Archive Touchback: Coldwater Football Movie

OneBuckeye

Posts: 5,888

Aug 23, 2010 9:41am

I may have missed the boat on this one, but I thought this was interesting.

http://bucknuts.com/index.php/Football-Article/mr-bucknuts-sums-up-in-an-all-new-bucket/menu-id-1346.html

Blind Side II?...And a splash of cold water at the same time. A few years back – maybe ten – a kid graduated from OSU and lived for the summer at the home of one of the Bucknuts’ staffers. The kid’s name was Don Handfield. He decided to write a screenplay about Coldwater football. He swore he was going to get it made into a film and – by gosh – he did! Check out the photo of Kirk Russell in a Coldwater football jersey. The new film is "Touchback" starring Kirk Russell and Brian Presley. Kurt plays a high school football coach for a team in Coldwater, Ohio, circa 1991.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1628055/

At the brink of financial disaster, a former football star turned farmer and family man attempts suicide to save his family. However, when he wakes up he finds himself back in the past, reliving the events that led up to his career-ending, life-altering injury. He is forced to choose between his simple life and the path to fame and fortune.

krambman

Posts: 3,606

Aug 23, 2010 12:39pm

Who the heck is Kirk Russell?

OneBuckeye

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Aug 23, 2010 1:05pm

^ It's bucknuts, give em a break, they don't have time to get the names right in-between counting their stacks of $12.

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MontyBrunswick

Aug 23, 2010 1:47pm

OneBuckeye;459298 wrote:I may have missed the boat on this one, but I thought this was interesting.

It isn't.

justincredible

Posts: 32,056

Mar 1, 2012 10:54am

Bumped for OneBuckeye.

OneBuckeye

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Mar 1, 2012 10:57am

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/risky-business/touchback-trailer-kurt-russell-296187

Thanks!

Trailer is out and it looks pretty terrible.

LJ

Posts: 16,351

Mar 1, 2012 11:09am

OneBuckeye;1101878 wrote:Trailer is out and it looks pretty terrible.

rofl

sherm03

Posts: 7,349

Mar 1, 2012 11:17am

That's not what Coldwater's uniforms look like.

Hope this helps.

OneBuckeye

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Mar 1, 2012 11:18am

sherm03;1101894 wrote:That's not what Coldwater's uniforms look like.

Hope this helps.

Also not what Ohio State's uniforms looked like circa 1992.

LJ

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Mar 1, 2012 11:20am

It should also be mentioned that they filmed most of the movie in Michigan and Coshocton County.....fail

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Steel Valley Football

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Mar 1, 2012 12:07pm

Why is a football movie based in Ohio and starring a major actor not cool? Smfh.

4cards

Posts: 2,551

Mar 1, 2012 1:33pm

...I thought he was "Reno Hightower"

Abe Vigoda

Posts: 164

Mar 1, 2012 2:22pm

LJ;1101902 wrote:It should also be mentioned that they filmed most of the movie in Michigan and Coshocton County.....fail

I guess that makes them the Coldwater Michigan Cardinals. Movie looks to be as bad.

sherm03

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Mar 1, 2012 3:24pm

Steel Valley Football;1101958 wrote:Why is a football movie based in Ohio and starring a major actor not cool? Smfh.

Because it looks like it sucks?

Mooney44Cards

Posts: 2,754

Mar 1, 2012 4:37pm

I'm shocked this is even getting a theatrical release. This looks like some straight up direct-to-video shit.

This movie is to The Blind Side what a video of me smelling my own farts* is to Citizen Kane.

*I actually have a few copies of this left on DVD if anybody wants to order it.

justincredible

Posts: 32,056

Mar 1, 2012 4:39pm

Mooney44Cards;1102378 wrote:I'm shocked this is even getting a theatrical release. This looks like some straight up direct-to-video shit.

This movie is to The Blind Side what a video of me smelling my own farts* is to Citizen Kane.

*I actually have a few copies of this left on DVD if anybody wants to order it.

Price?

Mooney44Cards

Posts: 2,754

Mar 1, 2012 4:42pm

justincredible;1102379 wrote:Price?

$12

That's just $0.99 a month! Wait....lemme check my math on that.....

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Steel Valley Football

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Mar 1, 2012 8:59pm

sherm03;1102286 wrote:Because it looks like it sucks?

Like your stand up?

Mooney44Cards

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Mar 1, 2012 9:04pm

Steel Valley Football;1102564 wrote:Like your stand up?

Why are you so personally offended that someone said a movie looks like it sucks? (It does look like it sucks)

By the way, judging from your 5th grade level retort, I doubt you're a very good judge of what's funny and what's not.

Hell, judging from your taste in movies, I doubt you are a very good judge of anything.

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bigkahuna

Posts: 4,454

Mar 1, 2012 10:36pm

Anyone else find it funny that the team playing against Coldwater in this movie has jersey's that look more similar to the actual team's? Granted, they're red and black (CW is black and orange), but the scheme is the same.

Just awful

justincredible

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Mar 1, 2012 10:44pm

I just watched the trailer. This isn't a straight to DVD movie because?

LJ

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Mar 1, 2012 10:49pm

justincredible;1102688 wrote:I just watched the trailer. This isn't a straight to DVD movie because?

Because Kirk Russell

imex99

Posts: 4,927

Mar 1, 2012 10:58pm

Watched it on Netflix streaming months back... Not great movie but entertaining because I love any and all sports movies!

Mooney44Cards

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Mar 1, 2012 11:12pm

I'd rather watch this football movie:

2quik4u

Posts: 4,388

Mar 1, 2012 11:16pm

the fuck was kurt russell thinking