Best sports movies?

[Illmatic]

Do NOT tell me to put this in Video Games and Movies, because they don't appreciate sports movies as much there. Everyone knows that sports fans are the only real judges for sports movies; disasters like "Remember The Titans", "Bull Durham", "The Replacements", and "Fever Pitch" are green-lighted and directed by non-sports fans.

Why is this so? Because sports fans are the only ones who can appreciate and pick up the subtleties in sports that non-sports fans tend to miss.

My personal favorites are "Field of Dreams", "Hoosiers", "Slap Shot", "The Natural", and "Caddyshack". The original "The Longest Yard" and "Bad News Bears" movies are good too, and I still like "Brian's Song".

[SkaTastic54]

Hoosiers, Friday Night Lights

[Illmatic]

Friday Night Lights is another good one. Even though the book is much, much better, I still liked the movie a lot.

[Red Stripe]

I really liked Miracle, Major-League, The Mighty Ducks movies, Remember the Titans was great.

[Reaganista]

Rounders :lol:

Rocky

I didn't like Friday Night Lights much.

[no compromise2]

Mighty Ducks and The Longest Yard its just hilarious. :lol: :lol:

[Illmatic]

Mighty Ducks and The Longest Yard its just hilarious. :lol: :lol:

Ten bucks says he's talking about the remake.

[Simple Man]

Rounders is a great movie.

Friday Night Lights is a great one too.

[Trooper]

I love the Rocky movies.

[Simple Man]

Ten bucks says he's talking about the remake.

Heh, I bet he is, probably didn't even know they made one in the 70s.

[simplephotographinthesun]

chariots of fire (technically :p)
any given sunday

not so sports driven movies:
he got game

[Red Stripe]

I heard that the new Longest Yard was awful, and the new Bad News Bears looks terrible also.

[Illmatic]

ooh!

I forgot about He Got Game and Hoop Dreams. Shame on me.

[Simple Man]

Anyone see Coach Carter?

[Kayetan]

Friday Night Lights is another good one. Even though the book is much, much better, I still liked the movie a lot.
I thought the book talked too much about the town and their political stuff too much, but it was still pretty interesting. I really thought Remember the Titans was a great movie.

Anyone see Coach Carter?
People told me that that movie was amazing, then others told me it was awful I haven't seen it yet though.


Oh yeah, Brink and Johnny Tsunami were amazing sports movies...

[Simple Man]

I thought Coach Carter was a great movie. It had a great lesson to it.

[JohnXDoe]

I like Rocky 1-3. Also Raging Bull, Million Dollar Baby, and Cinderrella Man. Boxing seems to lend itself well to drama. The Natural is a favorite. And The Legend of 'what's his name' Vance. I think Baggar. It's a golf flick. And Jerry Maguire. Someone metioned Rounders. If poker is a sport, then yeah, that one, too. Bang The Drum Slowly and Eight Men Out. Rudy. Probably quite a bit more, too. He's Got Game. Yeah, more then I can think of, probably. All those above are really good, IMO.

[Illmatic]

I thought the book talked too much about the town and their political stuff too much, but it was still pretty interesting. I really thought Remember the Titans was a great movie.


People told me that that movie was amazing, then others told me it was awful I haven't seen it yet though.


Oh yeah, Brink and Johnny Tsunami were amazing sports movies...

Ugh, I thought Remember The Titans was an atrocious movie.

And I thought Friday Night Lights (the movie) didn't spend enough time going into the difference between academics and football at Permian.

[ThePatient]

Rocky, Field Of Dreams, Major League are all good. But A League of Their Own and Caddyshack are my favorites.

AND COOL RUNNINGS!

[Kurtz]

disasters like "Remember The Titans", "Bull Durham", "The Replacements", and "Fever Pitch" are green-lighted and directed by non-sports fans.
Ironically enough, Ron Shelton [who directed Bull Durham], played in the minor leagues for the Orioles in the 60's.

Raging Bull
Friday Night Lights
Hoosiers
Caddyshack

[Johnny Five]

cool runnings, about a jamacan bob sleigh team.

[Illmatic]

Ironically enough, Ron Shelton [who directed Bull Durham], played in the minor leagues for the Orioles in the 60's.

That makes it even more unacceptable...why would Nuke LaLoosh be a top prospect even though he throws like a girl and can't even reach the plate from the pitching rubber? Why would a team send a veteran catcher all the way down to single-A?

[JohnXDoe]

cool runnings, about a jamacan bob sleigh team.

Yes! Those are the kind I forget. John Candy was great in that. And White Men Can't jump as well as The Air Up There. Or how about On The Waterfront and more recently Bend it Like Beckham? I like all of those.

[Kurtz]

That makes it even more unacceptable...why would Nuke LaLoosh be a top prospect even though he throws like a girl and can't even reach the plate from the pitching rubber? Why would a team send a veteran catcher all the way down to single-A?
I know, it sucks :lol: :lol:

For a good baseball movie, I'll stick to The Natural, FoD, or even The Sandlot. Hell, I'd take Major League over Bull Durham.

[StrangeVision]

Slap Shot, Cool Runnings and Miracle are my favorites.

[dancetomdance182]

I liked Rookie, Sandlot, and Friday Night Lights.

[The Clash]

All Rocky movies except 5 isnt really good at all.

Slapshot was great aswell.

[simplephotographinthesun]

if documentaries count, i'd say beyond the mat

[CombatRock]

Miracle is my favriote sports movie ever, i also liked 3. (espn thingy)

[Kurtz]

My brother is obsessed with Miracle, so I'm kinda sick of it.

[Illmatic]

I didn't mind Miracle either. It had a little bit of Disney cheese in it, but overall it was a good movie.

My favorites would have to be He Got Game, Hoop Dreams, Hoosiers, and Field of Dreams...yeah, I suck at naming one particular favorite.

I'm still unsure as to whether Raging Bull counts as a sports movie, but if it is, that's up there too.

[The Digital Pimp]

The one with the ice hockey team The Mighty Ducks. The first one is the best.

[Leprechauns1021]

My favorites are Hoosiers, The Longest Yard, Eddie and Coach Carter

[robo2448]

Rocky is my favorite. So what if all 5 of the movies are all pretty much the same, they all kick *** IMO. Field of Dreams is probably my 2nd favorite, but the book is much better. Friday Night Lights is great. So is Cinderella Man, and Coach Carter was very good as well. That covers recent ones. Then of course you have classics like Rudy and Hoosiers. Slap Shot, Caddyshack, and Bad News Bears are all hilarious, different sports movies.

[Reaganista]

Rocky 2-5 are really nothing like Rocky 1.

[CyberComa]

Miracle - I thought Kurt Russell was excellent in it.

Slap Shot - of course

and I'm not sure if documentaries count but three I liked were Pumping Iron, a documentary about the 1975 Mr. Olympia contest. Choke - a documentary about Rickson Gracie at the 1995 Vale Tudo tournament in Japan, and The Smashing Machine a documentary about Pride fighting in Japan and Mark Kerr.

[CombatRock]

whats slap shot about (hockey obviously) but when was it made and stuff like that. i never heard of it.

[Wish]

Dodgeball :p

[CyberComa]

whats slap shot about (hockey obviously) but when was it made and stuff like that. i never heard of it.

I think Slapshot was made around 74 or 75. It stars Paul Newman as Reg Dunlop, a helmetless grey haired center, captain, and head coach of the Charlestown (I think) Cheifs a third rate minor league hockey team.

The team is absolutely horrible and when Dunlop learns that the team is folding at the end of the season he basicly tries to light a fire under his players, including the teams newest additions the three memorable Hanson brothers.

Newman is hilarious in this movie as Dunlop instigates, lies, and constantly starts crap throughout the entire film.

[CombatRock]

cool i think im going to check this out. would blockbuster have it you think?

[robo2448]

Dodgeball :p

ESPN 8 the Ocho. "If it's almost a sport, you can watch it here."

[CyberComa]

cool i think im going to check this out. would blockbuster have it you think?

I'd imagine so, it was rereleased on DVD a few years ago. DON'T rent Slapshot 2 though. It's got one of the Baldwins in it and IMO is horrible.

[The Clash]

Slapshot was based off the Philadelphia Flyers (Broad Street Bullies)

[nontie69]

i didnt like friday night lights to much i got bored of it. but my favorite has to be the replacements miracle and remeber the titans.

[Kurtz]

i didnt like friday night lights to much i got bored of it. but my favorite has to be the replacements miracle and remeber the titans.
How you take Remember the Titans over Friday Night Lights is beyond me.

[LTJ386]

I didn't mind Miracle either. It had a little bit of Disney cheese in it, but overall it was a good movie.

Almost every line in that movie seemed cheesy. It seems like they could have taken out the dialogue and you would still understood it the same. Also, the Mighty Ducks movies were like Miracle before there was Miracle.

[Illmatic]

Also, the Mighty Ducks movies were like Miracle before there was Miracle.

That sounds very wrong:

Efil: The kid's probably like, 13. No offense or anything.

[Endless Obsession]

I like He Got Game probobly the most. Ray Allen actually does a decent job.

[Illmatic]

I love He Got Game.

[LTJ386]

That sounds very wrong:

Efil: The kid's probably like, 13. No offense or anything.

To what, the statement?

[simplephotographinthesun]

the highlights of He Got Game for me were the 1 on 1 scenes.

[Illmatic]

Those are probably the best game scenes of any sports movie.

[Endless Obsession]

the highlights of He Got Game for me were the 1 on 1 scenes.

What about the boobies when hes visiting the college. :naughty:

Jussst playin, all the basketball in that movie was good. Didnt really look fake like most other movies.

[Illmatic]

That's because it was actually real. Spike just had Denzel play Ray Allen while the cameras rolled. He might have told Allen to not go all-out, but other than that it was all unscripted.

[Endless Obsession]

That's because it was actually real. Spike just had Denzel play Ray Allen while the cameras rolled. He might have told Allen to not go all-out, but other than that it was all unscripted.

Of course he did.

Im also talking about high-school too that was well done.

[Zmev]

Hoosiers

[Mr. Hankie]

Miracle wasn't only a good sports movie, but a good movie.

[Steve DeBerg]

The Sandlot is still one of my all time favorite movies, sports or otherwise.

[scroogey]

dunno if it counts, but Basketball!! awesome film- comic genious.

[simplephotographinthesun]

baseketball was pretty entertaining

[MattMan999]

I love Fever Pitch!!!!!!!!!! Saw it 3 times!!!!!!

[Illmatic]

I love Fever Pitch!!!!!!!!!! Saw it 3 times!!!!!!

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[MattMan999]

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What the **** does that mean?

[Illmatic]

You rendered me speechless. I was stunned that someone who considered themselves a baseball fan actually liked that movie.

[MattMan999]

Man, shut the **** up!

[Simple Man]

Man, shut the **** up!

Why do I have a feeling that your brother never got on your name and it was you all along?

[classicrockman]

Rudy.

[HTLSM]

Field Of Dreams And The Sandlot

[MattMan999]

Basekeball was pretty funny.....

[Kurtz]

I love Fever Pitch!!!!!!!!!! Saw it 3 times!!!!!!
That movie made me so annoyed of the Red Sox that I felt the compulsory need to blow up New England.

[Illmatic]

That movie made me so annoyed of the Red Sox that I felt the compulsory need to blow up New England.

The sad thing is, that is not indicative of Red Sox fans at all.

The lead role is Jimmy freaking Fallon, who as admitted to never really being a big baseball fan--he said he grew up liking the Mets because he knew someone with good tickets, then he liked the Yankees because Lorne Michaels would take him to Yankees games, then he liked the Red Sox because of his role in the movie.

And he said he prepared for the role by "reading every Dan Shaughnessy book out there".

No one in Boston can stand Dan Shaughnessy.

[Kurtz]

The lead role is Jimmy freaking Fallon, who as admitted to never really being a big baseball fan--he said he grew up liking the Mets because he knew someone with good tickets, then he liked the Yankees because Lorne Michaels would take him to Yankees games, then he liked the Red Sox because of his role in the movie.
If he was a real Mets fan, he wouldn't have accepted those tickets.

[Ilija]

Cool Runnings,happy Gilmore and Remember the titans

[monokolopo]

Happy Gilmour
Slapshpt
The Big Green
The Mighty Ducks 1
The Mighty Ducks 2
The Mighty Ducks 3

[MattMan999]

Major League is funny, but I love Coach Carter.

[HTLSM]

Baseketball is good aswell

[dimenwylde22]

I love Fever Pitch!!!!!!!!!! Saw it 3 times!!!!!!

Fever Pitch is ************************************************** ***********************************************in awesome.

Although it had a complete different way of baseball.

[dimenwylde22]

This thread is against the rules.

Bring this crap to the movie section thats why they have a fricken section fer it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Illmatic]

For one: You think Fever Pitch was great, so you're probably a woman

For another: Read my opening post, you large bundle of sticks.

EDIT: wow, zwned by the new filter

[Red Stripe]

This thread is against the rules.

Bring this crap to the movie section thats why they have a fricken section fer it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He clearly explained why this shouldn't be in the movies section. And how is it against the rules? Everytime you say something you never back it, you just make a dumbass statement, and that's the end of it. At least explain your response. Stop being an *** or get out.

[dougefresh]

I did not like Miracle to be honest :(

I did like: The Rookie, The Natural, For Love of the Game, Friday Night Lights, Rudy, Brian's Song

[SocalJoker89]

Baseketball

[Aramis]

All the Karate Kid movies
The Sandlot
Johnny Tsunami (that Disney movie of the surfer kid who moves to Vermont from Hawaii)
Blue Crush
Local Boys
A League of Their Own
Mighty Ducks 1, 2, and 3
Happy Gilmore
Lords of Dogtown (shutup)

[SocalJoker89]

Rocky

[JIMIKURTJIMMY]

Tie between "Rocky", "Rudy", and "Mighty Ducks"

[Fish]

coach carter was alright, i saw it last night

[warwickcorvette]

that jamician bobslee movie is good

[nrcafootball68]

rocky (all of them)

[Already_Taken]

Like Mike

[Rats!]

Space Jam

[Dinosawesome]

Remember the Titans, Cool Runnings, Coach Carter and Happy Gilmore :D

[stattic6]

Days Of Thunder. :lol: