Best sports Movie.
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For me, Brian's Song.
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There are SO many great sports movies that it’s hard to pick. I would have to answer the ‘Best’ question with two films that are deadlocked in first place: Rocky and Hoosiers. Each explores the underdog story while also addressing redemption and the different ways you can ‘win’ in sports regardless of the outcome of the actual event.
HOWEVER, my personal favorite would be Side Out. Mind you, this a very cheesy, very bad, very eighties movie. How 80s, you ask? There’s 80s music, tons of neon colors, high hair, it stars Peter Horton and C. Thomas Howell and Bernie from Weekend at Bernie’s and features a very young, very beautiful, very swimsuit clad Courtney Thorne-Smith. It doesn’t get more 80s! It’s the standard tale of a law school kid from Minnesota who scores a summer internship at a California law firm only to abandon it for a shot at glory on the pro volleyball circuit. Many real life AVP players in the film, with Randy Stoklos in a semi lead role.
You know, that old story...
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Rocky
Bad news Bears
Stir Crazy
Waterboy
Air Bud: Spikes Back
Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius
I enjoyed the Rocky series
George Brett, Roger Clemens and Tommy Brady.
The Field of Dreams. The end still makes my eyes tear up
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I'd probably say Rocky as well. If I had to throw out something different, most of my other favorites are baseball movies: The Natural, Eight Men Out, and the various Costner baseball movies (Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, For the Love of the Game).
Yes! I forgot about that one
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The Natural is easily my favorite baseball movie. For the Love of the Game should really only be mentioned if there was a way to edit out the relationships part of the movie and just show the baseball parts.
Slapshot.
Hoosiers,Field of Dreams.
Chariots of Fire
Not the best, but when I was younger I really liked All the Right Moves
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Rocky was the movie. Million dollar budget no less.
I remember my father watching North Dallas Forty and my mother yelling to not let me watch it, decades later I watched it and thought it was “OK”
As for the Rocky franchise of movies, the first and second ones were great.
I recently watched Creed 2 and find that it is one of my favorites. I really liked that Creed 2 spent a substantial amount of time telling the story of how the events of Rocky IV (death of Apollo at the hands of Ivan Drago, Rocky beating Drago in Moscow) turned out having wide ranging impacts on multiple characters in this franchise.
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Hoosiers, Brian’s Song, and Remember the Titans are mine
You might want to edit that...just sayin'...
I know... I know..."Damn autocorrect!"...
That second movie is probably on a late night premium cable channel if anyone is interested
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Fellas, leave the tight pants to the ladies. If I can count the coins in your pockets you better use them to call a tailor. Stay thirsty my friends......
Couldn’t have planned that if I thought of it
Raging Bull
Caddyshack
I'm not saying it's my favorite, but i don't think "Paper Lion" was mentioned.
Interesting movie because the plot is based on a true story, and also because a number of the football players who were involved in the true story, also played themselves in the movie.
One was Alex Karras who went on to have a fairly decent career in movies and television.
Not a top ten movie but worth watching again was Fast Break with Gabe Kaplan and Bernard King.
Rudy... Rudy... Rudy... Rudy...
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Bad News Bears
Field of Dreams
Hoosiers
Andy
Slap Shot with Paul Newman
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Baseball-Bull Durham
Football-Brian's Song
Basketball-Hoosiers
Hockey-Slapshot
Boxing-Rocky
It's about time someone named that movie. wasn't waiting much longer to chime in.
for a football movie, I am torn between Brian's Song and Remember the Titans.
Actually liked Greatest game every played. I know Shia Lebeouf is tough to take but is pretty good in this, and Stephen Dillane as Harry Vardon is tremendous. The story of Francis Ouimet is truly stranger than fiction.
Others: Hoosiers. Bull Durham. Hoop Dreams (do documentaries count?).
"Look up, old boy, and see what you get." -William Bonney.
If the ghostbusters would have come in at the end of field of dreams to wipe out the ghosts and send them
back to where they belong it would have been the perfect movie.
As it stands the movie is a little lacking, with poltergeists in wool uniforms haunting the whole damn Iowa countryside.
The fish that saved Pittsburgh
If there are any french canadians who read this the hockey movie "Les Boys" is a must see.
Tom Cruise thinking with his bat in A Few Good Men
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Ha!!!
Kevin Bacon plays hoops, Demi Moore confronts Lt Caffey (Cruise) on the baseball diamond early in the film, too.
Don’t know if it’s sports but it sure is a great flic!
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I recall watching as a child the black and white movie about the life of Jim Thorpe staring Burt Lancaster as Jim Thorpe,Thorpe mastered many sports won Olympic medals but they were taken away from him because he played pro ball which was a no no at the time because olympians had to be strictly amateurs this rule was finally changed when pro hockey players were allowed to compete in the olympics.
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