So I watched Southpaw on Thursday night...My Analysis

[LoadedWraps]

I have to say it bodies Rocky, The Raging Bull, Cinderella man, and everything else by a long shot. Probably Whitakers best performance ever. The fighting was actually realistic in choreography, and the training was pretty close to what happens in my gym and a few other gyms I have been to. Jake looked like a fighter in the last fight but he was for the most part clunky and you could tell he hasn't been boxing for long because his movements weren't fluid, but at least he threw realistic punches, and the slip training was dead on.

LOL @ Victor Ortiz being in the movie, I laughed out lound when I saw him. "Wait, you want me to spar spar him?" He was all ready to quit even in a movie. What a joke.

I thought the movie was fantastic. A few parts were corny, but I expect this to walk away with more oscars than Titanic, Return of the King, and Saving Private Ryan combined.

[kardsufur]

I have to say it bodies Rocky, The Raging Bull, Cinderella man, and everything else by a long shot. Probably Whitakers best performance ever. The fighting was actually realistic in choreography, and the training was pretty close to what happens in my gym and a few other gyms I have been to. Jake looked like a fighter in the last fight but he was for the most part clunky and you could tell he hasn't been boxing for long because his movements weren't fluid, but at least he threw realistic punches, and the slip training was dead on.

LOL @ Victor Ortiz being in the movie, I laughed out lound when I saw him. "Wait, you want me to spar spar him?" He was all ready to quit even in a movie. What a joke.

I thought the movie was fantastic. A few parts were corny, but I expect this to walk away with more oscars than Titanic, Return of the King, and Saving Private Ryan combined.

you gotta be kidding. it has a rotten rating on rottentomatoes. the movie is garbage and couldn't hold the jock strap of raging bull, rocky, etc, etc. But judging by your last line I take it the entire post was just a troll attempt

[LoadedWraps]

you gotta be kidding. it has a rotten rating on rottentomatoes. the movie is garbage and couldn't hold the jock strap of raging bull, rocky, etc, etc. But judging by your last line I take it the entire post was just a troll attempt

You didn't like it, honestly lol?

[ShoulderRoll]

Wow, that good huh?

It didn't look interesting to me based on the trailers but I might give it a chance now because of your review.

[SkillspayBills]

You sure you aren't saying this because you area already an enormous fan of the sport?

[SlySlickSmooth]

Rotten Tomatoes has 52/100, but I enjoyed Cinderella Man and doubt Southpaw is better.

[JmH Reborn]

Not sure if hyperbolic or sarcastic

The movie was a decent movie and provided plenty of tear jerker moments when dealing with the father/daughter dynamic. Jake Gyllenhall was fantastic as was Forest. Honestly, Jake should get some end of year awards for his performance. I felt like he was snubbed for Nightcrawler last year, and i hope it gets fixed this year. But honestly; that's about it. The movie was riddled with way too many cliches and boxing tropes and had nothing original to give.

- Shady promoters -- check
- Wise old rehabilitative trainer? - check
- rags to riches to nothing to redemption - check
- Personal tragedy to lift the hero? - check
- Dramatic, slow-mo fighting - check
- Foreign bad-guy - check

I mean, if it wasn't for Jake Gyllenhall and Forest - we'd all be upset about the movie in general for its lack of originality. And lets not forget about some of the cheesy HBO adverts thrown in. Roy was terribly bad - first I couldn't get over how he said the Ecuadorian was so omgzee, the rarest of rarest Ecuadorians who has skills to go with their otherworldly power; just like his "compatriots" Carlos Monzon and Sergio Martinez! I mean I guess Argentina =/= Ecuador in Roy's world.

Also, the massive director flop with the third judge's scorecard being 116-112. It's nearly mathematically impossible for that score to happen with two knockdowns and a point deduction.

And lol at Jimmy Lennon Jr being the announcer for an HBO production - acutally thought that was cool

[juggernaut666]

you gotta be kidding. it has a rotten rating on rottentomatoes. the movie is garbage and couldn't hold the jock strap of raging bull, rocky, etc, etc. But judging by your last line I take it the entire post was just a troll attempt

If any movie gets bad ratings its usually good!The audience and particularly guys on here are better critics to what they know ,not lame movie journalists who never put on boxing gloves,i''ll take loadeds word!

[LoadedWraps]

You sure you aren't saying this because you area already an enormous fan of the sport?

No, I walked in expecting to like it more than it might be as a film to a non fan but expecting it to be an ok movie with the potential of being awful, but I found myself shaking and tearing up halfway through the movie. Whitaker put on a performance for the ages, and obviously as a boxer im going to pay attention to the fight scenes and training and they actually made an effort to show some real boxing methodology.

[JmH Reborn]

Audience score of 82. Critic score of 58. Imo critics ****ing suck at being critics. Why do we need critics in this age? Its insane to me when they so often widely disagree with the audience as a whole.

What I find lol worthy about "professional critics" at this point - and the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes just emphasizes - they pan a movie for treading on familiar tropes or being saddled with cliches

However, you can't read not one critique there that doesn't have a boxing euphemism thrown in there - its like they lack a certain level of self-awareness