Me too. I wish we could all have a GS screening party. How fun would that be....
Well, we shall organise them for each location.
Me too. I wish we could all have a GS screening party. How fun would that be....
Woah, that's a flutz if I ever saw one.
That was a flutz and that's something that the real Tonya never did....When she hit them, her jumps were spectacular. Is it possible that was supposed to be a flip and was badly edited? Even a causal fan can see that was an inside edge take off.
I doubt Tonya will get invited to the Oscars for this movie unless it is a big box office success...the actress playing her (Margot Robbie) is probably not going to be nominated and it certainly won't be a Best Picture nominee. Its only real chance is with Allison Janney for being so scene-stealing. I wish the movie had been made several years ago with Amy Adams in the lead role and a more serious screenplay + director. This story/setting has more depth than the treatment it received. Fingers crossed, though, for it to still bring some returned interest to figure skating as a whole.
I'm getting flashbacks from The Cutting Edge. Not only did the dude have to hammer throw his partner into the roof by her skates, they had to do it under the most dramatic Olympic free program lighting config ever!Why do they have to make the audience background so dark with huge spotlight? So unrealistic unless it's a gala ex.
They should've said most talented. I think that, without question, Tonya had the most talent - much of which was unfortunately wasted.
No, she didn't have the most talent, either.
No, that's not accurate either.It’s the Tonya character that says she’s the best, however, so can we agree that it is accurate she thought that about herself??
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZbTLdDHRvs&feature=youtu.be
Full Trailer is out! No hilarious flutzes in this version, though I am sideyeing the claim that Tonya was the best figure skater in the world. She skated in the same era as Midori Ito and Kristi Yamaguchi, that's a bit of a stretch... But I guess a little dramatic hyperbole isn't out of this film's wheelhouse.
The thing about Tonya was that at one point, she did defeat every skater in the World. Including and Kristi, Nancy, and Midori Ito. The problem is, she never beat them all at the same event. She beat Kristi and Nancy at Nationals. Then, she beat Midori and Nancy at Worlds but lost the Gold to Kristi whom she had beaten 3 weeks earlier. The more trailers I see from this movie, I have to wonder how she ever got as far as she did with a Mother like that.
When I saw Tonya at Skate America in 1991, she was by far the best lady and the event. I don't know if Kristi was sick but, she was slow, had small jumps, and just looked scared when I saw her. She lost to Tonya and IMO, should have lost to Lulu. I still find it shocking how Tonya seemed to lose her jumps between Skate America and Nationals that season?
I think it's hard to label Tonya as the best skater of that time period when she never landed a clean triple-triple. Kristi Yamaguchi did; and Midori did triple-toe-triple-toes over a period of about ten years, and also landed triple-lutz-triples toes in competition, plus there is footage of her landing both triple flips-triple toes and triple axel-triple toes in practice. Also, Midori landed her first at the age of twelve. Can you really label another skater not able to do something she did consistently from the age of twelve, and which is a now a standard within the sport, as the better skater? The line about Tonya being the best skater in the world is there to sell the film...... There's a lot of Americanist revisionism around Tonya, in line with this film; but even the ultra Americanist Scott Hamilton stated at the time that Midori was a better jumper than Tonya https://youtu.be/rafV3pPOwdM?t=3m7s. And of course with Tonya we are really only talking about the nine month window in which she landed 4 triple axels, rather than the seven year window in which Midori landed 21 or so.