• Apeman42@lemmy.world
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    21 hours ago

    It didn’t click until I’d finished watching it that they’d tricked me into loving a sports underdog movie.

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      11 hours ago

      It’s true. The cocky rival who cheats, the training montages, the win despite all odds… It has every trope of the genre with a medieval set dressing.

      Why dont they do this with more genres? Like I want a musician biopic movie ala Bohemian Rhapsody or Rocketman about a couple bards in England in the dark ages, and it is just Simon and Garfunkel doing Simon and Garfunkel songs on lyres and flutes completely anachronistically. Not satirically. Completely earnestly and yet fun.