finally saw THE KING chess movie... and wish i dint

After reading all the positive hype about “THE KING” on the forums i finally got a chance to see the movie.  Some people evn said it made them cry and i can see why.  It was just awful!!!  there wasn’t a single scene that seemed realistic.   After every move (of every game) the characters give each other little knowing glances out of the corner of their eye… like they all just saw an amazing incredible tactic?   Every game (EVERY SINGLE GAME) ends with the loser toppling his king over on it’s side. How many people do that? after every game?    I mean, when the main character was getting ready for the final big tournament and was offered advice…. he says; “No. I want to win all by myself.”  Gimme a break.  That was the final straw… we couldn’t take it anymore and turned off the TV.  I can honestly say it is the worst, most horrible, awful, terrible movie i have ever seen in my entire short, so called life.  Sorry for the rant.. but i feel i have been lead astray by the plethora of wonderful things people have said about this movie… i was sooooooo dissapointed i wanted to cry too.. an hour of my life i wish i could take back 

I agree but in addition I think you missed one of the worst scenes I have ever seen in my life. One of the kids takes his move and Cuba says, 'good move'. The very next move his opponent checkmates him and Cuba says, 'even better'. How could the first move be good if it lead immediately to a checkmate? It's as though they didn't even bother to research the game.

He was on the take as usual.

It's the worm

If you want to see a great chess movie, and a great human story, check out the movie "Brooklyn Castle"

Very little. Grammar maybe

But he didn't have nothing. He learned chess in prison.

Oh great so he had worse than nothing - instead of a fresh, uncluttered, clear mind ready to take the world by storm as soon as he got the chance he came out with a ludicrous addiction thereby ending whatever last hopes he had.

Watched 6 minutes of it on Youtube, and did not have time to be annoyed by chess technicalities: the movie was just so dull and boring.

A guy is in jail, no one knows why, how long anything. Plays some chess... Then goes out, meet woman who says "no want you no more", then meet guy at pool table who can't help say some ridiculously cheesy sentence "Something changes, all the things stay same damn' way" which means nothing much, and expecting more dull talk, I quit the movie.

It's anyhow hard to watch any chess related movie after Queen's Gambit.

Often real life is harder to watch

How is it not a movie? Even based on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, a movie is a movie.

Maybe so, but script writters, directors and actors are supposed to make it watchable, at the very least. Lots of tricks can be used for the purpose: voice off, good actors, well written dialogs, background music, whatnot.

But ok, movie making is a difficult art.

I like the chess episode "Gone" in Law and Order: Criminal Intent. It has a paranoid former chess champion in it who kills someone. There are obvious similarities to Fischer, and it's a rare occasion when it was done well. Of course chess was done well in From Russia With Love as well but only formed a tiny part of the movie.

@long_quach

There is no "between the lines" in what you said, you're abusing the term. You only said "It's not a movie cos it's based on real events", that's all you said, plain and simple.

This is a movie based on true events, and is not dull & boring for it (example)

(Sid and Nancy 1986)

Ok. Cap. (As the kids say)

the reality of it wasn't dull either

This is how you alone understands it.

Don't I know...