is that film Invictus about the south african rugby team worth a watching?
i don't really wanna waste 2 hrs 30 mins if it is crap
anyone seen it??
whats yer opinion??
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If you’re a fan of rugby and you want to watch the rugby scenes, don’t bother. They’re contrived and occassionally they even flaunt the rules.
If you are interested in Mandella, his origins, his policies, his leadership style, then you should definitely watch it. Being a huge rugby fan I was probably disappointed a little because of the poor rugby content (that dude looks nothing like Lomu!), but Mandella’s story and this story specifically, are quite inspiring.
Simply a rugby fan? Don’t watch.
Like a "rags to riches" story? This isn’t a bad one.
Interested in Mandella? A must see.
Saw it yesterday. Not a bad film, but could have been better. Flat script, I feel.
Rugby scenes were good. I do recall the Springboks hammering the All Blacks in defence, not just Jonah Lomu. The final was a scrappy kickfest.
The film focuses more on Mandela and Pienaar than Rugby.
Wait until DVD release.
A lot of New Zealanders will tell you that the desperation in Mandela needing the Sth African rugby team to win was ‘at all costs’. They will also question how odd, coincidental and suspicious it was that the night before the final the NZ All Black team were gived ‘laced food’ that effecively knocked them out before the game had even started. They were so ill some players vomitted on the field of play during the game. And you would get a different story from the Sth African supporters and not one second of the truth would be in the movie.
I would finish off by saying that before ‘nuetral’ referees were introduced to Int. rugby not a single visiting team had ever beaten the Springboks on their own home grounds with their OWN referees taking the matches. Strange that huh ????????
I wouldn’t bother .. the World Cup scenes are not factual, apart from the fact that South Africa won. Not a mention of the New Zealand players mysteriously coming down with food poisoning, or (as those of us who saw the game will never forget) the All Black bringing his heart up on the sidelines during the game.
It’s really a film about Nelson Mandela’s efforts to unite black and white South Africa under one flag, and his decision to try and do this with the rugby team.
I haven’t seen it and I normally wouldn’t comment but I’ll make an exception this time and declare that from what Ive heard it’s absolutely abominable.
It’s a Mandella ‘love in’ If you’re naive enough to believe in that dross rather than reality, then I guess you’d like it.
Bandit. See Josh Kronfeld’s version of events. ABs held a BBQ themselves and according to Kronfeld, that, if anywhere, is where the upset stomachs came from.
It is more political than rugby orientated!
Mandela become President of the RSA in 1994 and used the RWC in 1995 to unite black and white people!
Morgan Freeman, who is up for best actor, did not know a "bean" (http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/I-didn39t-know-beans-about.6030267.jp) about rugby and I doubt the other actors did either! But there were ex rugby players giving advice!?!?!
So my guessing is, your looking for a film about rugby, if so, don’t bother if you think Matt Damon will play like Francois Pienaar………he does not!
But the film itself is worth seeing if you are a film buff!
It is sure to have more than one nomination in many awards this year!
If you understand that it is a movie about Nelson Mandela - not rugby - and if you are inclined toward a sympathetic viewpoint of Mr.Mandela, then it is a fine movie.
My own opinion is that Nelson Mandela gave his country - Black, White and everyone generally - a wonderful, irreplaceable gift of grace and forgiveness, a model of behavior and thoughtfulness that placed the whole of the country above his own experience. [Look at Zim for how badly it might have gone.] That comes through in the movie, actually.
Hamba gashle, Umgani,
Mark L.