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Movies: Favourite Sport Movies:
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BigBadBruins7708
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Im a baseball fan above all else, so the top 2 are:
Field of Dreams...perfect baseball movie. captures the nostalgia and love of the game. and you aren't human if the arc of it all being just to play catch with his dad doesn't get the room dusty.
The Sandlot...came out when I was a kid and is the perfect childhood friends movie. Shows how great it was just spending the summer playing with friends and enjoying baseball.
honorable mention to Mighty Ducks and Slapshot
Field of Dreams...perfect baseball movie. captures the nostalgia and love of the game. and you aren't human if the arc of it all being just to play catch with his dad doesn't get the room dusty.
The Sandlot...came out when I was a kid and is the perfect childhood friends movie. Shows how great it was just spending the summer playing with friends and enjoying baseball.
honorable mention to Mighty Ducks and Slapshot
Rocky..
First movie was a great underdog story; & a lot heavier on story than the sequels. I hated most of the sequels, but the original (my opinion) is one of the greatest movies ever made. It's easy to root for (& relate to) a guy who wants to be more than just another bum from the neighborhood.
Also liked Tommy Lee Jones' Cobb (Ty Cobb bio.)
First movie was a great underdog story; & a lot heavier on story than the sequels. I hated most of the sequels, but the original (my opinion) is one of the greatest movies ever made. It's easy to root for (& relate to) a guy who wants to be more than just another bum from the neighborhood.
Also liked Tommy Lee Jones' Cobb (Ty Cobb bio.)
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Slap Shot
Major League
The Bad News Bears
Caddyshack
Hoosiers
Moneyball
Kingpin
The Wrestler
Major League
The Bad News Bears
Caddyshack
Hoosiers
Moneyball
Kingpin
The Wrestler
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Bull Durham and Major League for me, and I'm someone that thinks that most baseball movies stink because they tend to craft a plot that's overly sappy by making baseball the magical gift that fixes all of societal and/or familiar woes.
Slap Shot is great as well, but just not on the same level as the aforementioned baseball flicks for me.
Slap Shot is great as well, but just not on the same level as the aforementioned baseball flicks for me.
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Documentaries (no particular order)
Storm Surfers in 3D--insane movie about two middle-aged guys who with their own meteorologist seek out the biggest waves anywhere in the world and surf them.
The Endless Summer--classic surfing movie
When We Were Kings--Ali, Foreman and "the rumble in the jungle"
Hoop Dreams--a look at a couple of potential young basketball superstars with their future all ahead of them and yet to be determined
Senna--an absolutely edge-of-your-seat racing biography that is beyond gripping even though you know how it will end
Olympia--Leni Riefenstahl's massive memento of the '36 summer Olympics in Berlin
Feature Films (no particular order)
Raging Bull--best sports related movie ever
The Boxer (Daniel Day Lewis)--very underrated movie and performance
Slap Shot--so many laughs and Newman is great
The Pride of the Yankees (Gary Cooper)--the classic sports movie
The Hustler--timeless story
Offside--Iranian film with a lot of charm about a group of girls trying to root for their national soccer team but who are harassed by the authorities for doing so.
Fever Pitch--the infinitely superior Colin Firth version, not the awful Jimmy Fallon one
Goon--it's got surprising heart
Bull Durham--one of the best scripted sports related movies
The Damned United--Brian Clough's brief but eventful 44-day reign as Leeds United manager
Searching for Bobby Fischer--nice little sleeper of a movie
Storm Surfers in 3D--insane movie about two middle-aged guys who with their own meteorologist seek out the biggest waves anywhere in the world and surf them.
The Endless Summer--classic surfing movie
When We Were Kings--Ali, Foreman and "the rumble in the jungle"
Hoop Dreams--a look at a couple of potential young basketball superstars with their future all ahead of them and yet to be determined
Senna--an absolutely edge-of-your-seat racing biography that is beyond gripping even though you know how it will end
Olympia--Leni Riefenstahl's massive memento of the '36 summer Olympics in Berlin
Feature Films (no particular order)
Raging Bull--best sports related movie ever
The Boxer (Daniel Day Lewis)--very underrated movie and performance
Slap Shot--so many laughs and Newman is great
The Pride of the Yankees (Gary Cooper)--the classic sports movie
The Hustler--timeless story
Offside--Iranian film with a lot of charm about a group of girls trying to root for their national soccer team but who are harassed by the authorities for doing so.
Fever Pitch--the infinitely superior Colin Firth version, not the awful Jimmy Fallon one
Goon--it's got surprising heart
Bull Durham--one of the best scripted sports related movies
The Damned United--Brian Clough's brief but eventful 44-day reign as Leeds United manager
Searching for Bobby Fischer--nice little sleeper of a movie
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It's not a sports movie in any usual sense, but everyone should see the documentary The Tillman Story, about the ex-NFL player who enlisted in the Army after 9/11, served in combat and was killed under circumstances that were later covered up by the US Army. Powerful and moving.
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SJSharksfan39
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Cool Runnings - mainly because it got me into BobSledding for a few years
Miracle - Probably my favorite hockey movie (I also like Slap Shot, but it was before my time)
Remember the Titans - Probably Denzel Washington's best role
Non-Disney Movie
Happy Gilmore - It's the most rewatchable sports movie I've probably ever seen
The Waterboy - Adam Sandler really did have a run of decent comedies.
Miracle - Probably my favorite hockey movie (I also like Slap Shot, but it was before my time)
Remember the Titans - Probably Denzel Washington's best role
Non-Disney Movie
Happy Gilmore - It's the most rewatchable sports movie I've probably ever seen
The Waterboy - Adam Sandler really did have a run of decent comedies.
Yeah, Titans was a good football movie..
I think my favorite football flick was North Dallas Forty. It's exactly how I would picture 70s Steelers & Cowboys partying, etc.
BigBadBruins7708
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only thing about Titans is it's really sad what happened to Julius. Poor kid moved to Baltimore and ended up in a life of crime.
Its weird, I dont think of a movie like Happy Gilmore as a sports movie. It's more of a comedy that happens to have some sports in it. IDK, to me a sports movie is where the game itself is the point of the plot.
for the documentary side, check out "Top Spin"...its a doc on Netflix about top level ping pong and kids...very interesting look at the outside pressures and lack of childhood some kids have at that level.
NyQuil
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Some that haven't been mentioned:
I think Dogtown and Z-Boys is a great documentary on the emergence of modern skateboarding.
(Don't watch Lords of Dogtown, the theatrical version).
Stacy Peralta also did "Riding Giants", a documentary on big wave surfing.
A film I liked about the corruption in college basketball is Blue Chips. A film I liked about lyncanthropy in high school basketball is Teen Wolf.
Any Given Sunday had Pacino acting a little nuts but I kind of liked it in terms of exploring some of the modern issues of professional football. Jerry Maguire had both Cruise and Cuba Gooding acting a little nuts but I liked the emphasis on the sports agent part of the game. The Replacements has Neo saying "Pain heals, chicks dig scars, glory lasts forever." Neo was also in a terrible DUI court-mandated baseball coach movie called Hardball.
Then there's the endless parade of college/highschool football movies like Rudy, Friday Night Lights, the Program, Varsity Blues.
There's also the penal sports movies like Victory (or Escape to Victory) (WWII soccer with Pele, Bobby Moore and Sylvester Stallone), the Longest Yard (prison football with Burt Reynolds), the Longest Yard again (prison football with Adam Sandler), and Mean Machine (remake of Longest Yard but with Vinnie Jones playing prison soccer).
Of course, that leads to penal boxing movies like Undisputed. And other boxing movies like the Fighter, Diggstown, the Hurricane, Southpaw, Million Dollar Baby, Ali, and Cinderella Man.
Going through this exercise has led me to believe that there are a lot of sports movies.
I think Dogtown and Z-Boys is a great documentary on the emergence of modern skateboarding.
(Don't watch Lords of Dogtown, the theatrical version).
Stacy Peralta also did "Riding Giants", a documentary on big wave surfing.
A film I liked about the corruption in college basketball is Blue Chips. A film I liked about lyncanthropy in high school basketball is Teen Wolf.
Any Given Sunday had Pacino acting a little nuts but I kind of liked it in terms of exploring some of the modern issues of professional football. Jerry Maguire had both Cruise and Cuba Gooding acting a little nuts but I liked the emphasis on the sports agent part of the game. The Replacements has Neo saying "Pain heals, chicks dig scars, glory lasts forever." Neo was also in a terrible DUI court-mandated baseball coach movie called Hardball.
Then there's the endless parade of college/highschool football movies like Rudy, Friday Night Lights, the Program, Varsity Blues.
There's also the penal sports movies like Victory (or Escape to Victory) (WWII soccer with Pele, Bobby Moore and Sylvester Stallone), the Longest Yard (prison football with Burt Reynolds), the Longest Yard again (prison football with Adam Sandler), and Mean Machine (remake of Longest Yard but with Vinnie Jones playing prison soccer).
Of course, that leads to penal boxing movies like Undisputed. And other boxing movies like the Fighter, Diggstown, the Hurricane, Southpaw, Million Dollar Baby, Ali, and Cinderella Man.
Going through this exercise has led me to believe that there are a lot of sports movies.
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I came here to say this. The Replacements is definitely my favorite football movie, and in my top 5 sports movies. It always bums me out when I say "Chicks dig scars" and people don't get the reference...
NyQuil
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You remining me of this movie reminds me of a very similar movie, Invincible, with Mark Wahlberg playing a walk-on to the Philadelphia Eagles.
It's like free association, sports movie style.
Another movie that everyone hates for some reason but I don't is the Last Boy Scout with Damon Wayans and Bruce Willis. It's a cop movie taking place in a professional football environment.
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