[discostu]

Every time I've seen a preview for this I say the same thing:
Someday, in the dim and distant future, some one will figure out how to make a movie about a horse that's not a sad pathetic chick flick

[dirtboy]

Seabiscuit is deeply in love with a nostalgic, rally-round-the-underdog way of life -- a way of life that exists only in old movies and Republican stump speeches

That's a rather hilarious claim, considering that a tour rookie just won the British Open last week.

[.cnI redruM]

Oh, they mean the bad old days before kids got made to read "My Two Daddies" in public school.

[RippleFire]

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[joesnuffy]

"Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public." - H.L. Mencken
If you are gonna steal a quote at least give credit

[Arkie2]

I read the book. I don't remember a single African American character in the whole book. Since the material was meticulously researched this writer obviously wants the director to rewrite history to satisfy his politics. He also obviously has a problem with stories that have a good ending.

[Last Visible Dog]

This movie wants us to cherish "how things used to be," and it's made with so much elan that we may not notice that its version of the truth is nothing but hogwash.

Being that the movie takes place in 1938, how could it not be "how things used to be"

[Paradox]

I have not seen the movie myself, and it doesnt look like "my" kind of movie, but according to a quick scan of the reviews, out of 5 possible stars, the following reviews said thus:

3 stars   - Connie Ogle / Miami Herald 
3 stars   - Lawrence Toppman / The Charlotte Observer
3.5 stars - Mary F.Pols / Contra Costa Times 
2.5 stars - Bruce Newman / Mercury News 
2 stars   - Chris Hewitt / St. Paul Pioneer Press 
3 stars   - Terry Lawson / Detroit Free Press 
3 stars   - Carrie Rickey / Philadelphia Inquirer 

So overall, I'd say those are favorable reviews.

[jpl]

It's always sad to see someone so full of hate.

[Bommer]

Christopher Kelly is a gay Fort Worth Star Telegram film reveiwer who never reveiwed a perverted movie he didn't like. Anything he reviews, I ignore!

[Steely Glint]

Seabiscuit was undersized, he had bad confirmation, he had a bad knee, and he still broke the all-time money-winning record for a horse. He beat the larger and healthier War Admiral, considered by most to be the greatest racehorse living, in a straight up race with no handicaps. And, aged and broken at age seven, he came out of retirement to be ridden by a likewise-broken jockey (who once said that he and Seabiscuit had four good legs between them) to win one last major race and to set that all-time record. There's only one way to do that: it's called heart.

I haven't seen the movie yet, but I will tell you this: it can't be much more inspirational than the truth about Seabiscuit is.

[Drew68]

to the fact that the only African-American character seems to have stepped out of a regional theater production of Driving Miss Daisy,

There seems to be some rule in Hollywood that every film must contain at least one African-American character --preferably in the role of scientist, neuro-surgeon, police captain or the always faithful "Magic Negro" role (i.e., "Green Mile, Legend of Bagger Vance", and many more) where a helpless white dude is brought out of his shell by a mysterious black man who enters his life and makes personal sacrifices so that poor whitey can find his way.

But blacks are never allowed to be criminals. The refreshingly un-PC "Dark Blue" with Kurt Russell deviated slightly from this rule by having a criminal duo portrayed by a white and a black actor.

And if films contain no blacks? That could be big trouble. I honestly remember Spielberg taking heat because his epic "Saving Private Ryan" had no black actors in it. I've further read that Ted Turner will digitize some old films from Hollywood's "Golden Era" of the 1930's-40's. to add some black faces into the backgrounds and as extras.

[mountaineer]

This guy is critical of the movie only because he heard it was shown at the White House the other day. If Bush liked it, he seems to conclude, it's a schmaltzy, bigoted movie for rich Republican white men only.

[Age of Reason]

This movie wants us to cherish "how things used to be,"

Oh, would that ever be a cardinal sin to cherish those things that made America great.

[dead]

Just reading that paragraph, I can tell with absolute certainty that this idiot LOVED that tired, trite "American Beauty" piece of crap.

[Spok]

It's the typical liberal mantra that the only facts of historical significance regarding America involve slavery and segregation, and every commentary on American history that does not center on those issues is a white wash. These people are absolutely obsessed.

[Lopeover]

Ya know what? Chicks are people too and we watch movies. The nerve of that SOB! Hey bud, quit the biz cuz you are no good at it!

I am so profoundly irritated with leftist trolls and their moronic opinion of what I should prefer in a movie!

If I don't like movies that show young stick-like women as sex objects, bumping and grinding their pelvic bones or people having gratuitous sex and nudity, violence, drugs, guys with big dicks, fat heads and stupid BS bravado dialogue, carrying big guns & crashing cars then I am glad to be in the tasteless group!!

What a wonderous day when Hollywood's grotesque elite will get back to telling a good story instead of remaking oldies and mass producing the same old same old assembly line sex & violence crap!

Sign me a fan of Seabisquit

[Donna Lee Nardo]

"...how things used to be"...

Gosh, and liberals just abhore "how things used to be," don't they? They just hate good old traditional moral and family value living, don't they? I hate them all.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Nothing wrong about the "underdog" making it big in the USA! That, my friends, is what the story of America is all about! As for "underdog/hero" films, "Spiderman" sits on top of the heap with $603 million bucks worth of sales! I bring up Spiderman because it is rarely noted that the film opens and closes with the American flag flowing and proudly displayed! My wife and I will be going to see Seabisquit this weekend! God bless America and all who love and cherish her!

[L.N. Smithee]

This movie wants us to cherish "how things used to be," and it's made with so much elan that we may not notice that its version of the truth is nothing but hogwash.

I read the entire review, and was surprised, because the final paragraph came out of nowhere. Writer-director Gary Ross would probably either laugh at or be insulted at such a notion of a "neo-conservative undercurrent" in one of his movies, because he is a former Clinton speechwriter. He is also the writer-director of Pleasantville (1998), a movie that not only didn't "cherish 'the way things used to be,'" it suggested that the 1950's would have been better if teenagers and housewives were promiscuous.