A Trailer for Fred Durst's Football Movie
Filed under: Comedy, Trailers and Clips
What fresh hell is this? Rapper and rabblerouser Fred Durst gets a chance to make a movie, and he comes up with... a heartwarming tale of a girl who wants to play football, and the underdog team that she joins? Starring Ice Cube? There's a trailer for The Longshots here, but it's... how do you say... uninspiring. Part of it could be the insufferable voiceover ("he was a hero who lost his way; she was a loner who didn't belong" -- you don't say), but really the entire thing looks like, oh, every movie ever made. Every underdog sports movie ever made, anyway, and God knows there are plenty of them.A bit disappointing from the man who once called Creed's Scott Stapp a "f****ing punk" on stage. This isn't Durst's directorial debut -- that would be The Education of Charlie Banks, which played last year's Tribeca and won the award for Best Movie Made in New York. It was about a cat-and-mouse game between a bully and the kid who put him in jail years earlier. I didn't see it, but it sounds like a much grittier film. The Longshots is just weird -- there's no particular reason for Durst to have become a Hollywood hack-for-hire, so one would think he has some emotional connection to this project. I wonder what it could be.










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5-29-2008 @ 4:24PM
MCW said...
I'm sure if Fred Durst read your "scathing" preview, he would tell you - Eugene - to stick a cookie up your YEAH. :D
"...the man who once called Creed's Scott Stapp a "f****ing punk" on stage..."
That makes him a true American Hero in my book.
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5-30-2008 @ 9:22AM
Blair Mitchelmore said...
Maybe Fred Durst, being a rapper, wanted to work with one of the guys that inspired him to become a rapper in the first place, Ice Cube.
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