Battle of the Sexes (2017)

i must have seen a different film!!

Absolutely brilliant

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

It's an amazing and heartbreaking story.

This was more about Billie Jean King struggling with her sexuality and trying to keep it a secret from her husband, sponsors, and fans, and less about women's rights and pay equality. Her husband was very understanding and patient with Billie which i found surprising. An ok movie the acting was good but i was reading a book at the same time so it didn't really hold my attention.

It is 1973. World no 1 female tennis player Billie Jean King, arguing that women are vastly underpaid by comparison with male professional tennis players, is pressured into playing an exhibition match against 55-year old Bobby Riggs, a star player from 25 years earlier. At the same time, she - and husband Larry - are coming to terms with her lesbianism.Emma Stone is Billie Jean King and Steve Carrell is Bobby Riggs - high profile performers in this adaptation of a true story which switches between Riggs' gambling and humorous showmanship, King's clandestine and troubled exploration of her feminine sexual side, the male dominated tennis establishment, and Riggs' own marriage issues. It is well acted, and the period detail is good. The trouble is, I didn't really care very much. I felt sympathy for Larry King who came across as a really good person (and the credits captions seemed to confirm this), but I cared little for the main characters. And that's where this film falls down - without an emotional investment in the principals, there is little reason for this film to exist. The writing fails it.

Emma Stone and Steve Carell tackle the tennis match of a generation, man vs. woman, against the backdrop of a splintering league and a cultural revolution. Carell has some fun with the part of Bobby Riggs, really going over the top with publicity stunts and sound bytes that fit his natural comic timing, while Stone positively disappears into her more serious role as the focused, professional Billie Jean King. I was hoping for more interaction between the two, as they play well together and the promotional tour seems like the most fruitful grounds for an entertaining film, but instead that's an afterthought to both parties' private, separate struggles.It's well-made, an excellent recreation of the era and the scene, but its message gets muddled in places, particularly in the amount of excuses it gives Riggs for his performance during the big match. A few conveniently-disappearing players in Billie Jean's storyline cause snags during the emotional payoff, too, with their surprisingly limited on-screen reactions echoing our own. A good subject, nicely cast and produced, not to mention appropriately timely, but it doesn't quite achieve everything it probably should have.

I liked this film, but it was quite cliché. Anyhow I do recommend watching and playing tennis occasionally. Have a good day