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FilmPG-132015
Concussion
Directed by Peter Landesman
A dramatic thriller based on the incredible true David vs. Goliath story of American immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu, the brilliant forensic neuropathologist who made the first discovery of CTE, a football-related brain trauma, in a pro player and fought for the truth to be known. Omalu's emotional quest puts him at dangerous odds with one of the most powerful institutions in the world. From TMDB
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Concussion is a 2015 drama film, directed by Peter Landesman, starring Will Smith, Alec Baldwin and Albert Brooks.
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60 of 68 · most liked firstA former power five player told us he was concerned about head trauma and wanted to show his position teammates the new film *Concussion.* His coach told him he wasn't allowed to. www.theguardian.com/sport/articl...
neutral · AI labelView post →We focus here on Josh Begley’s exceptional short film *Concussion Protocol,* which brilliantly documented and depicted every concussion in an NFL season. What kind of impact can such a film have on football fans? m.youtube.com/watch?v=r51a...
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m old enough to remember Concussion, the Will Smith movie about this, and nothing changed.
negative · AI labelView post →Since watching the movie Concussion I realized that CTE would be the death knell of pro football as we know it. Using one's head as a battering ram is not something the human body can tolerate. Turning off the TV on the weekend is the path I take to fight this. I've done without the NFL for 20 yrs.
positive · AI labelView post →That film Concussion was a real eye opener. And how long ago was that?
positive · AI labelView post →I didn't really know about CTE until I saw the 2015 movie Concussion. The scariest thing though is it can possibly start years before players are pro, Pop Warner leagues are able to have players as young as 5 years old so very young players are able to start that horror early 😱
neutral · AI labelView post →There's also a great film on this subject based on a true story of an African immigrant Dr who fought to have the condition recognised as a risk to football players Concussion stars Will Smith and is produced by Ridley Scott It's well worth watching Makes you think🤔 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concuss...
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie, Concussion, really changed how I looked at the game of football. I refused to let my son play bc of the consequences of concussions on developing brains. I don't wish CTE on anyone. CTE is a horrible diseaes that has already taken many lives through self harm.
positive · AI labelView post →I never watch the modern day gladiators since the movie "Concussion" (used to be a RN at a brain injury treatment center, and also acute neuro in 2 hospitals). But this is an even better reason atm. Maybe the roof will cave in.
neutral · AI labelView post →Loved this episode. In thinking of other bad medicalish films for you to review: > Five Feet Apart > John Q > Lorenzo’s Oil Some better ones: > Awakenings > The Knick (ok, not a movie) > Concussion > Something The Lord Made
neutral · AI labelView post →Although the students in the study overwhelmingly shared a positive disposition towards sports in general before viewing *Concussion Protocol,* they were nevertheless significantly impacted by their viewing of the film. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
neutral · AI labelView post →I literally just pitched a movie idea last weekend. Starting with a bald super hero that goes around head butting criminals. His name is gonna be Concussion. Leader of The Bald Avengers. @ladidadi56.bsky.social already casted.
neutral · AI labelView post →i stopped watching pro Football soon after watching "Concussion". The damn film took all the fun out of watching big strong men crush each other's skulls for money & glory.
positive · AI labelView post →It’s easy for me since I have basically disliked football since I was born… but I wouldn’t give those people one cent …. And I would never look back! Remember the movie “Concussion”- the NFL attorneys were from the same FIRM as those hired by big tobacco.
neutral · AI labelView post →I saw the movie Concussion and look at the stories of Chris Benoit and Aaron Hernandez and think these sports just aren’t worth it.
positive · AI labelView post →The film *Concussion Protocol* caused some students to reevaluate their relationship with the sport of football. journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....
neutral · AI labelView post →I stopped following the NFL about 11 years ago after seeing the movie “Concussion.” I’m just one person, but I’m doing my part.
positive · AI labelView post →The 2015 movie “Concussion” caused me not to watch NFL games anymore. It also made me wonder why some parents let their children play tackle football. It’s good to have this extra data.
positive · AI labelView post →lifelong yinzer watching Concussion and this depiction of #Pittsburgh is funny af I don't think a single day in this film has been gray as shit. We get as many sunny days as Seattle. At one point this man was driving on the interchanges by the stadiums and smiling. This has never happened. Ever.
negative · AI labelView post →I learned this from the movie “Concussion.” I never bothered to verify its accuracy. Nature will never cease to amaze me!
neutral · AI labelView post →OK, but what Will Smith movie would be the funniest for him to rap about the plot over the credits? First thought: Concussion
neutral · AI labelView post →Recall 2015, Will Smith, Alec Baldwin film, "Concussion?" That's where film begins with real life Pittsburgh Steelers lineman Mike Webster shoots himself dead due to then undiagnosed Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, in plain English, repeated brain injury, memory loss. No one plays to die this way.
neutral · AI labelView post →I really like her. She was in this obscure lesbian movie called Concussion where she played a surburban lesbian who decides to start doing sex work.
neutral · AI labelView post →I'll never ever forget Will Smith's "Nigerian" accent in that Concussion movie. Nigga sounded actually concussed.
negative · AI labelView post →It's tough after all that led up to the reports and movie "Concussion".
neutral · AI labelView post →I will watch the Super Bowl but this is exactly the reason I hate football. The shooting by the office of the NFL… He asked that his brain be examine for CTE but decided to take all those innocent people with him. Concussion is a movie about it. www.cbsnews.com/news/cte-res...
neutral · AI labelView post →I stopped watching all football after the movie Concussion. I can't watch those boys bang their heads together knowing full well what's happening. And when I think of OJ Simpson $10 million he had CTE
positive · AI labelView post →I saw the movie CONCUSSION and it made me realize that the NFL was hiding the long term effects of head-to-head contact even after offering better helmets. I stopped watching all foootball (college, NFL, CFL) because it's like watching the Christians vs lions in Rome. You are cheering for death. No.
positive · AI labelView post →It's crazy. Jeanne Marie Laskas wrote her expose 'Game Brain' about CTE for GQ in 2009. Hell, Will Smith's movie 'Concussion' came out in 2015! Every US parent should have to watch that movie before they make a decision about allowing their boys to play football.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watch the movie Concussion on Netflix. The Dr is played by Wil Smith. He did an amazing job!!
positive · AI labelView post →Who'd a thunk!! Fucking idiots. I haven't been able to watch football since the movie Concussion!!
positive · AI labelView post →Not to mention all the deaths from CTE in football. Watch the movie Concussion with Will Smith. I was so angry after watching that I was done with the NFL. 🤬
positive · AI labelView post →I gave up watching football after the movie Concussion. I don't enjoy watching men destroy their brains.
positive · AI labelView post →Bob Costas wanted to address the “Concussion” movie during NBC’s pregame show and was told absolutely not. Then he brought up football causing brain damage during a forum and NBC cut ties with him (he has since returned for NBA and MLB coverage).
neutral · AI labelView post →In 2015 Will Smith starred in a movie called ‘Concussion’ while the NFL dealt with various CTE lawsuits and made big changes. In 10 years MAGA rhetoric brought us here 👇
neutral · AI labelView post →#Watching: “Concussion” Because Robin Weigert and Maggie Siff. #GroovyMovies #Film 🎥🎞️🎬
neutral · AI labelView post →I'll be really annoyed if the media gets a movie made about the "Biden coverup" that's either played straight in the vein of "Kill the Messenger/Concussion/Spotlight" or having Adam McKay do it in his own patronizing bullshit way.
neutral · AI labelView post →I love both of those. And Concussion. That movie haunts me. He was also good in I Am Legend but the dig does and I can't with any movie where the beloved pet dies.
positive · AI labelView post →Mmmmmm yummy Film Concussion!
neutral · AI labelView post →The love story in Concussion. Only Hollywood would stick something like that in a film about brain injuries
negative · AI labelView post →Sweet Home teen dies from football injuries, community rallies around family www.kptv.com/2026/10/06/s... How sad - death of a mid-teen. I’m hopeful the parents will go forward reflecting on the cause of the death, and their part in it. Preventable death? Absolutely! Watch the movie Concussion.”
neutral · AI labelView post →I still wish they could've found a Nigerian actor to play Dr Bennet Omalu in Concussion, but Ithink only Will Smith had the star power to get the viewership the film gained
neutral · AI labelView post →This is going to be a bit of a rant. I watched the movie Concussion in 2015. Today I'm watching a documentary on CTE and how it's affecting the NFL. So many players have trauma to their brains from playing football.!
neutral · AI labelView post →Watch the movie Concussion. youtu.be/Io6hPdC41RM Then tell me that the NFL has the players wellbeing as their #1 priority.
neutral · AI labelView post →The film “Concussion” (2015) is a damning exploration into this horrific situation, which continues to this day.
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie 'Concussion' from 2015 told the story of immigrant Dr. Bennet Omalu a forensic pathologist who fights to make his research known when he links football players' concussions to CTE. In the decade since, capital concentrating NFL owners have just ignored the danger. bsky.app/profile/nyti...
neutral · AI labelView post →Article by John Branch for the New York Times and I'm sure it basically corroborates what The Concussion Doctor, Dr Bennet Omalu (portrayed in the Will Smith movie) has been saying for the better part of the last 20 years. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/25/u...
neutral · AI labelView post →Anyone watch the movie “Concussion?” That should have been the demise of football…but it’s only gotten bigger. I usually say we’re the United Corporations of America but I may add “land of sports franchises, gambling, and political corruption.@
neutral · AI labelView post →Just because he was was possibly drunk and high does not mean he didn't have it. Watch the movie Concussion on Netflix. Wil Smith is amazing in this movie! The Dr. he plays discovered it!
neutral · AI labelView post →Mark’s Movie Picks: “Concussion” (2015). The true story of pathologist Dr. Bennett Omalu (played by Will Smith), who discovers what really happens from repeated concussions of Pittsburgh Steeler football players, and the resultant brain damage. I give it an A-. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io6h...
positive · AI labelView post →Concussion (2013) Directed by Stacie Passon https://onesheet.org/movie/concussion-2013/
neutral · AI labelView post →I presume that you are familiar with the harrowing film “Concussion.”
neutral · AI labelView post →Yes. Webster's story was a true tragedy, as are all CTE cases. Here's what I wrote in '16 in response to watching the movie Concussion: tinyurl.com/deapfs95
neutral · AI labelView post →Watch the movie Concussion starring Will Smith! Its a true story‼️ www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/co...
neutral · AI labelView post →Seau of the NFL ended his life Concussion movie Bumped our skull&return of catalytic environments&out of our control contributors to our spiraling absence of Safekeeping Spineless the devil didn’t make anybody transgress against the women who aren’t afforded the same of anything in phenotype
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching Concussion (2015).
neutral · AI labelView post →Did you see the Will Smith movie about Concussion? Sports gives quite a few concussions. People falling in showers means if they only had a grab bar, more people would be with it. A grab bar costs how much?
neutral · AI labelView post →This is the song that the suburban, yoga Moms slow motion work out to on stationary bikes at the beginning of Stacie Passon's "Concussion" (2013). There has never been a better use of any song in a film.
neutral · AI labelView post →I wish Will Smith wrote a song for every movie he was in. I wanna hear his themes for "I Am Legend" and "Concussion"
neutral · AI labelView post →The (movie) Concussion 4K (iTunes)(UK) £2.99 (Sport) (iMDB) 6.4 Cast: Will Smith, Alec Baldwin, Albert Brooks, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, David Morse, Arliss Howard
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