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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 5/12/2009 3:04:06 PM | | The best sport movies are always a debate. On "That Damn Sports Show", I think they had Hoosiers, which usually is alwwas number uno. In my case I think the single best sports movie ever is "Rocky". It won awards, made Stallone a star and processed many sequels. usually Sport movies Dont have sequels. Also, it has been made fun of over the years. If a movie is mimicked on MadTv or SNL it usually has found its way into pop culture. Plus- "Hey, Adrian! I did it!" is one of the most memorable lines ever in any movie | |
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 5/14/2009 11:46:29 AM | Baseball: The Natural . (I am a Bosox fan and appreciated Fever Pitch and own a copy, but I think they shouldn't have changed the ending! I know we won that year but when I heard they changed it I was like aw no!)
Cycling: Breaking Away
Hockey: Mighty Ducks
Basketball: Hoosiers
Racing: Days of Thunder | |
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 5/14/2009 11:55:21 AM | Best football (as in soccer) Escape to Victory...so many famous players from yesteryear.
Boxing - other than those already said, there was one called Gladiator, from the mid 90's i think, which was really good.
Motor Racing - Le Mans with Steve McQueen | |
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 5/16/2009 3:59:36 AM | The Damned United
The story of the 44 controversial days in 1974 when Brian Clough took charge of Leeds United, the English First Division champions, has introduced a new generation to the genius and unpredictability of the man, with the film provoking a renewed interest in the greatest English manager never to have managed England.
The film features impressive performances from Micheal Sheen and his remarkable portrayal of Brian Clough, Timothy Spall, as Peter Taylor, Clough’s assistant manager, Colm Meaney as Don Revie, Clough’s old Leeds United adversary, and Jim Broadbent as Sam Longson, Derby County’s chairman.
Elland Road in 1974 has been authentically recreated, while Chesterfield Town’s Saltergate ground was used as Derby County’s Baseball Ground, the scene of Clough’s early triumphs.
Stuart Williams, marketing director of Sony Pictures Releasing, believes the film will appeal to a new, younger audience, as well as those who remember the saga of when Revie left Leeds to manage England and Clough replaced him.
“Resurrecting Brian Clough and his style will fascinate fans of all ages, and show that he set the standard for the likes of Sir Alex Ferguson and Jose Mourinho, who wouldn’t have achieved what they have, had it not been for Clough.
“In an interview, Michael Sheen summed Clough up when he said that, in the Seventies, Saturday night TV in the UK consisted of comedian Michael Yarwood, the chat-show host Michael Parkinson and Match of the Day, and Brian Clough would have been at home in all three.”
The film — based on David Peace’s novel — made for a modest £5million, allowed Tom Hooper, who won an Emmy for directing the 2005 television production of Elizabeth I, starring Helen Mirren, to tackle his first feature film.
There has been criticism about the accuracy of some incidents in the film, and Clough’s family have distanced themselves from both the book and the film.
“We totally respect the Clough family’s feelings,” Williams said. “I hope that they see the film in a more positive light than the book; the film has a warmer portrayal and will offer a positive legacy.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYzsswqPk6s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xp_0ITy8nrk&NR=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dYBj_qAJtRA&NR=1
let us not forget that English football dominated Europe from 1977 to 1984
the English ruled European club football way before the introduction of foreign imports and Sky TV in the modern day era.
x2 European Cup winners Brian Clough's Nottingham Forest 1979, 1980, Aston Villa 1982 Liverpool 1977, 1978, 1981, 1984.
http://www.sonypictures.co.uk/movies/thedamnedunited/#/home/ | |
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 5/17/2009 3:42:05 PM | Baseball -- "For The Love of The Game" realistic and also a great date movie.
Boxing -- "Champion" with Kirk Douglas and of course "Raging Bull." Also "Kid Galahad" with E.G. Robinson & Bette Davis as well as its namesake with Elvis Presley. "City For Conquest" with James Cagney.
Hockey -- TV movie "The Deadliest Season" (1977) with Meryl Streep & Michael Moriarty.
Football (US) -- Trouble Along the Way (1953) with John Wayne & Donna Reed. Where you hear The Duke (not Vince Lombardi) coin the phrase; "Winning isn't everything, it is the only thing." "Knute Rockne Story" just for the fun of seeing Ronald Reagan as the Gipper
Auto Racing, F1 -- gotta be "Grand Prix" with James Garner and the actual 1960's F1 drivers.
Thoroughbred Horse Racing -- Seabiscuit, either one. Black Gold with Anthony Quinn. Ruffian (TV) | |
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 5/18/2009 1:38:54 PM | | Baseball- Pride Of The Yankees and Fear Strikes Out Football-Brians Song which was made for television Boxing- Requim For A Heavyweight and Here Comes Mr. Jordon. Billiards-The Hustler. The first few Rockey movies were great mow they are getting stupid.The next Rockey movie he takes on the bully from the nurseing home? | |
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 5/18/2009 3:14:09 PM | | Raging Bull is not only one of the best sports movies ever, but one of the best movies ever period. It might be the best movie of the 80's. Field of Dreams is a movie I caould watch over and over and not get tired. | |
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 6/1/2009 9:41:27 PM | I dont know quixote. For boxing Ali was a great movie, but nothing compared to rocky. The choreo was great in Ali, deffinitly agree on that. Rocky was actually based on an Ali fight with an underdog.
Football id have to go with Remember the Titans | |
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 6/2/2009 2:06:15 AM | Hockey - Scene (toss up between Wayne's World and Clerks) Movie - CANADA RUSSIA '72
Billiards - Pool Hall Junkies
Football - Varsity Blues
Auto Racing - Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
MMA - Mortal Kombat .... lol
Tennis - Wimbledon
Golf - Tin Cup
Track and Field - The Ringer | |
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 6/3/2009 8:31:28 AM | Baseball: Bull Durhum, A League of their Own, Fever Pitch, Bang the Drum Slowly, Field of Dreams...Hell, any baseball movie does it for me!
Hockey: Mystery, Alaska, Slap Shot
Boxing: Million Dollar Baby...my daughter was boxing when this movie came out..I was teary-eyed every time I watched it and true to form, Eastwood put forth an amazing performance.
~Some of the Rocky movies, but especially the first one and Roky IV with Dolf Lundgren.
~Ali
Track: Chariots of Fire...Okay, who over 35 does NOT remember that music?
Basketball: Hoop Dreams, Hoosiers
Football: Remember the Titans, Friday Night Lights, The Waterboy
Golf: Caddyshack, Happy Gilmore (ok, I have a thing for Adam Sandler!!) | |
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 6/4/2009 8:36:20 PM | Top 3 in order:
Baseball--Bull Durham, 61*, Field of Dreams
Football--The Replacements, Rudy, Remember the Titans
Basketball--Blue Chips, White Man Can't Jump, Hoosiers
Hockey--Mystery Alaska, Mighty Ducks, Miracle
Golf--Tin Cup, Caddyshack, Happy Gilmore
Boxing--Rocky, Cinderella Man, Million Dollar Baby
Bowling: The Big Lebowski, Kingpin,.......
Racing: Days of Thunder, Fast and the Furious, Driven
Other:
Horse Racing: Seabiscuit
Olympics: Cool Runnings
Honorable Mentions: Major League 1-2, Bad News Bears (original), League of their Own, Jerry McGuire, 8 Men Out, For Love of the Game, The Natural, and Slap Shot | |
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 6/5/2009 5:43:27 PM | Duid not see "Hoosiers" or " North Dallas Forty" on anyone's list. Amazing that there are not more movies about sports in light of America's love for sports. Perhaps there are only so many ideas to be used in sports films. Than again it is interesting to note the number of movies listed that won awards or were well received overall? | |
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 6/5/2009 7:04:05 PM | I know there are some great sports movies I left off my list. I took my 22-year old daughter (an athlete for life) out for supper tonight and I brought up this thread...about our fave sports movies. She said to me, "Oh my God, mom! I can't believe you left off Any Given Sunday! Pacino gives a speech that still sends shivers through me!"
Ok, so I think this is the one she is talking about and you can ignore it or take a minute to read and remember it:
Tony D'Amato: I don’t know what to say, really. Three minutes to the biggest battle of our professional lives. All comes down to today, and either, we heal as a team, or we're gonna crumble. Inch by inch, play by play. Until we're finished. We're in hell right now, gentlemen. Believe me. And, we can stay here, get the shit kicked out of us, or we can fight our way back into the light. We can climb outta hell... one inch at a time. Now I can't do it for ya, I'm too old. I look around, I see these young faces and I think, I mean, I've made every wrong choice a middle-aged man can make. I, uh, I've pissed away all my money, believe it or not. I chased off anyone who's ever loved me. And lately, I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror. You know, when you get old, in life, things get taken from you. I mean, that's... that's... that's a part of life. But, you only learn that when you start losin' stuff. You find out life's this game of inches, so is football. Because in either game - life or football - the margin for error is so small. I mean, one half a step too late or too early and you don't quite make it. One half second too slow, too fast and you don't quite catch it. The inches we need are everywhere around us. They're in every break of the game, every minute, every second. On this team we fight for that inch. On this team we tear ourselves and everyone else around us to pieces for that inch. We claw with our fingernails for that inch. Because we know when add up all those inches, that's gonna make the ****ing difference between winning and losing! Between living and dying! I'll tell you this, in any fight it's the guy whose willing to die whose gonna win that inch. And I know, if I'm gonna have any life anymore it's because I'm still willing to fight and die for that inch, because that's what living is, the six inches in front of your face. Now I can't make you do it. You've got to look at the guy next to you, look into his eyes. Now I think ya going to see a guy who will go that inch with you. Your gonna see a guy who will sacrifice himself for this team, because he knows when it comes down to it your gonna do the same for him. That's a team, gentlemen, and either, we heal, now, as a team, or we will die as individuals. That's football guys, that's all it is. Now, what are you gonna do? | |
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