We Are Marshall

Pros: A moving story about loss and rediscovery
Cons: I didn't find any with this film

The Marshall Thundering Herd football program has sent a number of players to the NFL. Among the best known former Herd players are Randy Moss, Chad Pennington, and Byron Leftwich. In 1970, though, the University lost nearly its entire football team in a ...

Pros: great performances, touching account of how one small town dealt with one big tragedy
Cons: hard to watch at times, especially in the immediate aftermath of the crash

Matthew Fox just can't seem to get away from plane crashes. After getting to know him as Jack, the man largely responsible for maintaining some semblance of order amongst the castaways on LOST, my friend and I were eager to see him deal with the ...

Pros: Honesty, lack of hype, poignancy.
Cons: Bogs down a little before the first game; few great characterizations.

I remember clearly, as a high school junior, the shock and loss that the crash of the aircraft carrying the Marshall University football team invested on a nation. The town, the college, and those left behind must have suffered so. It has taken 25 ...

Pros: intense, emotional, never forgets it's both a football movie and about the grieving process
Cons: absolutely none

On November 14, 1970, a plane carrying 75 members of the Marshall University football team, its coaches, its broadcasters, and its boosters landed in a fiery crash as the team returned from a game. Parents. Sons. Brothers. Friends. All gone in an ...

Pros: It is about people and how they deal with their lost.
Cons: Can get lengthy and slow for some people, especially children.

This movie is about the small town of Huntington, West Virginia and its university of Marshall on how it dealt the lost of its football team and majority of its prominent town people from a plane crash. On the surface, it looks like a sport movie ...

Pros: The storyline.
Cons: Matt Fox's dye job.

I saw the movie last night in a private viewing. I grew up in the small town across the river from Huntington in 1975. Needless to say, I was not born when the tragedy happened & never really heard the story. After seeing the movie however, I was ...

Pros: The cast and storyline.
Cons: The film can feel "lengthy" at times.

As a person in my late 20's I was not yet born when the tragedy struck that is detailed in this movie. Upon hearing the storyline, I was completely touched. One plane crash. 75 Marshall coaches, players, and staff killed. The actors in the film ...

Pros: Great cast, very well scripted, perfect length
Cons: Sad

Needless to say everyone knows this is a movie about a sad story about the lose of almost entire collegiate football team. But without getting into the plot or details of this movie I am going to say this may be one of the top three football movies produced in the last 20 years. It is very moving and gives you a real life perspective of things and how life is very fragile. This is a great family movie and extremely well casted. Recommended to all movie-goers not just sports fanatics, for the story is trying to relay a message far more important than sports.

Pros: teaches people to stick together
Cons: very sad movie

This movie was great!! It's about an awful tragedy that affects an entire town, and how the town struggles to get back on its feet. It teaches people that there is life after death, and to honor something is to let the spirit live on. That is why they create another team and try hard to succeed. Its a great lesson on how to stick together through thick and thin.

Pros: Great Acting, Great Script
Cons: Local Interest Only?

I live in the Huntington area. There was a real worry as everyone wondered if the movie would be accurate and if it would be done tastefully. I believe that the script and the actors have achieved both goals. The only thing I didn't like was that the mayor of Huntington (he's awful) is in the movie during the scene with the reporters.