listomatic: sporty movies
Best baseball movies:
- Bad News Bears
- Bad News Bears in Breaking Training
- Bang the Drum Slowly (original)
- The Natural
- Bingo Long and the Traveling All Stars
- Field of Dreams
- Major League
- The Sandlot
- Long Gone (does anyone else remember this movie? This is when I discovered the sexiness that is Virginia Madsen)
- Damn Yankees
- Fear Strikes Out
And yes, Bull Durham is purposefully left off the list. I loathe that movie with an undescribable passion. And I thought Eight Men Out was boring.
Best Hockey Movies
- Slapshot (best SPORTS movie ever)
- Mighty Ducks (first only)
- Mystery, Alaska
- Miracle on Ice (the 1981 made for tv movie)
No, not Youngblood. And not that movie where the hockey player becomes a figure skater.
Best Football Movies
- The Longest Yard (original)
- North Dallas 40
- Rudy
- Lucas
- Little Giants
- Brian's Song (original only)
- Jerry Maguire (Yea, I liked this movie)
- Paper Lion
- Jim Thorpe, All American (I watched this by accident one day and found it to be a really excellent movie)
- Two Minute Warning (not about football, per se, but contains football)
- Black Sunday (see note above)
- Last Boy Scout (ditto)
- All the Right Moves
Note: I didn't see Remember the Titans, and I didn't like Any Given Sunday or The Replacements.
Best Basketball Movies
- Hoosiers
- Basketball Diaries
- The Air Up There
- Fast Break (dude, it's got GABE KAPLAN!)
- Teen Wolf
- Finding Forrester
- Air Bud (yea, that's right. Air Fucking Bud)
- One on One (two words: Robby. Benson.)
- Baseketball. Of course.
Ok, I haven't seen a lot of basketball movies.
Best Soccer movies:
- The Big Green
- That one with Stallone and the jail
- Shaolin Soccer
- Bend it like Beckham
I'm not going to do a list for arm-wrestling, but if I did, you know what the only movie on that list would be. I don't want to embarass myself by mentioning how much I love that piece of crap.
Ok, that's it. Add your own.
Comments
Pride of the Yankees
Posted by: Rob@L&R | June 10, 2005 09:53 AM
Soccer movie: The Boys of Company 'C'
Posted by: Rob@L&R | June 10, 2005 09:57 AM
61 - in Baseball Movies category
Miracle - in Hockey Movies category
Posted by: Angel | June 10, 2005 10:00 AM
I've seen Remember the Titans so I would add that.
Cheesy teen movie, but Varsity Blues got me to understand how American football is played. When you're used to Rugby Union and Soccer - thats an achievement.
Posted by: Angel | June 10, 2005 10:03 AM
I'm not ashamed to admit that I too enjoy the delightful juxtaposition of arm-wrestling and child custody as long as Sammy Hagar is there to set the tone. Hmm, I think it's time to turn my hat backwards...
Posted by: Steve | June 10, 2005 10:04 AM
"Basketball Diaries" was a heroin movie.
Posted by: TC@LeatherPenguin | June 10, 2005 10:08 AM
Friday Night Lights was great. And, I don't know...I love Everybody's All American. But the best sports movies ever are boxing flicks.
Posted by: Jennifer | June 10, 2005 10:10 AM
I don't know if it counts since it's a documentary, but Hoop Dreams was a pretty amazing film.
Oh yeah, almost forgot: I OWN YOU!!
Posted by: Hubris | June 10, 2005 10:18 AM
What about "Stealing Home", staring Mark Harmon, Harold Ramis, adn Jodie Foster?
Posted by: JCage | June 10, 2005 10:26 AM
I believe the Stallone move you speak of is Victory, also starring Michael Caine and Max Von Sidow.
Posted by: Darth Monkeybone | June 10, 2005 10:28 AM
Motorcycling/motocross -- On Any Sunday
Posted by: WarrenM | June 10, 2005 10:30 AM
Has anyone seem Kicking and Screaming (soccer)?
Posted by: Elsie | June 10, 2005 10:38 AM
Oops. That should say SEEN, not seem.
Posted by: Elsie | June 10, 2005 10:39 AM
I gotta ask, "Bull Durham?"
Posted by: Timmer | June 10, 2005 10:41 AM
Vinnie Jones' "Mean Machine" was a cool soccer movie.
Posted by: Vanhfan | June 10, 2005 10:42 AM
Never doubt the power of Keanu in The Replacements.
(I hated that Titans movie)
Posted by: Laurence Simon | June 10, 2005 11:09 AM
Greatest Movie Ever: The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh. With Dr. J., Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Meadowlark Lemon, along with Jonathan Winters, Stockard Channing, M. Emmet Walsh, Marv Albert, Flip Wilson and Debbie Allen. OK, so it's a really dumb movie about an astrologer that saves a basketball team (written by the guy also responsible for Summer School and Smokey and the Bandit Part 3), but for some reason that movie has been stuck in my head since 1979. I blame the Amazing Gravity-Defying Mind-Control Afro.
Posted by: Fred | June 10, 2005 11:42 AM
The Boys in Company C was definitely a good war/soccer movie. Remember the Titans is decent. I'd have to include Bull Durham, but I'd at least include Eight Men Out before BNB in Breaking Training.
Posted by: Norman | June 10, 2005 11:47 AM
Posted by: Fred | June 10, 2005 11:47 AM
That Stallone movie is indeed 'Victory' and they're in a POW camp not a jail, and those are NAZIS, not jail guards. It's a very, very good movie.
LadyBugs w/ Rodney Dangerfield and a crossdressing kid isn't on the Soccer movie list, either. That's a good thing.
'The Cup' is a good movie about Tibet and the World Cup - Here's a bit of a review:
The World Cup and Tibetan Monks are not the two topics most likely to pack Americans into cinemas. A combination of the two may actually frighten away some viewers
Me and the other person in the theater liked it pretty well. The soccer action is seen on the television in Tibet. If you're curious about life in Tibet and how the World Cup affects the rhythms of life, give 'The Cup' a look-see.
http://www.popmatters.com/film/reviews/c/cup.shtml
Posted by: BumperStickerist | June 10, 2005 12:23 PM
How about Necessary Roughness for a football movie?
Posted by: Jeff | June 10, 2005 12:42 PM
For basketball, there's also White Men Can't Jump.
Wasn't there a Rodney Dangerfield Soccer movie? How bad could it have been?
(And where's the Golf list, speaking of Rodney...?)
Posted by: Jeff R. | June 10, 2005 12:49 PM
Best baseball movie:
The Untouchables
Posted by: Brendan | June 10, 2005 12:53 PM
I'm surprised you left of the most recent hockey movie of all -- Miracle. It was extremely well done and is certainly a top-3. In fact, I might even call it a top-3 of all time sports related movies.
On the football front, you didn't list "Friday Night Lights" which I think gave some good insight into highschool football as did "Return of the Titans". The ESPN movie called "Junction Boys" was based on the early years of coach Paul "Bear" Bryant and is noteworthy as well.
Posted by: ac | June 10, 2005 01:14 PM
Hey, no best wrestling movies?
Real Wrestling - Vision Quest
Fake Wrestling - .... hmmm... The One and Only?
Posted by: JFH | June 10, 2005 01:21 PM
Agreed and agreed.
Posted by: Allah | June 10, 2005 01:49 PM
Football - The Program
Posted by: No One of Consequence | June 10, 2005 01:50 PM
add my 2 cents:
my top 3 baseball:
Sandlot (I love this movie)
Field of Dreams
The Natural
honorable mention: Angels in the Outfield, Mr. 3000
Football:
Friday Night Lights (cause thats how life was my junior/senior year)
Remember the Titans
The Waterboy
Honarable mention: Unecessary Roughness
Hockey:
I agree on your top 3 there.
Basketball:
Space Jam is about all we watch
Soccer:
Bend it like Beckham is pretty good.
The Big Green
Wrestling:
WWE: From the Vault: Shawn Michaels
Posted by: ozone ferd | June 10, 2005 02:28 PM
Over the Top? Yikes.
I have a friend who's sole review of that movie consisted of "The kid's a cryer."
Posted by: Keith | June 10, 2005 02:43 PM
Long Gone. One of the best ever.
Stud Cantrell - William Peterson of CSI
Jose "joe" Brown- he's not black he's mexican
I still want a Tampico Stogie baseball shirt. Oh yea filmed in Lakeland Fl at Joe Merchant Statdium.
And yes Virgina Madsen as the Strawberry Queen (i think it was strawberry). the sexist women ever smoking a cigarette.
Posted by: Rob M | June 10, 2005 02:59 PM
Golf movies?
Caddyshack - original only
Tin Cup (what is it with Costner and sports movies?)
Posted by: lawhawk | June 10, 2005 03:00 PM
Not on the list but mentioned in the comments is The Program.
That movie had such an impact that among my friends anyone going apeshit is still said to be "pulling a Latimer"
Also the Waterboy and because of cheese factor, Queen soundtrack and tangetial link to football Flash Gordon.
Posted by: Ryan | June 10, 2005 03:03 PM
Never in a million years would I have guessed that you hate Bull Durham, Michele. If anything I would have thought there was a chance you might see Field Of Dreams as too sappy.
I love 'em both...
Posted by: MikeR | June 10, 2005 03:39 PM
michele,
you're a SECRETARY!!?
Posted by: CriscoBoy | June 10, 2005 04:00 PM
Mystery, Alaska is a godawful hockey movie. And not even fun-bad. Hell, Sudden Death is a better hockey movie; at least there you get to see Van Damme kill a mascot.
Posted by: Greg | June 10, 2005 04:01 PM
When I'm not an assassin.
Posted by: michele | June 10, 2005 04:02 PM
CriscoBoy,
She turns her hat around, and it's like she's a different person. Like a machine. Like that truck.
Posted by: Hubris | June 10, 2005 04:14 PM
Maybe there should be a list for "Best Obscure Sports Movies". Then you could list "Over the Top" without feeling embarrassed.
Here's another hilarious one for that category (and by the way, this movie was MEANT to make the audience laugh).
"Men With Brooms" -- Curling.
Posted by: Jeff Bailey | June 10, 2005 04:17 PM
Men With Brooms is okay if you can get around the rules misinterpretation that creates the main character's dramatic conflict. And it's got one of the best gratuitous cameos ever.
The best obscure sport movie, though, is Lagaan, the 4-hour Indian cricket musical that feels like 90 minutes.
Posted by: Greg | June 10, 2005 04:32 PM
Best Rollerball movies:
Rollerball (the original)
Worst Rollerball movies:
Rollerball (the remake)
Posted by: Bruce | June 10, 2005 04:41 PM
We've forgotten the best.biggest.sportsy.movies.ever :
The Olympics!
1. Cool Runnings
1a. Chariots of Fire
2. American Anthem
3. Gymkata - (it counts)
4. Personal Breasts, errr, Best
Posted by: BumperStickerist | June 10, 2005 04:43 PM
Football Movie- (Original) Son of Flubber
Basketball movie- The Absent Minded professor
Posted by: Joel B. | June 10, 2005 05:02 PM
I'm Optimus Prime!
Not in my lifetime.
I LOVE THIS MOVIE!
Posted by: michele | June 10, 2005 05:13 PM
...speaking of sports movies, and baseball in particular, here a bit of dialog between the losing pitcher and his catcher:
C:"There are pleanty of parks he couldn't of hit that out of".
P: "Name one."
C: "...Yellowstone."
What frickin' movie was that??
And Long Gone is the best baseball move ever.
The scene w/ Mulroney, Madsen and Smith in the hotel "the morning after" was priceless.
That, and the "Dixie Lee Boxx 30-day free home trial."
Yow!
Oh, 'nuther category.... Endless Summer.
hehehe...he said "chest protector".
Posted by: leelu | June 10, 2005 07:00 PM
Golf:
Legend of Bagger Vance
Posted by: leelu | June 10, 2005 07:06 PM
Dude! Unnecessary Roughness! I would have figured you'd love that film.
Posted by: Kymberlie R. McGuire | June 10, 2005 10:51 PM
Basketball movie:
The Pistol, about Pistol Pete Maravic. I think he was just a freshman starting on the varsity team. He was a smart mouthed little squirt compared to the rest of the guys, but he already had the moves. It was a made for tv movie, but was terrific.
Posted by: Tinaq | June 10, 2005 11:51 PM
Days of Thunder. The rental car scene makes up for the other 97% of this movie that is pure unadulterated horseshit.
Posted by: FJBill | June 11, 2005 12:05 AM
The Mean Machine is a good brain dead film. Its based on The Longest Yard, but converted to Soccer (the real Football) and set in the UK. The main attraction is Vinny Jones (former Pro footballer turned actor in magnificent films such as Snatch and Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels)
Posted by: Frank | June 11, 2005 02:38 AM
"A League of Their Own" is a great baseball movie.
And "The Cutting Edge" is a good hockey movie, but a better chick-flick. (Doug Dorsey becomes a figure skater)
Posted by: Zendo Deb | June 11, 2005 07:00 AM
"He Got Game" was pretty good (basketball)
Posted by: witless chum | June 12, 2005 09:26 AM
Football: Best of Times, Wildcats, Jonny B.Good, and what was that one with the mule that could kick hundred yard field goals?
Posted by: jaksplat | June 13, 2005 02:03 AM
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