Battle of the Sexes

Rousing, crowd-pleasing, and a pure delight in casual entertainment, "Battle of the Sexes" is not a film that's going to break down any walls, and it's certainly not one that's going to change many minds on the subject of LGBTQ rights, but it doesn't have to, because Billie Jean King has already done that, instead focusing on the person as well as her legacy, and how one informed the other. It's electrifying and satisfying stuff, even if it isn't anything new, and one heck of a game of tennis.

Lacks subtlety and too many lines of dialogue were painfully cinematic. The acting chemistry was off which greatly hindered the romantic plot which was a main focus of the film. I understand why they needed to include that but the match the movie is named after felt like a side plot. Carell and Stone have very little screen time together. If felt like Fred Armisen was doing a Portlandia character and he stuck out like a sore thumb. A documentary would have been tighter and more fun.

Both Carrell and Stone raise the material, but this film felt so underwhelming because of its constant need to simplify everything.

As biopics go, it's pretty by the numbers. How much interest and intrigue you have about this piece of history will really determine how much you enjoy this. Emma Stone and Steve Carrell are great and both actually seem perfect for the characters they are portraying on-screen. Ultimately though, it's a film that tries to speak volumes about many issues but unfortunately only manages to scratch the surface and leaves a lot unanswered and unexplored.

The obvious sexism is such an easy target and we are invited to collectively shoot it down. Which leaves Steve Carell running away with his hustler persona, Sarah Silverman smoking on the sidelines, and a sweet little lesbian love affair. But it's all just a show, nothing's on the line.

Emma Stone was convincing as Billie Jean King and Steve Carell gave a convincing Bobby Riggs performance. There were a few surprises with this movie, and much of it felt like a history lesson. But they kept it lively, so it was well worth watching.

Passes the time.

The quality was their, but wasn't quite fun enough for me.

Battle of the Sexes knows exactly what it wants to do. It doesn't want to create a balanced and detailed biopic of its two leads; it wants to tell its story primarily from the perspective of Billie Jean King and champion her real-life goals. Emma Stone is great as King, and the film's aims at promoting equality are admirable. It would have been nice to get more depth for Bobby Riggs as a character, but that might have made the film's crowd-pleasing ambition more difficult to achieve.

This match up tells a reasonably good story about competitive tennis pros. The "Sex" angle highlights the matches primary point of interest.

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The best part of this film is the performance by Emma Stone. Stone's performance makes the film good. There is nothing ground breaking in the script but it works. Overall I would recommend this film.

Pretty entertaining film, Carell and Stone deliver good performances and Carell makes the film softer and more fun.

eng; [battle of the sexes]; um faire bezahlung für die frauen in der tennisliga zu erreichen startet die weltmeisterin ihre eigene meisterschaft, doch ein mann fordert sie heraus - ein wettkampf zweier sehr unterschiedlicher charaktere um anerkennung beginnt.; (unterhaltsam);

Battle of the Sexes is a mediocre biopic that does a decent job with its equality theme but falters everywhere else. The film devotes more time to King than Riggs, which is fine except that King's illicit lesbian romance is as tedious as it is irrelevant to this film. At 2 hours long with a sluggish pace, something needed to be cut. Carrell is a lot of fun & Stone's performance is great (though she's much prettier than King was). Silverman is a haircut & a bad performance. The tennis is dull.

This story was caught between exploring King's personal life and professional life and doesn't really commit to either one with very good depth. Riggs' story feels secondary from the start. Though it felt like it could have been the stronger one in terms of "drama" potential, much of that was also left unexplored.

"I wonder how it feels to be inside your skin". Ufff.

OK, it's a message movie, but it's a message movie that hits with everything, but the kitchen sink. Pacing is terrible, and the only character you wind up caring about is Riggs, as Carell nails him almost perfectly.

A moderate success in that it's mostly engaging. It wavers often when the scenes shift from the tennis play though.

Proving that you can make a light hearted, fun film out of important issues, BotS is a really satisfying "feel good" film. Stone is simply fantastic as BJK; her first meeting with Marilyn electrifing, and subsequent mental turmoil brilliantly done. The script was intelligent enough not to make Larry King, or Riggs "the enemy", and my only criticism was that the other women tennis players were marginal, interchangeable and vacuous; surely the wrong message BofS was trying to portray? Great cast.

There are a few fleeting good moments. Emma Stone was as good as always.

It needed more tennis and less dramatics. And call me what you want, but when Steve Carrell wasn't on screen, it was even flatter. The guy knows how to play a chauvinist pig, what can I say.

Well written, directed and acted. A positive surprise.

Like an indie softcore porn so much of the time with the dramatic build-up music, the soft-lighting and the close-ups.

Nice film which does a good job of balancing two storylines of the fight for equal pay and women's rights in the 70s, and a married woman embracing her lesbian side. Emma Stone is a great actress, perhaps overly pretty and underly gritty to portray a convincing tennis champ in the off-court scenes. The presumably CGI tennis is done well and most scenes are generally entertaining. A little hard to believe the characters but an enjoyable interpretation of history and a highly polished film.

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It's a decent movie that absolutely and unfortunately grinds to a halt whenever the focus leaves the tennis court.

A gloriously enjoyable evocation of 1973 -- this never intends to be a searing political or social statement, but more a light hearted reflection on the assumed gender politics of the 1970s (and the insinuation that thoughtless sexism and misogny may still be rampant in the present day). A more cutting edge would have made for an even better film, but certainly not one this enjoyable - Stone proves again she is dynamite in the right role, and Carell is her match as the blithely clueless Riggs.

OK! men and women are equal but this movie sucks.

good movie

Ok, but that's about it.

Only a small part is devoted to tennis, the 'battle', and the relationship between the characters played by Stone and Carell. And the other stuff really wasn't that interesting. They clearly didn't have enough story to make a movie and it resulted in some real pacing issues. It felt very long and slow. The tennis match at the end was good, but if I really wanted to watch tennis, I'd watch tennis. Stone and Carell were fine, but their characters were pretty simplistic.

Even though I enjoyed it, I think it should've focused either on King's sexuality or the gender equity issue. Although they seem related, the two subjects are vastly apart and this shows in the movie. Too long for its own good and unfocused, but still a decent watch.

Kafası çok karışık bir film. Tonunu bir türlü oturtamıyor, döneminin hissini iyi verse de kötü post prodüksyon yüzünden seyirciyi sürekli moddan çıkarıyor. En önemlisi de vermek istediği mesajı çok ama çok basit ve yer yer sıkıntılı bir şekilde veriyor. İyi oyunculuk performanslarının ve seçtiği iyi hikayenin altını kesinlikle dolduramamış.

ödül sezonu hırsıyla yanıp tutuşan samimiyetsiz, pis bir biyografi işi olmanın doğal maliyetini hafifletmeye çalışırken ton problemi yaşayan, her türlü güncel *popüler duyar* meselesinin basitleştirilerek içine atıldığı bant kaydından izlenen maç gibi bir montaj yığınına dönüşmüş. carell *ciddi aktör* kabulü için çabalarken bu tarz ambalajı özenle hazırlanmış abur cuburlar yerine gerçekten ciddi filmlere gitse ne iyi olur ayrıca.

Enjoyable movie, even though it's not the genre I tend to like at all.

Skimmed through it to see if Emma Stone kisses another girl. Should've waited for the Mr Skin clip

Engaging and informative , A timely look at gender politics in the 1970's.

This is the first time Emma Stone really blew me away with her acting, she is fantastic. Steve Carell's Bobby Riggs is truly ridiculous, almost too ridiculous to be a real person. The film is nicely shot with great 70s visuals and looks back on the gender politics in sport as well as overall at that time. But geez, back then tennis was really boring compared to nowadays.

Well-acted but heavy-handedly written. Doesn't do a whole lot to distinguish itself as a biopic of note but it was entertaining.

A comparatively lightweight take on a number of pressing social issues, BATTLE OF THE SEXES nonetheless conveys the spirit of Billie Jean King's importance as a feminist pioneer and LGBT public figure. The movie tries, with mixed success, to bring human warmth to its historical personae--epitomized by the film's perplexing portrait of Bobby Riggs--but either way Emma Stone and Steve Carell effortlessly carry it to a crowd-pleasing and audience-congratulating conclusion.

Enjoyable in spots, but as always, a good documentary on the subject would be infinitely more interesting.

A little on-the-nose, but nonetheless an important piece of history done justice in this film, slight innacuracies and all

So what are they going for here, gender equality? How can we do that when we can't even talk about what the gender differences actually are without offending everybody? As Billy Jean said it was a circus, and you don't prove anything there. Steve Carell is the star of the show, while Emma captured Billy Jean's one dimensional personality perfectly.

It's haunting how much of this 1973 sports event is reflective of today's political climate. Stone and Carell are so fun to watch.