) — whose hubristic title is the first clue that it’s not playing fair. Joe Bell was a man like any other, who attempted to turn tragedy into a teaching moment. The movie has little to add to a story that got some local and national media attention and that, frankly, lends itself better to a 90-second TV news brief than a feature-length film.
The film, which must have looked great on paper , amounts to a heavy-handed lecture on homophobia. Whereas understatement and subtlety were the tools of their historic 2005 film, this one is emotionally manipulative in the extreme, assuming audiences are already on board with its message, and that all would appreciate a good cry over a case in which exclusion and intolerance proved fatal.
Hardly anything Joe Bell says in “Good Joe Bell” suggests that he understood his son in the slightest, and it’s not clear that the filmmakers do either. To them, Good Jadin Bell was a saintly teenager who had the courage to be himself — who joined the school’s otherwise-all-girl cheer squad and even caught the eye of a closeted football player — unfairly harassed by the Bad Kids in Town, who beat him up in the locker room and posted things like “just do us all a favor.
Wow way to paint this negatively.. reductive ass review
Is the trailer out yet? Tried looking it up the other day with no luck.
Does Mark Wahlberg star in anything but bad movies?
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