MJB784
I just saw an extremely unpleasant "comedy": The Bronze. It's about this Bronze gymnast turned coach who is constantly angry and mean to everyone including her father and her father manipulates her to train this fan of her's to get the gold in a gymnastics competition. I have not seen a movie this unfunny and mean-spirited in a long time. I hated it.
sombroff
I have laugh from beginning to the end, and never feel boring during this movie.
If more movies could be as good as this one it would be heaven.
I don't understand why people can write bad reviews or give bad rating to this movie...
It's maybe not a blockbuster, but if you want have fun watching a small funny movie with special people and special story, this movie is made for you!!!
I hope this movie can have the success it deserves.
And I really want to say a big thank you to every body have work on this movie, it makes people feel good to see this kind of comedy, which look like low budget but actually we can feel there is love and passion behind this movie, thanks to have pay attention to all the details and bring us this kind of fun in the life.
gdeangel
Contrary to the negativity of the title of my review, I found The Bronze to be both moving at times, and at other times funny. Not hilarious, but just funny in a surreal, this could never actually happen way. I give it 9 out of 10 at a time when interesting characters are just AWOL from the big screen.Not so with Hope. She is genuinely interesting in a kind of "hate her but can't stop thinking about her" way.The theme of this film has been done before many times. I prefer to liken it to The Wrestler than Blades of Glory. The film is definitely satirical, but not comic satire. It is much too gritty. Particularly for anyone who lives in small town Ohio (or any part of the country today) looking at the ghosts of their one-time dreams on the wall. Unlike a film like The Natural, where the washed up "wunderkind" comes riding in with a halo over his head to bail out the home town underdogs, in this film Hope rides in via the plush leather bucket seats of a "vintage" Buick, and clearly she has horns instead of a halo. That villainous exterior is what essentially makes her character so interesting.The problem is that in an attempt to sell this film to millennials, it has to transport this interesting, complex character to an episode of Family Guy, piling raunchy joke on top of raunchy joke. And as a result, for all it's brilliance, this is not the kind of R rated film you can every sit down and watch with even your teenage children. The sex scene is funny, but far to graphic (and needlessly). As are the many gratuitous sexual reference throughout the film and the non-nonchalant glorification of drugs.For a family comedy about a female protagonist trying desperately to hang on to some existential validation through past victory, and behaving badly in the process, I would recommend Butter. For a film you want to watch late at night when the kids are asleep, for the experience of periodically picking your jaw up off the ground, The Bronze delivers.
MartinHafer
I did not enjoy "The Bronze", though the premise sounded very promising and the film could have worked. The main character, Hope (Melissa Rauch) was thoroughly despicable--super-crude, nasty, self-absorbed and without redeeming qualities. And, this tended to make the film a very one-note sort of viewing experience...something that wouldn't have happened had the film either been a short or if there was more to the movie than that. As it is, it's a hard movie to like or even enjoy.Hope is a woman who won a Bronze medal back in 2004. Since then, she's done nothing with her life and she spends her time feeling sorry for herself, stealing, masturbating, doing drugs, treating everyone around her like dirt as well as living as if the world owes her. When her old coach kills herself, Hope is given a chance to do something with her life....to coach a young gymnastic hopeful to glory. However, at first, Hope just wants to destroy her new charge and gets her using drugs, overeating and making a mess of herself. Later, very inexplicably, she kinds of takes her job seriously....and becomes nice, sort of. What's to come of all this? And, more importantly, does anyone even care or does this make any sense?When I read the reviews for this film, I was very surprised that most seemed reasonably positive and the film has an overall score of 5.9....not good but certainly not terrible. Well, I thought the film was rather terrible...mostly because Hope was so unremittingly awful and unlikable...and this went on and on and on. The woman is ONLY a jerk and her language would make Joe Pesci's character in "Good Fellas" blush. Crudeness and nastiness alone do not make a good comedy--especially after the novelty of it all quickly wears off. And, for me, it wore off very quickly and the film repeatedly comes CLOSE to being funny but almost never does it connect. By the way, despite my strongly disliking the film and how crude it was, oddly, the funniest moment was the dirtiest--with one of the funniest and most acrobatic sex scenes in film history. I say watch that scene and ignore the rest. Also, if you want to see a similar sort of sports comedy that works, try "Blades of Glory".
AD
