boyst Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Vision Quest The Program Rudy Caddyshack The Natural WORST Brians Song Remember the Titans Miracle The one about the eagles guy off the streets About any other movie, too Mr 3000 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K-9 Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Jim Thorpe: All American The Babe Ruth Story Pride of the Yankees Knute Rockne: All American The Jackie Robinson Story Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsPride12 Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 I've gotta give an honorable mention to Friday Night Lights in this thread Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete Posted November 19, 2011 Share Posted November 19, 2011 Any opinions on Murderball? One of the few documentaries to truly blow me away. Love it! This belongs on the list! Jim Thorpe: All American The Babe Ruth Story Pride of the Yankees Knute Rockne: All American The Jackie Robinson Story Nice list. I need to check out the Jim Thorpe and Jackie Robinson movies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted November 19, 2011 Author Share Posted November 19, 2011 Jim Thorpe: All American The Babe Ruth Story Pride of the Yankees Knute Rockne: All American The Jackie Robinson Story Love it. If you ever get the chance to read the biography Luckiest Man, do so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve O Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Only one other mention of Field of Dreams? No one mentioned Stealing Home Hoosiers, Major League, Invincible round out my top five Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buff_bills4ever Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 (edited) 5. The Water Boy 4. Dodgeball 3. The Replacements 2. Rocky IV 1. The Sandlot Edited November 21, 2011 by Buff_bills4ever Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dante Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Bad News Bears(Original) Named our new puppy "Tanner" Happy Gilmore Caddyshack The Fighter Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloBill Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Slap Shot: youtube.com/watch?v=dMZUvDqBSh0 Amen ... Target was selling a copy on DVD for $3.99 so I had to buy it. Seriously though on my list: Brian's song The Natural (probably the best baseball movie made) Rudy Seabiscuit Bad News Bears Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fan in San Diego Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Remember the Titans was awesome Any Given Sunday was awesome Secretariat was awesome Rocky was good the first time That boxing movie with Ricky Schroeder as the kid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Tomcat Posted November 21, 2011 Share Posted November 21, 2011 Raging Bull Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted November 21, 2011 Author Share Posted November 21, 2011 Remember the Titans was awesome Any Given Sunday was awesome Secretariat was awesome Rocky was good the first time That boxing movie with Ricky Schroeder as the kid I don't normally have much patience for Oliver Stone's directorial style but I liked Any Given Sunday, especially how it gave a 360 degree view of NFL football (the coaches, the players, team doctors, journalists, owners, etc.) And Al Pacino's speech is classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buftex Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 I thought Big Fan was very overrated. It just never went anywhere for me and the ending was dumb. Rudy was good, but even for an ND fan it was a little over the top. Miracle was fine, but it's just a Hollywood version of a great story where you already know the ending. In no particular order, I'll go with: The Bad News Bears (still the only great movie ever made about youth sports) The Longest Yard (the original, obviously) Hoosiers Million Dollar Baby Bull Durham Honorable Mentions: Heaven Can Wait, North Dallas Forty, Field of Dreams and Rounders if you consider poker a sport. My WORST sports movies of all time: Remember the Titans (most laughably over-clichéd movie in history) The Last Boy Scout (intensely stupid) Rocky V / Over the Top (Sly Double Feature!) Sudden Death (Van Damme >>>>>>> Ryan Miller) Jerry McGuire . I respectfully disagree...I thought "Big Fan" was really good, and the end was, for me, maybe one of the best movie endings I have seen in a long long time...it is up there, for me with "Buffalo '66" as one of the great, quirky, and very dark, sports movies of all time... Also, I thought "Friday Night Lights" was a terrific movie...and I dug "Everybody's All-American", even though Dennis Quaid, John Goodman and Jessica Lange all looked a little too old for their roles, for most of the movie. And, "Slap Shot" was one of my favorites as a kid..."He Got Game" was another good one. So my list goes: 1- Big Fan 2- Buffalo '66 3- Friday Night Lights 4- He Got Game 5- Everybody's All-American 6- Slap Shot I am not normally too jazzed about sports movies, cuz they are too full of tired cliche,and honestly, aren't very believable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alaska Darin Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 I must disrespectfully, disagree. Slapshot is 20x better than Miracle. The HBO documentary "Do You Believe in Miracles" is 100x better than Miracle. How about Caddyshack, Major League, and the greatest volleyball movie ever made, Top Gun? Ever heard of those, Sage? "Caddyshack" is a great movie but golf is about as much a sport as Monopoly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GOBILLS78 Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 I've seen some awful movies posted here, and nary a mention of "Breaking Away"? The thing was nominated for best picture. Not to mention "Chariots of Fire" --- which I've never seen --- actually won best picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heels20X6 Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 (edited) Good gravy...so many good sports films to choose from! In no particular order Youngblood Field of Dreams The Replacements Major League Friday Night Lights The Fighter Big Fan Invinceable - hokey but I loved it Hoosiers Mystery, Alaska Remember the Titans - also hokey, don't care Rudy Brian's Song - TV Movie but it should count Cool Runnings Edited November 25, 2011 by Heels20X6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted November 25, 2011 Author Share Posted November 25, 2011 The Replacements Gene Hackman Keanu Reeves Whoever played the hot cheerleader Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CosmicBills Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 (edited) I'm on record for thinking Rocky is vastly overrated. I give it credit for taking the boxing genre to a whole new level of popularity, but I can think of a sizable handful of boxing movies that are better, Raging Bull being one. I also think The Fighter was better than Rocky and operated on a lot of the same motifs. Okay, this is something that really gets under my skin. Rocky is a brilliant movie. The sequels that came after it became a cartoon. But the original movie was brilliant. It was brilliantly acted by Burgess Meredith, Burt Young, Stalone, even Weathers. It beat Taxi Driver for best picture for a reason (and Taxi Driver is a brilliant movie as well -- and MS's sting over not winning best picture may have influenced his take on Raging Bull). There's nothing better than the scene where Mick has to walk up the steps of Rocky's apartment to beg him for a second chance. That entire sequence is one of the best moments of writing and acting in cinematic history. Stalone has never been (nor ever will be) better than he is in that one scene. Ditto with Meredith. Rocky isn't a sports classic. It's a cinematic masterpiece. Everything from the amazing score, to the editing to the production design. Without Rocky, The Fighter doesn't get made. Without Rocky, Raging Bull doesn't get made without Rocky either. Yes, it was made in 1976 -- before you were born (and before I was born). It was a different style, a different time in terms of how movies were paced, made and viewed. It's slow by today's standards. But it's just as powerful. It will forever be remembered -- more than Raging Bull, more than The Fighter, more than the dozens of copycat rip offs that come after it. Rocky was lightning in a bottle. Any top 5 sports movie list that does not include Rocky is not really a list at all ... /rant Edited November 25, 2011 by tgreg99 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SageAgainstTheMachine Posted November 25, 2011 Author Share Posted November 25, 2011 Okay, this is something that really gets under my skin. Rocky is a brilliant movie. The sequels that came after it became a cartoon. But the original movie was brilliant. It was brilliantly acted by Burgess Meredith, Burt Young, Stalone, even Weathers. It beat Taxi Driver for best picture for a reason (and Taxi Driver is a brilliant movie as well -- and MS's sting over not winning best picture may have influenced his take on Raging Bull). There's nothing better than the scene where Mick has to walk up the steps of Rocky's apartment to beg him for a second chance. That entire sequence is one of the best moments of writing and acting in cinematic history. Stalone has never been (nor ever will be) better than he is in that one scene. Ditto with Meredith. Rocky isn't a sports classic. It's a cinematic masterpiece. Everything from the amazing score, to the editing to the production design. Without Rocky, The Fighter doesn't get made. Without Rocky, Raging Bull doesn't get made without Rocky either. Yes, it was made in 1976 -- before you were born (and before I was born). It was a different style, a different time in terms of how movies were paced, made and viewed. It's slow by today's standards. But it's just as powerful. It will forever be remembered -- more than Raging Bull, more than The Fighter, more than the dozens of copycat rip offs that come after it. Rocky was lightning in a bottle. Any top 5 sports movie list that does not include Rocky is not really a list at all ... /rant I appreciate a good rant. It's a subjective thing, of course, so we'll agree to disagree. I can tell this is an area of passion for you, as it is for me, so I have no words to try to persuade you of anything. Not to needlessly enumerate everything, but I'd approximate that Taxi Driver is a Top 20 movie of all time, while Rocky hangs out somewhere below the Top 100. For me, anyway. As the film that single-handedly pioneered a sizable niche genre, I take absolutely nothing away from Rocky. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heels20X6 Posted November 25, 2011 Share Posted November 25, 2011 Gene Hackman Keanu Reeves Whoever played the hot cheerleader Brook Langton - https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Brooke+Langton&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.,cf.osb&biw=1440&bih=815&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi Hubba hubba! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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