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Post by augiesannie on Aug 30, 2013 1:11:12 GMT
This looks really good -- of course, I can remember the real events it depicts, and if you weren't living in the US at the time (or if you weren't alive then!) it may or may not grab you the way it did me. Alas, I don't get HBO. Click here to see the preview |
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Post by paula on Aug 31, 2013 4:15:13 GMT
I was alive and living in the US at the time, but was very small when all that happened, so I don't remember anything about it. LOL! Also, I have little to no interest in boxing or sports in general, so it's not anything I'd have been likely to pay attention to, even if I'd been old enough to care. However.... Christopher Plummer is in this movie, so OF COURSE I want to see it!  But I don't get HBO either. Do we dare hope it might be released on DVD at some point?  |
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Post by lemacd on Aug 31, 2013 4:45:26 GMT
it could be... or maybe you have a friend w/ HBO that owes you a favor.
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Post by augiesannie on Aug 31, 2013 10:38:34 GMT
My son casually remarked that everyone watches these things online, on illegal sites, a month or two after they air, so there's hope for us. (He was watching old episodes of the West Wing online at the time).
I don't think it was about the boxing -- not my thing -- it was so intensely about the war, and race. As I'm sure you can imagine.
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Post by utility_singer on Oct 14, 2013 20:16:07 GMT
I watched, twice so far. It was completely focused on the Supreme Court case on whether to allow Ali his conscientious objector status based on his religious conviction against war. CP played Justice John Harlan II, who was persuaded by one of his clerks, to vote for Ali. It was very well done, and of course Chris gave an amazing performance.
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But I don't get HBO either. Do we dare hope it might be released on DVD at some point?
