Hurricane Season

I didn't care for the movie. It seemed like a lifetime movie or something.

What kept going through my mind is if the coach actually cared about his team, he wouldn't have had issues with him players going elsewhere. If you had students that had potential, you're holding them back by having them play in a broken city where they won't get visibility.

As for the team building exercises and stuff like that, that was good. I could see focusing on basketball helping build a team and doing so could be a distraction that relieves some of the pressures of being in a destroyed city.

I thought this would be a cheap movie given that it Lil Wayne and Bow Wow in the movie but boy was I surprised. Hurricane Season is a great story of triumph in the face of tremendous adversity. It puts you in New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina. It showed how people's lives were turned upside down. The life and history of a town swept away in just a few moments. In one of the darker times of our nation's history it illustrates what makes the human spirit so powerful. And how a group of misfits can become brothers and form a collective bond that can accomplish anything. As someone who has watched every sports movie known to man, I dare say this movie is a better basketball movie then Coach Carter. And is easily right up there in inspiration with Rudy. I love how the movie showed such a powerful resiliency from such young men. Move over Remember The Titans, Hurricane Season is ready to take you by storm.

Hurricane Season was like a exciting thrill ride just waiting to get on. I feel this way because it showed me how all the struggles that New Orleans citizens went through but still made the best of it. This movie had also showed me how your team is your family,and how teamwork is important no matter what. I also noticed some characters like Lil' Wanye,Bow Wow,and China Anne McClain. I think they played their parts well. I couldn't picture anyone better for the parts.

This movie also fits for kids my age and up, and parents as well. That's why I think this movie was interesting.

But my favorite character was Brian Randof played by Robbie Jones. I liked him because he reminds me of me because before no one wanted me on their team or gave me the ball. The reason why was I never passed the ball until I opened my eyes and saw that when I needed help I had four other players just like what happened to Brian.

Another actor I liked was Shad Moss, but you also know him as Bow Wow. I liked him because he showed people that size doesn't matter. Like you could be big and be the worst or you can be small and be the best on the court.

That's what the movie showed me.

Just the theme, overcoming after a catastrophe at the level of Hurricane Katrina is already moving, associated with the passion, love and dedication of a teacher/coach, it makes you want to cry, the dramas faced by the athletes/students, all very exciting and cute, of course, as it could not be otherwise, I love these films, it makes us believe that humanity has a future through kindness and fraternity...

Apparently, the New Orleans City Commerce collected money to put together a movie. This movie featured one of the most openly selfish coaches I've ever seen on film as the protagonist. After hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and the entire city was underwater, all this coach could think about was getting his basketball team on the court again. Nevermind that they had no homes, no food, and no school; to Coach Al Collins (played by Forest Whitaker) basketball was the most important thing in the world.

At one point Coach Al tried to shame his best player out of transferring to a better school where he'd have a better opportunity to get recruited. He tried to persuade the boy's father by using lines like, "Is that what you want to teach your son, to run when things get tough?" as if pursuing a scholarship to college was some how less noble than playing basketball for him.

After failing at that weak Jedi mind trick he went to another player and shamed him by saying "Don't take the easy way out," and other lame lines as though leaving was a shameful thing. I wonder about all of those people who relocated and what message this movie is sending to them? You guys are soft. You're traitors. You're weak.

This whole movie was a sham. It was yet another movie showing that the only way out of a bad situation for young Black men is sports. But it wasn't just that. This movie barely showed the deplorable state of things in New Orleans. It was as if as long as there was Patriots basketball then everything was right with New Orleans.

This was no "Coach Carter," or "Glory Road" for that matter, even though it featured angry players and a yelling coach. This movie resembled your traditional against-all-odds sports movie, but it was only a superficial resemblance. Where it counted this movie was vacant. I don't want to make it seem like I'm denigrating the team, or the city of New Orleans by extension (maybe Coach Al a bit), but this movie was just a carbon copy of sports movies past.