I watched the movie today and I cried. It is really sad to see how they messed up their lives so easily! Well...I hope they are having good lives now and God bless them all
I liked that they're using actual game footage of that team. I think that is going to be a very good thing in this movie. Looking forward to seeing this.
This was so fun to shoot the movie 2014 summer . I actually go to carter now im in the calicos drill team so you'll see me in the film. I can't wait to see it . it was fun to meet the famous people and I just know this will be a hit . carter is #1 in the district even though we had a rough year but well be unstoppable next year as we were the rest of our years
Class of 97, and no sorry to disappoint you all but my school was not a bunch of thugs. My mother wouldn't have allowed me to go there. David W. Carter was a school that stayed in the news and NOT for what you think. We excelled in Sports and Academics. Look up the graduating class of 97. The proof is in numbers. CC TOO BAD TOO BOLD!!! Oh and we challenged all stereotypes and raised young girls to not hide in the shadows of men but to STAND tall and firm in their own light. We had the first all black/all women jazz band in Texas that made headlines as well.
+Domini478 ha ha u don't know what u speak of, it was 16 of them and they are all out and successful now, they just made bad choices , they came fro well to do upper middle class families. I know many of them personally
+Domini478 i watched the movie and my mom went there , they actually arent in prison , one was served 4 25 years in prison , 4 20 years in prison , 4 13 years , and and i believe 4 16 years in prison , but after 10 years were let out do to some law thing for them that was served...
+Domini478 You just sound like a hater, a few guys doing something stupid does not make the whole school or football team "THUGS". Would you like to be made out to be someone bad for what someone who went to your high school did, I'm sure not every person that went to your school was a perfect or model citizen.You just taking 2 minutes of the trailer and saying that they're lying or trying to portray it as those guys didn't do anything wrong, watch the whole movie before you make that judgement. I also see nothing wrong with this movie trying to portray this school in a positive light we need more black people being portrayed in a positive light in Hollywood period even when we do good we're seen as "THUGS". This football team in particular was already falsely portrayed negatively in Friday Night Lights because they beat an all white team, given how racist the south was back then there's no way they would have gotten away with cheating period, and some say they were "THUGGISH" because they said some mean things. If anyone thinks that football players usually talk nicely to the opposing team, they never played football and are extremely naive. I went to Carter High's rival school and even I'm not trying this hard to hate.
Carter is now 3A in Texas and went winless this year I think. Most of those families are moving out of that area and moving to Cedar Hill and Desoto who are now powerhouses
There 4A D1 n they are going to Desoto n Lancaster really do a little more research my dude n they dont have to move because both have open school districts n they had losing season they did in fact win but the losing season was because they played with a developing team They lost most of there starting defense n offense to The previous seasons graduation in which a lot of those athletes went to college not just the big names like Cory Avery Cameron Hampton n Jordan Ingram so expect the comeback
Classic movie...a timeless story...well written...well directed...well filmed...well acted...and its all based on a true story...a must see movie for all...CARTER HIGH!!!
The 1988 team that beat the "Friday Night Lights" Odessa Permian team in the state semi-finals in Austin. (Not the final in Houston as the movie would have you believe). H.G. Bissinger's book deals with Carter's academic eligibility issue quite a bit actually.
This also kinda feels like side sequal from Friday Night Lights. The Carter side of the story was always one where you could make a movie out of it. Too bad it won't be as big as FNL though.
@@charlielongley9229 no the way they showed them is horrible, they showed them as giant men throwing people around. Those men are the same size now that they are before and it’s not that big. All of them didn’t rob only a few only because they felt like they couldn’t be touched because they were winning at everything in their life
Carter High movie is way better than Friday night lights . I was once convinced that FNL was all that till Carter High came out , I related much more to the Carter culture vs Permian.
This movie will give the world in site of our great high school. David W. Carter High School has a rich history most people do not know about. I wouldn't trade my experience at my High School for nothing. I Love David W. Carter High School ❤. (Mr. C. Tolbert II: The Movie's Drummajor & Current Battalion Commander Drummajor💂 2014-2015)
I saw the trailer. If I didn't know anything about that school, I would say it's an inspiring, rousing, fight-for-school-team-town, overcome racism movie. Kinda like Remember the Titans? But the real story sure doesn't fit the movie: Ineligible players, grade fixing, and the worst, some of the players committed some serious crimes. Instead of Rocky, it's Goodfellas.
The way the grading system was transitioning to there was somewhat of a confusion from the teachers. So with the student transferring from one class to another it caused even more confusion. The student actually received a passing grade on his report card, but later the UIL received information from an anonymous person that the student did not pass.
Therein lies the problem. It was no fault to the student, the team or the coaches, but the system. Even after the grading controversy, some teachers still calculated the student as passing, but only because DISD stop fighting the case on behalf of Carter High School (after the robberies), did the UIL eventually declared Carter ineligible.
And they lost the trophy and wins because dumbass players were robbing stores. A big middle finger to the parents and community fighting for those kids to keep their season from ending due to grades
Carter was a really good football team that beat the Odessa team in the semi finals and YES it was THAT Odessa team from Friday Night Light's the BOOK but the players were just too hot to handle and later on robberies finally caught up to them and they had to forfeit their state championship they won in 1988 loater on.
so in Friday night lights this high school is known as a bunch of mean big ass roided thug football players , but here they look like such a friendly humble football team , idk what to believe
I went to Lincoln High School and we played Carter. I'd say somewhere in the middle. Yes it was a rough school but not as bad as people made it out to be.
The Friday Night Lights portrayal painted them as the stereotypical thug team, that played dirty. And if you actually actually watched the real team play, and listened to the actual players who played on that team in the 30 for 30 doc, it was clear they did not play that way. They didn't kick players who were down or try to injure players.
@@henryjw15 The ineligible player was questionable. He passed, based on the school's grading system. Not to mention, and anonymous call was made about this, a full 6 weeks after the grades were already submitted. BS. And the armed robberies happened months after they won the title. What they did after the season ended should have no bearing on what that team accomplished on the field.
@@pomerlain8924 the whole grading thing was questionable, I believe it when ann richards was govenor when we had no pass no play policy. I agree that they where portrayed wrongly but when you have bad eggs better to throw away the carton. The game, I'd wish it was portrayed as the muddy hell it was. The controversial catch was clearly not a catch, you see the ball hit the ground and water splash on film. The game should have been played a true neutral site like abilene, would have sold more tickets but the I'm sure carter wanted no part of permian at shotwell. So they movie producers had to muddy up the game since it was played at the astro dome and not at dkr
I'm really excited about this movie. It won't be as good as FNL in terms of comittment, filming, acting, etc, but the story will be great I think. They CAN NOT ignore the actual events and make it seem like it's a team full of innocent black kids that are being bullied by the higharchy of the (white) DISD system. Have to talk about the bank roberies, the algebra grade (Edwards really did fail it. The principal kept changing his grade high enough so he could pass the class.), and the players off the field antics. Having said that the players weren' like how they were portrayed in FNL.
haha i dont know what to believe for carter high. the way they were portrayed in Friday Night Lights as being thuggish assholes or the way this movie is portraying them. not sayin carter high is either or jus sayin that hollywood is always misleading us.
I'm truly glad you noticed the difference. I went to Carter and played on the team during that time and can unequivocally say "Carter High" is a honest portrayal of the school.
williamtitan dont believe anything you saw in the FNL movie 90% of it was a lie they lost to carter in the semi not the state championship, gary gains was an asshole who didnt give a fuck about the black kids besides the fact they could help him win a game just like the coach on varsity blues.race was a huge issue at permian. bobbie miles got hurt b4 the season he never played his senior year, and of course hollywood is going to portray an all black school as dirty thugs who cheap shot and played dirty against the mostly white school which is far from the truth. Even the actual permian plays from that time said in different interveiws the a lot of negative things about permian was left out and the truth was stretched a lot.
thesprintmaster yeah I like the movie Friday Night Lights when I first saw it but when I heard that Dallas Carter wasn't a dirty team I thought the movie should be boycotted. I'm familiar with down south and those hillbillies are jealous that the black man is a better football player
They deversed to go to prison , they robbed innocent hardworking people who are feeding their families, so what you think's gonna happen, it's their fault, they messed up their lives
the movie looks interesting. I've read Friday night lights. movie sucked compared to it. FNL the book brings to light the racism for all the blacks in that comminity. the movie didn't really cover that. so I can see why the Carter folks are upset. my only issue though are with the comments that I see on here. is it me or have my people lost their sense of responsibility. defending robberies at gun point by just saying these kids made a bad decision is immensely ignorant. stealing candy from a store is a bad decision. heck if they would've just tried to steal a vhs tape out of that video store, that would qualify as a bad decision. robbing someone at gun point for hundreds to thousands of dollars is a felonious crime. doing it several times is even worse. I don't really care about the difference in some other white kids sentencing. wrong is wrong. we as a community need to start realizing that and start expecting ourselves to make better decisions. oh and another thing, just because some white folks don't agree with defending individuals who Rob people at gun point doesn't make them racist or a hater.
Watching Friday Night Lights, I hated this team. They portrayed them in the movie as dirty players and cheaters. I'm sure the school has developed fine young players over the years but FNL's portrayal of them kinda put them in a negative light for me.