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MUScoop => The Superbar => Topic started by: HouWarrior on November 25, 2015, 11:01:24 PM
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I ran cross country. I was so pleased to have just watched the best cross country movie ever....Mcfarland USA with Kevin Costner. lol
This would have been a better off season thread topic--sorry.
Any Sport major or minor: what are your best movies for the sport?
Pick any sport, top tens are fine, no rules on whether its great action (Hoosiers, Glory Road) or simply good drama/ comedy (like Field of Dreams/Bull Durham) .
Here is a starter set ( Random listing-- not a ranking) :
Cross Country:
MacFarland USA
Basketball:
Hoosiers
Blue Chips
Love and Basketball
Glory Road
Hoop Dreams
Coach Carter
He Got Game
Baseball:
Field Of Dreams
Bull Durham
Pride of the Yankees
The Natural
For the Love of the Game
MoneyBall
Major League
61*
League of Their Own
Bang the Drum Slowly
The Rookie
Little Big League
Bad News Bears (a CBB fav-lol)
Eight Men Out
Football:
Brians Song (Caan/Billy Dee Williams version)
Remember the Titans
Rudy
Friday Night Lights
The Express
North Dallas Forty
Longest Yard (original vers)
We Are Marquette (Marshall- lol)
Invincible
All the Right Moves
Hockey:
Miracle on Ice(docu.)
Miracle (Kurt Russell)
Slap Shot
Mighty Ducks
The Rocket
Golf:
Caddyshack
Greatest Game Ever Played
Bagger Vance
Tin Cup
Soccer:
The Damn United
Bend it Like Beckham
Joyeaux Noel
Victory
Swimming:
Pride
Bicycling:
Breaking Away
American Flyer
Flying Scotsman
The Armstrong Lie
Boxing:
The Harder They Fall
Rocky
Raging Bull
Cinderella Man
Requiem For a Heavyweight
Ali
Million Dollar Baby
Hurricane
The Fighter
Fishing:
A River Runs Through It
On Golden Pond
Old Man and the Sea
Grumpy Old Men
Wrestling:
Vision Quest
Foxcatcher
Win Win
The Wrestler
Track:
Chariots of Fire
Horses:
Sea Biscuit
Secretariat
Racing:
Lemans
Driven
Rush
Senna
Grand Prix
Fast and Furious
Pool:
The Hustler
Color of Money
Surfing:
Endless Summer
Comment, add, subtract, react, or detract to your heart's content.
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Track Movies
The two prefontaine movies in the late 90s
Without Limits (Billy Crudup as Pre, Donald Sutherland as Bowerman)
Prefontaine (Jared Leto as Pre, F Lee Emery as Bowerman)
1983 movie "Running Brave" (Robby Benson as Billy Mills, American Indian that won the 10,000 meter gold in the 1964 Olympics).
Finally, the best sports movie ever is Raging Bull. Might be on of the best movies, in any category, ever made in the history of cinema.
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That movie Southpaw that came out recently is actually a decent boxing movie. I wouldn't put it in with the greats but it's certainly on par with most of the other ones.
Also there's actually one MMA movie it's called Warrior, and while I hate MMA I must say the movie was pretty decent.
Glad you made this list I've never seen Hurricane and completely forgot about Ali, Will Smith was really good in that.
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For hockey movies I really liked Goon. Funny movie about a hockey enforcer. It's on Netflix watch instantly.
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Don't know why but glory road has always had a special place in my heart. Love that movie. Great soundtrack too with Alicia Keys.
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You left off four CLASSICS:
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You left out The Sandlot and Rookie of the Year. You're a monster.
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Dodgeball:
Dodgeball
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I will have to check out "Pride". I am a swimmer, and wasn't aware there were any swim movies at all besides "Swimfan" (which is really a moving about stalking, not swimming).
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Poolhall Junkies
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Arm Wrestling:
Over the Top
Figure Skating:
Blades of Glory
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No tennis movies? I cannot think of one.
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No tennis movies? I cannot think of one.
"Wimbledon" ... a dreadful romantic comedy starring Kirsten Dunst.
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Football:
Brians Song (Caan/Billy Dee Williams version)
Remember the Titans
Rudy Convicted Felon from ND
Friday Night Lights
The Express
North Dallas Forty
Longest Yard (original vers)
We Are Marquette (Marshall- lol)
Invincible
All the Right Moves
FIFY
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"Wimbledon" ... a dreadful romantic comedy starring Kirsten Dunst.
Add:
HBO Specials: Fire and Ice (MacInroe/Borg) and 7 days in hell (funny Andy Samberg mockumentary) Battle of the Sexes (Paul Giamanti- coming soon)
30/30: Unmatched (Evert/Navritolova) This Is What They Want (Jimmy Connors) Renee ( Richards)
Other/movies:
Venus and Serena
Balls Out
When Billie Beat Bobby
Battle of the Sexes (Documentary 2014)
Arthur Ashe Citizen of the World
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FIFY
Lets not pollute our enjoyment of movie escapism with the subsequent real life amendment.
Hogans Heroes is not about a sex addicted swinger / unsolved murder victim ....that just took the wind out of the sails of 6 years of 1960s sitcom fun
Most of the best movies are Live Laugh Love.
Enjoy our day of thanks
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Bobsledding: Cool Runnings
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Track Movies
The two prefontaine movies in the late 90s
Without Limits (Billy Crudup as Pre, Donald Sutherland as Bowerman)
Prefontaine (Jared Leto as Pre, F Lee Emery as Bowerman)
1983 movie "Running Brave" (Robby Benson as Billy Mills, American Indian that won the 10,000 meter gold in the 1964 Olympics).
Finally, the best sports movie ever is Raging Bull. Might be on of the best movies, in any category, ever made in the history of cinema.
Just watched Running Brave a few days ago while working out on the elliptical. Great movie that I have watched several times.
"Without Limits" was a great movie about Prefontaine, but the movie "Prefontaine", was just absolutely awful. Two very different movies and one captured Pre and Bowerman perfectly and the other was so far off it was almost comical.
Also, I second the post that McFarland, USA was a great cross country movie, despite most of the actors not looking like top high school runners. Kevin Costner did a better than expected job as the coach.
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Lacrosse:
Broken arrow
Rugby:
Invictus
Forever Strong
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Basketball-Air Bud
Football-Air Bud: Golden Receiver
Soccer-Air Bud: World Pup
Softball-Air Bud: 7th Inning Fetch
Volleyball-Air Bud Spikes Back
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Basketball-Air Bud
Football-Air Bud: Golden Receiver
Soccer-Air Bud: World Pup
Softball-Air Bud: 7th Inning Fetch
Volleyball-Air Bud Spikes Back
lmao. good stuff, man. good stuff
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Just watched Running Brave a few days ago while working out on the elliptical. Great movie that I have watched several times.
"Without Limits" was a great movie about Prefontaine, but the movie "Prefontaine", was just absolutely awful. Two very different movies and one captured Pre and Bowerman perfectly and the other was so far off it was almost comical.
Also, I second the post that McFarland, USA was a great cross country movie, despite most of the actors not looking like top high school runners. Kevin Costner did a better than expected job as the coach.
Pre and Bowerman were contemporary to my time running cross country. The Donald Sutherland movie showed Pre's drive....amazing. Good flick.
As a related aside.....Bowerman invented and toyed around with track shoes at Oregon, designed and sold under a new brand name called Nike.
In those days (early 70s), the best, richest track runners bought the premier brand "Adidas" named for Adi Dassler a german track shoe designer. A few of my fellow runners bought Tiger ( a Japanese brand...now known as Asics) . I bought a newly released pair of flat soled, new design CC shoes under the new brand name of Nike. I won the conference meet wearing my new Nikes. Having checked on Ebay, I kick myself now for not having hung on to those first edition Nike shoes...collectors pay a fortune for them now!
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Lets not pollute our enjoyment of movie escapism with the subsequent real life amendment.
Hogans Heroes is not about a sex addicted swinger / unsolved murder victim ....that just took the wind out of the sails of 6 years of 1960s sitcom fun
Most of the best movies are Live Laugh Love.
Enjoy our day of thanks
Good thread Houa.
ND sucks ;D
I submit M*A*S*H for a replacement football movie.
Happy Thanksgiving Houa. Snowing up here in the Nort-land. Did you get up to 80 today?
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Pre and Bowerman were contemporary to my time running cross country. The Donald Sutherland movie showed Pre's drive....amazing. Good flick.
As a related aside.....Bowerman invented and toyed around with track shoes at Oregon, designed and sold under a new brand name called Nike.
In those days (early 70s), the best, richest track runners bought the premier brand "Adidas" named for Adi Dassler a german track shoe designer. A few of my fellow runners bought Tiger ( a Japanese brand...now known as Asics) . I bought a newly released pair of flat soled, new design CC shoes under the new brand name of Nike. I won the conference meet wearing my new Nikes. Having checked on Ebay, I kick myself now for not having hung on to those first edition Nike shoes...collectors pay a fortune for them now!
I ran HS track in the mid 70s, and had a pair of Tigers and an early pair of Nikes (though probably not first edition).
You're correct about Tiger becoming Asics. Back then, the company was named Onitsuka. When retro styles started to come back, I discovered them once again selling old-style shoes under the Onitsuka Tiger label.
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Pre and Bowerman were contemporary to my time running cross country. The Donald Sutherland movie showed Pre's drive....amazing. Good flick.
As a related aside.....Bowerman invented and toyed around with track shoes at Oregon, designed and sold under a new brand name called Nike.
In those days (early 70s), the best, richest track runners bought the premier brand "Adidas" named for Adi Dassler a german track shoe designer. A few of my fellow runners bought Tiger ( a Japanese brand...now known as Asics) . I bought a newly released pair of flat soled, new design CC shoes under the new brand name of Nike. I won the conference meet wearing my new Nikes. Having checked on Ebay, I kick myself now for not having hung on to those first edition Nike shoes...collectors pay a fortune for them now!
I remember getting my first pair of nikes for HS XC (late 70s) sold through a distributor with a trailer attached to the back of his car. He came to our high school. They were waffle trainers.
How things have changed
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Basketball-Air Bud
Football-Air Bud: Golden Receiver
Soccer-Air Bud: World Pup
Softball-Air Bud: 7th Inning Fetch
Volleyball-Air Bud Spikes Back
Hahaha I wanted to post Airbud for basketball but didn't do it. Glad you did
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Basketball-Air Bud
Football-Air Bud: Golden Receiver
Soccer-Air Bud: World Pup
Softball-Air Bud: 7th Inning Fetch
Volleyball-Air Bud Spikes Back
Priceless! Even my kids are laughing after sharing.
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For hockey movies I really liked Goon. Funny movie about a hockey enforcer. It's on Netflix watch instantly.
I liked Goon too. Better than I expected and based on a true story.
Where's all the Adam Sandler movies?
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Where's all the Adam Sandler movies?
The topic is best sports movies.
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Hockey:
Love Story :o
Running:
The Loneliest Runner: Michael Landon after school special type true story where he played world class runner/ bed wetter who got that way b/c his mom would hang sheets out the window when he peed in bed every night and he would have to run home from school every day to take the sheets down.
For Chili:
Rudy
Knute Rockne-All American
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Hockey:
Love Story :o
Running:
The Loneliest Runner: Michael Landon after school special type true story where he played world class runner/ bed wetter who got that way b/c his mom would hang sheets out the window when he peed in bed every night and he would have to run home from school every day to take the sheets down.
For Chili:
Rudy
Knute Rockne-All American
ND sucks.
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Hockey:
Love Story :o
Running:
The Loneliest Runner: Michael Landon after school special type true story where he played world class runner/ bed wetter who got that way b/c his mom would hang sheets out the window when he peed in bed every night and he would have to run home from school every day to take the sheets down.
For Chili:
Rudy
Knute Rockne-All American
MU grad Pat O'Brien played Rockne in the movie.
Some promising young actor played George Gip .. .. I think his name was Ronald Reagan.
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Great thread and some great movies mentioned.
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For those of us who grew up in the 70s & 80s: No love for Robby Benson?
One on One
Ice Castles
OK, maybe not great movies, but still some of the first sports movies that pop into my mind.
I did see that Running Brave got a mention.
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For those of us who grew up in the 70s & 80s: No love for Robby Benson?
One on One
Ice Castles
OK, maybe not great movies, but still some of the first sports movies that pop into my mind.
I did see that Running Brave got a mention.
Okay, you are the first guy I have ever heard of who had a thing for Robby Benson. I thought he appealed more to tweens. I submit my many issues of Tiger Beat magazine from the '70's as proof.
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Jericho Mile (track movie)
Unbroken (track)
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Okay, you are the first guy I have ever heard of who had a thing for Robby Benson. I thought he appealed more to tweens. I submit my many issues of Tiger Beat magazine from the '70's as proof.
As God is my witness, I used teal.
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As God is my witness, I used teal.
Guess I missed the context.
Anyway, Robby should have props from all of you guys, if only for the fact that he is married to Meatloaf's hot backup singer from the 70's, Karla DeVito.
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Running:
The Loneliest Runner: Michael Landon after school special type true story where he played world class runner/ bed wetter who got that way b/c his mom would hang sheets out the window when he peed in bed every night and he would have to run home from school every day to take the sheets down.
He stopped wetting the bed when he was able to sleep in a "big boy bed" after being locked in a department store.
An absolute classic.
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I ran cross country. I was so pleased to have just watched the best cross country movie ever....Mcfarland USA with Kevin Costner. lol
This would have been a better off season thread topic--sorry.
Any Sport major or minor: what are your best movies for the sport?
Pick any sport, top tens are fine, no rules on whether its great action (Hoosiers, Glory Road) or simply good drama/ comedy (like Field of Dreams/Bull Durham) .
Here is a starter set ( Random listing-- not a ranking) :
Cross Country:
MacFarland USA
Basketball:
Hoosiers
Blue Chips
Love and Basketball
Glory Road
Hoop Dreams
Coach Carter
He Got Game
Baseball:
Field Of Dreams
Bull Durham
Pride of the Yankees
The Natural
For the Love of the Game
MoneyBall
Major League
61*
League of Their Own
Bang the Drum Slowly
The Rookie
Little Big League
Bad News Bears (a CBB fav-lol)
Eight Men Out
Football:
Brians Song (Caan/Billy Dee Williams version)
Remember the Titans
Rudy
Friday Night Lights
The Express
North Dallas Forty
Longest Yard (original vers)
We Are Marquette (Marshall- lol)
Invincible
All the Right Moves
Hockey:
Miracle on Ice(docu.)
Miracle (Kurt Russell)
Slap Shot
Mighty Ducks
The Rocket
Golf:
Caddyshack
Greatest Game Ever Played
Bagger Vance
Tin Cup
Soccer:
The Damn United
Bend it Like Beckham
Joyeaux Noel
Victory
Swimming:
Pride
Bicycling:
Breaking Away
American Flyer
Flying Scotsman
The Armstrong Lie
Boxing:
The Harder They Fall
Rocky
Raging Bull
Cinderella Man
Requiem For a Heavyweight
Ali
Million Dollar Baby
Hurricane
The Fighter
Fishing:
A River Runs Through It
On Golden Pond
Old Man and the Sea
Grumpy Old Men
Wrestling:
Vision Quest
Foxcatcher
Win Win
The Wrestler
Track:
Chariots of Fire
Horses:
Sea Biscuit
Secretariat
Racing:
Lemans
Driven
Rush
Senna
Grand Prix
Fast and Furious
Pool:
The Hustler
Color of Money
Surfing:
Endless Summer
Comment, add, subtract, react, or detract to your heart's content.
Auto Racing - Cars
And can we establish that in order to be considered a sport, there must be at least one way to objectively determine a winner, i.e. boxing is a sport (you can win by knockout, even if the other two manners of victory are subjective) but figure skating is not.
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As a mountaineer I would add these climbing films:
North Face: Nazi sponsored expedition to summit the north face of Switzerland's Eiger. Spectacular scenery.
Touching the Void: Incredible true story about two Brits who scaled the west face of Siula Grande in Peru.
Cold: First team to summit K2 in winter
127 Hours: Best reason to never climb solo
Wildest Dream: Mallory's fated assault on Everest (Maybe Hillary Clinton's mom should have named her Mallory?)
First Ascent: Extreme climbing around the world. Best vignette is Berthod's attempt on Cobra Crack in BC.
Vertical Frontier: This film features Yosemite's walls. Magnificent.
Deadly Ascent: Denali.
The Man Who Skied Down Everest: True story about a Japanese climber who climbed to the summit of Everest then skied back down.
180o South: One of my favorite places - Patagonia.
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As a mountaineer I would add these climbing films:
North Face: Nazi sponsored expedition to summit the north face of Switzerland's Eiger. Spectacular scenery.
Touching the Void: Incredible true story about two Brits who scaled the west face of Siula Grande in Peru.
Cold: First team to summit K2 in winter
127 Hours: Best reason to never climb solo
Wildest Dream: Mallory's fated assault on Everest (Maybe Hillary Clinton's mom should have named her Mallory?)
First Ascent: Extreme climbing around the world. Best vignette is Berthod's attempt on Cobra Crack in BC.
Vertical Frontier: This film features Yosemite's walls. Magnificent.
Deadly Ascent: Denali.
The Man Who Skied Down Everest: True story about a Japanese climber who climbed to the summit of Everest then skied back down.
180o South: One of my favorite places - Patagonia.
Cliffhanger (starring Sylvester Stallone) or GTFO.
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Movies I liked a lot that weren't mentioned:
Olympics: Munich ... Well done, tension-packed movie about the '72 terrorist/hostage situation.
Boxing: When We Were Kings ... Amazing documentary about the Ali-Foreman fight in Zaire.
Baseball: The Naked Gun ... OK, not really a sports movie, but the baseball scenes -- especially with Frank Drebin calling balls and strikes -- are hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-S-eeInJVk
Basketball: White Men Can't Jump ... Mostly funny.
Football: Big Fan ... Laughed my ass off several times at Patton Oswalt's pathetic loser of a Giants fan.
Also have enjoyed many, many of the ESPN 30 for 30s.
For the record, my No. 1 sports movies of all time is Hoop Dreams. No screenwriter could have invented a more compelling story because the whole thing was real.
I do understand the Raging Bull love, though, and I love it, too. The best performance of DeNiro's career, IMHO.
If rasslin' is a "sport," then The Wrestler is certainly in my top 10. Also a big fan of Slap Shot, North Dallas Forty and Hoosiers (love any team that can shoot 90% from the floor!)
I consider Rocky to be top-10 material and most of the sequels to be garbage, but I have to admit a soft spot for Rocky III because I loves me some Mr. T.
Most overrated sports flick: Field of Dreams. It's a snoozer and historically error-filled -- Shoeless Joe batting right-handed, for crissakes! And even though I am famously (in my family) weepy at sentimental movies, it was so contrived I didn't shed a tear. Bull Durham is far superior entertainment. If I want sentimental baseball schlock, I'll go with Pride of the Yankees or The Natural.
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Cliffhanger (starring Sylvester Stallone) or GTFO.
Cliffhanger was actually a good movie. Another climbing movie that was quite good was Eiger Sanction. One of Eastwood's best.
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Auto Racing - Cars
And can we establish that in order to be considered a sport, there must be at least one way to objectively determine a winner, i.e. boxing is a sport (you can win by knockout, even if the other two manners of victory are subjective) but figure skating is not.
Disagree.
Figure Skating is one of the most popularly watched Winter Olympic sports, and Gymnastics the same in the Summer Olympics (also Diving). All of these are decided by judges...they are all still clearly sports. The athleticism to do these things make them sports...objective winning is not definitional to sport. Consider Keefe's mountain climbing and many who recreation-ally swim, bicycle, ski, surf, or enjoy those kids sports seen in the xgames. Not keeping score, or having judges decide, still qualifies the activity as sport.
In this thread...I tried to place NO restrictions on the postings here...Its just movie escapism,... so who really cares?
This is in superbar, not politics.
Movie watching of sports is fun...lets not digress into restrictions, opinion baiting or battle....They are Thread enjoyment/posting killers....So....take a break....go watch the "auto racing" Cars cartoon movie. lol
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The Natural.
As good as the movie is Malamud's book is better. Excellent Americana.
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As good as the movie is Malamud's book is better. Excellent Americana.
I definitely preferred the book, too, but Redford was darn good.
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I definitely preferred the book, too, but Redford was darn good.
I couldn't agree more, Mike. I would not have pictured Redford when I read the novel. But somehow, he is a natural (pardon the pun.) Certainly my favorite baseball book with baseball Paradise and Hobbs career as a metaphor for The Fall.
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In our first semester English class (I can't recall the class number) we had to write what was basically a book report and my roommate wrote his on The Natural without ever reading it. Apparently the TA had read it because he noticed that he missed the major difference between the book and movie.
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Baseball: The Naked Gun ... OK, not really a sports movie, but the baseball scenes -- especially with Frank Drebin calling balls and strikes -- are hilarious.
"Hey look, It's Enrico Pallazzo!"
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Disagree.
Figure Skating is one of the most popularly watched Winter Olympic sports, and Gymnastics the same in the Summer Olympics (also Diving). All of these are decided by judges...they are all still clearly sports. The athleticism to do these things make them sports...objective winning is not definitional to sport. Consider Keefe's mountain climbing and many who recreation-ally swim, bicycle, ski, surf, or enjoy those kids sports seen in the xgames. Not keeping score, or having judges decide, still qualifies the activity as sport.
We could have discussions all day about what is and isn't a "sport." Probably should be a different thread.
Why is gymnastics more "athletic" than ballet?
Why is figure skating more of a "sport" than ballroom dancing?
I also prefer sports that aren't decided by judges, many of whom have ulterior motives. Having said that, I very much enjoy ice skating at the Olympics, as it's usually great theater.
Again, not trying to hijack this thread about movies.
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As a mountaineer I would add these climbing films:
North Face: Nazi sponsored expedition to summit the north face of Switzerland's Eiger. Spectacular scenery.
Touching the Void: Incredible true story about two Brits who scaled the west face of Siula Grande in Peru.
Cold: First team to summit K2 in winter
127 Hours: Best reason to never climb solo
Wildest Dream: Mallory's fated assault on Everest (Maybe Hillary Clinton's mom should have named her Mallory?)
First Ascent: Extreme climbing around the world. Best vignette is Berthod's attempt on Cobra Crack in BC.
Vertical Frontier: This film features Yosemite's walls. Magnificent.
Deadly Ascent: Denali.
The Man Who Skied Down Everest: True story about a Japanese climber who climbed to the summit of Everest then skied back down.
180o South: One of my favorite places - Patagonia.
For climbing I'll pimp a buddy of mine who combined his passions: climbing, artistry, and family/life.
Check out 'Drawn: The Art of Ascent' either the movie or the book. www.jercollins.com (http://www.jercollins.com)
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For climbing I'll pimp a buddy of mine who combined his passions: climbing, artistry, and family/life.
Check out 'Drawn: The Art of Ascent' either the movie or the book. www.jercollins.com (http://www.jercollins.com)
"Everest" is a pretty decent movie as well. I recommend seeing it in Imax.
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Movie watching of sports is fun...lets not digress into restrictions, opinion baiting or battle.
Says the guy who wrote:
...go watch the "auto racing" Cars cartoon movie. lol
I'm pretty certain that even my 2 y/o daughter could ascertain that Cars was a movie about auto racing. Granted, the cars were anthropomorphic, so I suppose one could make the argument that it was more analogous to long distance running than auto racing (since the cars aren't actually driving cars). But my guess is that wasn't what you were getting at by putting auto racing in quotes, because, of course, there is no athletic element in auto racing. Which is somewhat confusing because a) I thought we weren't making restrictions and b) Racing was one of the categories in the OP.
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"Everest" is a pretty decent movie as well. I recommend seeing it in Imax.
Excellent rec. I saw this at the Smithsonian in IMAX a while back. Stellar.
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In our first semester English class (I can't recall the class number) we had to write what was basically a book report and my roommate wrote his on The Natural without ever reading it. Apparently the TA had read it because he noticed that he missed the major difference between the book and movie.
That is great! The book and movie have very different endings. Hollywood doesn't like dire, unremitting pathos.
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Any Given Sunday is one of my favorites. The halftime speech is just phenomenal even though parts of the movie are over the top (ie. eyeball popping out). I always envisioned Cap in the way I wanted Favre's career to fade away. Playing the tough mentor role and giving everything he had until he knew the young guy was a better option.
For some reason, the Air Up There will always be a classic for me.
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Excellent rec. I saw this at the Smithsonian in IMAX a while back. Stellar.
Actually, I am referring to the based-on-a-true-story movie that was released this year:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2719848/?ref_=nv_sr_1
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For climbing I'll pimp a buddy of mine who combined his passions: climbing, artistry, and family/life.
Check out 'Drawn: The Art of Ascent' either the movie or the book. www.jercollins.com (http://www.jercollins.com)
That is crazy. Is he one of the guys in First Ascent?
I am a member of The Mountaineers which is here in Seattle. I just ordered his book.
By the way, I think it's great he is a climber based out of KC. Seattle is the epicenter for global climbing/mountaineering which makes sense given that we are surrounded by mountains. But one cannot find a decent smoked brisket if one's life depended on it. Life is about choices and priorities which, from the synopsis of Drawn, is precisely the point of his book and movie! I look forward to reading the book.
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Disagree.
Figure Skating is one of the most popularly watched Winter Olympic sports, and Gymnastics the same in the Summer Olympics (also Diving). All of these are decided by judges...they are all still clearly sports. The athleticism to do these things make them sports...objective winning is not definitional to sport. Consider Keefe's mountain climbing and many who recreation-ally swim, bicycle, ski, surf, or enjoy those kids sports seen in the xgames. Not keeping score, or having judges decide, still qualifies the activity as sport.
Disagree. Ballet requires supreme atheticism and isn't a sport. Dancing with ther Stars is a very popular TV show and is a competition that requires some athletic ability but is definitely not a sport. Figure skating and diving are close to that than real sport. Hell, figure skaters costumes were part of the judging process until recently. How is that a sport? Any competition where the winner is decided solely by the opinion of a judge is not a sport.
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Boxing:
Diggstown
Hockey:
Mystery, Alaska
Two movies that are either bad movies that I like or just plain good movies. I'm not sure. Love 'em both, though.
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Disagree. Ballet requires supreme atheticism and isn't a sport. Dancing with ther Stars is a very popular TV show and is a competition that requires some athletic ability but is definitely not a sport. Figure skating and diving are close to that than real sport. Hell, figure skaters costumes were part of the judging process until recently. How is that a sport? Any competition where the winner is decided solely by the opinion of a judge is not a sport.
So boxing is NOT a sport?
I know some will equate it to pro wrestling
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So boxing is NOT a sport?
I know some will equate it to pro wrestling
Boxing is a sport when the winner is decided by KO/TKO. Participants at the highest level are great athletes, though.
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That is crazy. Is he one of the guys in First Ascent?
I am a member of The Mountaineers which is here in Seattle. I just ordered his book.
By the way, I think it's great he is a climber based out of KC. Seattle is the epicenter for global climbing/mountaineering which makes sense given that we are surrounded by mountains. But one cannot find a decent smoked brisket if one's life depended on it. Life is about choices and priorities which, from the synopsis of Drawn, is precisely the point of his book and movie! I look forward to reading the book.
Wonderful/Thanks! Jeremy is a fascinating guy and a good soul, he'll appreciate the support.
I was going to say 'no' on the First Ascents but I just cruised through his 'archives' on his site and the very first entry is "2006 story of First Ascent in The Black Canyon". I'll have to ask him next time I see him which, as you pointed out, is sometimes tough to do since he lives in KC and climbs but I'll let you know if he was.
Let me know how you enjoy the book and I'll pass it along
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Boxing is a sport when the winner is decided by KO/TKO. Participants at the highest level are great athletes, though.
Yeah we're pretty great 8-)
So boxing is NOT a sport?
I know some will equate it to pro wrestling
So one of the oldest toughest sports = contact acting?
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Boxing is a sport when the winner is decided by KO/TKO. Participants at the highest level are great athletes, though.
sometimes....I must have dreamed about all the boxing matches I've watched decided by the judges scoring because of no KO/TKO
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sometimes....I must have dreamed about all the boxing matches I've watched decided by the judges scoring because of no KO/TKO
Watch Gennady Golovkin. None of his fights make it to the score cards.
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Actually, I am referring to the based-on-a-true-story movie that was released this year:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2719848/?ref_=nv_sr_1
I saw that and I agree it is a good film. The script was done by Jon Krakauer who is one of my favorite writers. Krakauer upset many in the Seattle climbing world when he moved from here to Boulder.
Really, the only climbing movie I never cared for was Vertical Limit. Nobody could behave the way they did on a 7K m mountain and survive.
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Yeah we're pretty great 8-)
Boxers do it 12 times for three minutes per round.
Mountaineers do it for 720 consecutive hours.
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Says the guy who wrote:
I'm pretty certain that even my 2 y/o daughter could ascertain that Cars was a movie about auto racing. Granted, the cars were anthropomorphic, so I suppose one could make the argument that it was more analogous to long distance running than auto racing (since the cars aren't actually driving cars). But my guess is that wasn't what you were getting at by putting auto racing in quotes, because, of course, there is no athletic element in auto racing. Which is somewhat confusing because a) I thought we weren't making restrictions and b) Racing was one of the categories in the OP.
I wont be baited; please stop trying. Please dont "guess".
You read controversy into mere quotes, when it was just my way of noting the category of the movie.
I had hoped you wouldnt start a digression into what is "sport"...but your debate is teed up, with others. Please argue with them, I dont really care, esp. in the context of sharing movie memories.
Cars is a fun movie, too.
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I am not sure the category, but I just watched World's Fastest Indian with Anthony Hopkins. good flick
In Football I'd add Leatherheads with George Clooney,
and in Baseball lets add Trouble With The Curve with Clint Eastwood and 42;
Semi Pro is a funny BB flick with Will Farrell
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Boxers do it 12 times for three minutes per round.
Mountaineers do it for 720 consecutive hours.
Is Mountaineer a military branch you're referring to where they fight for 720 hours? Or are you just talking about climbing a mountain? Because sport is more than just endurance. Hard sports are measured by many factors and while I don't agree with the overall ranking of this list I think the factors they use are a good measure of how tough a sport is.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills
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Is Mountaineer a military branch you're referring to where they fight for 720 hours? Or are you just talking about climbing a mountain? Because sport is more than just endurance. Hard sports are measured by many factors and while I don't agree with the overall ranking of this list I think the factors they use are a good measure of how tough a sport is.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills
at least badminton beats out table tennis but table tennis over billiards? not in some of the bars I've shot pool at
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not in some of the bars I've shot pool at
F#cking great!
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Has anyone done Ping Pong yet?
Have to go with "Forrest Gump" because "Balls of Fury" sucked a$$.
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Is Mountaineer a military branch you're referring to where they fight for 720 hours? Or are you just talking about climbing a mountain? Because sport is more than just endurance. Hard sports are measured by many factors and while I don't agree with the overall ranking of this list I think the factors they use are a good measure of how tough a sport is.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/sportSkills
Dude, relax. I was just funnin' ya.
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Wonderful/Thanks! Jeremy is a fascinating guy and a good soul, he'll appreciate the support.
I was going to say 'no' on the First Ascents but I just cruised through his 'archives' on his site and the very first entry is "2006 story of First Ascent in The Black Canyon". I'll have to ask him next time I see him which, as you pointed out, is sometimes tough to do since he lives in KC and climbs but I'll let you know if he was.
Let me know how you enjoy the book and I'll pass it along
I see on his website he climbed Gothic Pillar with Jonny Copp. Copp is a legend. Your bud climbs with some serious dudes. Excellent.
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Has anyone done Ping Pong yet?
Have to go with "Forrest Gump" because "Balls of Fury" sucked a$$.
Yes, Balls of Fury from 2007.
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Hockey:
Mystery, Alaska
I actually this movie could've been a classic family movie. But for some reason, they threw in a bunch of sexual references, including one of the players banging the mayors wife. I really enjoy the movie (Mike Myers is great!) but I think they grossly misjudged who the audience would be for a NY Rangers play pond hockey movie.
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No tennis movies? I cannot think of one.
Match Point
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I am surprised none of you red-blooded American Males nominated "Personal Best" for track.
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I am surprised none of red-blooded American Males nominated "Personal Best" for track.
Horrendous movie but yes, lotsa T & A scenes.
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Yes, Balls of Fury from 2007.
Oh, that Balls of Fury
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I wont be baited; please stop trying. Please dont "guess".
You read controversy into mere quotes, when it was just my way of noting the category of the movie.
I had hoped you wouldnt start a digression into what is "sport"...but your debate is teed up, with others. Please argue with them, I dont really care, esp. in the context of sharing movie memories.
Cars is a fun movie, too.
Baited into what? I listed a movie, and you summarily dismissed it... right after speaking about erring on the side of inclusion, no less.
On topic, I agree with Field of Dreams being the most overrated sports movie ever. If sentimental BS intertwined with a lukewarm sports story is what it takes for one to reflect upon his own life with regret, then I'd suggest For Love of the Game before Field of Dreams.
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Baited into what? I listed a movie, and you summarily dismissed it... right after speaking about erring on the side of inclusion, no less.
On topic, I agree with Field of Dreams being the most overrated sports movie ever. If sentimental BS intertwined with a lukewarm sports story is what it takes for one to reflect upon his own life with regret, then I'd suggest For Love of the Game before Field of Dreams.
For Love of the Game would be great if they got rid of the Kelly Preston storyline (she peaked in "Mischief" in 1985). Field of Dreams hasn't aged well, but Burt Lancaster hams it up awesomely in his cameo and MU alum Amy Madigan is good in it. Not only does Joe Jackson bat from the wrong side of the plate (heck they even reversed the film so Gary Cooper could bat right-handed as Lou Gehrig in Pride of the Yankees - its not that hard), but they mispronounced Eddie Cicotte's name. Eight Men Out is a pretty good account of the Black Sox scandal. Baseball is the hardest sport to fake in a movie if you've never played it.
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For Love of the Game would be great if they got rid of the Kelly Preston storyline (she peaked in "Mischief" in 1985). Field of Baseball is the hardest sport to fake in a movie if you've never played it.
That might be an overstatement. How about gymnastics or figure skating? Or swimming, for that matter. If you have never been a serious competitive swimmer, it would take months develop passable stroke technique, especially for anything other than freestyle.
But yeah, baseball movies are full of fakers. Have you ever noticed that the only person in "A League of Their Own" who can actually play is Rosie O'Donnell? I am not sure they actually show Madonna throwing or hitting.
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That might be an overstatement. How about gymnastics or figure skating? Or swimming, for that matter. If you have never been a serious competitive swimmer, it would take months develop passable stroke technique, especially for anything other than freestyle.
But yeah, baseball movies are full of fakers. Have you ever noticed that the only person in "A League of Their Own" who can actually play is Rosie O'Donnell? I am not sure they actually show Madonna throwing or hitting.
They made it look like Russell Crowe could actually skate in Mystery, Alaska. Pretty decent, actually, until you watch closely.
Swim caps and goggles would make swimming easy to fake with stunt doubles. I'd probably have to re-watch Toepick to see how John Cusack did as a figure skater.
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That might be an overstatement. How about gymnastics or figure skating? Or swimming, for that matter. If you have never been a serious competitive swimmer, it would take months develop passable stroke technique, especially for anything other than freestyle.
But yeah, baseball movies are full of fakers. Have you ever noticed that the only person in "A League of Their Own" who can actually play is Rosie O'Donnell? I am not sure they actually show Madonna throwing or hitting.
Actually, I thought Lori Petty did the best job of looking like a player in that movie (except for the extras that obviously could play).
I suppose you are right that swimming would be the toughest if you've never swam before because of the whole drowning thing. But with a few weeks of training I would think you could fake anything reasonably well except for the butterfly. You may be right about figure skating but they just use creative angles and real skaters in those movies and just show them start smiling after sticking the landing or whatever they call it. They never do that for baseball, though. They seem to think that they can show Thomas Jane playing Mickey Mantle in "61*" making a throw from the outfield even though he throws like a righthanded 6 year old girl throwing lefthanded.
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I see on his website he climbed Gothic Pillar with Jonny Copp. Copp is a legend. Your bud climbs with some serious dudes. Excellent.
Here's his response when i emailed him this story:
"this is hilarious.
Yes I was in First Ascent.
In fact he might like to know in the trailer- I'm the guy in the green vest that has the hair raising rock fall (on a first ascent in patagonia).
just home from nepal , off to arizona tomorrow for another film shoot. Been sick for a month. Over it."
I believe he's referencing the :32 mark on this trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XQkHls-pE4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XQkHls-pE4)
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The Jacky Robinson Story (1950). Jacky played himself, somewhat low budget, but a classic.
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Time to go back to the 80s
Diving (if you believe that is a sport):
Back to School
(with Rodney Dangerfield as the most unlikely "athlete" in movie history. Michael Caine is 2nd for "Victory", with Michael J. Fox (non-wolf version) and his whole team as basketball players in Teen Wolf garnering honorable mention)
Martial Arts:
The Karate Kid
Basketball:
Porky's
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Basketball:
Basketball Diaries
Drugs:
Basketball Diaries
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Here's his response when i emailed him this story:
"this is hilarious.
Yes I was in First Ascent.
In fact he might like to know in the trailer- I'm the guy in the green vest that has the hair raising rock fall (on a first ascent in patagonia).
just home from nepal , off to arizona tomorrow for another film shoot. Been sick for a month. Over it."
I believe he's referencing the :32 mark on this trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XQkHls-pE4 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XQkHls-pE4)
I was right - that is him in First Ascent. The First Ascent series is f#cking awesome. That is a man I would love to drink some scotch with.
Did he climb or mountaineer in Nepal? I did three Annapourna peaks over the years but there are some great walls around the Machapuchare Base Camp we couldn't stay off of while waiting to head up.
I'll write Jeremy a review after I read his book.
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They made it look like Russell Crowe could actually skate in Mystery, Alaska. Pretty decent, actually, until you watch closely.
Swim caps and goggles would make swimming easy to fake with stunt doubles. I'd probably have to re-watch Toepick to see how John Cusack did as a figure skater.
I guess by "faking" I thought CTWarrior meant the actual actor doing the faking. In that case, you can fake baseball pretty easily by just photographing the stunt double from the back, from far away, or with the baseball cap pulled down far enough.
In "Blades of Glory", they actually used CGI to put Will Ferrell's and Jon Heder's heads on the bodies of other skaters.
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I guess by "faking" I thought CTWarrior meant the actual actor doing the faking. In that case, you can fake baseball pretty easily by just photographing the stunt double from the back, from far away, or with the baseball cap pulled down far enough.
In "Blades of Glory", they actually used CGI to put Will Ferrell's and Jon Heder's heads on the bodies of other skaters.
Did actual skaters perform the "Iron Lotus?"
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Did actual skaters perform the "Iron Lotus?"
I heard that they did decapitate a live person, but it wasn't a skater.
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Burt Lancaster in The Swimmer?
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Burt Lancaster in The Swimmer?
You are old school, sir. Love that movie--just had a vibe.
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Has anyone done Ping Pong yet?
Have to go with "Forrest Gump" because "Balls of Fury" sucked a$$.
It had football and running too!
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Additional baseball movies are "the Monty Stratton Story" and on the lighter side "Angels in the Outfield"
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One of my Marx Brothers faves: A Day at the Races. It's STILL effen funny a bazillion years after it was made.
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I'm pretty certain that even my 2 y/o daughter could ascertain that Cars was a movie about auto racing. Granted, the cars were anthropomorphic, so I suppose one could make the argument that it was more analogous to long distance running than auto racing (since the cars aren't actually driving cars). But my guess is that wasn't what you were getting at by putting auto racing in quotes, because, of course, there is no athletic element in auto racing. Which is somewhat confusing because a) I thought we weren't making restrictions and b) Racing was one of the categories in the OP.
It's a moot point, anyway. "Talladega Nights" is the best auto racing movie.
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Spelunking - Goonies
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Spelunking - Goonies
(https://calvinandhobbesagain.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/ch860807.jpg)
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Circus acrobats as world class athletes
Trapeze
(http://d1g4sq00ps2bp3.cloudfront.net/entertainment/15442.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/Trapezeposter.jpg)
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Here are some more:
Football:
The Blind Side (Michael Oher story)
Gridiron Gang (the Rock Johnson)
The Replacements
Draft Day (Costner)
The Program (James Caan)
Best of Times (Robin Williams Kurt Russell)
Everybody's All American (Dennis Quaid- The Grey Ghost)
The U
Varsity Blues
Johny Be Good
Sports Fandom:
The Fan (Snipes/DeNiro)
Fever Pitch (Jimmy Fallon)
Big Fan (Patton Oswalt)
Offside
Rollerball/Roller derby:
Rollerball
Whip It
Wrestling:
The Hammer
Baseball:
Mr 3000 (he played a Brewer- after all-lol)
Million Dollar Arm
The Sluggers Wife
Baseball Ken Burns
When it Was a Game
Reverse The Curse (Red Sox)
Wait Till Next Year (Cubs)
Boys of summer (Yankees)
Nine Innings From Ground zero -ditto
House of Steinbrenner- ditto
Soccer:
Kicking and Screaming (Will Farrell Mike Ditka)
Gracie (Eliz. Shue)
Racing:
Days of Thunder (Tom Cruise formula movie)
Winning - Paul Newman- yes he really could drive
Road to Lemans (patrick dempsey-ditto)
Basketball:
Clutch City
Basketball Diaries (diCaprio)
Eddie (Whoopi G)
Teen Wolf
Space Jam
Rebound (Don Cheadle- The "GOAT")
White Men Cant Jump
Every 30 for 30 ever:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/30_for_30
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According to RT, perhaps the best sports movie no one here has seen (myself included) is Murderball (Quad-Rugby).
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Good call on rollerball. That movie ages pretty well all things considered. I feel like that will be remade at some point.
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Good call on rollerball. That movie ages pretty well all things considered. I feel like that will be remade at some point.
It was. Or are you thinking the 2002 version was the original?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246894/?ref_=nv_sr_1
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073631/?ref_=nv_sr_2
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It was. Or are you thinking the 2002 version was the original?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0246894/?ref_=nv_sr_1
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0073631/?ref_=nv_sr_2
I was noting the James Caan version. I havent seen the remake
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I was talking about the James Caan verson.
Didn't know there was a remake either which is surprising considering my age.
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Where's my early 90's gradz at???
The 1987 zen surfing classic North Shore is clearly the best movie ever made ever.
John Philbin's role as the enigmatic Turtle was grossly snubbed by the Academy that year.
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One of my Marx Brothers faves: A Day at the Races. It's STILL effen funny a bazillion years after it was made.
+1,000
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Circus acrobats as world class athletes
Trapeze
(http://d1g4sq00ps2bp3.cloudfront.net/entertainment/15442.jpg)
(https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fc/Trapezeposter.jpg)
Anything with Burt Lancaster looking fine (see my The Swimmer love above).
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You are old school, sir. Love that movie--just had a vibe.
8-)
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Has anyone done sailing movies? One of my favorite movies of all time is Wind
Jennifer Grey, post Ferris, pre-nose
Matthew Modine
Stellan Skarsgard before he was full Skarsgard
Cliff Robertson who kids know as Uncle Ben from Spiderman but was awesome in this and as Wing Commader Roy Grant in 633 Squadron.
Good plot and the Cup racing scenes are pretty spectacular. Loosely based on Dennis Connors and the retaking of America's Cup after it was lost for the first time in 1983.
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Cliff Robertson who kids know as Uncle Ben from Spiderman but was awesome in this and as Wing Commader Roy Grant in 633 Squadron.
Gotta love Angus Lennie as Flying Officer Hoppy Hopkinson who pulled the Wing Commander out of the burning aircraft. Great movie.
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As far as hockey goes "Slap Shot" with Paul Newman and the infamous Hansen brothers ha to be one of the best. It is the "Major League" of hockey.
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Has anyone done sailing movies? One of my favorite movies of all time is Wind
Jennifer Grey, post Ferris, pre-nose
Matthew Modine
Stellan Skarsgard before he was full Skarsgard
Cliff Robertson who kids know as Uncle Ben from Spiderman but was awesome in this and as Wing Commader Roy Grant in 633 Squadron.
Good plot and the Cup racing scenes are pretty spectacular. Loosely based on Dennis Connors and the retaking of America's Cup after it was lost for the first time in 1983.
There are no sailing movies better than Summer Rental or One Crazy Summer.
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Summer catch is my favorite, god awful sports movie. Complete crap but still makes me laugh. BASEketball as well, but I don't think that's necessarily an awful movie.