ikeylius wrote:
Leto looks more like blonde Zac Efron than Prefontaine.
Maybe they should make another movie starring Efron as Pre.
ikeylius wrote:
Leto looks more like blonde Zac Efron than Prefontaine.
Maybe they should make another movie starring Efron as Pre.
I'm sorry, any film that tries to pass a small-college stadium in Tacoma (at my own school, nonetheless) as Hayward Field isn't going to cut it in my book
rat495 wrote:
Pre sucked. If you want to make it look like a documentary, actually interview the real people! Most of them are/were still alive when it was filmed. An actor playing Pat Tyson? I call BS.
Any actor playing Pat Tyson would be an improvement on the original.
ewqweq wrote:
end of story, it was so much better.
Jared Leto was a much better Prefontaine than Billy Cudrup.
I have watched Prefontaine twice, once in the theatre when it came out and one other time on video. I can't watch it again. It is a really, really, bad movie with bad acting, a bad portrayal of Pre, an actor that looks and acts nothing like Pre, stupid interviews with fake people that are acting like the real people, etc. etc. Without limits is not a great movie, but it is at least worth watching every now and then.
Frank Shorter (who had a guest cameo in the movie as an announcer) also backs WL as the better movie and has said it's more factually accurate.
Ill be the first to say it i guess. Both movies sucked because pre sucked. They should not have made one movie about him let alone three (don't forget the pseudo documentary fire on the track). He was good for an American at the time, that's it. Looking at the facts I just don't understand why everyone in the American running world is still so fascinated by the guy. What was his major accomplishment? Breaking the American record like 40 years ago and a sweet 4th place in the Olympics. Do me a favor ask your selves this question if pre had not killed him self drunk driving and had continued to run could he really have beaten Viren even in the next Olympics? Pre got fourth to Viren on fresh legs when Viren had already run a 10k And as I remember it Viren doubled again and won both again easily in the next Olympics. I find it hard to believe that pre could have beaten him given that Virens last 1500m of his 5000 would have placed him 8th in the 1500m event at those games. So odds are pre would have stayed a perpetual decent American runner who couldn't hang on the world stage until he retired to write a crappy monthly column in runners world entitled 5 steps to your fastest 5k. And then where would you guys be? probably idolizing so other loser from "golden age" of American running like Alberto Salazar.