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AlexB · 12-05-2020, 04:38 AM

I tried to watch This Sporting Life recently, commonly voted the best sports film of all time here in the UK.

It’s a 1960s film starring Richard Harris, about a rugby league player in a northern industrial town, and... it’s bleak. Just bleak. It was well shot and well acted, but all of the characters, literally all of them, are completely unlikeable, and with the backdrop being one of deprivation and hardship, it was just too down for me.

Gave up up halfway through and watched a documentary based on diaries of those in and around Berlin in 1945, which was genuinely less depressing.

4/10 (for the film)
9/10 for ‘Berlin 1945’ documentary (BBC iPlayer)

12-05-2020, 04:38 AM	#7249
AlexB Pro Starter Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Newbury, England	I tried to watch This Sporting Life recently, commonly voted the best sports film of all time here in the UK. It’s a 1960s film starring Richard Harris, about a rugby league player in a northern industrial town, and... it’s bleak. Just bleak. It was well shot and well acted, but all of the characters, literally all of them, are completely unlikeable, and with the backdrop being one of deprivation and hardship, it was just too down for me. Gave up up halfway through and watched a documentary based on diaries of those in and around Berlin in 1945, which was genuinely less depressing. 4/10 (for the film) 9/10 for ‘Berlin 1945’ documentary (BBC iPlayer) __________________ 'A song is a beautiful lie', Idlewild, Self Healer. When you're smiling, the whole world smiles with you. Sports!