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Film School Rejects: Movie Review: ‘Semi-Pro’ is only Semi-Good

  • Robert Fure · 1 year ago
    Well I don't even like basketball and don't care about the facts, so this should be perfect!
  • Alex · 1 year ago
    Jeez, you are mighty critical of factual information in a Will Ferrell movie. The ABA had a playoff system? Big deal. The Spurs were never on top? Oh no!

    I agree with you on your opinion of the movie, I found Ferrell's shtick to be very old and stale. But to complain that the depiction of the ABA was inaccurate? Please.
  • Robert · 7 months ago
    The movie sucks.

    But JEEEEZUS, not because the Amigos folded before '76 or whatever the hell your gripe is. Or that the merger occurred in the off-season. Or that the draft would have been different.

    These are NOT "inconsistencies." This is NOT "revisionist history."

    Where did you ever get the idea that is ANY KIND OF HISTORY AT ALL????

    This is a MOVIE. IE MADE UP. And they've got 1.5 hours to tell a story that compresses a SHORT amount of time. Why the hell would they have the story take place in the OFF SEASON???

    You think they're banking on the "1970 ABA fans who want to see a comedic but historically accurate depiction of the defunct league" as some sort of core demographic???

    You remember the ABA.

    Good for you.

    Here's a lollypop. No one else cares.

    Did you see TITANIC?

    Did you bitch that all four smokestacks were belching smoke as the ship pulled out to sea?

    NO??????

    Why not?????

    The ACTUAL Titanic had THREE working smokestacks and one FAKE smokestack.

    Did the filmmakers know that? Sure. Did they care? No. Why? Because it's a movie and they wanted it to LOOK GOOD. For every dude who would be happy with three "historically accurate" belching smokestacks, there would have been 50 million wondering what was wrong with the fourth smokestack.

    Don't you feel slighted by this "inconsistency" -- this blatant "revisionist history"?

    No -- and neither should you. Because it doesn't matter.

    Because ...

    It's a MOVIE.

    Not a news report. Not a documentary. Or whatever else you imagine encapsulates the "TRUTH."

    A MOVIE.

    And by the way, neither news reports nor documentaries are "TRUTH." All art, and all reportage, is subjective.

    And not that it matters -- but I'm in the UCLA Film School graduate program in screenwriting.

    You keep up movie logic like yours and you will perpetually remain a film school reject.