I WILL SEE MADSEN AT STRENGTH AND HONOUR WOHOO

[josephanthony]

I worked on strength and honour as an extra and we are all invited to the premiere on the 19 of november of this year....cant wait for it.....I was involved in the fight scene and infairness to the man he tries to make everyone as comfortable as possible..To see new trailer:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kDjMUlxtoE

see some behind the seen pics on:

www.bebo.com/Profile.jsp?MemberId=3915569957

[Madsengirl]

Thanks for the info & the links.

[Nove]

Lucky girl. I'd give anything to see Michael.

[AradiaMMFan]

what i dont understand about this movie is why they didnt just make it american movie instead of making everyone put on lame irish accents. unless it was based off a true story?

[AradiaMMFan]

well why didnt he get real irish people then? i dunno, i just think its stupid to have people fake being a different race or whatever when u can get the real thing. they all sound so silly putting on those accents.

[vivalasvicvega]

not to be rude, but what your describing is called acting

[Nove]

Yes,it is acting and maybe they didn't have the right irish actor to play the part. If the actor can pull off the accent well all's well.

[Nove]

'Strength and Honor' lacks consistency and credibility
By Sid Smith | Tribune arts critic
December 6, 2007
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Digg Del.icio.us Facebook Fark Google Newsvine Reddit Yahoo Print Single page view Reprints Post Comment Text size: "Strength and Honor" is a boxing movie both relentlessly dismal and dismally predictable--"Rocky Goes to Ireland," with a side trip past "Million Dollar Baby."

Bleak reversals of fortune and tragedy march by for nearly an hour or so. In an opening set seven years in the past, a young boxer, Sean (Michael Madsen), kills a friend during practice with a freakishly fatal punch. Flash forward to present-day Cork, and his young wife is dying of a hereditary heart disorder, though not before signing an insurance policy that will later be nullified by her pre-existing condition.

Sean is thus widowed and broke, father of a young son, who soon shows signs of his mother's illness. Only a rare and expensive American operation will save the boy. Sean must drop his moral reserve and enter a bare-knuckle contest run as an underground enterprise to earn money for the surgery.




What in the world was screenwriter Mark Mahon thinking when he concocted this hokum channeling "Rocky" and just about every aspect of TV tearjerker "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition" except for hyper-eager Ty Pennington? The set-up is sappy, the morals contradictory and the story trite.

As a first-time director as well, Mahon isn't much better. There's the usual lyrical imagery of Irish scenery, dressed with melodic pop tunes and Gaelic strains, set in opposition to the familiar bluster, clannish hatred and primitivism of a culture chafed raw by poverty. The acting is acceptable, Madsen restrained and almost sweet, thus cast against type, while Vinnie Jones' snarling mongrel of a villain--the aptly named Smasher and the current boxing champ Sean must unseat--is loud and feral.

But what's Richard Chamberlain doing here woefully miscast as a crusty old trainer? And even Madsen seems too gentle. His understated performance fits the schizophrenic movie's tearful side better than its boxing one, in which he never manages the ferocity Sean would need to shed his guilt and go for the kill.

"Strength and Honor" boasts a spare, quiet style jarringly interrupted by violence, and that interplay proves Mahon's sturdiest achievement. But it's a movie full of cliches and manipulated moral dilemmas. Nobody, the audience included, comes out a winner.

[Nove]

That's so true. I don't care what country the actors come from. As long as they can act that's the main thing.

[Red Devil]

I didn.t hear anything here in Holland about this movies..
That bad..
And I would love to see this movie..

[Nove]

So would I. I never take any notice of the critics.