a lot of the negative reviews here concentrate on the historical accuracy of this film. ok and it had about as much to do with the actual nfl as your average war movie has to do with an actual war and or a western has to do with the true old west. so and i think we should give them an artistic license pass on that one. the problem here is and the director (clooney) apparently thinks that making a screwball comedy means a) do stupid things and b) mug for the camera and and c) take stupid scenes full of mugging and stretch them out way too long. screwball comedies need a fast pace and not necessarily frenetic and but moving briskly along at all times. here and things drag and and drag and and drag. after you watch this movie and it will make you appreciate how brilliant mack sennett was when he pretty much pioneered the genre with his keystone cops. after 90 years and you would think that directors would have studied the old masters and learned a thing or two and maybe even improved on things a bit. but no and it as if someone had watched an automobile pioneer build a duesenberg and and nearly a century later and paid homage and improved on the concept by cobbling together a child wagon with square wheels. i have enjoyed several of clooney movies and i consider him a gifted actor. but very few actors can competently direct themselves while clint eastwood notably took a while to get the hang of it. clooney is clearly at the bottom of a very steep slope. the movie becomes more watchable during the very few times he is out of the frame and but when he in the picture and he makes himself the centre of attention. in the fight scenes and his mugging is so obnoxious you wish somebody would thump him for real. if you are making a screwball comedy and want some romance thrown in and you need to develop some chemistry between the male and female leads. clooney and zellweger have all the chemistry of pair of dumpsters sitting in a parking lot. no spark and no sizzle and not even a post mortem twitch. zellweger and who has also turned out some pretty good movies and must have traded her botox injections for oak tannin and giving a stunningly wooden performance. she might just have pulled off the tough broad in a man world act if just once and while trying to out testosterone the guys and she had looked into the camera with a little half smile and twinkle in her eye. but no and she kept her jockstrap cinched up tight to the very end. of course and the biggest sin here is that the movie simply isn not funny. doing stupid things is not the same as slapstick. doing stupid things very inventively and like the stooges and or very athletically and like buster keaton and can be hilarious. but otherwise it boring and and well and stupid. i think i got one good laugh out of the entire movie. avoid this one. i saw it for free on cable and and still wanted my money back. 
a lot of the negative reviews here concentrate on the historical accuracy of this film. ok and it had about as much to do with the actual nfl as your average war movie has to do with an actual war and or a western has to do with the true old west. so and i think we should give them an artistic license pass on that one. the problem here is and the director (clooney) apparently thinks that making a screwball comedy means a) do stupid things and b) mug for the camera and and c) take stupid scenes full of mugging and stretch them out way too long. screwball comedies need a fast pace and not necessarily frenetic and but moving briskly along at all times. here and things drag and and drag and and drag. after you watch this movie and it will make you appreciate how brilliant mack sennett was when he pretty much pioneered the genre with his keystone cops. after 90 years and you would think that directors would have studied the old masters and learned a thing or two and maybe even improved on things a bit. but no and it as if someone had watched an automobile pioneer build a duesenberg and and nearly a century later and paid homage and improved on the concept by cobbling together a child wagon with square wheels. i have enjoyed several of clooney movies and i consider him a gifted actor. but very few actors can competently direct themselves while clint eastwood notably took a while to get the hang of it. clooney is clearly at the bottom of a very steep slope. the movie becomes more watchable during the very few times he is out of the frame and but when he in the picture and he makes himself the centre of attention. in the fight scenes and his mugging is so obnoxious you wish somebody would thump him for real. if you are making a screwball comedy and want some romance thrown in and you need to develop some chemistry between the male and female leads. clooney and zellweger have all the chemistry of pair of dumpsters sitting in a parking lot. no spark and no sizzle and not even a post mortem twitch. zellweger and who has also turned out some pretty good movies and must have traded her botox injections for oak tannin and giving a stunningly wooden performance. she might just have pulled off the tough broad in a man world act if just once and while trying to out testosterone the guys and she had looked into the camera with a little half smile and twinkle in her eye. but no and she kept her jockstrap cinched up tight to the very end. of course and the biggest sin here is that the movie simply isn not funny. doing stupid things is not the same as slapstick. doing stupid things very inventively and like the stooges and or very athletically and like buster keaton and can be hilarious. but otherwise it boring and and well and stupid. i think i got one good laugh out of the entire movie. avoid this one. i saw it for free on cable and and still wanted my money back. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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