Off season movie question

[FurdTerguson]

What, in your opinion, was the best movie ever for each sport? I'll start...

Football: We Are Marshall

Basketball: Hoosiers

Baseball: Field of Dreams

Other: Sea Biscuit

 

[jeffky]

What, in your opinion, was the best movie ever for each sport? I'll start...

Football: We Are Marshall

Basketball: Hoosiers

Baseball: Field of Dreams

Other: Sea Biscuit

Rocky
Lou gherig baseball pride of the yankees
Brian's song football
Hoosier basketball
Greatest game ever played golf

 

[UK90]

Basketball: Hoosiers
Football: The Longest Yard (meaning the original 1970s version, NOT the crappy Adam Sandler remake)
Baseball: Bull Durham
Hockey: Slap Shot
Golf: Tin Cup
Boxing: Raging Bull
Wrestling: Vision Quest
Cycling: Breaking Away
Horse Racing: Seabiscuit

 

[CatDadCoog]

Soccer - Kicking and Screaming
Wrestling - Nacho Libre
Tether ball- Napoleon Dynamite

 

[blue cincy]

baseball Sandlot
Football Brians song
basketball: Coach carter

 

[FurdTerguson]

Basketball: Hoosiers
Football: The Longest Yard (meaning the original 1970s version, NOT the crappy Adam Sandler remake)
Baseball: Bull Durham
Hockey: Slap Shot
Golf: Tin Cup
Boxing: Raging Bull
Wrestling: Vision Quest
Cycling: Breaking Away
Horse Racing: Seabiscuit

Not a bad choice in the bunch.

 

[BBNinSC]

I saw “The Iron Claw” recently and can’t recommend it enough.
My Mount Rushmore of Sports Movies:
Rocky
Bull Durham
The Big Lebowski
Jerry Maguire

Honorable Mention: The Waterboy

 

[Jamal Mercer]

What, in your opinion, was the best movie ever for each sport? I'll start...

Football: We Are Marshall

Basketball: Hoosiers

Baseball: Field of Dreams

Other: Sea Biscuit

Football: Rudy

Basketball: White Men Can’t Jump

Baseball: Major League

Arm wrestling: Over the Top

Golf: Happy Gilmore

Dodgeball: Dodgeball

 

[Jamal Mercer]

I saw “The Iron Claw” recently and can’t recommend it enough.
My Mount Rushmore of Sports Movies:
Rocky
Bull Durham
The Big Lebowski
Jerry Maguire

Honorable Mention: The Waterboy

A friend of mine (James Gaszo) was a stunt double for the Iron Claw movie. Very good flick.

 

[FurdTerguson]

Football: Rudy

Basketball: White Men Can’t Jump

Baseball: Major League

Arm wrestling: Over the Top

Golf: Happy Gilmore

Dodgeball: Dodgeball

Change my baseball to Major League. Love Field of Dreams but it's not really about baseball.

 

[mrjuk]

FB. We Are Marshall, The Express, The Replacements
BB. Hoosiers, Blue Chips
Baseball. “61”, Bull Durham, Eight Men Out, Major League
HR. Secretariat (2010)
Golf. Bobby Jones…Stroke of Genius, Greatest Game Ever Played

 

[BBNinSC]

Football: Rudy

Basketball: White Men Can’t Jump

Baseball: Major League

Arm wrestling: Over the Top

Golf: Happy Gilmore

Dodgeball: Dodgeball

I know there aren’t many arm wrestling movies, but Over the Top is bad. There’s a documentary called “Pulling John” that is really good.

 

[BBNinSC]

Change my baseball to Major League. Love Field of Dreams but it's not really about baseball.

There are a lot more movies about football and baseball than basketball. I wonder what that means

 

[FurdTerguson]

There are a lot more movies about football and baseball than basketball. I wonder what that means

If Bull Durham was about life in the G League...

Boys, this is a simple game. You bounce the ball, you pass the ball, you shoot the ball. But what do you boys do? You lollygag the ball around the perimeter. You lollygag the ball into the paint. You lollygag the ball up to the basket. What's that make us?

Lollygaggers, sir?

Lollygaggers.

 

[DreadLox]

Track and Field : Personal Best
Boxing : The Fighter or Fat City
Baseball : Bad News Bears
Basketball : Basketball Diaries
Football : North Dallas 40
Soccer : Bend It like Beckham
Golf : Tin Cup

Personal Best had a different arc than the usual Heroic Win at the End
Bad News Bears focuses on kids playing the game.
I liked The Fighter over Raging Bull because of the family aspect. You could feel the hysteria his family engendered. Maybe Fat City because it looked at 3rd raters.
Basketball Diaries was small scale and dwelt on life outside of the sport
North Dallas 40 hit right before athletes started making so much money that their personal dramas still mattered.
Bend It Like Beckham had Keira Knightley looking like all the girls on my niece's soccer team. Teenage girls playing soccer can be so graceful and funny.
Tin Cup is Costner's best movie and he actually knows how to play golf.