[NFL Cinema] Will Smith & Gugu Mbatha-Raw's 'Concussion'

Rocket River · Dec 28, 2015

hotballa said: ↑

Thank God for this movie or I would never have thought that a game where you have to wear helmets because of all the violent head to head collisions could cause head problems.

I'm looking forward to the next movie from Will Smith titled "Tommy", where they reveal to the entire world that people who repeat the same violent high speed throwing motion with their arm tend to get arm problems.
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Hilarious . .. considering that the NFL denied it until this Doctor Proved it
and then they continued to deny it . . . . .

All that said .. the movie was a snooze fest

The guy next to me in the theater was literally snoring in the theater

Rocket River

cheke64 · Dec 28, 2015

I'm very skeptical of his research. Most of these sports also have another common killer suspect, steroids, and it's well documented it can make you suicidal. The whole p***y **** this doc went about dodging the results because he was scared or whatever.... sounds like a Nigerian scam. He's character and integrity is in the air. He was like a business man and he wanted to publicize this or patent this. Kind of forgot since it was last night but red flags everywhere

HR Dept · Dec 28, 2015

Mr. Clutch said: ↑

I don't know many parents who let their kids play football, or who will
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Then you just don't know many parents.

HR Dept · Dec 28, 2015

Rocket River said: ↑

All that said .. the movie was a snooze fest

The guy next to me in the theater was literally snoring in the theater

Rocket River
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This has always been my impression of how this movie would be. And this is coming from someone who thinks Gugu Mbatha-Raw is one of the scorer women alive. I set through all of Beyond the Lights just to see more of her.

Mr. Clutch · Dec 28, 2015

HR Dept said: ↑

Then you just don't know many parents.
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I know many. But it must be my circle. I think every parent is at least aware of the risks

juicystream · Dec 28, 2015

robbie380 said: ↑

Your moral and internet outrage is impressive.

I watch MMA, boxing, jiujitsu, and other combat sports/martial arts. I hope you are as equally outraged about hockey, rugby, and headers in soccer as well.
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Personally, I hate MMA & Boxing. Intentionally trying to knock somebody unconscious has zero appeal to me. I'm amazed these "sports" haven't been outlawed in developed countries.

Buck Turgidson · Dec 29, 2015

http://www.slate.com/articles/sport...will_smith_s_concussion_and_bennet_omalu.html

Think about what all this means. We know that football players are much less likely than other people to kill themselves, and that on average they live longer lives. We know they suffer from depression at about the normal rate. We know that they’re less prone than average men to violent mood swings. We know they’re disproportionately the victims of memory disorders but that the rate is still low in absolute terms, at less than 5 percent. And we believe that CTE affects up to 90 percent of all the men who ever played professional football.

If you look at all those facts together, you might conclude that 1) CTE is indeed a widespread epidemic among former contact-athletes but 2) its clinical effects are pretty modest, since most men who have it are not depressed or otherwise impaired. It could well be that this brain disease doesn’t have much bearing on the lived experience of its sufferers. Maybe someone could have all the signs of tau-protein pathology that Omalu found in Mike Webster’s brain and feel totally fine. In fact, we know from other studies that some degree of tau-protein build-up is a normal part of aging and that the presence of neurofibrillary tangles does not reliably predict cognitive impairment.

None of this is to say that CTE is fake or nonexistent. I’m only trying to point out that the science of the illness is still in an embryonic stage. We have no idea how many people really have it and what, exactly, “it” is. More importantly, we have only a blurry understanding of how CTE manifests in life. And until we get some answers to those questions—important work is now underway—we’re stuck with a spotty, shifting knowledge of the problem.

In the meantime, the bogus story of Concussion, the one so often parroted in the press, admits none of this uncertainty. It baits us into nutty, unsubstantiated claims. (Here’s one: Maybe Lou Gehrig didn’t really have Lou Gehrig’s disease but CTE instead.) It causes panic among athletes and their families, at every level of the sport. The fear of CTE infects the minds of men even in their final moments—think of Duerson and Seau, taking bullets in the chest, perhaps convinced they had no hope of escaping their disease. And, ultimately, it leaves the rest of us less informed than we were before.
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Lots of good links and info at the article, worth a read if you're interested in this. Also, as was noted earlier, watch League of Denial and skip this Hollywood crap.

HR Dept · Dec 29, 2015

I'm pretty sure that the mysterious virus from the Walking Dead is nothing more than advanced CTE.

Cohete Rojo · Dec 29, 2015

juicystream said: ↑

Personally, I hate MMA & Boxing. Intentionally trying to knock somebody unconscious has zero appeal to me. I'm amazed these "sports" haven't been outlawed in developed countries.
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Hey, whatever keeps them off the streets or from under the bridge, sounds good to me. Personally, I don't watch fighting or football.

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