Simply Perfect

Great example of an old-fashioned, pure-at-heart escapist event movie that doesn't pretend to be anything that it's not and has boat loads of fun being its own ludicrous self.

It's the kind of movie you'll want to see a second time with someone who hasn't seen it yet, to remember what it was like to watch it for the first time.

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

In 1965, the coach of the high school girl basketball team Don Haskins (Josh Lucas) is invited by the Texas Western Miners to be their coach. Despite the lack of budget, Haskins sees the chance to dispute the NCAA and moves with his wife and children to the college dormitory. He recruits seven talented and rejected black players to play with five Caucasian players and formed a legendary team that wined the 1966 national championship against the powerful Kentucky."Glory Road" is an engaging film with a great message based on a true story. In a period when the racism was explicit in the USA, Don Haskins challenged many people with his team of black players implementing discipline and training and winning the NCAA against all the odds. The film shows the difficulties and prejudice the players were submitted and how they superseded all the relationship problems proving that they were equal to (or even better than) the white players. My vote is eight.Title (Brazil): "Estrada para a Glória" ("Road to the Glory")

Glory Road has to be one of the best movies I've seen in my life. I would easily rank in my top 20, perhaps like #17. I like the movie because it was simple but still had you on the edge of your seat the whole time. You would always wonder "whats gonna happen" or "Oh my, whats next". It was time appropriate. It took place in Southern 1960's and that is exactly how they played it. Almost every time you thought, something that is suppose to happen, will happen, it turned out be just the opposite. It wasn't like those typical sports dark horse movies at all. If you know what I mean. It stands out from those movies because it filled with irony. Glory Road is filled with ironic parts. Some you will get right away. And some you might have to think about for awhile. Derek Luke did a great job playing Bobby Joe Hill. For a second, I actually thought he was a basketball player. Josh Lucas also did a fantastic job playing Don Haskins. He had character and played his role with emotion. Hard to find actors like that anymore. Overall, Glory Road turned out to be a suspenseful, emotional, unpredictable movie that I really enjoyed and wouldn't mind seeing again.

The movie makers here seem to want to just make up history rather than tap into it. This movie is a whole lot more fictionalized than, say, Moneyball (2011), almost to the point of ridiculousness. Various IMDb reviewers have pointed out inaccuracies about Don Haskins' tenure at Texas Western, the movie's characterization of certain games during the Miners' 1965-66 season, and the use of African-American players at Texas Western and elsewhere before and during Haskin's term as coach. Besides all that, the movie makers in the first few minutes, in the part about Haskins' high school coaching, have made little effort to learn anything from the Texas Film Commission or from the state's long-time association for public school athletic competition, the University Interscholastic League (UIL). Haskins coached at Benjamin, Hedley, and Dumas, all UIL school systems. He departed in 1961 for Texas Western, rather than in 1965 a mere year before the Texas Western national championship. The movie opens with a 1965 girls' state championship game being played in Fort Worth. State championships both boys and girls were, in the 1960s, played in Austin, not Fort Worth, and still are played in Austin. Neither Benjamin, Hedley, nor Dumas placed a girls' team in a state championship game until 1980, Dumas didn't even have a girls' high school basketball team in 1961-1965 because schools in the two largest enrollment-size classes were late coming to the sport. Dumas certainly didn't and doesn't have the type of hill or butte topographical relief the movie depicts on the outskirts of town. This resembles Days of Heaven (1978) which incongruously had mountains on the horizon near Amarillo and The Buddy Holly Story (1978) which incongruously had mountains on the horizon near Lubbock. So the film early on pretty much wipes out any patience on the part of viewers who have the slightest clue about Texas high school basketball or Texas geography. Which is a lot of viewers, because girls' basketball is big in Texas and fans have to drive through Texas geography to go from game to game.

Walking Down Glory Road.I just finished watching the film glory road it's a sport/drama basketball movie with a mostly black players which a lot of people didn't like because it was a very racist time in the 1960's I am going to give you my opinion on this film.Don Haskins was trance furred to a new basket ball team (Texas Miners) He had to choose new players because the original team was not good at all. There were a lot of black players in the team and the public didn't like that very much. They were a the most winning team for most of the season then some one wrote racist term on the walls of there hotel rooms which bring the black players down and they lost a game. Which made Don Haskins very angry because they didn't play as a team.Josh Lucas as Don Haskins. He fitted in well with his character and scene in the locker room was one of my top favorite with his performance in this film. Derik Luke as bobby Joe Hill. Showed he passion for basket ball very well even though he had a heart problem he still wanted to play basketball he risked his life for the team. Austin Nicholas as Jerry Armstrong. Jon Adolph Rupp. Even Jones as Moe Lba. Al Shear. Did a good job as Nevil Shed he showed a strong character for his race and passion for basket ball. He failed at times as an actor in some if his scenes. When the teams were playing there games all the shot were set up and cheese because they are all swishes which in a real basketball they would get it of the back board of the ring. The locker room scene was good because they showed grate emotions. The message that I got across that the black player (black people) were the minority in that year (1960's to 1970's.) which was not a good thing for the black people. So show more respect to people of all races. a I would recommend the movie to teenagers up ward. Younger kids wouldn't get the story as well as a more mature person. M would be the age that would be able to get the story and the message.Movie Rating is B. star rating ***. Number rating 4.0