Ameriatch
One of the best films i have seen
BelSports
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Tayloriona
Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.
dodgester
While this movie doesn't rank high for entertainment purposes, I certainly relate to the movie, not because of the Gymnastics, but because of what Steve was put through as a child, just as I was put through by my own mother to the point she permanently lost parental rights of me. Don't get me wrong, foster care system was no fun either because of all the stigmatism that comes with being a foster child. The only good things I can say about the foster care system, it did break me out of that vicious abusive cycle as it also gave me various experiences to draw from, but on the other hand, having to do go through daily beatings on school grounds and be treated like I couldn't learn or do anything all because of me being a foster child, learning disabled, and having to deal with epileptic seizures that were only progressively getting worse until I had the laser brain operation done to be rid of them things permanently when I was 20, is no proper treatment of a foster child either.As for my social life, that was only corrected via Cross Country running as well as Track & Field as a distance runner. I was one of the top distance runners in the state of Michigan despite the facts I had to keep my adrenaline in check in attempt to prevent the seizures from happening during the races thus I had to strategize my races, and I was taking 2,700mgs of Tegretol per day, that's a downer, thus you would have thought that would have slowed me down.The whole relationship thing seemed it wasn't well prepared, but did have some good points in there too.While Steve go through periods of quitting, this is one area where I differ. While I have had setbacks, I don't quit. It was so bad to the point, I was like, how dare anyone tell me I can't do something, especially in areas that I am exceptionally good at and yet, they attempted to hold me back in those same areas trying to make me out as if I couldn't learn anything. Example, yes, I ended up dropping out of college due to funds and other reasons, but eventually, I went back and no wonder why I was able to do 4 years of education work including preparing for and taking all 4 CPA exams, all the while earning my Masters of 51 quarter credit hours with a 3.67 overall GPA on a 4.0 scale, after having earned 90.5 quarter credit hours for my BBA within 15 months to earn a 3.88 overall GPA on a 4.0 scale. All of that was done within 28 months. On the other hand when a school forces you to retake "General Math" in 8th grade when you already passed that very course in the 7th grade with the second highest overall grade for the year out of 31 students, and then use the excuse my records were lost in the mail, that's very bad. They even attempted to hold me back in the 9th grade, but only claim it was high school level as if it was any harder, when even the "Pre-Algebra" course didn't have anything new in it until the 4th quarter.
Fluke_Skywalker
'American Anthem' is an awful sports melodrama starring Olympic gold medal gymnast Mitch Gaylord and Mrs. Wayne Gretzky as... gymnasts. From the director of 'Purple Rain', covering many of the same themes, but without Prince's music to bolster it. There was potential for some cheesy fun here, but the whole thing gets so bogged down in its family melodrama that any fun is sucked right out of it.Gaylord certainly had teen idol looks, but his acting had less range than a slingshot. But in his defense no actor could've done anything with this drivel. Even the montages are lame, and for an 80s film that's a no-no.
cmeride79
I appeared in American Anthem as an extra; recruited for a part in the cast appearing as "Mitch's Dad's" bike shop 'gang'. The major portion of the movie, filmed in Flagstaff, AZ, was much more 'laid back' than the whole "town rallies around the gymnast" scenes, filmed in Phoenix. Shooting and relocations for scene changes seemed to flow smoothly enough; I don't remember but a day or two of repetitious "take 12" scenarios...and I did follow the shooting of the movie beyond just the parts in which "the gang" and I were involved. It was a pleasure working with pleasant, seasoned Tiny Wells. In the end, however, I was disappointed at the culminated result, and wasn't surprised that American Anthem didn't do better at the box office. Frankly, I would love have loved to have seen a lot of what ended up on the cutting room floor. One completely absent scene that I remember, shot in Phoenix, lit a parade of "Mitch's Dad" and his 'constituents', arriving at the gym on the day of the big meet. There were high, long and rack-shots of a shining, side-by-side parade of growling Harleys, rolling down echoing streets. The head-turning entourage pulled into the gymnasium parking lot as a great black dragon would glide on it's wings from the precipice of it's cave...and the crowds looked on...spine-tingling, classic stuff, and good, albeit absent, material.
Edgard-6
I dont know why they rated the movie with 3.7, I think this movie is a GYMNASTIC CLASSIC, I really loved it. I don´t agree with other people that didn´t like it, I remembered when i first saw it, i was like 12 years old and I totally loved the movie and the actress, that is really hot. Well, if you like GYMNASTICS you can´t miss this great movie.
