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*** THE WAY BACK (Ben Affleck) ***

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Article 58-10 Offender said:

PanzerAggie06 said:

I'm guessing the storyline goes something like this.......

Drunk becomes a basketball coach to help battle his demons.

The team is full of at-risk kids in a crap school in poor part of town.

Kids on the team are initially skeptical of the new coach.

Coach wins the kids over.

Coach slips up and does something that causes kids to again question him.

Coach wins back their trust through a touching speech.

The team wins the big game. Or, if they are defeated its sold as a moral victory.

Does Hollywood simply operate on computer programs that reimage movies that have been done so many times it's impossible to keep count? This story is about as common as the story of the big tough guy whose heart is melted by the child that enters his life, the zany cop buddy story, and the gay kid working up the courage to come out of the closet.





I mean, I skimmed the plot on Wikipedia, and this is actually remarkably close
Could not be more wrong
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Just watched it, and I agree with most of the sentiments on here.

The basketball scenes were the most realistic I've seen in a movie, it seems like they recruited real players to be the actors (rather than the other way around).

Though with movies that focus on addiction and loss, I can only watch them once (no matter how well made they are). Maybe they hit too close to home, but I really struggle watching his character make all those bad decisions.
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Bishop Hayes just beat Miss State in their house.
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MaximusDMeridius said:

Bishop Hayes just beat Miss State in their house.


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mavsfan4ever said:

MaximusDMeridius said:

Bishop Hayes just beat Miss State in their house.
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The team that Afleck coached in the movie was Bishop Hayes. The Aggies men's basketball team has a lot of the same characteristics of the team in the movie (no big man, not much offense, full court press a lot - at least we did last night).
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Bump. Just saw this, very good and possibly the most depressing sports movie ever. It's hilarious reading this thread and people who haven't seen the movie calling it unoriginal.
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Just realized this is the second to last movie I saw in theaters, a year from this coming Saturday.
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Great movie. Inspiring and original story.
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