Friday Night Lights

So, in the need of a good movie to watch, I DVRed Friday Night Lights a few weeks back and just got around to watching it yesterday. Good film all in all and very good sports flick. It's been compared to Varsity Blues and I guess the comparissions are understandable since the subject matter is the same (Texas high school football). However, because it's based on a real story, it does have the advantage of avoiding some of the cheesiness that VB had. It also uses less recognisable actors to avoid the Dawson problem. The conflict and the drama seems alot more real here and even the ending is much more realistic, albeit in a depressing as hell sort of way.

Definitely worth a cable viewing or even a rental.