While I am glad that a movie has been made about rugby (Murderball excluded), I could not be more saddened than I am about this movie. This is basically just a sappy, inspirational football movie with bigger balls, literally.
Rugby is gritty and intense. Rugby is rude. Rugby scrapes your face and stomps on you. Rugby gives you whiplash as it flips you off your feet and then buys you a beer to say, "Hey, b***h. We're still friends." Rugby is not mainstream and shame on these writers/directors/producers for trying to make it so. People watching this movie will think that rugby is a feel good sport that anyone can play. Not everyone can play it. It takes a special person to play rugby. I like to play rugby knowing that people at work and in non-rugby social settings fear me (as many fear the unknown).
If another movie is made about rugby, I hope that real rugby is shown. Rugby with real soul. Real desire. Real hits, tackles and rucks. Real socials/drink-ups. Real players. Sure throw in an actor or two but make them look and sound real. Make them ugly and mean (although all of us ruggers are beautiful and nice in our regular lives). Make them actually play rugby. A movie shouldn't try to make everyone like rugby, it should simply show rugby at its best and let people make up their own minds.
Another clue that rugby shouldn't be mainstream: When I hit preview for this submission I was told that there were spelling issues. 'Rucks' and 'Ruggers' are apparently not words. LOL
Rugby is gritty and intense. Rugby is rude. Rugby scrapes your face and stomps on you. Rugby gives you whiplash as it flips you off your feet and then buys you a beer to say, "Hey, b***h. We're still friends." Rugby is not mainstream and shame on these writers/directors/producers for trying to make it so. People watching this movie will think that rugby is a feel good sport that anyone can play. Not everyone can play it. It takes a special person to play rugby. I like to play rugby knowing that people at work and in non-rugby social settings fear me (as many fear the unknown).
If another movie is made about rugby, I hope that real rugby is shown. Rugby with real soul. Real desire. Real hits, tackles and rucks. Real socials/drink-ups. Real players. Sure throw in an actor or two but make them look and sound real. Make them ugly and mean (although all of us ruggers are beautiful and nice in our regular lives). Make them actually play rugby. A movie shouldn't try to make everyone like rugby, it should simply show rugby at its best and let people make up their own minds.
Another clue that rugby shouldn't be mainstream: When I hit preview for this submission I was told that there were spelling issues. 'Rucks' and 'Ruggers' are apparently not words. LOL