Here are my favorite sports movies:
Basketball: without a doubt - Hoosiers
Football: Rudy, Remember the Titans
Baseball: The Natural, Bull Durham, 61*, For Love of the Game
Comments?
Best Sports Movies
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Basketball: Hoosiers, White Men Can't Jump, O
Football: Brian's Song, The Longest Yard, Any Given Sunday
Baseball: Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, The Lou Gerigh Story
Soccer: Victory
Running: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Chariots of Fire
Skiing: Downhill Racer
Horse Racing: Seabiscuit
Wrestling: Vision Quest
Boxing: Rocky IV, Homeboy
Football: Brian's Song, The Longest Yard, Any Given Sunday
Baseball: Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, The Lou Gerigh Story
Soccer: Victory
Running: The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner, Chariots of Fire
Skiing: Downhill Racer
Horse Racing: Seabiscuit
Wrestling: Vision Quest
Boxing: Rocky IV, Homeboy
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fall far and well Pilots!
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I love the training he does; pulling the sled full of rocks, running up the mountians in the snow, doing the crunches in midair while hanging from the hayloft...etc...awesome stuff!I only like the first 2 Rocky movies, but that's because my older brother took me to see them at the theater when they came out. I got so excited during the fight in Rocky II that I started punching the back of the seat in front of me - while someone was sitting in it, or course. Several rows of people laughed at me over that, and my brother swore he'd never take me to see another movie again.
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Miracle, hands down. Amazing: **** out of ****
Sunshine Music
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Raging Bull is a wonderful piece of cinema-art...
...but its long and boring. Still: **1/2 out of **** for me
Haven't seen Wrestler yet
Cinderella Man was solid: *** out of ****
...but its long and boring. Still: **1/2 out of **** for me
Haven't seen Wrestler yet
Cinderella Man was solid: *** out of ****
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Tin Cup is a silly RomCom, but you're a true golfer if you totally understand his meltdown at the end.
Eight Men Out is the finest baseball movie ever made.
Eight Men Out is the finest baseball movie ever made.
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I love Tin Cup-that's a funny movie and I need to mention that in that thread. I tell you watching a slew of Rene Russo movies, at the time, like Ransom and The Thomas Crown Affair can give one the serious hots.
I was watching AMC salutes Oscar's sports movies about a month ago and saw Jimmy Stewart in The Stratton Story and DeNiro in Bang the Drum Slowly. Both very good. Amazing seeing DeNiro so dam young-looked like a sophomore in HS and Michael Moriarity with hair!
Still need to watch The Natural one of these days.
I was watching AMC salutes Oscar's sports movies about a month ago and saw Jimmy Stewart in The Stratton Story and DeNiro in Bang the Drum Slowly. Both very good. Amazing seeing DeNiro so dam young-looked like a sophomore in HS and Michael Moriarity with hair!
Still need to watch The Natural one of these days.fall far and well Pilots!
Jimmy Stewart was awesome in the Stratton story, missed the first few minutes, so I didn't end up recording itdanlo wrote:I love Tin Cup-that's a funny movie and I need to mention that in that thread. I tell you watching a slew of Rene Russo movies, at the time, like Ransom and The Thomas Crown Affair can give one the serious hots.
I was watching AMC salutes Oscar's sports movies about a month ago and saw Jimmy Stewart in The Stratton Story and DeNiro in Bang the Drum Slowly. Both very good. Amazing seeing DeNiro so dam young-looked like a sophomore in HS and Michael Moriarity with hair!
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Boxing, or the life of a boxer, seems to be a Hollywood fav to do films with:
Cinderella Man
Rocky
Raging Bull
The Boxer
Hurricane
Million Dollar Baby
On The Waterfront
Ali
The last two are the only ones I haven't seen...all the rest were at least really good if not great.
Cinderella Man
Rocky
Raging Bull
The Boxer
Hurricane
Million Dollar Baby
On The Waterfront
Ali
The last two are the only ones I haven't seen...all the rest were at least really good if not great.
Sunshine Music
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Major League, The Waterboy, and Happy Gilmore
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