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Let's discuss Sport's movies

My favorite is Field of Dreams. It is an amazing movie that will make men cry at the end. It has memorable lines and no baseball fan will ever forget Terrance Mahn's (James Earl Jones) favorite speech at the end about the persistence of baseball. "PEOPLE WILL COME RAY, THEY WILL MOST DEFINITELY COME. They will drive up for no apparent reason and ask if they can look around. you will say fine but it's $20. They will find they have reserved seats on the 3rd base line and sit where they sat and watched their heroes as children." (that's only part of the speech)

There is also the interesting story of Doctor Archibald "Moonlight" Graham. That was actually a true story when they went through his history. Archie Graham really lived and in 1905 he was 5 minutes away from his dream. When he never got to it he went to Chisholm Minnesota where he became a Doctor. He is a legend in Chisholm to this day. The one thing I find funny about his part in the movie is he said his dream was to get an at bat, but when he gets his chance at the end he hits a sacrafice fly to right-center. I know baseball and if you hit a sacrafice fly you get the RBI, but it is not an official at bat.


Another sports movie I like is "Brian's Song" the true story of Bear's running back Brian Picolo and his tragic death to cancer at age 26. the true story of Brian Picolo that is shown is not just his death, but the man who overcame racial prejudices of the time with his best friend, NFL Hall of Famer Gale Sayers. There is also the part how Pic helped Gale recover from an ACL tear and how Pic kept his own spirits up and his friend's spirits up as he was sucombing to cancer.


I also think that "Major League" is another good one, great comedy.

there's such a thing as a good sports movie? let alone a great one.

61* is another good sports movie, it is an HBO film that was made recently about the 1961 Homerun race between NY Yankees Roger Marris and Micky Mantle. You will get angry at parts of it when you see how mad the Yankee fans got at their own player (Marris) when he approached Ruth's record since they either didn't want it broken or favored Mantle. It will piss you off when you see the real life shit that was pulled to keep Marris out of the record books. Luckily he got his spot in 1991 in the books where it belonged. The movie starts and ends on clips of the 1998 HR race between Sammy (or scammy Cork) Sosa (I hate that damn Cub) and Mark "Big Mac" McGwire (both were using heavy steroids).

there's such a thing as a good sports movie? let alone a great one.
watch Field of Dreams and say that to me

1. The Sandlot
ESPN's Top 25 Sports movies left this one out, those fucking assholes.

2. Rounders
ditto

3. Hoosiers

4. Varsity Blues

5. The Natural

bump
"Is this heaven?"
"No, it's Iowa"

1. The Sandlot
ESPN's Top 25 Sports movies left this one out, those fucking assholes.

2. Rounders
ditto

3. Hoosiers

4. Varsity Blues

5. The Natural

Sandlot is good, left it off my poll (better punch self for that one)
Haven't seen Rounders

No question about Hoosiers (left off poll due to ignorance on self)

I will argue on Varsity Blues but must say the Natural is on any list

If you bump it they will come

here is the full quote, the most memorable in a sport's movie.

"Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come. "

ummmm Raging bull is pretty well regarded and it didnt make it to your poll.

Friday Night Lights looks promising.

You didn't have Hoosiers! phft!

I can't believe you left out Baseketball.

Oh, the one where Adam Sandler(?) plays golf.

Remember the Titans is also nice. Days of thunder beats most of the rockys imo. that football-movie with al pacino is nice...

edit: didn't really think of cardgame as a sport, but yeah, Rounders is a grat movie.

Oh, the one where Adam Sandler(?) plays golf.


Yes! Happy Gilmour!

My favorite line from that movie:

Shooter: Remember, I eat pieces of shit like you for breakfast.
Gilmour: Gross! You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?
Shooter: (pause) NO!

tee hee

'Wimbledon' is a tennis movie (you'd have guessed from the title) coming out this September in the UK. It stars Kirsten Dunst and Paul Bettany. Probably won't be too good a movie, but then again, we may be surprised.


If you want to find out more about it (plot summary, trailer etc)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0360201/

JiangGuo

Go The Distance!!

Pride of the Yankees is the greatest sports movie of all time.

I can't believe you left out the funniest "sports" movie ever:Caddyshack
And a close second: Slapshot

What No Slapshot!!!????

I like:

1. Remember the Titans
2. The Sandlot
3. Caddyshack
4. Happy Gilmore

I like Caddyshack and Happy Gilmore.