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g-d i hope someone here reads this!

posted 15 years ago by antsinyourplants
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i watched this movie with the usual historic baseball player centerpiece excitement. i was doing the dishes when the flicker started so i paid no attention to the credits. right away i spotted ruby dee, but couldn't place the black actor playing robinson... as it progressed, though an amiable enough film, WHOEVER was playing robinson was horrid!!! i couldn't stop watching how god awful this train wreck of an actor was. had anyone seen the dailies? holy cow i couldn't believe it. after the credits rolled and exposed the culprit. yowsers! good for him though i thought... having to go through what he went through we deserve to have to sit in front of it.

[–] bradford-1 15 years ago

Are you trying to say you didn't recognize Robinson himself? How old are you? If you're under 25, thta MIGHT be an excuse. I've only seen about 15 minutes of this picture, and I wondered how Robinson got talked into playing himself. Even professional actors/entertainers seem to come off stiff and unconvincing portraying "themselves."

[–] nocomputer1962 9 years ago

I agree that celebrities don't seem to know how to portray themselves. I remember a "Beverly Hillbillies" episode in which Gloria Swanson was supposed to portray herself. I couldn't get over how stiff and awkward this all-time great actress was in a role that she should have nailed.

[–] logcabnnut 14 years ago

What it really showed was the ignorance and arrogancy of the white America....this country will get its "just due"...

[–] simplemines 11 years ago

There's nothing wrong with being ignorant. It simply means there's something you don't know, and once you learn it, you're no longer ignorant. Look at Rachel Jeantel for an example.

By the way, what do you mean by "just due"?

[–] splash77 14 years ago

If the only thing you could find wrong with this movie is to bash the acting, you definitly were not looking too hard. To me,I find the racial climate that Mr. Jackie Robinson had to go through at that time were terrible. Aside from all the obvious racism that was heaped upon him I cringed everytime I heard someone call Jackie a grown man " Boy" which was all through the movie as if it was O.K. Even Branch Rickey who was suppose to be on Jackie's side in the movie found it impossible to refer to him as a "Man".

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[–] jaystarstar 13 years ago

Your sheets are back from the laundry, so you can go to your regularly scheduled cross burning tonight.