Best Sports Films

[m.c.hamster]

There was a thread last week about the best Sport fims and I suggested one called Slapshot, a 1970's Ice Hockey film starring Paul Newman.
Well just as a coincidence its one TV tonight on TCM at 9pm. (TCM is channel 327 on Sky)
Watch it and enjoy.

 

[Eddie the Seagull]

There was a thread last week about the best Sport fims and I suggested one called Slapshot, a 1970's Ice Hockey film starring Paul Newman.
Well just as a coincidence its one TV tonight on TCM at 9pm. (TCM is channel 327 on Sky)
Watch it and enjoy.

'Pukka' film - those double hard bastard nutter nerds..........

I prefer the Rocky films, personally

 

[SJ's Love Monkey]

Racing Stripes

 

[Lady Whistledown]

A longer thread would surely have been entitled "Worst Sports Films".

I give you

Escape To Victory
A League Of Their Own
etc

It is the law that all football films have to feature a brave but futile struggle for 80 minutes, during which time the opponents score twice, the referee blatantly favours them, and the star player sustains a career-threatening injury as a result of a cynical foul, which would force lesser mortals off the pitch, but not this heroic individual.

Pluckily, he gets up and limps on, managing to set up what appears to be no more than a consolation goal with three minutes to go. As the game moves into injury time, another cynical foul on said superstar results in a free kick just outside the box, which he brilliantly floats around the wall into the top corner of the net (in which the goalkeeper makes a hilariously comical and not at all realistic attempt at diving, usually diving past the ball).

Finally, with the clock almost out of time, superstar makes one, despairing, final run into the box, where he's brutally tripped, forcing even the previously one-eyed ref to award a penalty. A short run up, another comedy "dive" from the keeper, and it's in the back of the net, at which point the final whistle goes, the crowd cheer in a strange, non-football style (hurrah!), and the hero is lifted, shoulder high from the pitch by his team mates in a style not seen since Roy of the Rovers in 1960.

 

[Scotty Mac]

mighty ducks

 

[CHAPPERS]

White Men can't Jump and Cool Runnings are the only two sports films worth mentioning.

 

[Easy 10]

Raging Bull is head and shoulders above every other sports film ever made. FACT.

 

[LANGDON SEAGULL]

Chariots of Fire

 

[Berk (of 'Trapdoor' fame)]

Happy Gilmoore

 

[CHAPPERS]

Fukkinell actually there's loads.

Waterboy,.

 

[Northstander]

Gregory's girl

 

[Leekbrookgull]

Bit dated,but Richard Harris in Saturday night/Sunday morning,Rugby League if i am correct?

 

[Berk (of 'Trapdoor' fame)]

BASEketball

 

[Gwylan]

Bit dated,but Richard Harris in Saturday night/Sunday morning,Rugby League if i am correct?

You mean This Sporting Life. Great film -vies with Raging Bull as the best sports film ever,

SNSM starred Albert Finney and wasn't a sports film - unless you count shagging women as a sport.

 

[BUTTERBALL]

Seabiscuit

 

[desprateseagull]

some others

baseball- major league (charlie sheen and others co star)

surfing- big wednesday (buddy buusy / war movie of sorts, with some damn BIG waves..)

sledging- cool runnings (Jamaica goes polar! John Candy's last film?)

ice hockey- slapstick (great fights on the rink..)

but the ultimate has to be 'rollerball' (original version- with James Caan?)

 

[chez]

Seabiscuit

Good call, brilliant film.

 

[Seasider]

The Replacements

 

[turienzo's lovechild]

DODGEBALL

 

[Beach Hut]

Chariots of Fire

That would be mine as well.

Trivia question - who invested a fair wad in that film and made a mint ?