Friday Night Lights | Billy Bob Thornton, Jay Hernandez | One of the best football movies ever

Friday Night Lights | Billy Bob Thornton, Jay Hernandez | This movie lights up with a lesson! (...)

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Friday Night Lights

	Friday Night Lights Billy Bob Thornton, Jay Hernandez Universal Studios, 2005 average customer review:based on 179 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

One of the best football movies ever

Living in Texas it's almost a right of passage to watch this film. A true story it's sure a touching one when you see what these young men with subject themselves to for a trophy because it's so much more than that. I watched this film with a good friend who was brought to tears. This is a film, not about football but about comrodery, about devotion and dreams and acheiving those dreams through devotion and yes, comrodery. What's starts off somewhat like a documentary on 'making the team' or 'meeting the team' turns into a heart tugging event as you watch these young men go through quite a bit in order to realize their dreams. The QB and his devotion, not only to the sport but to his ailing mother. The running back who lives under the shadow of a former famous father (played BRILLIANTLY by Tim McGraw) who is now quite the drunk and abusive to boot. And then there's Booby Miles...the star of the team, but with a hurt knee he because a loose link in the chain. You can really see how these kids rely on each other to pull through. The scene where they are all crying on each other in the locker room is especially touching. What stood out to me was the end, the 'where they are now' type part and you see that only one member of the team is doing anything football related now...it shows that these kids are just normal kids, and now they are normal men, but it was the dream that was so real it made them almost superhuman. This is a great film to watch over and over with brillant acting by most of the cast. Billy Bob Thorton is fine, but outshined by Derek Luke (brilliant kid) and Tim McGraw (I was floored...but he STOLE every scene he was in) as well as Lucas Black, a relative newcomer who played the QB and real heart of the team. Wonderful movie that will tug at the heartstrings and by the end will make you feel proud to be a Texan...err...well, you fill in the blank _______________.

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This movie lights up with a lesson! (...)

Even though you may not know it, you can learn a lesson from events of the past. Friday Night Lights, a story based on real life events, explains a valuable lifelong lesson. In the movie, there is a football team who calls themselves the Permian Panthers. Permian is in Texas, east Texas actually. The Panthers start out as a not so good team, but as a few seasons pass they progressively get much better. The Panthers learn a valuable lesson when their star player gets injured.
In the early part of the season the Panthers are in training camp. The coaches were deciding who was going to be on the team and who was going to be cut. After a few victories, the Panthers' head coach makes a possible, season wrecking mistake, when he plays his star player when they were ahead by a lot. Instead of playing the back up the coach plays the starter and he pays greatly for his mistake.
Does the star player come back or is he out for the season? Well, you will have to watch the movie to find out. In the end when the Panthers are in the final game do they win states or do they lose? Is it a close game or is it a blow out. You'll have to watch Friday Night Lights to find out. This is an extremely great movie, in my opinion, I highly recommend it!

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This movie lights up with a lesson! By Andrew

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Best movie i have seen

Hey everybody this is a really great movie. If you are looking for a football movie that has great actors and such you have found it.

Exceeded my expectations.

Having read the excellent book on which this film was based, I was apprehensive about what Hollywood might do to distort it. Author Bissinger addressed the topic of racism in that book, and my fear was that this would be the sole theme focused on by the film makers. However, to their credit, they made the movie about much more than that -- and when they did touch on the topic, they did so fairly even-handedly, showing from the comments made by some Carter players that racism is a two-sided coin.
This movie is a powerful contrast with "Varsity Blues". That was an entirely forgettable movie because it dealt with fictional characters in cliched situations. "Friday Night Lights", based on true events, portraying real people at real Texas high schools, and showing the agony and ecstasy of the run for the state championship, was a memorable film.

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