Baseball: Mr. Baseball
Basketball: Hoosiers. The best overall sports movie ever. Amen.
American Football: they're all kind of weak. Anyone who says Any Given Sunday deserves a punch in the package.
Soccer: another weak field. Maybe that one in the POW camp with Pele? I haven't seen it.
Track and Field: Chariots of Fire.
Other sports with a decent movie?
QuoteSoccer: another weak field. Maybe that one in the POW camp with Pele? I haven't seen it.
And Stallone?
Victory. A staple of HBO in the late 80's in the late morning.
I'd put up "Rudy" as a contender for American Football.
And the Canucks here will rail at you for not including Hockey.
Oh yeah, for wrestling there's Vision Quest. Visionquest? VisionQuest?
Boxing: Raging Bull. Only serious competition for Hoosiers.
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 25, 2012, 05:17:06 PM
I'd put up "Rudy" as a contender for American Football.
And the Canucks here will rail at you for not including Hockey.
Slapshot. I'm sure they got some faggy film about beating a russian team, but the Hanson brothers are unbeatable.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5i_D6oQO6b8
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 25, 2012, 05:17:06 PM
I'd put up "Rudy" as a contender for American Football.
Just remembered "The Best of Times" and am now more unsure. :hmm:
Another vote for Slapshot.
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 25, 2012, 05:20:32 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 25, 2012, 05:17:06 PM
I'd put up "Rudy" as a contender for American Football.
Just remembered "The Best of Times" and am now more unsure. :hmm:
And just to make it political, "Knute Rockne, All American". :P
I like The Damned United a lot, but it's not really about football.
Zidane: A Twentieth Century Portrait is extraordinary but it's a documentary (I suppose) so doesn't count.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 25, 2012, 05:17:54 PM
Oh yeah, for wrestling there's Vision Quest. Visionquest? VisionQuest?
Are you fucking kidding?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1125849/
Quote from: 11B4V on February 25, 2012, 05:32:48 PM
Are you fucking kidding?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1125849/
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but some people claim that pro wrestling is not 100% authentic. :secret:
Quote from: 11B4V on February 25, 2012, 05:32:48 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 25, 2012, 05:17:54 PM
Oh yeah, for wrestling there's Vision Quest. Visionquest? VisionQuest?
Are you fucking kidding?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1125849/
Wrong wrestling, Enis.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 25, 2012, 05:37:38 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on February 25, 2012, 05:32:48 PM
Are you fucking kidding?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1125849/
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but some people claim that pro wrestling is not 100% authentic. :secret:
Ya think. You just stated wrestling, didnt you.
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 25, 2012, 05:14:16 PM
QuoteSoccer: another weak field. Maybe that one in the POW camp with Pele? I haven't seen it.
And Stallone? Victory. A staple of HBO in the late 80's in the late morning.
Oh yeah, more than once staying home with the flu. Victory on at 10am? It's a date!
That was actually a pretty cool movie. Good soundtrack, too.
Quote from: 11B4V on February 25, 2012, 05:39:43 PM
Ya think. You just stated wrestling, didnt you.
I also put SPORTS right up there in the thread title.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 25, 2012, 05:39:37 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on February 25, 2012, 05:32:48 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 25, 2012, 05:17:54 PM
Oh yeah, for wrestling there's Vision Quest. Visionquest? VisionQuest?
Are you fucking kidding?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1125849/
Wrong wrestling, Enis.
In that case... Win Win
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 25, 2012, 05:40:58 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 25, 2012, 05:14:16 PM
QuoteSoccer: another weak field. Maybe that one in the POW camp with Pele? I haven't seen it.
And Stallone? Victory. A staple of HBO in the late 80's in the late morning.
Oh yeah, more than once staying home with the flu. Victory on at 10am? It's a date!
That was actually a pretty cool movie. Good soundtrack, too.
We are waaaaay too alike. :)
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 25, 2012, 05:41:52 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on February 25, 2012, 05:39:43 PM
Ya think. You just stated wrestling, didnt you.
I also put SPORTS right up there in the thread title.
Go a round with them.
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 25, 2012, 05:17:06 PM
I'd put up "Rudy" as a contender for American Football.
Definitely. People who don't like
Rudy probably didn't cry in
Benji when his little girlfriend dog got kicked by the kidnappers, either. Fucking soulless tards.
I'd also put up
The Program for college ball as well. Kinda all over the place, but a lot of truth in that flick.
Oh, obviously The Wrestler. I'm still furious that film didn't do better at the Oscars <_<
Lagaan and The Hustler spring to mind as well.
I watched Bend It Like Beckham hoping the Indian chick would be beaten.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 25, 2012, 05:18:42 PM
Boxing: Raging Bull. Only serious competition for Hoosiers.
I'd go with the original
Rocky as 1a.
Remember the Titans should get some mention :cry:
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 25, 2012, 05:45:36 PM
I watched Bend It Like Beckham hoping the Indian chick would be beaten.
She made me want to rub one out after every episode of
ER.
Quote from: 11B4V on February 25, 2012, 05:43:42 PM
Go a round with them.
Around what? HAHAHAHAHA
Not everythiing that requires athletic ability or endurance is a sport.
You wouldn't consider ballet a sport would you? Break dancing?
Cheerleading: Bring It On, of course.
Every flavor you would be in the mood for in that one.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 25, 2012, 05:43:59 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 25, 2012, 05:17:06 PM
I'd put up "Rudy" as a contender for American Football.
Definitely. People who don't like Rudy probably didn't cry in Benji when his little girlfriend dog got kicked by the kidnappers, either. Fucking soulless tards.
I'd also put up The Program for college ball as well. Kinda all over the place, but a lot of truth in that flick.
:rolleyes:
Invicible
Quote from: 11B4V on February 25, 2012, 05:47:54 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 25, 2012, 05:43:59 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 25, 2012, 05:17:06 PM
I'd put up "Rudy" as a contender for American Football.
Definitely. People who don't like Rudy probably didn't cry in Benji when his little girlfriend dog got kicked by the kidnappers, either. Fucking soulless tards.
I'd also put up The Program for college ball as well. Kinda all over the place, but a lot of truth in that flick.
:rolleyes:
Invicible
Fuck the Iggles and everything coming out of Filthadelphia.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 25, 2012, 05:46:45 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on February 25, 2012, 05:43:42 PM
Go a round with them.
Around what? HAHAHAHAHA
Not everythiing that requires athletic ability or endurance is a sport.
You wouldn't consider ballet a sport would you? Break dancing?
:moon:
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 25, 2012, 05:08:19 PMSoccer: another weak field. Maybe that one in the POW camp with Pele? I haven't seen it.
Either The Damned United or Fever Pitch. Bend it like Beckham afterwards.
As for other sports, you have Invictus (rugby), Slapshot (Ice hockey), The Wrestler (pro wrestling), Nacho Libre (lucha libre, and based on a real story :ph34r:), Wimbledon (tennis), Caddyshack (golf)...
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 25, 2012, 05:08:19 PM
Soccer: another weak field. Maybe that one in the POW camp with Pele? I haven't seen it.
I can't really think of any soccer movies other than Victory and Goal, and I haven't seen the entirety of Victory.
However, Goal sucked.
Oh, and that movie with Cantona, though that wasn't really about soccer.
Quote from: The Larch on February 25, 2012, 05:49:50 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 25, 2012, 05:08:19 PMSoccer: another weak field. Maybe that one in the POW camp with Pele? I haven't seen it.
Fever Pitch.
Totally forgot about that one. :yes:
Quote from: The Larch on February 25, 2012, 05:49:50 PM
Slapshot (Ice hockey)
Miracle for Star-Spangled erections, long may they wave.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 25, 2012, 05:48:46 PM
Quote from: 11B4V on February 25, 2012, 05:47:54 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 25, 2012, 05:43:59 PM
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 25, 2012, 05:17:06 PM
I'd put up "Rudy" as a contender for American Football.
Definitely. People who don't like Rudy probably didn't cry in Benji when his little girlfriend dog got kicked by the kidnappers, either. Fucking soulless tards.
I'd also put up The Program for college ball as well. Kinda all over the place, but a lot of truth in that flick.
:rolleyes:
Invicible
Fuck the Iggles and everything coming out of Filthadelphia.
:lol:Better than some movie about the fighting fags.
Hell another old one would be Fighting Back.
But your speed would be...........
RADIO
You gotta problem with Radio? :glare:
QuoteYou gotta problem with Radio?
DA DA DA DAOUCHTDOWN(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cultureblues.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2011%2F09%2FBobby-Boucher.jpg&hash=3d02c3bb8d0157f23f25f6f5d88e1712b2497bcc)
Baseball- Moneyball or The Sandlot
Basketball- White Men Can't Jump
Football- eh, can't think of any good ones
Soccer- Bend it Like Beckham, only one I've seen
Tennis- Match Point. Or Strangers on a Train. :lol:
Boxing- Rocky or Raging Bull or Ali
Track- Chariots of Fire
Baseball- Eight Men Out
Basketball- Hoosiers
Football- The Waterboy
Soccer- Fever Pitch
Boxing- Raging Bull or Rocky
Track- Chariots of Fire
Auto Racing- Grand Prix
Fuck Rudy. Fuck the movie, fuck Ruettiger, and fuck Notre Dame.
Rocky is both the best boxing movie AND the best sports movie ever IMO. #2 is Raging Bull in both categories also.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 25, 2012, 06:18:07 PM
Boxing- Rocky
While good. So many better ones out there
Requiem for a Heavyweight
Cinderella Man
The Great White Hope
Ali
There are a couple of recent Spanish comedies/dramedies around soccer, but I don't expect anyone from out of the country to see them.
- Días de fútbol is about a group of guys in their 30s, down on their collective luck, that decide to recreate the amateur team they were part of when they were kids in order to take out their frustrations.
- El penalty más largo del mundo is about the reserve goalkeeper of a team at the lowest division in the league, who in the last game of the season, with the team facing promotion if they don't loose the last game, has to enter the game when the first keeper is injured and is afterwards signalled a penalty against his team at the last minute of the game. After a pitch invasion the match is postponed a week, and will be re-started with the penalty kick one week afterwards.
Quote from: Caliga on February 25, 2012, 06:29:30 PM
Rocky is both the best boxing movie AND the best sports movie ever IMO. #2 is Raging Bull in both categories also.
Bollocks
Another interesting is "Resurrecting the Champ" not so much boxing per say. Good story though.
Rocky is the standard for boxing as a "sports movie". Ali's a biopic, Great White Hope has loads of social commentary, Raging Bull is a character study. They're better movies than Rocky, but are they better "sports movies"? :hmm:
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 25, 2012, 06:44:24 PM
Rocky is the standard for boxing as a "sports movie". Ali's a biopic, Great White Hope has loads of social commentary, Raging Bull is a character study. They're better movies than Rocky, but are they better "sports movies"? :hmm:
I think if we're defining Raging Bull out of sports movies then it's a pretty shit genre.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 25, 2012, 06:44:24 PM
Rocky is the standard for boxing as a "sports movie". Ali's a biopic, Great White Hope has loads of social commentary, Raging Bull is a character study. They're better movies than Rocky, but are they better "sports movies"? :hmm:
They're better
boxing movies than Rocky.
Fixed that for you.
Quotebut are they better "sports movies"?
I wouldnt open it up, to compete against the whole genre.
Quote from: Sheilbh on February 25, 2012, 06:48:06 PM
I think if we're defining Raging Bull out of sports movies then it's a pretty shit genre.
It generally is. Not much variety, your heroes either win or lose(usually win).
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 25, 2012, 06:50:34 PM
It generally is. Not much variety, your heroes either win or lose(usually win).
See I think the best sports films have a lot more about them than that. Like The Wrestler, Raging Bull, The Hustler.
I also want to add Cool Runnings and the Mighty Ducks to the top of their respective sporting lists.
Quote from: Sheilbh on February 25, 2012, 06:51:24 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 25, 2012, 06:50:34 PM
It generally is. Not much variety, your heroes either win or lose(usually win).
See I think the best sports films have a lot more about them than that. Like The Wrestler, Raging Bull, The Hustler.
I also want to add Cool Runnings and the Mighty Ducks to the top of their respective sporting lists.
Cool Runnings was a good flick.
Quote from: Sheilbh on February 25, 2012, 06:51:24 PM
See I think the best sports films have a lot more about them than that. Like The Wrestler, Raging Bull, The Hustler.
I also want to add Cool Runnings and the Mighty Ducks to the top of their respective sporting lists.
I think sports movies and dramas about athletes are really not the same beast. Though some films blur the distinction between the two.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 25, 2012, 06:56:21 PM
Quote from: Sheilbh on February 25, 2012, 06:51:24 PM
See I think the best sports films have a lot more about them than that. Like The Wrestler, Raging Bull, The Hustler.
I also want to add Cool Runnings and the Mighty Ducks to the top of their respective sporting lists.
I think sports movies and dramas about athletes are really not the same beast. Though some films blur the distinction between the two.
So what's a sport movie for you, then? One that deals strictly with the sport part of the deal? I think you'll struggle to find movies that don't give at least partial thought to the characters outside the pitch.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 25, 2012, 06:44:24 PM
Rocky is the standard for boxing as a "sports movie". Ali's a biopic, Great White Hope has loads of social commentary, Raging Bull is a character study. They're better movies than Rocky, but are they better "sports movies"? :hmm:
Raging Bull is as much a biopic as
Ali. And
The Great White Hope falls into the "based on a true story" category--it's kind of about Jack Johnson, except they refer to him as Jack Jefferson. I think I'd still consider all 3 to be within the category of sports movies as well, though.
The actual fight (except for the cutting scene) was the weakest part of Rocky.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 25, 2012, 07:13:54 PM
The actual fight (except for the cutting scene) was the weakest part of Rocky.
The training bits count as part of the on-field side of the equation IMO. /shrug
WOMEN WEAKEN LEGS.
Rugby - This Sporting Life
Boxing - lots of good ones out there, can't choose
American Football - I liked 'Any Given Sunday', 'Leatherheads' was amusing and I liked the attempt to capture the early games chaotic beginnings. I seem to recall 'The Longest Yard' was good.
Athletics - hmm, can't think of anything, though as a piece of fantasy 'Olympia' would be hard to beat, for all the wrong reasons.
Cycling - 'The Flying Scotsman' the Graeme Obree story.
Football - 'When Saturday Comes' .
I think the reason there aren't many quality football films is perhaps because the game itself shares some of the characteristics of a movie; 90 minutes in length plus a short half-time break means it's typically the length of a film. The limited number of players, a notional fixed 11 per side, means it doesn't suffer from the huge squads American football does, and of those most play rather workman like roles, so often in a good football game the drama might revolve around a fairly limited number of players, so that they might equate to the central characters in a movie. And sometimes the it comes down to a conflict between just two leading players.
Actually the best illustration I've found in films, about the reality of football, it's following and tribalism, is in this trivia about a film called 'A Shot At Glory' which sound interesting, but this is what real football can be about:
Quote'Ally McCoist, who plays a former Celtic player is, in real life, a former Rangers player, McCoist is now in actual fact the Rangers No 2 coach. They actually super-impose Celtic colors on to his blue Rangers shirts. He wouldn't wear a real Celtic shirt for the film.
And the guy isn't some bigoted Neanderthal, he's quite a bright, rather humorous man, but for him the above is beyond the Pale.
Best bike racing movie is that one about the Indiana townies beating the frat boys, the one with the young Dennis Quaid. Cutters' Way? Breaking Away?
Dear Lord, Yi. You're about as pop culture savvy as Timmay is a spelling bee champ.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 25, 2012, 07:50:11 PM
Best bike racing movie is that one about the Indiana townies beating the frat boys, the one with the young Dennis Quaid. Cutters' Way? Breaking Away?
Yeah, I have that but have yet to get around to watching the dvd. The Flying Scotsman is good as it's a 'true story' about an athlete who really did take on the sporting establishment, and Yi you'll like this it was one dominated by the French. :)
Quote from: mongers on February 25, 2012, 07:38:53 PM
Football - 'When Saturday Comes' .
I like Sean Bean, but that movie left me cold. 'Bend It Like Beckham' is a much worthier entry. There's also 'The Mircale of Bern', but I think it's a bit too far on the sugary-sweet side.
I can't believe none of you brought up "The Fish that saved Pittsburgh"
Fucking troglodytes
Quote from: katmai on February 26, 2012, 03:04:56 AM
I can't believe none of you brought up "The Fish that saved Pittsburgh"
Fucking troglodytes
Too many flashbacks to elementary school. Like that made-for-TV movie based on that stupid Coke commercial with Mean Joe Greene.
Hah, i had forgot about that one.
But also have to give Victory a :thumbsup: from childhood memories.
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 25, 2012, 05:43:28 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 25, 2012, 05:40:58 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 25, 2012, 05:14:16 PM
QuoteSoccer: another weak field. Maybe that one in the POW camp with Pele? I haven't seen it.
And Stallone? Victory. A staple of HBO in the late 80's in the late morning.
Oh yeah, more than once staying home with the flu. Victory on at 10am? It's a date!
That was actually a pretty cool movie. Good soundtrack, too.
We are waaaaay too alike. :)
It's 1982. You're home sick with the flu. But that's only half your problem.
The handful of television stations you get are broadcasting susie homemaker bullshit all morning. Richard Simmons' workout show. Maybe, if you're lucky, you score
The Love Boat in syndication. Or
Love, America Style, with a
The Jeffersons chaser. Because you know the day's over at 12:30pm, after the local news. The soaps turn the 2nd half of your day into a Bataan Death March.
HBO, still not programming in 24 hours, doesn't know what the fuck to program when people aren't supposed to be home. Maybe if you drew the short straw in life on that Tuesday, you got
Ordinary People. Or
On Golden Pond. You sure as shit aren't going to get
The Empire Strikes Back, because HBO didn't have the financial power back then. And you're not getting anything with skin, because they don't broadcast rated R movies before 8pm, so
American Gigolo is right the fuck out.
So yeah, you thank your lucky stars you get
Victory.
And people wonder why I subscribe to every fucking package known to man on Verizon FIOS, to the point that I have my own personal Verizon customer service rep. The scars of childhood run deep.
Fucking kids these days don't know how good they got it.
:lol:
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 26, 2012, 03:31:12 AM
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 25, 2012, 05:43:28 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 25, 2012, 05:40:58 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on February 25, 2012, 05:14:16 PM
QuoteSoccer: another weak field. Maybe that one in the POW camp with Pele? I haven't seen it.
And Stallone? Victory. A staple of HBO in the late 80's in the late morning.
Oh yeah, more than once staying home with the flu. Victory on at 10am? It's a date!
That was actually a pretty cool movie. Good soundtrack, too.
We are waaaaay too alike. :)
It's 1982. You're home sick with the flu. But that's only half your problem.
The handful of television stations you get are broadcasting susie homemaker bullshit all morning. Richard Simmons' workout show. Maybe, if you're lucky, you score The Love Boat in syndication. Or Love, America Style, with a The Jeffersons chaser. Because you know the day's over at 12:30pm, after the local news. The soaps turn the 2nd half of your day into a Bataan Death March.
HBO, still not programming in 24 hours, doesn't know what the fuck to program when people aren't supposed to be home. Maybe if you drew the short straw in life on that Tuesday, you got Ordinary People. Or On Golden Pond. You sure as shit aren't going to get The Empire Strikes Back, because HBO didn't have the financial power back then. And you're not getting anything with skin, because they don't broadcast rated R movies before 8pm, so American Gigolo is right the fuck out.
So yeah, you thank your lucky stars you get Victory.
And people wonder why I subscribe to every fucking package known to man on Verizon FIOS, to the point that I have my own personal Verizon customer service rep. The scars of childhood run deep.
Fucking kids these days don't know how good they got it.
:lol:
You are the voice of our generation man.
Quote from: mongers on February 25, 2012, 07:38:53 PM
Rugby - This Sporting Life
:yes:
Great film.
Amuses me how damn northern the people sound, its as if northerness has been steadily heading after more northwards and left modern Yorkshire people behind.
Best football film- Mike Basset, England Manager.
Another good film which is worth checking out despite not involving much actual football is the Iranian film Offside.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 26, 2012, 03:40:26 AM
Quote from: 11B4V on February 26, 2012, 03:36:32 AM
:lol:
Shit wasn't funny in 1982, man.
At least you fucking had cable. Bataan death march? Try the old "Indian Head Pattern" at random times in the day for the fuckstick little TV stations that didn't want to splurge on tapes.
Ok, I also had books too, but sitting in Mom's bed with a warm 7-up, a fever, and the TV with 2 stations and a barely functioning antenna readied me for Hell.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 25, 2012, 05:55:11 PM
Quote from: The Larch on February 25, 2012, 05:49:50 PM
Slapshot (Ice hockey)
Miracle for Star-Spangled erections, long may they wave.
Oh, say can you see, by the dong's early rise...Sorry, saw it and couldn't resist.
Quote from: PDH on February 26, 2012, 11:00:00 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 26, 2012, 03:40:26 AM
Quote from: 11B4V on February 26, 2012, 03:36:32 AM
:lol:
Shit wasn't funny in 1982, man.
At least you fucking had cable. Bataan death march? Try the old "Indian Head Pattern" at random times in the day for the fuckstick little TV stations that didn't want to splurge on tapes.
Ok, I also had books too, but sitting in Mom's bed with a warm 7-up, a fever, and the TV with 2 stations and a barely functioning antenna readied me for Hell.
We're not going to discuss 1978.
Quote from: PDH on February 26, 2012, 11:00:00 AM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 26, 2012, 03:40:26 AM
Quote from: 11B4V on February 26, 2012, 03:36:32 AM
:lol:
Shit wasn't funny in 1982, man.
At least you fucking had cable. Bataan death march? Try the old "Indian Head Pattern" at random times in the day for the fuckstick little TV stations that didn't want to splurge on tapes.
Ok, I also had books too, but sitting in Mom's bed with a warm 7-up, a fever, and the TV with 2 stations and a barely functioning antenna readied me for Hell.
Oh man, I remember flu TV. That is how I remember Kolchak, the Night Stalker.
For some reason for me during flu TV all shows became The Mike Douglas show.
Quote from: PDH on February 26, 2012, 02:31:56 PM
For some reason for me during flu TV all shows became The Mike Douglas show.
Yeah, or game shows. Wink Fucking Martindale and Jack Fucking Barry. Like that lever on
The Joker's Wild actually fucking worked. And watching a soused Richard Dawson feeling up polyester-suited non-MILFs from Arkansas during
Family Feud provided little solace.
And people are, like, what about
The Price Is Right? That came on at 11am, it was good for a mindless hour, right?
Dude, I'm staying home from school specifically because I
don't want to deal with math. And who gives a fuck about the actual retail cost of Turtle Wax and Rice-A-Roni, The San Francisco Treat.
Ha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F0wlfmxKdU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ9xfNn09eQ&feature=related
Quote from: The Larch on February 25, 2012, 05:49:50 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 25, 2012, 05:08:19 PMSoccer: another weak field. Maybe that one in the POW camp with Pele? I haven't seen it.
Either The Damned United or Fever Pitch. Bend it like Beckham afterwards.
As for other sports, you have Invictus (rugby), Slapshot (Ice hockey), The Wrestler (pro wrestling), Nacho Libre (lucha libre, and based on a real story :ph34r:), Wimbledon (tennis), Caddyshack (golf)...
there is one about bringing Leeds? or some other club in Leeds in to the premier in the 70s..
And I think its called Hooligan about.. hooligans.._p
V
Quote from: 11B4V on February 27, 2012, 03:00:05 AM
Ha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F0wlfmxKdU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ9xfNn09eQ&feature=related
What, are you trying to channel my mother?
Only thing missing is The Rockford Files.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 27, 2012, 06:03:24 AM
Quote from: 11B4V on February 27, 2012, 03:00:05 AM
Ha
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F0wlfmxKdU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ9xfNn09eQ&feature=related
What, are you trying to channel my mother?
Only thing missing is The Rockford Files.
Loved that show. Oh and......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C8EUrtEhfM
Quote from: Tyr on February 26, 2012, 09:03:58 AM
Quote from: mongers on February 25, 2012, 07:38:53 PM
Rugby - This Sporting Life
:yes:
Great film.
Give
Invictus a try :)
The Damned United was a great football film too.
For cycling I enjoyed
Breaking Away but I daren't watch it these days, I suspect it's lost much of its charm.
Four Minutes about Roger Bannister was rather enjoyable and informative.
Looking For Eric, which to be fair was more about the spirit of fandom rather than football itself, but very funny! Plus added Cantona :mmm:
Actually, I'm surprised at how many sports films I've actually seen :hmm:
Football: There's Only One Jimmy Grimble, closely followed by the Damned United.
Best football scene - Kes followed (quite a long way beyond) by Gregory's Girl.
Escape to Victory (as we call Victory) is what Orwell might have called a good bad film. You know it's shit, but it's enjoyable anyway.
There are very few cricket films but Wondrous Oblivian is decent. I couldn't sit through Lagaan.
Boxing - obv Raging Bull, followed by Cinderella Man. The Rocky films are fine apart from the boxing. When We Were Kings is fantastic is docs are allowed.
Baseball: Bull Durham (98%) with The Natural (82%) a close second
Rugby: Invictus (75%)
US Football: Rudy (84%)
Soccer: Bend it like Beckham (85%) (it is a sad state of affairs when the only good soccer movie is about girls soccer)
Ice Hockey: Miracle (80%) (don't usually give a shit about hockey, but for 90 minutes I did)
Best sports movie regardless of sport?
Chariots of Fire (87%)
(numbers are from rotten tomatos)
Forgot about Damned United. That is pretty good too. But I stand by Basset being very good.
I find it interesting Viking's favorite is the one about a Christian missionary. :hmm:
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 27, 2012, 02:35:46 AM
And people are, like, what about The Price Is Right? That came on at 11am, it was good for a mindless hour, right?
Dude, I'm staying home from school specifically because I don't want to deal with math. And who gives a fuck about the actual retail cost of Turtle Wax and Rice-A-Roni, The San Francisco Treat.
I liked that one game with the little mountain climber dude and the yodeling.
YODELLLEYYODELLLOOOOHYODELLEYYODELLOH
Quote from: Caliga on February 27, 2012, 07:54:04 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 27, 2012, 02:35:46 AM
And people are, like, what about The Price Is Right? That came on at 11am, it was good for a mindless hour, right?
Dude, I'm staying home from school specifically because I don't want to deal with math. And who gives a fuck about the actual retail cost of Turtle Wax and Rice-A-Roni, The San Francisco Treat.
I liked that one game with the little mountain climber dude and the yodeling.
YODELLLEYYODELLLOOOOHYODELLEYYODELLOH
FLASHBACKS. :bleeding:
Flashbacks? *checks* Yep, they're still doing that game today. :cool:
I remember watching all those assorted courtroom soap operas, i.e. Divorce Court.
Also, Sale of the Century, Press Your Luck, Tic-Tac-Dough and that other one Alex Trebeck did (where the prize was the cheapest possible compact cars on the market).
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 27, 2012, 09:06:22 AM
I find it interesting Viking's favorite is the one about a Christian missionary. :hmm:
I don't hate believers. I merely choose to mock them if they think that their religion is to affect anything other than their own personal lives.
Quote from: Viking on February 27, 2012, 08:36:47 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 27, 2012, 09:06:22 AM
I find it interesting Viking's favorite is the one about a Christian missionary. :hmm:
I don't hate believers. I merely choose to mock them if they think that their religion is to affect anything other than their own personal lives.
(https://languish.org/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fcontent.ytmnd.com%2Fcontent%2F9%2Fb%2F8%2F9b8af978e6c1e06ea969ab6c64f8b58c.jpg&hash=0100de4bbbed596bbd7bb94aef742ed974107e0d)
haven't read through the whole thread. In case BB missed it:
Curling - Men with Brooms.
Quote from: Caliga on February 27, 2012, 07:54:04 PM
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 27, 2012, 02:35:46 AM
And people are, like, what about The Price Is Right? That came on at 11am, it was good for a mindless hour, right?
Dude, I'm staying home from school specifically because I don't want to deal with math. And who gives a fuck about the actual retail cost of Turtle Wax and Rice-A-Roni, The San Francisco Treat.
I liked that one game with the little mountain climber dude and the yodeling.
YODELLLEYYODELLLOOOOHYODELLEYYODELLOH
plinko bitches!
Hell, if we're going to include curling...
Golf = Caddyshack
Bowling = The Big Lebowski
Yachting = Dead Calm
Has anyone even made a movie on Tennis? :P
Quote from: crazy canuck on February 28, 2012, 01:18:55 PM
haven't read through the whole thread. In case BB missed it:
Curling - Men with Brooms.
As a curling afficianado I wanted to say that - but honestly it was a very bad movie. :(
I'll just resign myself to curling every week, without a major motion picture to inspire me.
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 29, 2012, 12:59:32 AM
Hell, if we're going to include curling...
Nobody said anything about that. Some faggit brought it up, and it still doesn't fucking count.
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 29, 2012, 12:59:32 AM
Hell, if we're going to include curling...
Golf = Caddyshack
Bowling = The Big Lebowski
Yachting = Dead Calm
Has anyone even made a movie on Tennis? :P
Wimbeldon :blush:
Quote from: CountDeMoney on February 29, 2012, 01:30:05 AM
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 29, 2012, 12:59:32 AM
Hell, if we're going to include curling...
Nobody said anything about that. Some faggit brought it up, and it still doesn't fucking count.
I am still putting up Caddyshack for Golf. :mad:
Quote from: katmai on February 29, 2012, 01:46:26 AM
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 29, 2012, 12:59:32 AM
Hell, if we're going to include curling...
Golf = Caddyshack
Bowling = The Big Lebowski
Yachting = Dead Calm
Has anyone even made a movie on Tennis? :P
Wimbeldon :blush:
I think the film has to meet at least some kind of quality threshold.
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 29, 2012, 12:59:32 AM
Hell, if we're going to include curling...
Golf = Caddyshack
Bowling = The Big Lebowski
Yachting = Dead Calm
Has anyone even made a movie on Tennis? :P
The brilliant School for Scoundrels (an Ealing comedy). Well it's got as much tennis in it as Leobowski has bowling.
Quote from: Tonitrus on February 29, 2012, 01:50:59 AM
I am still putting up Caddyshack for Golf. :mad:
I liked Happy Gilmore better. It's a really weak field.
Hockey: Slaphot
Baseball: Bull Durham
Soccer/football: The Damned United
American Football: Semi Tough (original Burt Reynolds version)
Basketball: Love & Basketball