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Varsity Blues (1998)
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This MTV-produced drama only looks like an adaptation of H.G. Bissinger's expert dissertation of the church of high school football, Friday Night Lights. The energetic, breezy movie has none of the seriousness of Bissinger's book except on its basic level: in West Texas, high school football is life. Into this world comes Jonathan "Mox" Moxon (James Van Der Beek), a brainy, uncharacteristic jock who sits on the sideline reading Slaughterhouse Five until the West Caanan High School Coyotes All-Texas QB goes down with an injury. Suddenly the spotlight and the tyrannical ways of coach Bud Kilmer (another ace evil turn by Jon...
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| Varsity Blues Movie Review by Jarrod (7/9/2008) |
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'Varsity Blues' is set in the small Texas town of West Canaan, where football matters more than anything else. Businesses shut down for big games, and the players are granted immunity from the law, as the cops, avid football fans themselves, are willing to let the otherwise delinquent, drunken teenagers steal police cars...
(complete Varsity Blues review by Jarrod)
| Varsity Blues Movie Review by Thom (9/4/2007) |
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Varsity Blues, yet another look at sports and in particular high school football in a place where it is taken perhaps more seriously than it should be, falls short of being a movie of significance on the subject with its predictable characters, story, and overblown sense of self-importance. Like in some fantasy realm,...
(complete Varsity Blues review by Thom)
In my dorm at boarding school we watched this movie...we watched this movie a lot.
Overall, it is a ridiculous football movie, with James Van Der Beek trying to be tough and Jon Voight playing a coach like a mix of Christopher Walken, John Wayne and a shot of crazy.
Silly highschool football movie, notable only because...
(complete Varsity Blues review by Jessica Film Junkie)
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