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day of the fight is exactly the title
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tells you what H what happens in the
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movie It's directed by Jack Houston uh
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who's related to Angelica Houston oddly
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enough it's about uh Mickey he's a
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former champion boxer and he is
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preparing for his first fight at their
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prison a championship fight with
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line uh Mickey is played by Michael pit
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he plays Mike Flanigan uh other others
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rounding out the cast Ron Pearlman Steve
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BMI Joe pesi and it's about uh Mickey's
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day preparing for this fight and what
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he's doing is he's putting everything in
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in his life in order so you see him at
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the beginning of his day he's starting
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to write a letter to his daughter it's
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very poignant he visits his uh local
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coffee shop to pick up some uh something
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for breakfast he's v he's he sells a
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ring to get money to bet on himself in
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the fight so he's going about his day
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this journey um basically also dealing
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with the sins of his past leading up to
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an epic fight in the ring with
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everything on the line the movie is
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beautifully shot in black and
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white Michael Pitt's performance is
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incredible and I'm sorry like I I saw
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this really late um it's now in theaters
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um I feel like you really had a shot to
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uh to get you know to get some awards
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nominations and it has though it's not
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nowhere near as good as something like a
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rocky it's like the art film version of
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a rocky story of a Rocky film
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and it's just it's Mike Michael pit is
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so so amazing in this movie and I Know
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Jack Houston fought for this film to be
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shot in black and white he had to fight
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with investors no it's black and white
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and it has that as a fan of boxing
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movies uh Raging Bull is one of my
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favorites and again not as great as
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Raging Bull not as great as Rocky but in
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the pantheon of sports movies because
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what I love about sports movies I love
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sports movies I just love them um
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they're very simple um you win or you
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lose or sometimes when you lose you win
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something else which is respect which
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what happened in the first Rocky movie
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um Stallone's character Rocky Balboa one
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respect and Michael pit dude I mean he
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is just he carries this movie and the
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motion and the weight when you see what
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he's dealing with from his estranged
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wife to what he had to deal with in
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prison is just a phenomenal performance
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and um shows you what you can do on an
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budget what is possible you know um so
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uh if you if you love boxing movies and
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you love sports movies put this one on
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your list and see it on the big screen I
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was fortunate enough to see it on the
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big screen and wow uh really powerful
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film and uh it's all about Michael
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Pitt's performance so there you go I
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recommend what's your rating day of the
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rating uh I don't know if I put a number
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on it I mean you know between a seven
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and an eight okay right seven and a half
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but um I mean I thought because I've
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seen boxing movies with better
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boxing right but his journey is what
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makes this work you know not the the
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fight scenes we've seen better fight
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scenes in Rocky films and Raging Bull um
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or Creed so the boxing but the boxing
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wasn't the point of the story it's not
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spectacle it's about this internal Jour
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journey of Mickey's character
