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Summary: Great remake, better than the first
Review: This movie is just wonderful. The first movie was a great movie as well,but I do believe this is better. I understand that many people will felt differently. But when you look at the 2001 version it's just plain better. Overall. Acting, effects, the story-line. The 1971 version, well was 70s. They did the best they could with what they had. But this version concentrates more on the friendship of the two athletes as well as the family that the Chicago Bears has provided to it's players since it's beginnings in the 1920's. Pfeifer and Maher's performances are wonderful! Coach Halas was played excellently too! As a HUGE Chicago Bears fan and Chicago Bears history buff, I'd have to say this movie was almost perfect.
Oh and have your tissues ready for almost this whole movie because it's sadder than the first. Granted the stories are the same, but they focus more on the illness and not the race issue. I believe that is more important to this story than anything else.
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Summary: matt b's book review
Review: Brian's Song is about two amazing football players named Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers. One is black one is white. they are very different but very much alike. Both men are striving for the same job. Their personalities are very different, but their love for the game is the same. These men sooon become lasting friends on and off the football field, they help each other through some of the worst of times. I personally loved this book and it is one of my all time favorites. This book shows the lasting friendship between two very different people as they struggle through horrbile times. I reccomend this book to any teenage boys who loves sports and a friendship that can't be broken.
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Summary: The horror, the horror
Review: Brian's song, round one, was a perfect film. I am not even going to comment on it. I am simply re-submitting comments, the first sent hours before the premiere of this disaster, that have been thrice rejected by IMDB. (they have only my old e-mail address, so I don't know why)
In seven hours, I will hear familiar music in an unfamiliar arrangement and a voice other than Jack Warden's will tell us the beginnings and the end of the tragic and moving story of Brian Piccolo, lightly regarded blocking back to the incomparable legend that is Gale Sayers.
Well, Brian Piccolo ws an outstanding football player and, by all accounts, a good and admirable man. His death was surely a tragedy and the original still makes me, ME!, cry at the scene when B.D. Williams entreats the the team to play its best in honor of Piccolo.
After the foregoing voice, it will all go down from there, your teeth will chatter, your eyes melt and your ears will bleed. Good God, didn't you learn anything from the Black Odd Couple. Don't mess with perfection. You are not artisans restoring the Sistine chapel, you work in television, television!
Don't watch this and you will be spared the wooden performance of the dude who plays Sayers and the... one playing Piccolo.
This has been a LawDog "I have not and never will see this movie" review.
Not reviewed for typos.
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Summary: a beautiful song to hear
Review: Hard to believe I didn't recognize this movie until just the other day. What a beautiful movie with emotional depth and a great message about friendship. For anyone who might not know the storyline, it focuses on the true story of Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers, two former football players for the Chicago Bears with every difference you could possibly imagine keeping them apart, including racial differences and completely opposite personalities. Only by rooming together are they finally forced to truly enter each other's lives and help each other in many future endeavors, including a standout challenge in Brian's young life that the two must handle together, as only true friends could. I have not yet seen the original of this film (which I hope to do soon), so I can't comment on any differences between the 1971 and 2001 versions. I will, however, say that judging from a trailer I recently saw of the 1971 movie, it seems like many similar and sometimes exact lines were used in both films, so I am sure that they both contain much flavor and depth. This 2001 round is an emotionally heartwrenching and altogether remarkable rendition of a true story that will never be forgotten by anyone who has ever followed the Chicago Bears over the years. Mekhi Phifer (Sayers) and Sean Maher (Piccolo) have realism in their acting and knowledge of their roles, thus enabling them to become these powerful and complex characters. I especially enjoyed the performance of Sean Maher. His smile, charisma, and endearing personality made the character all the more real and convincing. This is certainly a beautiful film that touches base with many deep topics (friendship, strength through trial, etc...) and will put many varying emotions to use. You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll be touched. I personally don't typically cry at movies, but this one always hits me hard. If you don't choke up or at least feel touched when Brian finally truly verbalizes his love for his wife or when Gale breaks down at the end of the movie, there's something wrong. Honestly, though, this is an outstanding movie--an excellent message. Seeing as this 2001 movie was my first introduction to the story of Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers, I was impressed. Don't let the "trashy remake" title scare you off, because this new version has plenty of emotion and strength that has helped transform the story itself into what it remains today in the hearts of many.
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Summary: Brian's Song (2001)
Review: I don't really remember watching the original since I was very young but my Mom said I cried every time I watched it. Well, I cried nonstop during the last half hour of the remake. I can't wait to purchase it on DVD. I highly recommend it!!!
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Summary: I loved this
Review: I had seen the original years ago, and I remembered the story. I watched it with my boyfriend, and both of us were crying. A very sad story, but a beautiful one in that. They did a great job with the remake.
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Summary: Based on the life of Brain Picclo
Review: I never heard of Brain Piccolo before abc announced in late last year, that they were remaking the 1971 version of Brain's Song with James Caan. I taped this off the wonderful World of Disney and missed a part of the movie and after I taped this, the tape broke, and Abc Family played this the same day the Bears lost to the Eagles in the playoff game. And watched. And twice after the first hour of two, I felt tears coming on. If you are going to watch this movie, I recomed you watch this with tissue.
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Summary: i loved both versions
Review: I will always have a special place for this 2001 version in my heart because I saw it before the original, and it introduced me to two remarkable men whom I'd never heard of before. Of COURSE people are going to trash the remake; the 1971 film is excellent, and remakes don't typically go down well with viewers. I will comment that these versions are very different from one another. The 1971 film is more historical and passionately acted, whereas the one from 2001 strives to put somewhat of a twist on the original story without completely defacing it. This new movie shows more of a challenge that Sayers and Piccolo faced in the process of becoming friends; in the original, they pretty much always liked each other and didn't really have to develop it quite as much. Sean Maher and Mekhi Phifer certainly deliver, giving their characters a good degree of depth and passion. I will say that if you truly want to get the feel for every aspect of this remarkable true story, then go for the original. The new one is kind of a simpler recap to acquaint you with the story, although don't judge it too harshly because no matter which one you watch, you're gonna cry.
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Summary: i loved both versions
Review: If you don't cry during this movie, there is something wrong with you. This is an excellent remake of the 1971 movie. Get the tissue out!
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Summary: Brian's Song
Review: If you don't cry during this movie, there is something wrong with you. This is an excellent remake of the 1971 movie. Get the tissue out!
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