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Nebs
Joined: Wed Nov 29, 2006 8:01 pm Posts: 6385
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Varsity Blues
Varsity BluesQuote: Varsity Blues is a 1999 American drama/sport film directed by Brian Robbins that follows a small-town high school football team and their overbearing coach through a tumultuous season. The players must deal with the pressures of adolescence and their football obsessed community while having their hard coach on their back constantly. In the small town of West Canaan, Texas, football is a way of life, and losing is not an option.
Varsity Blues drew a domestic box office gross of $52 million. Its budget was estimated at $16 million. It was later parodied in the 2001 film Not Another Teen Movie, in which Ron Lester reprised his role of Billy Bob by playing a near identical character named Reggie Ray.
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Mon Jul 16, 2007 3:54 am |
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thompsoncory
Rachel McAdams Fan
Joined: Sat Oct 23, 2004 11:13 am Posts: 14560 Location: LA / NYC
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A great teen film with a strong cast. It was very entertaining.
B+
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Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:57 am |
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zingy
College Boy Z
Joined: Mon Oct 11, 2004 8:40 pm Posts: 36662
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Yup, a solid football flick.
B+
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Mon Jul 16, 2007 1:46 pm |
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Jim Halpert
Stanley Cup
Joined: Sat Aug 26, 2006 1:52 pm Posts: 6981 Location: Hockey Town
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fun football flick
B+
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Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:30 pm |
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Chris
life begins now
Joined: Tue Oct 12, 2004 9:09 pm Posts: 6480 Location: Columbus, Ohio
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I guess I'm just repeating what has been said, but it is a very fun football movie. Jon Voight was great.
B+
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Mon Jul 16, 2007 8:12 pm |
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trixster
loyalfromlondon
Joined: Wed Oct 13, 2004 6:31 pm Posts: 19697 Location: ville-marie
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Re: Varsity Blues
I like it for two scenes: Ali Larter in a whipped cream bikini and the health teacher as stripper. Yeah, that's right.
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Thu Sep 15, 2011 1:05 am |
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Thegun
On autopilot for the summer
Joined: Thu Oct 21, 2004 10:14 pm Posts: 21777 Location: Walking around somewhere
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Re: Varsity Blues
I give it a 10, a 10, a Fucking 10!
More like an 8 but probably the best teen sports film ever made.
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Fri Sep 16, 2011 9:08 pm |
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stuffp
Keeping it Light
Joined: Wed Apr 08, 2015 8:06 am Posts: 11363 Location: Bright Falls
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Re: Varsity Blues
Decided to re-watch this, having fond memories of it and it's still pretty good. It's a great paradigm for a small football crazed Texas town and delivers entertainment throughout. It gives us an iconic moment like whipped cream covered Ali Larter and the strip club scene is perhaps the best/ raunchiest in cinema history. I really like they decided to make this R-rated and attach its explicitness. Aside from Jon Voight, who is really great, probably would give him a supporting acting nom that year, the film comes up short acting wise. Best example being James van der Beek, who just doesn't have the charisma to pull of the role well (loved him in Dawson's Creek though), and the locker room speech by him at the end doesn't land because of it. Probably he and Walker should have reversed roles. Nonetheless I'm a sucker for sports films and this is a truly cool one.
B+
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