Ali (2001)
Title: 'Ali' (2001)
Genre: Classy Biopic
Rating: 8/10
I saw Lance Armstrong on David Letterman a couple of weeks ago. Letterman was going on about how most people don't realize just how grueling the Tour de France is. That it may be the single most demanding sport event. That Lance Armstrong exhibited an unprecedented level of endurance and strength.
Bull Shit.
The most hard core ever? Let's think... That insane Borg and McEnroe Tie Break at Wimbledon that required oxygen tanks to be bussed in for the audience and a helicopter food drop organized by the Territiorial Army? Pele heading the ball into Mexico's net, causing the birth of String Theory? Michael Jordan vs. Portland, sinking 35 points the first half of Game 1, turning to the announcers and shrugging like 'Fuck, I don't know either'? Achilles slapping the shit out of Hector? Superman stomping Zod, Ursa and Non?
No.
It ain't even Lance Armstrong winning his 7th straight Tour de France title, and that's 15,631 miles of screaming French people.
It's this here. God damn if they didn't manage to catch it in a photo:
This is the part where everybody: Foreman, the Ref, everybody in the god damn stadium and watching around the world, everybody except Muhammad Ali is thinking 'What the fuck just happened? What fucking day is it?'
Nothing else has come close or ever will.
You wanna compare riding a bike to spending 8 rounds as George Foreman's punching bag? That Mofo does not 'hit' people, he rearranges molecules. Your face, your digestive tract, whatever. That guys fists are like runaway Buicks. Fuck that. You're gonna lay against the ropes and take that? This is the original 'rope-a-dope'. How in the holy hell is any mortal man going to take that abuse and then explode like a fucking hornets nest in the 8th round? That shit is legend.
Fuck you, David Letterman.
This movie is a lot better than I thought it would be. But if you want the real deal, go rent 'When We Were Kings' (1996), the truth is better than fiction and the soundtrack is hotter.
This is a hell of a decent biopic though.
Judgement: Rent it.
Genre: Classy Biopic
Rating: 8/10
I saw Lance Armstrong on David Letterman a couple of weeks ago. Letterman was going on about how most people don't realize just how grueling the Tour de France is. That it may be the single most demanding sport event. That Lance Armstrong exhibited an unprecedented level of endurance and strength.
Bull Shit.
The most hard core ever? Let's think... That insane Borg and McEnroe Tie Break at Wimbledon that required oxygen tanks to be bussed in for the audience and a helicopter food drop organized by the Territiorial Army? Pele heading the ball into Mexico's net, causing the birth of String Theory? Michael Jordan vs. Portland, sinking 35 points the first half of Game 1, turning to the announcers and shrugging like 'Fuck, I don't know either'? Achilles slapping the shit out of Hector? Superman stomping Zod, Ursa and Non?
No.
It ain't even Lance Armstrong winning his 7th straight Tour de France title, and that's 15,631 miles of screaming French people.
It's this here. God damn if they didn't manage to catch it in a photo:
This is the part where everybody: Foreman, the Ref, everybody in the god damn stadium and watching around the world, everybody except Muhammad Ali is thinking 'What the fuck just happened? What fucking day is it?'
Nothing else has come close or ever will.
You wanna compare riding a bike to spending 8 rounds as George Foreman's punching bag? That Mofo does not 'hit' people, he rearranges molecules. Your face, your digestive tract, whatever. That guys fists are like runaway Buicks. Fuck that. You're gonna lay against the ropes and take that? This is the original 'rope-a-dope'. How in the holy hell is any mortal man going to take that abuse and then explode like a fucking hornets nest in the 8th round? That shit is legend.
Fuck you, David Letterman.
This movie is a lot better than I thought it would be. But if you want the real deal, go rent 'When We Were Kings' (1996), the truth is better than fiction and the soundtrack is hotter.
This is a hell of a decent biopic though.
Judgement: Rent it.
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