Disney Movie about Cross Country

Only problem i saw was that only the top 5 score so it doesn't really matter the one guy was fat unless it was different back then...

Kevin Costner still stars in movies?

Of course the rich Palo Alto kids are dicks.

Plot hole with the 7 runners might be explained by them not having enough kids to field a team. We'll see.

Looks terrible.

Said What wrote:

Of course the rich Palo Alto kids are dicks.

Plot hole with the 7 runners might be explained by them not having enough kids to field a team. We'll see.

Looks terrible.

If those rich white kids weren't depicted as dicks, it wouldn't be a good story, would it? How many runners have you ever known who are real dicks and wouldn't respect a team that could beat them? I grew up in the same city as Intermountain Indian School. They kicked are asses big time. And we respected them big time. It's a movie, of course, and at least in that preview it doesn't look very good.

Edit: They kicked OUR asses big time. Damn keyboard. LOL.

Looks like the kind of movie where they try to make every single line over the top dramatic, and as a result they create a completely cheesy movie. A little subtlety can go a long way.

Looks like its going to be a cheesy feel good movie. I imagine it will be watchable though. Letsrun should support it. These kind of cheesy movies and mainstreaming running in the media are a way for running to become a more serious sport to the general public and eventually the next Once A Runner will come around. I'd rather this than yet another superhero movie.

The little clips that show the dude SPRINTING ALL OUT WITH HUUUUGE ARM MOVEMENTS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RACE with a 250+ STEPS PER MINUTE TURNOVER and SHOVING THE OTHER RUNNERS ASIDE WITH GREAT FORCE

make me doubt the credibility of the film.

Also the cheesiness that I detect.

Nevertheless, I'll probably end up watching it simply because it's another running movie (which we don't see too often)

What a creative and original concept for a sports movie: a team isn't very good, then they work hard to become good. Kudos to these filmmakers for their innovative creation.

I'm just worried that I won't be able to follow the plot. I suspect that it will be somewhat like Thomas Pynchon on film: beautifully crafted, but sometimes over the head of the average guy. At least that's what I take from the poetic complexity featured within the linked clip.

Mr. Sarcasm wrote:

What a creative and original concept for a sports movie: a team isn't very good, then they work hard to become good. Kudos to these filmmakers for their innovative creation.

I'm just worried that I won't be able to follow the plot. I suspect that it will be somewhat like Thomas Pynchon on film: beautifully crafted, but sometimes over the head of the average guy. At least that's what I take from the poetic complexity featured within the linked clip.

Has anyone ever responded to you thinking you were serious?

Please answer me without sarcasm haha

What's with the hate? Disney is making a movie about cross country! I don't care if Demi Lovato wrote it and Selena Gomez directed it. I'm stoked!

Do I hope that someday someone makes a good cross country film? Of course! But any cross country film is better than no cross country film.

Any publicity wrote:

What's with the hate? Disney is making a movie about cross country! I don't care if Demi Lovato wrote it and Selena Gomez directed it. I'm stoked!

Do I hope that someday someone makes a good cross country film? Of course! But any cross country film is better than no cross country film.

Yes, any running movie is better than none. I will probably watch it, hoping it will be better than expected, but I'll wait for it to come to Redbox. But I agree with one poster above who pointed out the problem with the 7th runner (the fat kid--typical) who has to run well to score low for the team. If that's really what they do in the movie, my question will be why in the hell couldn't they at least get ANYONE who knows about cross country as an advisor? It is Disney, after all, and they could hire a thousand advisors full time and still have money to burn.

Ok, I found a possible, plausible reason why they might have scored the sixth AND seventh runner. Here's something on cross country scoring that I found on Wikipedia. I've never heard of this in all my years of running, but here it is:

Scoring

Scores are determined by summing the top four or five individual finishing places on each team. In international competition, a team typically consists of six runners, with the top four scoring. In the United States, the most common scoring system is seven runners, with the top five scoring. Points are awarded to the individual runners of eligible teams, equal to the position in which they cross the finish line (first place gets 1 point, second place gets 2 points, etc.). The points for these runners are summed, and the low score wins. Individual athletes, and athletes from incomplete teams are excluded from scoring. Ties are usually broken by the position of each team's sixth runner.

The lowest possible score in a five-to-score match is 15 (1+2+3+4+5), achieved by a team's runners finishing in each of the top five positions. If there is a single opposing team then they would have a score of 40 (6+7+8+9+10), which can be considered a "sweep" for the winning team. In some competitions a team's sixth and seventh runner are scored in the overall field and are known as "pushers" or "displacers" as their place can count ahead of other runners. In the above match, if there are two non-scoring runners and they came 6th and 7th overall, the opponent's score would be 50 (8+9+10+11+12). Accordingly, the official score of a forfeited dual meet is 15-50.

Looks awful

"Sweep the leg." ?

ShawnH, wtf. You write books on running and didn't know how a XC meet is scored? Please stop posting your running wisdom and political rants on letsrun.

Interesting, looking at the IMDB page, it looks like they did their research on the 1987 DIII state race (River City, Yreka, Moorpark, Yosemite, and Village Christian runners in the cast).

However, Palo Alto was not in the DIII race. Palo Alto didn't even qualify for the state meet that year (they did in 1988 and 1989, but in DII, not DIII). The film does get pretty close on their uniforms (the lettering is right, but not the color scheme):

http://content.internetvideoarchive.com/content/photos/997/871267_068.jpg

older than dirt wrote:

ShawnH, wtf. You write books on running and didn't know how a XC meet is scored? Please stop posting your running wisdom and political rants on letsrun.

You don't need to know the rules of XC in order to write knowledgeable books about running in general.

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"In some competitions the 6th and 7th runner are scored in the overall field and are known as "pushers" or "displacers" as their place can count ahead of other runners."

I thought this was the norm...