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Reviewing "42" - the Jackie Robinson baseball biopic
various | April 13, 2013

Posted on 04/13/2013 11:53:57 AM PDT by EveningStar

Is anyone planning to see this?

Has anyone already seen it? If so, what did you think of it?

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Review from The Orange County Register: '42' swings for the fences, but it's one, two, three strikes

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TOPICS: Sports; TV/Movies
KEYWORDS: 42; baseball; biopic; branchrickey; cinema; film; harrisonford; jackierobinson; movies
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To: Fiji Hill

21 posted on 04/13/2013 12:37:34 PM PDT by x
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To: EveningStar
Hollywood keeps trotting out these stale, tired race "heroes," as though we haven't had our fill of learning what rotten, oppressive, SOBs we white men have been all these centuries.

If Jackie Robinson was a hero, good for him. But then so was Billie Holliday, Malcolm X, Arthur Ashe, Jesse Owen, and the thousands of other black celebs we're heard about endlessly in the last few decades.

22 posted on 04/13/2013 12:40:53 PM PDT by IronJack (=)
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To: IronJack

Where are the bios about Booker T Washington and George Washington Carver?


23 posted on 04/13/2013 12:41:45 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: EveningStar

Archie Bunker said Robinson changed the whole color of the game.


24 posted on 04/13/2013 12:43:11 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican
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To: EveningStar

The party of Al Gore Sr. was SO much more principled. NOT. Voting against the civil rights act. Making his maid sit in the car while they dined in restaurants.

We are told that KKK Democrats like Robert Byrd HAD to do such things to be politically viable in their communities.

RIGHT. UH HUH.


25 posted on 04/13/2013 12:44:21 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: latina4dubya

Harrison Ford has said that the gay marriage issue is the same as Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in baseball.

Enjoy your movie.


26 posted on 04/13/2013 12:45:39 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (America 2013 - STUCK ON STUPID)
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To: EveningStar

I wonder if the film mentions he was a Republican. That seems to be all but forgotten about Dr. MLK, so “color” me pessimistic.


27 posted on 04/13/2013 1:03:27 PM PDT by katana (Just my opinions)
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To: IronJack
“Hollywood keeps trotting out these stale, tired race “heroes,” as though we haven't had our fill of learning what rotten, oppressive, SOBs we white men have been all these centuries.”

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That right there is a good reason not to see this pic. Sounds to me like this will be another white guilt flick. I don't need this.

28 posted on 04/13/2013 1:08:49 PM PDT by fatnotlazy
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To: EveningStar

Another hate whitey film that I get to vote with my pocketbook.


29 posted on 04/13/2013 1:14:48 PM PDT by exPBRrat
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To: EveningStar
Robinson's jersey number has been permenantly retired by Major League Baseball. The number is on the walls of every MLB stadium in the league along with the other retired jersey numbers of other players. They have Jackie Robinson Day at the parks where every player wears #42.

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Americans and even Jackie Robinson have gotten over it. It's time for the race pimps in Hollyweird to get with the program and get over it too.

30 posted on 04/13/2013 1:21:14 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (Dude! Where's my Bill of Rights?)
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31 posted on 04/13/2013 1:24:13 PM PDT by RedMDer (May we always be happy and may our enemies always know it. - Sarah Palin, 10-18-2010)
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To: Fiji Hill

Heard a great story directly from a former player in his nineties about how Howard Jones defended Robinson while he was at UCLA, but I won’t divulge here. Hoping to write bio of the coach’s life.


32 posted on 04/13/2013 1:26:03 PM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: EveningStar

I’ll take a contrarian view. Unlike all the race pimps that have piggy-backed on his greatness, Jackie Robinson really was the real deal - what he did really did matter and I have total respect for the man on and off the field.

I’m sympathetic to the anti-Hollywood anti-PC sentiment but I like Jackie and I happened to think that the movie rendered a slice of his life in a fairly realistic manner.

Ymmv.


34 posted on 04/13/2013 1:28:50 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: a fool in paradise
Harrison Ford has said that the gay marriage issue is the same as Jackie Robinson breaking the color barrier in baseball.

haha... omgosh--that is sooo lame... yes, he is disappointing... i think i will enjoy the movie... i tend to like baseball movies... The Sand Lot is my all-time favorite kids movie...

35 posted on 04/13/2013 1:29:44 PM PDT by latina4dubya
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
Jackie Robinson really was the real deal - what he did really did matter and I have total respect for the man on and off the field. I’m sympathetic to the anti-Hollywood anti-PC sentiment but I like Jackie and I happened to think that the movie rendered a slice of his life in a fairly realistic manner.

i appreciate your perspective... i look forward to seeing the movie...

36 posted on 04/13/2013 1:31:29 PM PDT by latina4dubya
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To: EveningStar

I’d be curious to know if this movie is based on amy book in particular. In 2007 for the 50 year anniversary of Robinson’s rookie season Jonathan Eig wrote a book called Opening Day about Robinson’s first season in which he questined some populkar myths concerning Robinson such as the Pee Wee Reese story.


37 posted on 04/13/2013 1:35:25 PM PDT by fkabuckeyesrule
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To: latina4dubya

I love period pieces and the attention to detail here makes the movie fun - the cars, the clothes, the stuff you find in hotel rooms, locker rooms, offices. I have a pretty strong sense that they didn’t get the lingo of the day right - several times they used words or phrases that I don’t think would have been in use back then - that would have made it even better IMHO.


38 posted on 04/13/2013 1:36:31 PM PDT by 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
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To: katana

Why should the film mention his political party?


39 posted on 04/13/2013 1:39:22 PM PDT by EveningStar ("What color is the sky in your world?" -- Frasier Crane)
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To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
I love period pieces and the attention to detail here makes the movie fun -

yes, so do i! i soon as i saw the trailer, i knew i would pay to see this movie... and i also love sports, baseball in particular... and professional sports at that... that people take the sport so seriously as to make a living from it--in many forms... from the players to the managers, scouts, agents, refs, owners, etc... i find it intriguing...

one of my all-time favorite movies is Cinderella Man--another period piece with two of my favorite actors--Russell Crowe and Paul Giamatti, whose father was the commissioner of MLB...

40 posted on 04/13/2013 1:43:54 PM PDT by latina4dubya
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