Invictus

[MMAlien]

This film looks awesome! finally a hollywood film about rugby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9Ovkye6lac

[Temeura]

It does look good, but a film about rugby, starring Morgan Freeman and Matt Damon...WTF!!!

[Ben_Hutch]

I started watching it last night, it's been good so far but is yet to pick up, here's the link for anyone interested:

http://www.megavideo.com/?v=L0NFKRPV

[HendoUK]

cool but going to see a preview showing or something on saturday so should be good.

[widge milward]

Fancy watching this, shame its the homo version of rugby

[MMAlien]

Union > League

[Craig]

I wasn't that impressed with it.

Morgan Freeman is not good as Nelson Mandela and does not even sound South African. In fact, I would say it was a terrible miscasting.

Matt Damon is way too small to be Francois Piennaar and again struggles with the accent (but not as much as Freeman).

The film is very dumbed down at times, explaining very obvious things. For example, The Springboks win a match, the crowd is cheering, the scoreboard says they have won, and one Black security guard says to a White one "What happened?", to which the White one replies "We won". It is clear this is put in so that non-rugby fans can follow it. However, you would have to be braindead not to understand what just happened. It does things like this all the way through to ensure the audience can follow the sport, but it goes over the top in explaining things and treats the audience as if they are dumb.

[sol_dave]

I wasn't that impressed with it.

Morgan Freeman is not good as Nelson Mandela and does not even sound South African. In fact, I would say it was a terrible miscasting.

Matt Damon is way too small to be Francois Piennaar and again struggles with the accent (but not as much as Freeman).

The film is very dumbed down at times, explaining very obvious things. For example, The Springboks win a match, the crowd is cheering, the scoreboard says they have won, and one Black security guard says to a White one "What happened?", to which the White one replies "We won". It is clear this is put in so that non-rugby fans can follow it. However, you would have to be braindead not to understand what just happened. It does things like this all the way through to ensure the audience can follow the sport, but it goes over the top in explaining things and treats the audience as if they are dumb.

USA USA USA USA USA USA USA!

[Craig]

USA USA USA USA USA USA USA!

Well that was what I was thinking...........

[lewdog29]

"The Springboks win a match, the crowd is cheering, the scoreboard says they have won, and one Black security guard says to a White one "What happened?", to which the White one replies "We won". It is clear this is put in so that non-rugby fans can follow it. However, you would have to be braindead not to understand what just happened. It does things like this all the way through to ensure the audience can follow the sport, but it goes over the top in explaining things and treats the audience as if they are dumb."

As a South African I saw this as an attempt to highlight the massive cultural divide between White and Black South Africans created during the Apartheid era...it still wasn't very well portrayed though..

[MMAlien]

Well i hope more americans will start playing Rugby after watching this film. so much better than Gridiron!

[londonpride]

I wasn't that impressed with it.

Morgan Freeman is not good as Nelson Mandela and does not even sound South African. In fact, I would say it was a terrible miscasting.

Matt Damon is way too small to be Francois Piennaar and again struggles with the accent (but not as much as Freeman).

The film is very dumbed down at times, explaining very obvious things. For example, The Springboks win a match, the crowd is cheering, the scoreboard says they have won, and one Black security guard says to a White one "What happened?", to which the White one replies "We won". It is clear this is put in so that non-rugby fans can follow it. However, you would have to be braindead not to understand what just happened. It does things like this all the way through to ensure the audience can follow the sport, but it goes over the top in explaining things and treats the audience as if they are dumb.

well it is made for american audiences.....;)