Two boxes of tissue will get a true, blue Thundering Herd fan through the two hour and 10 minute movie. I suppose since I have lived in the Atlanta area for 12 years, seeing my hometown on the big screen was one of the proudest days of my life. more
I was fortunate enough to see We Are Marshall on Wednesday evening and I have one word- riveting! To say that this film exceeded my expectations would be the understatement of the year and here is why. more
A true story of rising from the ashes of mass grief and choosing to rebuild a destroyed team rather than run from the reminders. When in 1970 a plane crash claims the lives of all aboard, the the Marshall University football team is virtually wiped out — the pride and joy of Huntington, West Virginia. Three team members survived because for different reasons they weren’t on the plane.
Despite school president Dr. Donald Dedmon’s (David Strathairn) personal emotions he and others come to the painful view that the football program must be suspended. He holds a private meeting to make it official. But team captain Nate Ruffin (Anthony Mackie), one of the survivors, sees it differently and marshalls (no pun intended) the student body to convince the ruling body. Ruffin is passionate about the school and the community facing their grief by immediately rebuilding a team. A mass display of student body emotions dramatizes that feeling and heads off the notion of quitting.
Facing Dedmon, Ruffin answers his question about how to begin. “Get a coach,” he counsels. more
SOUTH BEND, Ind. Although the film won’t arrive in theaters until next month, “We Are Marshall” already has earned raves from the reviewers who matter most to the movie’s creators.
“I just think it was a brilliant, brilliant job,” former Marshall football coach Jack Lengyel said Tuesday night after watching a preview screening at the College Football Hall of Fame. “(It’s) one of the finest pieces of film that I’ve seen, that I know something about. I want to thank them personally for the great job they did.”
The movie, which opens nationwide on Dec. 22, details how Lengyel and the rest of the Marshall community responded to one of the worst disasters in U.S. sports history.
Marshall’s football team was returning to campus after a game at East Carolina on Nov. 14, 1970, when a plane crash killed all 75 people aboard. more
While LOST fans scratch their heads over what to do at 9:00 tonight, preview audiences of “We Are Marshall”, which made some test screenings last night, have the perfect job in mind for LOST’s leading man Matthew Fox: Movie Star.
Reception to the film, which chronicles the astonishing rebuilding of a football team killed in a freak airplane crash, has been overwhelmingly positive; with much of the praise being targeted at LOST Matthew Fox.
With rampant rumors that (avert your spoiler irritated eyes) Fox is leaving LOST shortly to pursue a film career, the praise is a sweet counter-punch to the critics who claimed Fox didn’t have what it takes to make it on the big screen. more