week ago. ;)

I might watch it when it gets to USA channel or something. It sounds stupid it me. Kind of like that Kevin Spacey movie about the 2008 Wall Street melt down.

Oh, I went in knowing this would be bad. I just had hopes I would have been better entertained. The first half of the movie was boring, and the second half was all these poorly-formed story lines trying to resolve in stupid and arbitrary ways around completely unrealistic shit that never happens in an NFL draft situation.

Along the way I hoped maybe Costner would be preaching some entertaining platitude about offensive linemen to his scouts, or maybe Denis Leary would act like a buffoon and get in a fight over personnel strategies. Like the whole pass rusher vs. RB thing. That was there for 2 seconds. I would have been entertained by an argument between the two about that, no matter how stupid or cliched it could have been. But that never happened. It was just Costner talking about his relationship with his squeeze, and grumbling around about how he knows the Andrew Luck QB is actually a bust.

I guess I was hoping it would be bad in a good way. But no. It was bad in a bad way.

This is the first movie I have ever walked out on. Terrible from top to bottom. My God, it was so much worse than I thought possible. What the **** happened to Ivan Reitman?

The really ****ing sad part?

It has a 62% on Rotten Tomatoes.

Waaaaaaaay too ****ing high

I tried warning ya man

Can't wait for Imen to watch this turd.

Wow. How long did u make it before you left?

lol. im not sure it was walk out bad, but it was damn close...and to be honest I can't say i blame you for leaving. it was garbage.

Still laughing over the fact that even in the damn movie, the Chiefs front office is inquiring about trading picks for some other team's vet QB. LMAO

That was literally one of the few real things about that movie.

Sucking off the Cowboys made it that much worse though

I enjoyed it but you can wait for HBO

Looks like trash and the reviews don't inspire me to run out and watch it.

About 40 minutes. I can sit through almost anything. This POS was just insulting in every scene. I can be a bit of a film snob, but I can usually find some silver lining to appreciate. Not here.

That 2008 movie wasn't that terrible. I mean, I'm not watching it again , but there were parts that were decent. That movie LOOKS better than this one and if the reviews are right then it's not close.

Draft Day or Noah?

Noah.

Emma Watson > Jennifer Garner

Jennifer Garner looks extra manish in this movie.

Read the thread! !!!

Just shred your money if you're interested in watching either of those movies.

Or just watch Captain America.

73% audience rating is way more telling. These are people that actually wanted to see it. If that isnt above 80, something is wrong. Look at Tyler Perry movies for a better example.

I'm actually sitting in the theater now waiting for it to start lol.

I thought it was entertaining and there was some funny scenes. I was interested to see what they were going to do. It was decent. I think most of you are truly overreacting

I enjoyed it as well. I wasn't expecting a masterpiece.

It had my guessing what was going to happen and I was entertained throughout the whole thing. It was worth $10.50 IMO.

I went with my buddy who is a diehard Chargers fan. I made a comment about Bo Callahan being Ryan leaf literally five seconds before they made the same comparison in the movie. My buddy didn't think it was so funny.

If I recall correctly, it's Costner a Chiefs fan? I could've sworn I seen him at a few Chiefs games growing up.

This movie was pretty bad. The owner was cool and Terry Crews is cool. The people in the war room were reeruned. High School play level.

I just got back from it, purposely going to pay maintenee price.

I would give it a average grade. There were some things there were far fetched.
I thought they could have done a lot better job.

But jeez, some of you...if you really hate the NFL THAT bad why do you even watch anymore? My gawd, your rants sound like we can expect you to go off on a violent spree some day. It's just a movie and football. Nobody is holding a gun to your head. Don't watch anymore if you don't like it. Chill.

It has the look of a movie that was thrown together very quickly. Somebody last summer realized people go crazy for the NFL draft and the NFL in general, and that they needed to throw something together really quick to take advantage of the draft hype and coverage that comes this time of year.

Seems like the kind of overblown film typical of a director trying to romanticize and glorify. Think "Backdraft", or anything Michael Bay.

guess Ill wait for netflix. Major. Dissapoint!

Shouldn't even waste your time watching this turd man.

I was waiting for the owner to bust out his lightsaber and cut off Costner's head

The people who actually understand a bit about football and the way the draft works will leave disappointed. I tried to talk myself into liking it. I don't care for Costner anyways, and he was a disgrace IMO. C- movie. And that's because I usually like most movies.

I would watch SNR reaction to watching the movie

One of the sports talk stations spent 30 minutes ripping it. Pretty much said what transpires is down right insulting to even a 1/2 way knowledgable NFL fan...

They are spot on. In what world would Goodsell get a standing ovation? The trades are straight out of Madden.

I just wish people would stop going to shit movies. If shit movies don't make money, they won't make shit movies.