Borg Vs McEnroe (2018) S: LaBeouf, Gudnason, Skarsgård
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Borg Vs McEnroe (2018) S: LaBeouf, Gudnason, Skarsgård
I remember watching this rivalry as a kid--hopefully the movie is good:
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You cannot be serious!
I loved McEnroe, but sometimes he went a little too far...
Having said that, this rivalry could make for a great movie. But it would need a really good script and the trailer doesn't make it look like they came up with that script. We'll see.
I loved McEnroe, but sometimes he went a little too far...
Having said that, this rivalry could make for a great movie. But it would need a really good script and the trailer doesn't make it look like they came up with that script. We'll see.
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As a tennis fan and player myself, I'm intrigued by the actual scenes of tennis. Did they have two doubles stand in and play and only had close ups of the actors faces? I know Shia isn't even left handed, so him convincingly playing lefty and not looking completely awkward will be interesting.
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re: Borg Vs McEnroe (2018) S: LaBeouf, Gudnason, Skarsgård
As a tennis fan and player myself, I'm intrigued by the actual scenes of tennis. Did they have two doubles stand in and play and only had close ups of the actors faces? I know Shia isn't even left handed, so him convincingly playing lefty and not looking completely awkward will be interesting.
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re: Borg Vs McEnroe (2018) S: LaBeouf, Gudnason, Skarsgård
HBO Sports had a documentary on the rivalry between these two which was really good, and of course used actual match footage. This would seem kind of redundant and unnecessary.
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Re: Borg Vs McEnroe (2018) S: LaBeouf, Gudnason, Skarsgård
I watched about 70 minutes of this on a plane. I liked the lead actors, but it wasn’t really that interesting, and there wasn’t much game action. It was also odd that there appeared to be a fair amount of dialogue in Swedish that wasn’t translated. I was trying to hold out for the climactic match, but I finally decided to just watch something else.
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This movie was more about Borg than McEnroe.
I thought Shia playing McEnroe was going to be a joke but he was alright though he did not have a lot of screen time.
I thought Shia playing McEnroe was going to be a joke but he was alright though he did not have a lot of screen time.
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