Remember the Titans (Widescreen Edition)

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Summary: Perhaps These Titans Are Best Forgotten
Review: Last summer, my sisters were hooked on to this movie. They could not stop watching it, for they enjoyed all of the funny portions in the movie, as well as the plot that the movie "told." But when I watched the movie for the first time, I became disheartened and very disappointed. I was expecting a movie that gave me real sympathy toward the black characters, but I admittedly could not show a lot of sympathy. The plot just simply got lost in itself.

REMEMBER THE TITANS is another movie that was produced by the bombastic one-and-only Jerry Bruckheimer. Bruckheimer has a tendency of making movies just for the sake of making money, so his movies tend to give as much focus on the cliches as they do on the plot. And this movie is no exception. It is evident that the movie is trying to tell the story of the recent integration at Alexandria, Virginia in 1971, focusing on the T.C. Williams football team, where the coaches are trying to make the two different races accept one another. Needless to say, the team does eventually get over its acceptance issues, but the road to that, as described in this movie, is rocky. VERY rocky.

First, there is character Herman Boone's comparison to his team's problems to the Battle of Gettysburg. This is used as a key event that supposedly causes the team to accept one another, but I was not convinced with Boone's speech at all, for it gave more attention to the battle than their current problem. Then you have the characters: if you do not watch this movie over and over again, I guarantee that you will not remember many of them. For the most part, the characters are little more than stick figures; they have no distinguishable personality at all. And last but not least, there are the cliches, the main detriment in this movie: many, if not all of them, come at unnecessary times. It was difficult for me to accept events such as the karaoke singing of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" from some of the players, the kissing between two teammates, or a teammate's reaction to a nurse at one point in a hospital.

Now, I realize that many of you probably think I am a moron for thinking about the movie this way. But I remember one time when I was talking about my opinions of this movie to a friend of mine: during that time, I pointed out my observation that the events in this movie could function as realistic events among a typical football team, even a team involved with racism. So, if that was my observation with this movie, then I would have absolutely given this movie a perfect score. However, in a movie, a story like this should be focusing on the issue that it is trying to bring to the forefront the entire time. And this movie, unfortunately, does not do that.

Personally, I would not request anybody to watch this movie, unless I told them to watch for its problems. But if you view my opinions as little more than nitpicking or misunderstanding (which many of you would probably argue is), then go and watch it. I am pretty sure you would enjoy the movie- especially if you are highly interested in stories that deal with racism (but, surprisingly, this reviewer happens to be one of those people).

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Summary: Feel Good Gridiron
Review: Based on a true story, REMEMBER THE TITANS, is a solid film that is the latest in a long line of "crowd pleasers" from Disney. The year is 1971. After 15 years leading his High School Football Team to victory, Coach Bill Yoast (Will Patton), is demoted to Assistant. in favor of a African American coach Herman Boone (Denzel Washington). As you might imagine, this action causes a lot of friction and mistrust by all involved. The film, directed by Boaz Yakin, deals with all of that and more. How can 2 men, who don't like one another, come together and lead a brash team to victory on and off the field? The duo of Washington and Patton make a winning combination in the film. The group of largely unknown actors, who make up players on the team, hold their own, and are definately faces to watch for.

The DVD contains two audio commentaries. The first is from the real life coaches Yoast and Boone, the second is by the director, writer Gregory Allen Howard, and producer Jerry Bruckheimer. Both offer contrast between fact and film. There are 3 featurettes, one of which aired on ABC-TV, owned by Disney, and is best of the trio. There are a half dozen deleted scenes that offer little to enhance the movie. The DVD is available in both Widescreen or Standard versions. I personally would recommend going with widesceen, as you get to see the film, the way it was intended. Either way though, the DVD is recommended.

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Summary: Awesome!
Review: I thought that the movie was very well writen. A very heart warming story. Denzel Washington played an excellent roll here.To think that it took that much effort for the world to except the blacks into "our" schools.I watch the movie with my kids and they don't realize that that was the way it was.

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Summary: Gwendolyn's Opinion
Review: This movie is so good. I really love it.In this movie it talked about a racism country. In this country their was a school that had to be torn down and the black kids that went to this school had to move to another school that had only whites. This was the only school that had a mixture of whites and blacks. They had to learn how to get alone with each others. They had the best football team. They were very good. They were also undefeated. The movie was mainly about football team. How Denzel Washington was so hard on the team. This is what made the team so good. The more the team won the games the more the parents started to get alone with each other. One of the boys on the team got in a car accident and he was paralized from the waist down. He didn't get to play in the championship game so the team won specificatly for him. The team won the championship game and the boy that got in the car accident died like five or ten years later.

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Summary: GwendolynReview: Remeber the Titans is one of the best movies in the world. Denzel washington played a good role in this movie. Remeber the Tians is a movie about a racism between a neighbor hood that doesn't want any blacks in no schools, but there is one high school that had to immagrated and Denzel Washington had to teach them how to get along and how to play with each other because they were the only school that was immagrated together. Denzel Washington was very hard on the football team because of all the things that was going on, but it worked real good because they learned how to get alone and they became undefeated champions. There football team was the best on in town and as they won games the more everyone started to like him.

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Summary: Great!!!
Review: Remember the Titans is a wonderful movie for the whole family.
It is based on a true story back in the 1970's. Back when integrating was just beginning and no one wanted to get along. Remember the Titans is a story about a football team of a school that is forced to integrate and how they handled the change.
It is a heartwarming story that makes you laugh and cry.
Denzel Washington stars in this inspiring movie as Coach Herman Boone. Also in this movie is Will Patton as Coach Bill Yoast, Wood Harris as 'Big Julius' Campbell, Ryan Hurst as Gerry 'Superman' Bertier and many more.
This is a movie you definitely CANNOT miss! My personal rating is 10 out of 10. Please go out and rent or buy this movie today! It's that good.

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Summary: Horseraddish
Review: This is the worst movie I have ever seen in my life.

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Summary: This is a MUST-SEE movie!
Review: Remember the Titans is funny, sad, uplifting, touching, maddening and and a true story! The sentimentality of the coming together of this group of high school football players is totally balanced by the grittiness of the football action. There is not one wasted shot in the movie----when it was over, I couldn't believe the scope of the story that had been told in such a short period of time. This is one of the best movies I've seen in a long time---and one I can watch again and again.

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Summary: I loved this movie!
Review: I thought this movie was great and I don't know anything about football. Luckily, this movie is more about people than it is about sports. Denzel is his usual more-than-competent self and the actress that plays Will Patton's daughter practically steals the show. It has a great soundtrack too. Don't miss this one.

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Summary: Racial tension on the gridiron...
Review: Set against a football backdrop, REMEMBER THE TITANS is actually a story about a town dealing with racism. And that is a lofty topic to take on. And the success in that area results in a failure on the football front. The characterization and ball playing are unsurprising, heavy in cliché. But, this only hurts the film if you are looking for a sports film.

With its positive message, REMEMBER THE TITANS is a strong film for young teens with sturdy performances by Will Patton and Denzel Washington. And they will be even more involved when they realize it is based on a true story.