Switzerland owns the USA, what are you talking about? We are all subject to her majesty. Case in point, u think the fed printing any amount of money thus can call all the shots? Think how much money the Swiss collects, and if u can even get a number. It's beyond paper. So there u have it. Thanks for making us realize how calling things international ovee there might be inappropriate.
LOL , (this got to be one of your jokes?) Carl, Zurich Film Festival is in Switzerland, in Europe. Local films there would be Swiss films.
Guys, how big is the religious aspect of this movie? My partner and I are both non religious but my partner is actually against strongly against religion so it may be hard for her to sit through this movie even though she's an LOF as well. Personally I don't mind that he places a focus on religion so I'm sure I could watch it, but I thinking I may have to watch it without her!
I'm atheist and I wasn't turned off by it. It's there but it wasn't the point of the movie. No one even says Jesus.
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It could be because it only opens in a few cities, so they probably wanted to make it available to more people. It is strange why it's available before the release date though.
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p>Mixer happening THIS THURSDAY. Good job, <a href="https://twitter.com/NAAAPHouston">@NAAAPHouston</a>, on the ad & for settin this up! <a href="https://twitter.com/LinsanityMovie">@LinsanityMovie</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23RedNation&src=hash">#RedNation</a> <a href="http://t.co/COANXS6ety">pic.twitter.com/COANXS6ety</a></p>— Howard Chen (@ho_chenCSN) <a href="https://twitter.com/ho_chenCSN/statuses/381587377514221568">September 22, 2013</a></blockquote> <script async src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>
Our family had tickets ($50) for the "premier" on Oct 4th but we're going to get refunds and watch it on Amazon ($4) this weekend. Yeah that marketing strategy doesn't make sense to me either.
Thus far on IMDB, Linsanity has an average rating of 5.4 80% rated 8 or higher (64% rated 10/10). Brought down by the LOH 13% who gave it a 1/10. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2359427/
It was 8 or 8.2 a week ago. Tinman, you've watched the movie and seems like you know about movies. Do you think 5.4 is a fair rating?
Watched it earlier today via Amazon. In all honesty, it was an average documentary. Given the subject matter, they could've easily packed the Linsanity story into a longer-form version of the hysteria we all experienced, and that would've been a decent enough movie. That they tried to do more than that is probably what caused some of the issues with the whole thing. Also, I think if we weren't already so familiar with the subject matter, the overall story would have been more engrossing as well. Both the editing and the pacing felt...off. I'm pretty familiar with the timeline of events, and even I couldn't always keep straight when certain things were supposed to be occurring. The documentary kept jumping between Jeremy's biography, his personal life, and his basketball timeline. At some points it felt too sudden, and at others it seemed to drag on too much. For those who aren't big on religion (I'm not), it can get pretty heavy-handed with the religious aspect. That being said, it doesn't do so intentionally so much as it accurately reflects Lin's worldview. He is a religious guy, and it makes sense that he would view what is probably the most transformative experience of his life through the lens of his religion and his relationship to God/Jesus. To not bring that part of the story in would be like showing a documentary about the Pope without discussing Catholicism. All in all, I don't think it was out of place and it definitely was informative (I'm sure it will be even more eye-opening to people who don't come from that kind of a background). Overall I'd say it was an average documentary. It definitely could have been executed more cleanly, but the story and subject matter still shine through.
Thanks for the review. I think it's because they started filming way before Linsanity even happened so they didn't want to waste all that footage :grin:
People's opinions are different. As a documentary , it must tell the story well and keep the viewers interested. I felt that it did. I could careless about the highlights of his streak, the story behind it is what's interesting. I felt they did a good job.
