Best Sports Movies

Post by **danlo** » Fri Mar 13, 2009 10:23 pm

You really need to put Rourke's Homeboy on your boxing list-it's a little crude but raw and realistic, with a great soundtrack by Eric Clapton.

Post by **matrixman** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 12:41 am

danlo wrote:Because it's my fav Rocky, that's why! 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!

Yeah, the scenes of Rocky training in the outdoors juxtaposed with Drago training in the sterile Soviet gymnasium amount to shameless propaganda filmmaking, but it sure is fun to watch!

Rocky IV is a guilty pleasure for me. It's so over-the-top that it's mesmerizing. Drago is hilarious. I love his lines, especially the classic: "I must break you!"

And wouldn't it be nice if World War III really could be fought and contained within the boxing ring?

Post by **The Dreaming** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:16 am

Murderball!
Bull Durham
Bend it Like Bekham (may have to resign my masculinity for that one)
The Sandlot

NOT - Any Given Sunday.
Oliver Stone is not good. I don't know why the consensus is that he is. (Allright, Natural Born Killers was pretty cool, but not a work of genious or anything) Worshiping him only diminishes Hollywood's real greatest geniouses, men like David Fincher, Darren Aronofski, and Charlie Kaufman.

God that movie is loathsome. God Stone is loathsome. JFK IS BULLSHIT! TOTALL BULLSHIT! OLIVER STONE IS BULLSHIT! (ok, except for scarface also)

Post by **Cail** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:19 am

I really enjoyed Gracie, though it's not a typical sports movie.

And yes, Ollie Stone blows pygmies.

Post by **danlo** » Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:34 am

I figured you'd say that, I quite liked JFK, and did he not predict the future with Wall Street? Platoon remains one of my favorite movies as does Born on the Fourth of July (like Vanilla Sky one of the few movies where I can see Cruise as an actor), but this is sports movies, so I digress.

Here's a clip with music from Homeboy dam, I forgot Christopher Walken was in it!

Post by **sgt.null** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:15 am

baseball : Eight Men Out

hockey - Slapshot

soccer - Alive

football - Rudy

basketball - the Fish that saved Pittsburgh

Post by **Cail** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:50 am

While Alive did feature a soccer team, it's not exactly a sports movie.

Post by **matrixman** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 1:46 pm

I just remember Alive being good fodder for the discussion on cannibalism a while back.

Post by **dANdeLION** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 2:00 pm

The Legend Of Bagger Vance, Varsity Blues.

Post by **sgt.null** » Mon Mar 16, 2009 8:46 pm

dANdeLION wrote:The Legend Of Bagger Vance, Varsity Blues.

varsity blues has one of the greatest scenes ever! go ali larter.

Post by **Lord Mhoram** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 2:02 am

*rim shot*

Post by **sgt.null** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 4:59 pm

air bud may have better acting...

Post by **Rigel** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 5:32 pm

That title is so appropriate...

Tue Mar 17, 2009 6:32 pm

what's the code for putting pics up?

Post by **danlo** » Tue Mar 17, 2009 9:15 pm

Just put in your url, highlight it and hit the Img button.

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Wed Mar 18, 2009 3:47 am

danlo wrote:Just put in your url, highlight it and hit the Img button. [/img]

Hah!!! I never looked at those buttons...just assumed they were formating things...(usually use the keyboard for all that)...

Tue Sep 01, 2009 4:11 am

My list, physical sports or dramas about physical sports figures:

1. Field of Dreams
2. Miracle
3. Rocky
4. Hoosiers
5. Seabiscuit
6. A League of Their Own
7. Raging Bull
8. Cinderella Man
9. Remember the Titans
10. The Wrestler

HM: Chariots of Fire, Rudy, Hurricane, Any Given Sunday, Tin Cup

Haven't seen: Bull Durham, Requim for a Heavy Weight

One could include Color of Money, Hustler, Rounders, and Searching for Bobby Fischer if you consider these sports.

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