Tied for the best movie I have ever seen

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One of those movie experiences that is so good it makes you realize you've been grading everything else on a curve.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

In White Men Can't Jump, Billy Hoyle uses other players' expectations of what a typical street-ball basketball player looks like to his advantage to hustle them. He is a white guy who dresses "like a chump" so that other players doubt that he can play. The first guy that Billy hustles is Sidney, who is one of the best players in the area. These guys join forces as two of the best hustlers to go around and play against whoever is willing and good enough to bet money on a game. The movie very effectively captures the attitudes and atmosphere surrounding this form of basketball, while also incorporating bits of comedy that make the movie more entertaining. As someone who enjoys the game of basketball, this movie was very intriguing to me as it successfully introduced a brand of basketball that I am unfamiliar with. This movie focuses equally on the hustler lifestyle and the everyday troubles these basketball hustlers face as well as the sport of basketball. Sports certainly don't seem to be the only emphasis of this movie, which may steer some viewers away from this movie. If one is looking for a typical basketball movie, then this may not be the movie for you. Although, it still teaches sports fans, specifically basketball fans, about a sports culture that may seem foreign to the majority them, which may be captivating and make this movie worthwhile to others.

Hello guys. Im the back again. This time i seen the movie Grete White Man Cant Jumped. It was all good and all and i like a lot. My mum didn't like it as much as me did. And it was the good actor Wood Harelsen. He was grete as all ways, but it was goodies.I've have seen it with the mother of i and she loved it a lot, NOT! She hated the black guy. I think of her as the racist in my family. I liked it a lot. It was good. Western Sniper was good. He was the cool black guy with the really cool cap! I loved his cap. The cap was really cool! He also did have the cool shirt.Wood was good. His wife was hot and had nice breast. It was the nicest breast. And the basketball scenes was good. I liked it a lot. It was the cool basket and the cool black guy with the cap. It was cool music and cool slow effectes. It was a lot of racism that i didn't like bekaus im not the racist, but i like the black guy. The white guy give 3 black guys one dollar.Thanks for reeding and i want to say im am not that good at English. I like the movies in English but i have dysleksia and its hard to write in a langoege i am not familiar to. Good byers.

I had heard of this film a few different places, but because of a Channel 4 countdown programme focusing on one of the lead stars, so I had to see if it was a worthy performance, from director Ron Shelton (Bull Durham). Basically former college basketball player Billy Hoyle (Woody Harrelson) makes a living hustling with street ballers who assume he can't well, because he is white, and his most recent play is with black arrogant but talented player Sidney Deane (Wesley Snipes) on Venice Beach. After being defeated twice and losing his money, Sidney thinks he could be useful, so he goes to see Billy and his girlfriend Gloria Clemente (Rosie Perez), who are on the run from mobsters demanding a gambling debt paid. He suggests a partnership to hustle other basketball players for money, but they lose their first game playing together, and Billy finds out that he was conned himself, and Gloria knows this. They go to his house and an appeal is made to Sidney's wife Rhonda Deane (Tyra Ferrell) and they agree to split the winnings and carry on a more trusting partnership, and they do win an honest game together, due to the ability to distract. Sidney does mock Billy about his inability to slam dunk, claiming "white men can't jump", but their friendship continues with playful bickering, but when they lose another game and of course the cash, Gloria leaves Billy. Sidney knows how he can win her back however, he has a friend who works as security for the studio that make the popular game show Jeopardy!, which she has dreamt of being on, and so he arranges it so she can be a contestant, and she gets the subject she knows best, leaving with a $14,100 prize. Billy wins Gloria back, but then Sidney gets burgled, so desperate for cash and knowing he owes a favour asks his fellow hustler friend to play a final game, but Gloria says she will leave if he gambles again, but he goes against her wishes. The end sees Sidney and Billy win this final, and the mobsters are paid, but it appears Gloria wasn't lying about leaving, but the friendship remains, and they walk away having a basketball banter. Also starring Cylk Cozart as Robert, Kadeem Hardison as Junior, Ernest Harden Jr. as George, John Marshall Jones as Walter, Marques Johnson as Raymond, David Roberson as T.J., Kevin Benton as Zeke and Nigel Miguel as Dwight 'The Flight' McGhee. Snipes gives a fun slick performance as the streetwise cool guy, Harrelson is equally great as the pro basketball playing white guy, and Perez also shines as the pro's sassy girlfriend, it is a film to enjoy for the basketball, the dialogue based jokes, and the small moments of serious stuff too, a most worthwhile sports comedy drama. Wesley Snipes was number 96 on The 100 Greatest Movie Stars. Very good!

A movie that on the surface appears to be about sport - basketball- has a much deeper undertone if you look closer, a movie that uses the sport as a metaphor for the distinctions between blacks and whites in America. I've always loved this movie, i first saw it many years ago when i was about 14 and felt the wit and chemistry between harrelson and snipes is top notch, now im older i see things i didn't see before. Personally i feel you can take the movie in two ways. you either see it as a buddy comedy or a movie which shows how blacks and whites view each other. the way in which snipes is presented may be a cliché - black man, ultra confident, feels that coz hes black hes better than harrelson - but is this a cliché? most of the black guys in the movie feel that harrelsons character billy is a 'chump', and are quick to put him down. even the movies title 'white men cant jump' is a thinly vieled reference to the viewpoint of black America. this is not a racist perspective, its simply how it is, sidney (snipes) even gets into a discussion with harrelson about jimmy hendrix, about his apparently white drummer and how billy cant listen to hendrix, he can only hear him. billy for his part, uses the fact that hes a white guy to his advantage when he and snipes are hustling. these class colour elements serve to make white men cant jump a far better movie than it is given credit for, and is worth a better look if you think its just another sports comedy. David Ford