Southpaw movie

I attempted to go to this movie with my daughter last night. Had to leave unfortunately half way through. I was really excited to see this one and looked great up to the point of me leaving. My question is has anyone seen this movie and if so is there a reason it is called South Paw if Jake Guellenwhatever fights from an orthodox stance? Or did I miss something or have too much time on my hands to think about these things? Regardless how was the movie and does anyone have an answer to the Southpaw question?

Thanks

I thought the movie sucked, personally. The southpaw angle comes in later on when Forrest Whitaker is teaching him defense and BOXING (not slugging), and has him practice fighting out of a southpaw stance. He ends up going southpaw to pull the fight out and regain his championship.

I thought it was a decent film and because the last poster has given the ending, I can say that for me , the ending was too "Rocky" like.
It would be interesting if there was a sequel where there are still one or two things for him to overcome.

I enjoyed it

The scorecards annoyed me. Several knock downs and and a point deduction yet no t reflected in scorecards, amateurs.

Average movie for me. Very predictable and lots of inconsistencies in some of the characters personalities.

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I thought the movie sucked, personally. The southpaw angle comes in later on when Forrest Whitaker is teaching him defense and BOXING (not slugging), and has him practice fighting out of a southpaw stance. He ends up going southpaw to pull the fight out and regain his championship.

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Guess I left before that part. I guess that explains that. Surprised bad reviews from saddo members. I thought it was supposed to be really good but didn't see enough to say.

As a boxing fan I generally make a point of not watching boxing movies because the majority of them are complete shit.

The only boxing movie I really rate is Raging Bull and that's because the boxing is only a very small part of it. With a cast like that film had, it couldn't really fail. That said, it's also the only boxing-based movie I've ever seen where the action in the ring isn't embarrassingly bad.

The Rocky films are bad, but in a fun way if that makes sense. They are just so overly cliched and ridiculous that you can't help but love the early ones. I refuse to believe that Stallone made those films expecting them to be taken seriously.

"The fighter" was a good movie I thought. Can't remember the fights scenes to well but they weren't Rocky level bad.

I knew this film would be a paint-by-numbers load of shit when I kept hearing "The best boxing movie since Raging Bull."

Raging Bull is a fantastic portrayal of a constantly starving paranoid lunatic. Masterpiece.

The first Rocky is a terrific love story.

I haven't seen the movie, but saw a good interview with Jake in which they show some fight scenes. As far as fight movies are concerned, I'm pretty picky about the fight scenes. If you're gonna play the part of a boxer, you should at least try to "look" like one. Which is why as opposed to half of humanity, I never liked any of the Rocky films. Carl Weathers did a credible job as Creed..... but Stallone can't box his way out of a paper bag.

I think Jake mentioned how he trained for months, including getting into pretty good physical shape. From the fight scenes, I'd put it various notches above any of the Rocky films.

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I haven't seen the movie, but saw a good interview with Jake in which they show some fight scenes. As far as fight movies are concerned, I'm pretty picky about the fight scenes. If you're gonna play the part of a boxer, you should at least try to "look" like one. Which is why as opposed to half of humanity, I never liked any of the Rocky films. Carl Weathers did a credible job as Creed..... but Stallone can't box his way out of a paper bag.

I think Jake mentioned how he trained for months, including getting into pretty good physical shape. From the fight scenes, I'd put it various notches above any of the Rocky films.

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Pretty much off topic, but wondering if you ever watched the first season of The Contender, specifically the scene where the fighters walk in the gym and the roided out Stallone is pounding on some scrub while he is in a pair of jeans and tank top? How ridiculous was that, and why the hell would he ever try to give advice to pro fighters???? I knew the show was doomed at that point.

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I haven't seen the movie, but saw a good interview with Jake in which they show some fight scenes. As far as fight movies are concerned, I'm pretty picky about the fight scenes. If you're gonna play the part of a boxer, you should at least try to "look" like one. Which is why as opposed to half of humanity, I never liked any of the Rocky films. Carl Weathers did a credible job as Creed..... but Stallone can't box his way out of a paper bag.

I think Jake mentioned how he trained for months, including getting into pretty good physical shape. From the fight scenes, I'd put it various notches above any of the Rocky films.

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Pretty much off topic, but wondering if you ever watched the first season of The Contender, specifically the scene where the fighters walk in the gym and the roided out Stallone is pounding on some scrub while he is in a pair of jeans and tank top? How ridiculous was that, and why the hell would he ever try to give advice to pro fighters???? I knew the show was doomed at that point.

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LOL...... As soon as I knew Stallone was involved it kind of took what little luster the show had to begin with.
But yeah..... Stallone giving advice to pro fighters is like Tom Hanks training real astronauts based on his role in the Apollo 13 movie.
In defense of Hanks, at least he knows how to act.

I want the Monzon story....now there's a movie!

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I want the Monzon story....now there's a movie!

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The Valero movie would be my pick :-X

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I want the Monzon story....now there's a movie!

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The Valero movie would be my pick :-X

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Gatti movie would be good. It could be done in a murder mystery type of way.