Episodes
Thursday Jul 23, 2020
Ep. 56 - I, Tonya
Thursday Jul 23, 2020
Thursday Jul 23, 2020
Scoring At The Movies gets into some more American Dream type stuff in the fact-mixed-with-fiction Tonya Harding story "I, Tonya". Margot Robbie and her cast mates were worthy of several gold medals for their spot-on and often hilarious performances in Craig Gillespie's comedic biopic.
Great movie though this is, Chris struggled to get past an intense dislike for the real-life people and events in this conspiracy of dunces. We certainly agree that the (allegedly, but probably) abused Harding was in a constant battle with class snobbery in the world of figure skating and a brutally tough Whiplash-like mother. Steroids and politics even came up, but our thoughts about those topics aren't as inflammatory as you might expect.
So don't ask "why, why?" should you listen to the 56th SATM episode because, if you don't, threatening letters or a pipe to the back of the leg by some incompetent goon might be in your future! (note: we aren't going to hire a goon to hit you with a pipe).
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Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Ep. 55 - Coach Carter
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Thursday Jul 09, 2020
Rich-what? Richmond!
Two white Canadian adults tackle a movie about the real-life basketball adventures of black & Hispanic Californian teenagers in Coach Carter, the 55th edition of Scoring At The Movies. Samuel L. Jackson holds his R-rated tongue in this one, but still gives yet another dominant performance as Coach Ken Carter. The man who demanded his young players focus on their grades as much as their game also challenged his young sirs to stop belittling others…and themselves. What an excellent message we all need to hear right now! And always!
We didn’t entirely pick this more-than-adequate movie for the subtly-handled racial issues. That was just a timely bonus. So don’t be a Timo Cruz and quit (then come back, then quit…) on this podcast. Be a good sir and invest some time in hearing us jaw about an underrated b-ball flick. Otherwise, we might make you do a lot of push-ups...and we aren't going to volunteer to do some of them for you!
Pedantry Alert: Coach Carter is actually rated PG (as was Deep Blue Sea), not PG-13. Also, the season depicted was indeed 1999, although Ken Carter started coaching at Richmond a few years earlier. Also also, Lebron James was drafted in 2003 and was still too young in 1999 to be THAT well known, so being name-dropped in this movie is just an anachronism. Also also also, Richmond lost in the 2nd round of the district playoffs, not in the 1st round of the state tournament.
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