Kevin's Watch

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?

Raging Bull

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

BASEketball: BASEketball

Snowboarding: Outcold, heh

danlo wrote:Boxing: Rocky IV, Homeboy

Why not the first Rocky, eh?

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!

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.

Slapshot is one of the funniest movies I've ever seen. R rated, but very funny.

Miracle, hands down. Amazing: **** out of ****

Agreed, just saw Miracle 7 weeks ago, stunning.

add ons
Boxing: Cinderella Man (still need to watch Raging Bull)
Wrestling: The Wrestler

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 ****

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.

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.

here goes:

basketball: hoosiers
football: remember marshall
hockey: slapshot
baseball: the natural
boxing: raging bull
golf: caddyshack hehe
wrestling: vision quest, have not seen the wrestler yet

danlo 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! Still need to watch The Natural one of these days.

Jimmy Stewart was awesome in the Stratton story, missed the first few minutes, so I didn't end up recording it

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.

Major League, The Waterboy, and Happy Gilmore

Indianapolis

I'm with danlo. I like Field of Dreams and The Lou Gehrig Story.

But I also like John Goodman's performance in The Babe, and Geena Davis and Tom Hanks in A League of Their Own...