American Underdog

by **Birdfan2018** » January 1st, 2022, 11:46 am

Has anyone seen this movie yet?

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by **OfficerPhil** » January 14th, 2022, 1:39 pm

Birdfan2018 wrote:Has anyone seen this movie yet?

Yes! It's very much the typical feel good underdog story but my wife and I thoroughly enjoyed our time. It's a challenge to make fake football look real and this movie does a better than average job. On a human level, Kurt Warner is as good as they come.

by **unipanther99** » January 14th, 2022, 2:19 pm

I'll see it eventually. But I'm really disappointed the UNI football games are portrayed in an outdoor stadium.

by **OfficerPhil** » January 14th, 2022, 2:28 pm

unipanther99 wrote:I'll see it eventually. But I'm really disappointed the UNI football games are portrayed in an outdoor stadium.

Kurt Warner was heavily involved with the making of the movie. I wonder if it was a budgetary issue or if the UNIDome wasn't available during the filming?

by **PantherSigEp** » January 16th, 2022, 11:34 am

I'd definitely guess it was budgetary but I'm doubting they even considered using the UNI dome. Iowa isn't very film friendly and I can't imagine the cost of moving the entire production to CF, even for a few days of filming.

Only some of us were even going to notice

by **unipanther99** » January 18th, 2022, 12:21 pm

They were already filming in a dome for the St. Louis stuff. Just change the banners and camera angles and it would have worked. Oh well.