MUScoop
MUScoop => Hangin' at the Al => Topic started by: MU Fan in Connecticut on June 02, 2020, 08:38:23 PM
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Under the category DOCUMENTARIES, This
1992 1994 film about two Chicago high school basketball players....
Scoop knows the answer.
No one contestant got correct.
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Hoop Dreams
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What is Hoop Dreams?
Have to answer in the form of a question.
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What is Hoop Dreams?
Have to answer in the form of a question.
True.
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Went to the premiere
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Alex, I'm pretty sure Hoop Dreams premiered in 1994.
I thought I remembered Gene Siskel saying it should have won the 1994 Oscar - not just for best doc but for best pic. I just ran the googles, and it looks like it was released in October that year.
It is my No. 1 sports film of all-time, just ahead of Raging Bull.
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Alex, I'm pretty sure Hoop Dreams premiered in 1994.
I thought I remembered Gene Siskel saying it should have won the 1994 Oscar - not just for best doc but for best pic. I just ran the googles, and it looks like it was released in October that year.
It is my No. 1 sports film of all-time, just ahead of Raging Bull.
Yes. 1994. When I went home for the semester break freshman year in 1994 so many people were asking me “do you know the guy from Hoop Dreams?”
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I remember meeting William at a party at MU. He could not have been more cool and pleasant. Very honored to be a fellow MU alum of that guy.
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I watched it last night. Those nerds didn't get any of the sports questions right, and some of them were pretty basic.
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I watched it last night. Those nerds didn't get any of the sports questions right, and some of them were pretty basic.
The teachers tournament is usually pretty brutal. They had a dude a couple years back who ended up winning the tournament of champions, but that is the exception.
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The teachers tournament is usually pretty brutal. They had a dude a couple years back who ended up winning the tournament of champions, but that is the exception.
Those that cant do, teach. Fluffy u a teacher by any chance?
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Gates was on Steve Homer True show yesterday.
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Those that cant do, teach. Fluffy u a teacher by any chance?
Not true and Uncalled for. You try teaching. Many college profs are doers.
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Those that cant do, teach. Fluffy u a teacher by any chance?
You can barely type a complete sentence, let alone form a complete rational thought. So I'd be careful with the insults.
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Those that cant do, teach. Fluffy u a teacher by any chance?
Your English and logic teachers clearly failed you.
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Your English and logic teachers clearly failed you.
So those that can't teach English teach Sand Knit?
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I remember Tom Brokaw, acting incredulous when announcing on Nightly News that it didn't get nominated for Best Documentary at the Oscars that year.
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I remember Tom Brokaw, acting incredulous when announcing on Nightly News that it didn't get nominated for Best Documentary at the Oscars that year.
As I said, Siskel thought it should have won Best Picture, not just doc.
https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1994-12-25-9412250050-story.html
A pretty strong year for movies, too: Forrest Gump (the winner), Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Quiz Show, Speed, Ed Wood.
I love Shawshank - I almost always stop to watch 5-10 minutes if I'm surfing and see it's on - and also really liked all the others I listed.
But Hoop Dreams really was a special film. It obviously should have won Best Doc, and should have at least been nominated for Best Pic.
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The teachers tournament is usually pretty brutal. They had a dude a couple years back who ended up winning the tournament of champions, but that is the exception.
Colby Burnett. Was my son's Scholastic Bowl coach/moderator.
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I liked how Arthur Agee, Jr respected Chicago basketball history and had the word Tuss on his shoes.
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One guy who definitely did not agree with all of our praise for Hoop Dreams was Gene Pingatore.
He came out looking like an absolute d-bag, pretending to care about the kids but actually only caring about what they could do for him.