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What are your top 5 sports movies?
My list:
1. Hoosiers 2. Rocky I the original 3. Raging Bull 4. Victory 5. Brians Song Let me say that I also do enjoy all of the Disney renditions as well. Remember the Titans, Coach Carter, Glory Road, Invincible, The Rookie and Miracle. |
I can't pick a top 5, and I agree with all of yours, but a few others in no particular order that may also make my list...also, not sure how you are interpreting "sports movies"....but I am listing movies whose central theme revolve around a specific sport....not just a traditional movie that follows a team, a la Remember the Titans....
Breaking Away The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (campy, but classic....even NBA players dig it) The Natural Slap Shot Caddyshack The Hustler North Shore Searching for Bobby Fischer One that does NOT make my list is Chariots of Fire. With the exception of the courtyard race scene, too boring. Sorry, Vangelis! Also, never saw $1,000,000 Baby, but heard it was very good. |
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Another one that I guess would be considered a sports movie now is Rounders. I love that movie. |
Rocky movies
The Natural Hoosiers Remember The Titans Cinderella Man Seabiscuit Victory Lots of other ones. |
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Rocky 1
Million dollar baby Cinderella Man Breaking away Rudy |
Gus was sweet. Imagine if you could really use a mule as your field goal kicker.
Vision Quest combined wrestling with drifter sex. Not a bad combo. I enjoyed my cameo for the locker room scene in Any Given Sunday. Any time you put Scott Bakula and Sinbad in a film you know you have a hit, which is what you got with Necessary Roughness. If just for the killer soundtrack Ice Castles has to round out the top five. |
Imagine sitting in on this pitch:
"We want to make a sports movie. Tim Conway, Don Knotts, Dick Van Patten, mules, football....and Tom Bosley falls into a glass case of live lobsters. What do you think?" Answer: OYAGE! |
1. Hoosiers - Great movie
2. Downhill Racer - Early Redford 3. Caddyshack - no other movie is quoted as much 4. Breaking Away - Being all consumed with cycling was something I could relate to. 5. Slap Shot - I think they are still playing this as a first run movie in Canada. I thought about the first Rocky but the fight scenes were just to unrealistic. I wish he had stopped at one. |
Does Jerry Maguire count?
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No given order:
Rudy Hoosiers The Natural 8 Men Out Caddyshack Runners-up: Gus The Prize Fighter |
I will also cop to watching and enjoying The Champ.
Is anyone else man enough to admit to crying over Ricky Schroeder's emotional pleas? |
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Has anyone tried to sit through Caddyshack recently? I find the Rodney Dangerfield portions to be nearly unwatchable. The rest of the flick stands the test of time quite well.
Now, to my main point: how the hell does nobody have Karate Kid on the list? Allow me to be the first. 1) Hoosiers 2) Rudy 3) Karate Kid 4) Rocky I 5) Breaking Away |
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"Oh, this is the worst looking hat I ever saw.....what, when you buy a hat like this I bet you get a free bowl of soup........oh, it looks good on you, though..." "I hear this place is restricted Wang, so don't tell them your Jewish, okay? Fine." "Tell the cook this is low grade dog food. I've have better food at the ball game...this steak still has marks where the jockey was hitting it..." "Hey, you scratched my anchor..." I still crack up when he goes into the golf shop and asks for a box of the "naked lady tees" |
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"You scratched my anchor!" will always make me laugh. |
No one has mentioned "Field of Dreams". One of my friends has this near the top of his list and told me before I saw it that if you had ever played catch with your dad you would shed a tear or two. I saw it and it didn't do a thing for me. What are your thoughts on this movie?
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his being in the movie is what made me keep it off the list. but truthfully, i like it. i never cried, though. didnt think it was THAT good. I enjoyed 8 men out, now that I think about it (nothing to do with FOD, but just thought of it because they are both baseball movies) |
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How did I forget the original Major League?
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Kevin Costner isn't a bad actor. He's made some lousy movies for sure. But Field of Dreams isn't one of them. It's also a great book. Field of Dreams is my all time favorite movie. I think Bill Simmons wrote an article a while back that Kevin Costner and Dennis Quaid could be interchanged in any movie for each other. I couldn't disagree with that.
1. Field of Dreams 2. Hoosiers 3. Brian's Song 4. Chariots of Fire 5. The Natural Honorable Mention: Tin Cup, The Longest Yard, 61*, Bull Durham, Rad, Gleaming the Cube, North Shore, Endless Summer 1 & 2, and the two best snowboarding movies ever Shakedown and Chulksmack. |
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Boring from beginning to end. And sorry, it's just not that emotional. |
I like many of the ones mentioned...with Miracle probably toping the list, although I can turn Rudy on at any minute and be glued.
Also, the Greatest Game Ever Played is a very good movie, and I'd throw in A League of Their Own...strictly for Tom Hanks. Oh, and the Hurricane. |
Hoosiers
The Natural Rocky I Major League Hoop Dreams |
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Rocky
Searching for Bobby Fisher Caddyshack Hoosiers The Hustler Raging Bull is great, but for some reason I don't have the urge to watch it again. |
If a movie about chess counts, then I submit Best in Show, which should also count.
I also really liked Cinderella Man. It made me cry, not the boxing part, but when Renee Zellweger couldn't help her sick, hungry and cold children. And Rocky, Remember the Titans and Miracle And I HATED Jerry Maguire. Sorry Babs. |
I liked Remember the Titans, until I learned about the real Titans team and realized that all of the drama in the movie was fabricated. That movie is really light years away from being accurate....and most of the original appeal was that it was billed as a true story....or at least fairly close to a true story.
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Everything you want to know about the truth. |
Field of Dreams
Fever Pitch (the original British one w/Colin Firth) |
A "sports movie" about motorcycle racing that I really enjoyed was The World's Fastest Indian
Lots of great shots of Salt Lake City and Wendover. I particularly loved Anthony Hopkins eating in the Dees Restaurant. Gets an 8.0 out of 10 on IMDB. Certainly worth renting or adding to your NetFlix queue. |
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I would agree that this one should count as one of the great sports movies of all time. |
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The scene on the Salt Flats when he opens up his Indian is great. |
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