| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 7/25/2005 2:15:38 PM | Was just sitting with my date watchinc videos the other night and the thought struck me, which ones were best?My choices came downto:
Baseball - The Natural
Football - The Longes Yard(Original version)
Hockey-Slap Shot
Tennis - ?
Auto Racing -Thunder in Carolina
Golf - Tin Cup or Happy Gilmore
Track and/or Field - Chariots of Fire
I'm open to other choices and additional sports. There will be many othr nights in frtont of the tv. She's a sports nut too. | |
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 7/25/2005 2:30:59 PM | LISTAMANIA~
Football: North Dallas Forty
Baseball: Bull Durham
Basketball: Hoosiers
Hockey: Slap Shot
Golf: Caddyshack
Boxing: When We Were Kings
Auto Racing: The Cannonball Run (holds the distinction of being my favorite crap movie ever)
Wrestling (amateur): Vision Quest
Wrestling (other): The One And Only
Track and Field: Without Limits
Post-Apocolyptic: Mad Max III: Beyond Thunderdome
Bowling: Kingpin | |
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 7/27/2005 6:02:31 PM | Baseball - The Natural, Major League
Football - Rudy, Unnecessary Roughness
Golf - Tin Cup, Caddyshack
Boxing - Rocky, The Great White Hype
Auto Racing - Cannonball Run, Days of Thunder
Basketball - Hoosiers | |
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 7/31/2005 8:20:56 PM | Football: The Replacements
Curling: Men With Brooms
Hockey: Mystery, Alaska
Baseball: Major League
Soccer: Bend it like Beckham
Track and Field: Chariots of Fire
Wrestling (ok, not really a sport, but still): Wrestling with Shadows, Beyond The Mat (two amazing documentaries about pro wrestling - both highly recommended) | |
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 8/4/2005 1:42:35 PM | | Thanks everyone, I now have plenty of lists to take in to my local Blockbuster, and many Saturday nights planned. I can't believe in my original posting I overlooked such classics as Hoosiers and Field of Dreams. But you guys quickly jumped to my assistance. Keep up the good forum postings. On Topic: Best Soccer movie was Ladybugs, and auto racing just doesn't transfer to film very well. | |
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 8/4/2005 3:43:31 PM | Track- "Prefontaine", "Chariots of Fire", and "Wilma" (the true story about Wilma Rudolph)
Football- "North Dallas Forty" and "The Longest Yard" (the original one)
Baseball- "Pride of The Yankees", "Bad News Bears" (the original), and "The Stratton Story"
Figure Skating- "Ice Castles" and "Ice Princess"
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 8/6/2005 7:20:14 PM | Baseball...Field of Dreams, The Natural, Bad New Bears, Bull Durham
Hockey: Miracle and Slapshot
Football: Remember The Titans,Brians Song, Heaven Can Wait
Boxing - Rocky
Basketball - Hoosiers
Car Racing - LeMans and Days of Thunder
Track - Chariots of Fire
Soccer - Victory
Golf - Caddy Shack | |
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 8/10/2005 3:18:39 PM | Baseball: Field of Dreams, Major League
Football: Rudy, Remember the Titans
Basketball: Hoosiers
Hockey: "Do you Believe in Miracles" (TV Documentary)
Soccer: Ladybugs :p
Boxing: Rocky, Ali
Track: Without Limits
With Hockey -- osme people love Miracle but I actually abhored it because of how staged it was. I like the documentary with the 1980 USA Hockey team better... I also have never seen Slap Shot so I can't list that one.... | |
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 8/10/2005 9:08:28 PM | Track: "Prefontaine" that guy was totally nuts
Baseball: "Field of dreams" one of the few Cosnter not-face-plant movies
Football: "Remember the Titans"
Rock Climbing: "Return to Sender" Look it up!
Golf: "Happy Gilmore" definately | |
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 8/30/2005 12:27:22 AM | Baseball: Field of Dreams
Basketball: Finding Forrester
Football: Any Given Sunday
Hockey: Miracle
Auto Racing: Days of Thunder
Golf: Legend of Bagger Vance
Tennis: ????
Boxing: Raging Bull/ Rocky II
Running: Chariots of Fire
Did I miss any sports? | |
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| What do you consider the best sports movies, by sport
Posted: 8/31/2005 12:58:31 PM | Boxing: Muhammad with Will Smith-They CHOREOGRAPHED these scenes to the NTH detail. People, I've seen ALL Ali's fights and these reenactments are so close to the real thing, it's amazing. Will's jab, the Ali Shuffle, the flashy combinations, the walking lead right pivot... leaning back from the haymakers-glove down and then countering, the rope-a-dope, covering from the right by putting the left glove around the back of the opponents neck in close... the actors even get knocked down EXACTLY as it was in the real fights... same parts of the ring.. the whole nine yards...TO THE TEE!!!
There's never been another ATHLETIC MOVIE WITH ACTORS that was even CLOSE to the reality look of these ring scenes. This was Will Smith's finest hours on film and proved he's one of the great movie actors of our time, BOTH in the ring scenes and out.
Football: I can't really name one football film that doesn't have some terrible flaws in it that cancel out the realism factor. Probably "The Waterboy" or the second making of "Longest Yard" is about as good as it gets.
Baseball: "For Love of the Game" with Kevin Costner, "Bull Durham" with Kevin Costner (the dude PLAYED in College. Costner still plays even.... he shortstopped for Cal State Fullerton recently against a MLB team in an exhibition.. Even got a couple hits!
OR "A League of Their Own"... with a stellar cast... OR "The Natural" with Robert Redford.
Elvising: "Bubba Ho-Tep" with Bruce Campbell and Ossie Davis AND THE MUMMY.  | |
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