{"id":713,"date":"2022-02-07T20:37:13","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T20:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/?p=713"},"modified":"2022-02-07T20:37:13","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T20:37:13","slug":"181-leatherheads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/2022\/02\/07\/181-leatherheads\/","title":{"rendered":"181 – Leatherheads"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This week, we are once again returning to the diminishing returns of George Clooney\u2019s directorial career with 2008\u2032s\u00a0Leatherheads<\/i>. The directing follow-up to his Oscar-nominated\u00a0Good Night and Good Luck<\/i>, this lighthearted film about the early days of American pro football stars Clooney as a player opposite\u00a0Ren\u00e9e Zellweger as a journalist trying to break the story of a college football star (John Krasinski) who falsified the war hero story that made him famous. The film was received positively by critics and mildly by audiences, but was quickly forgotten as a\u00a0hodgepodge of screwball comedy, sports crowdpleaser, and post-war drama.<\/p>\n

In this episode, we look back at\u00a0Clooney’s directorial attempt to follow in the footsteps of his collaborators and\u00a0the 2005 Oscars where George Clooney earned three Oscar nominations, including winning in Best Supporting Actor for the forgotten\u00a0Syriana<\/i>. We also discuss\u00a0Zellweger’s post-Oscar career fade,\u00a0a what-if scenario for Clooney not winning for\u00a0Syriana<\/i>, and just how unsafe early football seems.<\/p>\n

Topics also include\u00a0the Zellweger movie we call “SOS backwards”, being blocked by LightsCameraJackson, and another round of Alter Egos.<\/p>\n

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This week, we are once again returning to the diminishing returns of George Clooney\u2019s directorial career with 2008\u2032s\u00a0Leatherheads. The directing follow-up to his Oscar-nominated\u00a0Good Night and Good Luck, this lighthearted film about the early days of American pro football stars Clooney as a player opposite\u00a0Ren\u00e9e Zellweger as a journalist trying to break the story of … Continue reading “181 – Leatherheads”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"audio","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5,34,549,35,217,95,748,3,6,312,884],"class_list":["post-713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-audio","hentry","category-this-had-oscar-buzz","tag-academy-awards","tag-best-actor","tag-best-director","tag-best-supporting-actor","tag-george-clooney","tag-john-krasinski","tag-johnathan-pryce","tag-movies","tag-oscars","tag-renee-zellweger","tag-sports-movies","post_format-post-format-audio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/713\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fightinginthewarroom.com\/THOB\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}