Nationwide movie about women's HS xc - Overcomer - is coming out August 23rd

ukathleticscoach wrote:

Hope the film is better than the title!

Ha! I saw the advertisement for it last night and told my girlfriend that there is a running movie out that I'll probably want to watch at some point, but it has one of the worst titles ever. She agreed, then made a dirty joke about the title, which surprised me, because that's usually my job.

Luther Poach wrote:

ukathleticscoach wrote:

Hope the film is better than the title!

Ha! I saw the advertisement for it last night and told my girlfriend that there is a running movie out that I'll probably want to watch at some point, but it has one of the worst titles ever. She agreed, then made a dirty joke about the title, which surprised me, because that's usually my job.

i've never met a girl i'd call an overcomer, but if one thing is great about this being a christian movie it's the title of it.

Coachy Coach wrote:

If I take my XC team to this will they be inspired or quit?

One will become a champion, the rest of the team will quit.

another perspective wrote:

Coachy Coach wrote:

If I take my XC team to this will they be inspired or quit?

One will become a champion, the rest of the team will quit.

Good enough for me. I'm in.

Blatant advertisement. The running movie we did is still available on Amazon, VOD, Netflix. Based on the novel, Life At These Speeds. It's also set in HS, so put your teenage angst on. I think the only God we have in the movie is when one character says "God damn." https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2184233/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

I see what you did there

McFarland was a start. It wasn't perfect, but like Vision Quest, it was SOMETHING. Vision Quest was a good wrestling movie despite a few inaccuracies.

This movie looks cheesy, BUT I will probably see it because it's 1) running and 2) it's the time of the year to get stoked about distance running (fall).

I will say, of all the crappy Christian films out there, Courageous (The one with the police officers) actually was good. The others were crappy (Fireproof, Flywheel, Facing the Giants).

This thread is totally useless without homage to the best bad running movie ever made.

https://youtu.be/jMJC3JPGOyA

rojo wrote:

All of the stereotypes are fascinating and entertaining.

Thanks for posting. This movie will obviously have a niche audience, but given how few non runners even know XC is a thing I don’t think we can afford to discount potential fans of the sport just because of a religious affiliation. Churchy people can run fast, too. (Eric Liddell or Ryan Hall, anyone?) Religion and sport have similar thematic elements (helping teammates, loving those who hate you, doing right in difficult circumstances, fighting hard through adversity, etc.) so it’s natural religious movies use sports for their plot lines.

There have been at least a couple of these come out in the last decade: Run the Race and Four Minute Mile (less overt but with similar themes of redemption). Both are wildly contrived plots as they pertain to running, but at least we finally have people making movies about running. Running movies are usually terrible anyway so they can’t be worse than some that have been made already.

Thanks for promoting wrote:

Religion and sport have similar thematic elements (helping teammates, loving those who hate you, doing right in difficult circumstances, fighting hard through adversity, etc.) so it’s natural religious movies use sports for their plot lines.

You forgot one very important aspect comparing coaches with Catholic priests.

I will not watch it. Every movie about running that I have ever seen has sucked and is embarrassing.

It's about XC? The first line we hear before the images roll is: "you have to do your fighting with PRAYER!" It's not about running. It uses running to push an evangelical head-shrinker agenda. Considering that most evangelicals are at war with their God/Saviors creation (by voting for a serial adulterer/sexual assaulter who denies and censors climate science, who has persecuted government scientists) this thread is just another one of those Let's Run moments--right wing ideology dressed up as sport--which most posters here recognize.

bterrible wrote:

"Simple-minded."

Simple Minds....one hit wonder!

Go see it.

Frosty the Bro Man wrote:

This thread is totally useless without homage to the best bad running movie ever made.

https://youtu.be/jMJC3JPGOyA

Never saw the movie because I had already learned my lesson from reading the book. It was a long time ago, but the most jaw-dropping part for me (and pretty much the only part that has stuck with me) was when he for goes for a hard run of approximately marathon length the day before the marathon final. I suspect I didn't make it much past that. Sorry for the spoiler. You can still watch to see how he does.

Runtothelight wrote:

Blatant advertisement. The running movie we did is still available on Amazon, VOD, Netflix. Based on the novel, Life At These Speeds. It's also set in HS, so put your teenage angst on. I think the only God we have in the movie is when one character says "God damn."

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2184233/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1

You forgot the funeral at the church in the beginning. Not terrible for a teen movie or a running movie. Two small complaints: Why does the kid bench press the same as the football player? Why does he look 28 in some scenes? Billy Crudup played the part well.

So it's "God"-based? Do they have a disclaimer at the beginning, "Based on a false story"?

is this a papas film? this is the type of crap she would make

2 more. Why does the kid run in gym shorts and way overdressed unless it’s 20 degrees outside. Also, why does the guy say 1500 runners line up when he’s supposed to be going for the mile?

Ana Theist wrote:

So it's "God"-based? Do they have a disclaimer at the beginning, "Based on a false story"?

Good luck on your death bed. Jesus is real and what happened to him is real. Who do you think wrote the Bible? Look it up. Good luck with your views on eternity, you'll need it.