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Warrior The Rewatchables
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Half-Assed Internet Research

Research covers injuries, the final song, an unused diner scene, Pittsburgh locations, remakes, and the release strategy.

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  • Hardy gained twenty-eight pounds and carried the muscle into his next major role.
  • Edgerton tore his MCL and fight photography paused for six weeks.
  • Hardy sustained a broken toe, ribs, and finger during production.
  • The writers chose the National's closing song before writing the final scene and looped it while shaping the action.
  • A Nolte diner scene earned a first-day crew ovation but did not enter the finished movie.
  • The Iraq scenes were filmed in a Pittsburgh parking lot.
  • The story was remade as Brothers in India and again under the same title in Russia.
  • The director wanted a slow platform release, while the wider launch failed and was quickly pulled.
Warrior The Rewatchables
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Apex Mountain

The episode tests apex cases for the director, Hardy, Edgerton, Nolte, Atlantic City, underground MMA movies, Grillo, Pittsburgh, Brian Callen, and Sparta.

In the discussion (7)
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  • The movie is called the director's artistic apex despite its original commercial failure.
  • Bane is selected as Hardy's apex, with Mad Max, Dunkirk, and Inception considered.
  • Sparta is proposed as an Atlantic City apex before Rounders and a Sopranos reference are considered.
  • Nick Nolte receives an explicit apex check and is rejected.
  • The film is selected as Edgerton's apex because he holds his own opposite Hardy as a leading man.
  • Underground MMA movies and Sparta are declared apex cases.
  • Grillo and Brian Callen are placed near their apexes, while Pittsburgh is placed with its 1979 sports teams and The Deer Hunter.
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Picking Nits

Tournament entry, scheduling, UFC competition, internet exposure, recovery, odds, and montage length are questioned.

In the discussion (7)
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  • Both unknown brothers entering a sixteen-person five-million-dollar tournament so easily is questioned.
  • Consecutive-day fights would create unacceptable health risk.
  • A non-UFC promoter finding sixteen credible fighters in 2011 is debated.
  • Tommy's desertion and the brothers' relationship should have surfaced online before the final.
  • Brendan fighting again immediately after the COBA bout is considered implausible.
  • A thousand-to-one price on a former UFC fighter in a sixteen-person field is rejected as impossible bookmaking risk.
  • The montages are long but defended as necessary and as a Rocky homage.
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Probably Unanswerable Questions

Questions test Hardy’s possible star range, an alternate final, the broken shoulder, and real examples of fighting through injury.

In the discussion (4)
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  • Hardy is compared with DiCaprio to ask whether softer leading-man roles were ever plausible for him.
  • A Koba-versus-Tommy final is rejected because the brothers’ fight resolves the family story without diminishing Tommy.
  • The exact shoulder or elbow injury and whether a real commission would stop the fight are questioned.
  • A real bout in which an arm broke before the fighter submitted is offered as evidence of extreme pain tolerance.
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Roger Ebert's review

2.5 stars (scale not stated)

Ebert is reported to give two and a half stars; the spoken scale is unspecified.

In the discussion (3)
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  • The stated Ebert score is two and a half stars.
  • The quoted review sees a promising premise but wants more gambling, inner-city life and baseball coaching.
  • The response agrees about the children and coaching but considers the gambling already excessive.
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Most Rewatchable Scene

Keanu’s speech and the pizza scene receive distinct final preferences.

In the discussion (10)
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  • Meeting the children efficiently establishes personalities, including the asthma, distrust, comic-relief and talented-player roles.
  • The classroom book report reveals that the child read the book and connects a father returning with his own world; more classroom scenes are wanted.
  • The child carrying pizza and afraid to enter his home is deeply affecting, prompting reflection on Black boys in danger and unequal life circumstances.
  • A random gunshot that makes the children freeze is another effective detail; the film is compared with season four of The Wire.
  • The pizza scene is hard to watch but nominated, alongside Miles pitching with headphones like peak Pedro Martinez.
  • The all-or-nothing bet unexpectedly succeeds, and the frantic performance with John Hawks commentary is a favorite comic scene.
  • G baby getting his jersey and the crowd singing Big Papa are additional highlights.
  • The funeral performance is praised, as is the corny but effective showing-up message at the end.
  • The trophy scene is painful because G baby is absent; a producer account says the studio required it after the original field-running ending, and one child was missing.
  • The final personal preferences are the Keanu speech and the hard-hitting pizza scene.
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What’s Aged the Best?

The children, lasting friendships, performances and selected scenes endure, with the violence discussion also raised as an aged-worst concern.

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  • Michael B. Jordan is praised for the hurt in the scene where the altered birth certificate keeps him from playing.
  • Jamal is imagined as Wallace before a move from Chicago to Baltimore, perhaps with Wallace as his surname.
  • Sterling Brim is reported to have met Michael B. Jordan on the film after moving from a planned baseball-extra role to the team; their lasting friendship is praised.
  • The movie is tentatively credited with originating the going-to-the-ship chant after a search, rather than an established history.
  • John Hawks is praised, with Winter’s Bone recognition and Miami Vice mentioned.
  • The baseball outing and peak Sammy Sosa cameo are liked; a producer account says a $50,000 fee gained an extra $5,000 cash payment after a $10,000 demand.
  • A viewing anecdote recalls falsely promising a spouse nobody dies and provoking an angry, tearful reaction.
  • The late-practice problem is handled effectively, while the overacting and awkward smoking provide unintended comedy.
  • Diane Lane is seen as working hard without chemistry or sufficient material; a joking explanation connects the frustration to Unfaithful.
  • A Chicago Bad News Bears concept appeals as television; G baby negotiating his teammate’s return deepens his character, and the child cast has no weak performer.
  • Black child performers are argued to have a high success rate, with Phantom Menace offered as a contrasting failure.
  • The gang-violence portrayal remains relevant and is recalled as an early personal exposure; the other response puts this under aged worst.
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What’s Aged the Worst?

The imbalance between coach and children, G baby’s death, weak supporting material, implausible baseball and the ending song are criticized.

In the discussion (8)
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  • A contemporary version should focus more on the children’s dangerous world and less on the coach’s self-inflicted gambling problems.
  • The star-financing requirement is offered as context for prioritizing the coach, with Coach Carter and available leading men discussed.
  • Killing G baby and the thin online reference pages are criticized.
  • D.B. Sweeney has an underdeveloped mean-coach role compared with earlier promise in Eight Men Out, The Cutting Edge and Memphis Belle.
  • The Sosa cameo precedes his decline, and the death-then-championship-vote plot is compared with The White Shadow; the book basis is raised in response.
  • The young players make implausibly spectacular defensive plays, compared with dunk-filled basketball movies and For Love of the Game.
  • The teacher returning after an unpleasant date is implausible.
  • The closing song is judged wrong for the moment, then criticized more strongly because it is R. Kelly in a children’s movie set in Chicago.
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