Top Sports Movies of All Time

bri2327 · March 1, 2006 7:32AM

C'mon, lets hear everyones favorites !

my top 3......The Natural, Pride of the Yankees, Hoosiers.

Gator5220 · March 1, 2006 7:37AM

Caddyshack.

SDSportsFan · March 1, 2006 7:38AM

Along with the above, I like Mystery, Alaska.

Steve

interchanges · March 1, 2006 7:53AM

"A League of their own"......while not a huge Tom hanks fan, he's awesome in this!

Eddo33 · March 1, 2006 7:57AM

Bull Durham is a classic.

onlyanumber · March 1, 2006 7:58AM

Slap Shot

Susquehanna · March 1, 2006 9:22AM

I was skeptical when Miracle was released because the story has been covered to death over the years, in print and video. In spite of that, I still found the movie to be entertaining and moving. Still tune in everytime Field of Dreams is on too.

Nick

coinkat · March 1, 2006 9:30AM

Knute Rockne All American, Pride of the Yankees, Pride of St. Louis and The Natural was good Field of Dreams was good and I thought Hoosiers was good too... there are many decent sports films

dirtmonkey · March 1, 2006 9:49AM

I hate the golden dummies, but liked Rudy

ArnyVee · March 1, 2006 10:34AM

The new basketball flick (forgot the name) is good about the College team with the first all starting African American squad.

Aside from the ones already mentioned, I love Major League.

megatron · March 1, 2006 10:34AM

Brian's Song - great acting and a wonderful yet sad story.

Surprised no one mentioned it yet.

I know it was made for TV, but still a movie in my book.

BigRedMachine · March 1, 2006 10:56AM

Hoosiers is a classic.

I'm ashamed to admit I still cry everytime Ray asks his dad if he wants to have a catch at the end of Field of Dreams. Another classic.

Bull Durham, the Natural, Caddyshack, Rudy, and another good one....??...

"Well you may run like Mays, but you hit like $hit"

Major League.

They're all good.

Brian48 · March 1, 2006 1:18PM

Not necessarily in order of preference, but I really like these.

61*
The Rookie (Jimmy Morris Story)
The Natural
For the Love of the Game
Friday Night Lights
The Longest Yard (original)
Field of Dreams
Bad News Bears (original)
Slap Shot (my guilty pleasure)
Rocky (first one, naturally)

and last, but not least,.....
Raging Bull

I'm a little hesitant to put "Bang the Drum Slowly" on this list. Not sure I really liked it that much, although DeNiro was pretty good in it.

Stingray · March 1, 2006 10:33PM

Always liked Rocky I for serious movies, comedy movies, Caddyshack, Dodgeball and Back to School (diving is a sport?).

Stingray

stevek · March 2, 2006 1:07AM

Debbie Does Dallas

AkbarClone · March 2, 2006 1:42AM

Looks like we must have skipped 2005, here are the previous yearly threads:

2002 Movie thread

2003 movie thread

2004 movie thread

Seems the same movies are always present--except for a few new ones which come out occassionally.

DirtyDog48 · March 2, 2006 2:24AM

This Sporting Life
North Dallas Forty
Angels In The Outfield (original 1951 version)
Horse Feathers
Go Man Go

kuhlmann · March 2, 2006 5:54AM

61
cinderella man
major league
rudy

my all time fav the program filmed at the south carolina stadium during the halftimes of the games.

zef204 · March 2, 2006 5:57AM

How about Breaking Away or Eight Men Out.

RipublicaninMass · March 2, 2006 10:34AM

VISIONQUEST

pandrews · March 2, 2006 11:09AM

<< <i>VISIONQUEST >>

hell yeah..

megatron · March 2, 2006 11:43AM

Anyone seen RADIO? I thought it was pretty good

DirtyHarry · March 2, 2006 11:59AM

All of the above. Tough to top those already mentioned. Documentaries are another matter.

fiveniner · March 3, 2006 10:36PM

Not exactly in order,
Pride of the Yankees,Pride of St Loius,The Boy from Left Field,Field Of Dreams,League Of Thier Own, A winner never quits(Pete Gray) and Big Leaguer(Edwin G Robnison). 61.

Stingray · March 4, 2006 8:59AM

One on One, Ice Castles??

Stingray

jaxxr · March 7, 2006 9:40AM

Raging Bull, the best sports movie of all. maybe the best, or at least one of the top movies ever.

Pride of the Yankees, and 61, Knute Rockne All American, Hoosiers, would probably round off my Top five.

sandmanfromlv · March 7, 2006 10:37AM

Hoosiers, Rudy

coinkat · March 7, 2006 10:48AM

There was a film done about Hank Greenberg afew years back that I wished I had seen

bri2327 · March 7, 2006 11:14AM

<< <i>Raging Bull, the best sports movie of all. maybe the best, or at least one of the top movies ever.

Pride of the Yankees, and 61, Knute Rockne All American, Hoosiers, would probably round off my Top five.

>>

Good call on raging bull.....I just watched that last night. Interesting point in that movie.....early in the movie when DiNero was screaming at his wife in the apt. he starts to get yelled at by neighbors in surrounding apartments......that scene was not intended or scripted....it was filmed on location and the people screaming at him had no idea it was a movie being filmed, they just thought it was some nut job beating his wife. He improvised and starts yelling back at them through the window.

Jersey · March 7, 2006 11:49AM

The Harder They Fall (re. boxing).

Wabittwax · March 7, 2006 6:14PM

I never saw Rudy and it was on TV the other day so I watched the end of it. That was the cheesiest piece of crap for a movie that I think I've ever seen. Not to burst your guys' collective bubbles, but I couldn't take anymore. On the cheesy scale, it ranked right up there with Teenwolf 2.

My favorites include Field of Dreams, Any Given Sunday, Rocky 3, Major League (Bob Uecker is great), and Bad News Bears (all of them, including the new one, I'm a BNB junkie).

tennesseebanker · March 8, 2006 1:07AM

How about , The Waterboy, Happy Gilmore, Remember the Titans ?

onlyanumber · March 8, 2006 1:13AM

There was a baseball movie--HBO original I believe called Long Gone. Starred a very young Dermot Mulrooney and William Peterson. One of the best baseball movies I ever saw.

1966CUDA · March 8, 2006 2:31AM

I have always liked "Visionquest"....guess you kinda had to be a wrestler to like that one....also "A League of Their Own"....there's no crying in baseball!!!! And of course, RockyI.

bishop · March 8, 2006 3:09AM

Predator....no wait....maybe that was a hunting film

edmundfitzgerald · February 29, 2008 7:17AM

Was going to start a thread like this, but saw it already existed a while ago.

I'll pick...........

1. Brian's Song
2. Field of Dreams
3. Miracle
4. Bad News Bears
5. Slapshot

perkdog · February 29, 2008 7:19AM

<< <i>Was going to start a thread like this, but saw it already existed a while ago.

I'll pick...........

1. Brian's Song
2. Field of Dreams
3. Miracle
4. Bad News Bears
5. Slapshot >>

You mean you remembered it from awhile ago..

edmundfitzgerald · February 29, 2008 7:32AM

Nah, I do an advanced search on former topics before I think about starting a thread.
I typed in sports movies, and this came up.

dude · February 29, 2008 10:00AM

Horse Feathers is a classic for old-time college football.

Link to video of movie (the game itself starts at 51:30 min)

BobaFett72 · February 29, 2008 12:27PM

well, there are the "best" sports movies... and the favorites :0)

Awards for Sports Movies: The first sports movie to win the Best Picture Academy Award was Rocky (1976), often on the ten-best sports film lists. Others include Chariots of Fire (1981) and Million Dollar Baby (2004). Robert DeNiro won a Best Actor Oscar for his portrayal of real-life boxer Jake LaMotta in Martin Scorsese's Raging Bull (1980), while Hilary Swank won a Best Actress Oscar for portraying a working-class waitress who aspired to be a professional women's boxer in Million Dollar Baby (2004). Kirk Douglas earned his first Oscar nomination playing middleweight Midge Kelly in Champion (1949).

Breaking away was nominated for several oscars and won best original screenplay and won the Golden Globe for best comedy. It's a superb movie.

I personally enjoyed all the rocky movies with the exception of part V which was trash.

Most of my favorite sports movies are baseball flicks...Bull Durham, The Natural and Field of Dreams. If any of these three movies are on TV, ill stop whatever im doing and watch them till their done lol.

I also love Hoosiers, the bad news bears, the sandlot....and the Fish that saves Pittsburgh! (go pisces!)

TheThrill · February 29, 2008 5:11PM

1.Bull Durham
2.Hoosiers
3.Raging Bull
4.Any Given Sunday
5.Major League
6.The Natural
7.North Dallas Forty
8.Caddyshack
9.Young Blood
10.Invincible

Bottom9th · February 29, 2008 7:50PM

In no particular order:
Field of Dreams
Invincible
61
Rocky
We Are Marshall
Remember the Titans
Friday Night Lights
Eight men out
Caddyshack

alnavman · February 29, 2008 11:27PM

I enjoy the sport comedies more than the drama types and would have to say Major League, A League of There Own, Bull Durham and Caddyshack were four of my favorites....funny story about watching Caddyshack. I received it for Christmas a number of years ago and started watching it with my son and one of his friends who were at the time eleven....I completely forgot about the bedroom scene with Chevy Chase and the boys sure got an eyeful that morning!! Anyways I was quick to the trigger on stopping the movie....now my son and I laugh about it as he is older.

bsidegrve · March 2, 2008 10:26AM

Morgoth · March 2, 2008 9:26PM

1. Major League
2. The Natural
3. Hoosiers
4. Friday Night Lights
5. Cinderella Man
6. Rocky
7. Slapshot
8. Without Limits
9. Field of Dreams
10. Million Dollar Baby

Honorary Mention: Bull Durham, Cool Runnings, A League of their Own, North Dallas Forty, The Rookie, Days of Thunder, Rollerball (not the remake), Bad News Bears, Necessary Roughness, Black Sunday, We are Marshall, Pride of the Yankees. Jerry Maguire,

Top 10 Worst Sports Movies of all time

1. Major League II
2. Major League III
3. Cadyshack II
4. The Waterboy
5. The Babe
6. Over the Top
7. Mighty Ducks III
8. Rollerball (remake)
9. The Longest Yard (remake)
10. Rocky V

markj111 · March 3, 2008 2:20AM

I liked Bang the Drum Slowly. I seem to be alone in finding Rudy nauseating.

Dockwalliper · March 3, 2008 7:28AM

I have to vote for "The Natural". I was a production assistant on it during the summer of '83.
After that, "Slap Shot" and "Field of Dreams".

alnavman · March 11, 2008 3:58AM

have to add Forrest Gump to my list....watched it again yesterday and there was ping pong and running in the movie....I had forgotten about that!!!

Run Forrest Run!!

Brian48 · March 11, 2008 4:10AM

There's a lot of flicks I've haven't seen, but I really like the following in their respective sports.

Baseball - A toss up between "Field of Dreams" and "The Natural". Honorable mention for "61*" and "The Rookie".
Football - "Invincible", never saw "Rudy", never liked "Brian's Song"
Tennis? - Nah, but the chicks are usually hot.
Hockey - "Miracle", haven't seen "The Rocket" yet, but heard that was pretty good.
Basketball - Can't think of a single one I've seen that I liked.
Boxing - "Raging Bull", no questions.
Racing - Nah, but the bimbos are usually hot also.

And an oddball one, Chess - "Searching for Bobby Fischer". Yes, Fishcher was anti-semite a-hole, but the movie is not about him, but rather about being better than him.

TNTonPMS · March 11, 2008 4:56AM

I liked most of those , I did not see anyone mention ,

The Sand Lot

I thought that was a great film too .

Darin · March 11, 2008 5:32AM

Most popular movie that I think sucks, Field of Dreams. Why don't those ghosts get lost, surely they have baseball fields in heaven. Go towards the light, dummies!

Top Sports Movies of All Time

Comments