A Message to You, Rudy: You Suck!
The only time I ever came close to being kicked out of someone's class in high school, was over this crappy movie. I love sports movies:
Rocky IV, Hoosiers, Hoop Dreams, Wildcats. But this tripe cannot pass as having any sort of redeeming cinematic qualities whatsoever. First of all, just look at him--that stupid jacket which symbolizes how he has zero talent, zero athleticism, and is a zero because he only achieves his stupid dream through others' pity.
Rudy got to play for three seconds because they were already going to win and the coach and the ENTIRE STADIUM felt sorry for him. That is sad--not inspiring. Even Lucas was more of a hero than Rudy!
I remember how pissed my teacher/coach got when I said that this movie was ridiculous. Yes, I get it, Rudy plays only a small part and understands the value of hard/teamwork. Bite me, you little hobbit twerp. And you too, Rudy. Maybe it'd be a bit more inspiring if they concentrated on the fact that he actually graduated from Notre Dame inspite of his dyslexia. (To be fair, I think this was a footnote during the closing credits.) Or if he'd won the game
for them. But making a tackle that really doesn't even count for anything? How anticlimactic. Yes, so is life, but that is not why we watch sports movies. We watch sports movies to feel that we can end the Cold War by pulling sleds and doing deadlifts with a wagon full of people. We watch them to hope that when the ball comes to us, and the clock's running out, we'll actually make the shot instead of throwing up an airball. Any loser can toil away for years and finally get a pity call to get on the field because
his presence doesn't matter in the least and people are sick of watching him be a desperate loser. (This is called youth soccer, not an inspirational blockbuster.)
Is football season over yet? ; )
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