What’s Aged the Best?
Goldsmith score; rejection montages; Astin’s athleticism; blunt parental realism; supporting cast; Devine speech; sports-movie character types
In the discussion (10)
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- The montage of Rudy repeatedly failing to make the dress list is praised as an effective disappointed-hope sequence with strong music.
- The score, loose true-story disclaimer, rejection-letter montage and fathers asking children’s friends whether they have their own home are affirmative selections.
- Astin’s athletic running and tackling look convincing, with Toy Soldiers and Seagal’s running providing comparisons.
- Adults discouraging unrealistic childhood dreams is praised as a refreshing contrast with universal encouragement, including the bus-stop story about the failed cattle business.
- Jamie’s disappointing blue-chip-recruit persona and sports villains who complain that the hero makes them look bad are enjoyable familiar types.
- Devine’s nobody-pushes-us-around speech has a lasting arena-jumbotron afterlife.
- Seeing early Vaughn after Swingers and Old School adds comic expectations to his exchanges with Rudy.
- Some Notre Dame fans’ vehement dislike of the movie is itself an amusing positive.
- Tryouts reportedly appears in at least twelve other film trailers, demonstrating the score’s power to sell unrelated movies.
- Ross’s Major League, Hoosiers and Rudy trifecta establishes his sports-movie supporting-player stature, with Trouble with the Curve, The Express and possibly The Last Boy Scout also cited.