The best sports movie for years, as it's not about sport at all. Forget fears of jingoistic grandstanding, this is an un-American all-American tale that deserves attention.
This movies is truly great because of the way he portrays the "Texas" way of life.
Peter Berg also did a pretty great job in developing characters because you can really relate to them.
Ending of the movie is heartbreaking and I would strongly recommend this movie to everyone, even if you're not a football fan.
Thanks to winning performances from Thornton and others, "Friday Night Lights" lifts itself above the conventional inspirational sports drama by relaying a deliberately honest message and never deterring from it.
The film lets you get caught up in the excitement of this religion and the addictive nature of those stadium lights. Berg and cinematographer Tobias Schliessler get up close to the action, catching the hits and miscues in all their violent urgency.
Uplifting and troubling, partly because it is more honest than most sports movies about the high cost and short life span of high school football glory.
Friday Night Lights was a film with a very good plot and characters, which leave you entertained, somewhat slowed but well entertained, also reflects on the improvement and what was shown here was very good.
Entretenida, pero creo hay mejores, y donde si ganan los equipos, no solo pierden y fin. Le falta mas escenas de juego, prácticamente solo se ven 2 juegos de 10 que jugaron.
While I know this came first, seeing this in comparison to the TV series is like night and day. On one hand, the TV series is phenomenal. On the other, this is not. The story just feels so abbreviated and hastened. The great part about the TV series was that while it was about football, of course, it was about so much more than that. It was about the characters and their daily lives and then how everyone would unite on Friday to play football. In the movie, and this is to my point about the abbreviated nature of the movie, a lot of the characterization was missing and it ultimately felt almost impersonal. Sadly, this is why I could not enjoy this one a ton. Now, it was an ok movie and all, but cerainly not as great as I would have hoped. This story is clearly just better suited for television where everything can be explored in greater depth.