Majorthebys Charming and brutal

ChicRawIdol A brilliant film that helped define a genre

SpunkySelfTwitter It’s an especially fun movie from a director and cast who are clearly having a good time allowing themselves to let loose.

Portia Hilton Blistering performances.

kcalbertina59 There are certainly a few things to really like about this movie. I really like sports movies and this one certainly delivers on sports action, that for the most part, looked realistic.I thought Josh Lucas did an excellent job as Don Haskins, although his actually resemblance to Coach Haskins is minimal. All of the acting was decent. The movie moves at a pretty good clip and keeps you interested.And it's a great story about a great team...except apparently someone didn't think the story was good enough, because they took this really good story and changed it until it barely resembles the true story.Yes, Texas Western won the NCAA title that year with an all African- American starting lineup and they did beat an all white Kentucky team in the finals and those two teams were coached by Haskins and Adolph Rupp. But after that, the movie is closer to a work of pure fiction than it is fact.You just have to wonder what kinds of discussions go on when these projects are being developed. Yeah, it's a great story, but we really need to change it around, make up a few things, and you know what...why don't we just make most of it up.There was one scene in the movie that portrayed the Miners traveling to East Texas State for a game and showing an extremely hostile, racist crowd. The only problem with that scene is that Texas Western didn't play East Texas State on the road that season, they played them at home in the 2nd game of the season. I'm not saying that what was portrayed never happened, but it certainly didn't happen that season, which (oh by the way) was not Haskins 1st year at TW (it was his 5th season) and (oh by the way) the seven players featured in the movie were not all brought in during the same year (during the championship season, two were seniors, two were juniors, and three were sophomores).The facts of the Kansas game in the regional finals were equally ignored for the sake of who knows what. At least they got Jo Jo White's name correct.If it weren't for the mis-truths, made up stuff, etc., I probably could have given this a 7. It is a decent movie. But why make up a bunch of stuff when the original story was good enough as it was.

tieman64 A well meaning but formulaic film, James Gartner's "Glory Road" stars Josh Lucas as Don Haskins, head coach of Texas Western College. Based on a true story, and set in the late 1960s, the film details the formation of the NCAA's first all black starting lineup.At its best, "Glory Road" explores issues of racism, discrimination and social isolation. At its worst, this is a reductive, by-the-numbers film whose climax assigns false triumph to ongoing issues. There's also something tawdry about a co-production between Jerry Bruckheimer and Walt Disney Pictures attempting to promote black consciousness and black pride.Still, "Glory Road" sheds some light on an interesting part of history. It climaxes with a 1966 championship game, a game which would mark a key point in racial integration, and instigate a shift from basketball being labelled a white sport to it becoming a primarily black activity (in terms of race association and participation). "Glory Road" co-stars Jon Voight as a weaselly rival coach.7/10 – See "Inside Moves" and "He Got Game".

Abhishek Pandey Glory Road. A real life events turned to a movie. The movie is all about a coach (or may be I could say a 'Girls' Coach', as has been named a few times in the movie, cause he was a girls coach before. But he was not only that. Take my words on that)who accumulates players from different territories to form a Basketball team.Basketball team of the college, he is a coach. Since, his college is short of funds, he don't get that big names cause all are already taken up. He still chose 12 from different walks of life, out of which 7 are black and 5 are white. Considered as an underdog, the team finally raises to winning their games to the finale. Where they met, the Kansas, reigning Champion and a seasoned. But, they beat them and won not only National Championship but Glory as well. In between, they were put down by 'crackers', people who can't digest the blacks playing the game or may be playing it so well :-)"If you will quit today, you will be quitting, each and every day for the rest of your life."Verdict: A nice one.

moto_x_boi_22 Black or White We Fight Along Glory Road1.) The movie was about a mixed race basketball team and throughout the movie they had to learn to work together as a team with black and white players to win the National Championship. During the movie they struggled to deal with racism on and off the court. It's a mixed race basket ball team trying to win the National championship. 2.) The movie is set in Texas Western in 1965, It's a mixed race basket ball team trying to win the National championship The main characters were: • Don Haskins- coach • Bobby Joe Hill- One of the black players • Harry Flowrnoy –'' '' • Willie "scoop" Cager- " " • Neville Shed – " "3.) Josh Lucas was Don Haskins – he did a good job at playing the coach it would have been the hardest roll in the movie. Derek Luke was bobby Joe Hill- he played a character with a heart condition witch put him on the side lines cheering for his team. 4.) I liked watching basketball and how they overcome all the bad racism (eg : when one of the black players got bashed in the toilet)They proved that they were just as good anyone else. 5.) No what the obstacle's or problem is thrown at you , if you keep pushing for word you can achieve anything. 6.) Teenagers & upwards would like this movie, I would recommend this to males because most of the racist Slurs came from the males and the movie is all about sport. The MPAA rating for glory road is PG and I feel it is worth a look. I would give this movie 5/10 ratingJames is 15, he was born on 29th February 1996 and he only get a birthday every 4 years. This is his first year at Denmark Agriculture college.