OT: Top 3 Favorite Sports Movies

[TheRogers]

The Golden Moment
The Fish that Saved Pittsburg
Miracle on Ice

Honorable Mention
Rocky I and II
Hoosiers
Fast Break

 

[husky91]

Interesting, reading this thread makes me realize sports movies are pretty unremarkable overall. I can't think of 1 sports movie I'd put in my fav 20 movies.

I will look up top 250 on IMDB and see which ones make overall list.

 

[Onions]

Best sports movies pre-1970:
It Happens Every Spring
Angels in the Outfield
Damn Yankees
Champion
Pride of the Yankees
Jim Thorpe: All-American

Best modern Sports Movies:
Downhill Racer
Bull Durham
White Men Can't Jump
Field of Dreams
Raging Bull
Tin Cup
Slapshot
Hoosiers
Chariots of Fire
The Longest Yard

Honorable Mention:
The Natural
Cinderella Man
Rudy
He Got Game
Every Sunday (only for the Pacino half-time speech)
North Dallas Forty

 

[Dove]

Cuba Gooding in Radio was pretty good. As was a fave of mine because it was funny...Wildcats with Goldy Hawn.

 

[UConn990411]

Remember the Titans and Miracle have to be 1-2 in some order.

There's a lot of really good movies battling for #3.

 

[2north]

Rudy
Bad News Bears 2 - Breaking Training
The Greatest Game Ever Played

 

[bobbygt]

no soccer movies? How about "A Shot at Glory" and "Bend it Like Beckham."

I had Victory as my honorable mention.

Sylvester Stallone, Michael Kaine, and Pele!

 

[UCweCONN]

1. Vision Quest
2. Raging Bull
3. Rocky

 

[cohenzone]

Field of Dreams
Fear Strikes Out
Seabiscuit, tied with The Natural, and the Lou Gehrig Story

 

[CL82]

Top 5:
Hoosiers
Rudy
Happy Gilmore
Rocky Balboa
Remember the Titans

 

[ZackB05]

Talladega Nights
Semi-Pro
Blades of Glory

 

[k9fanatic]

Major League
Seabiscuit
Glory Road

HM: He Got Game; Love & Basketball

 

[Scoe]

1. Vision Quest
2. Raging Bull
3. Rocky

Yes I was hoping I wasnt gonna be the only one to mention Vision Quest, an alltime classic. Nothing like Loudin Swain and Brian Schute going at it.

 

[Scoe]

An old time classic All the Right Moves.

 

[NYC_HUSKY22]

1. Friday Night Lights (gets me every time - I thought it was incredible how they captured that sub culture of how much high school football takes over life in Texas)
2. Cinderella Man
3. Happy Gilmore

 

[Waquoit]

Yes I was hoping I wasnt gonna be the only one to mention Vision Quest, an alltime classic. Nothing like Loudin Swain and Brian Schute going at it.

Vision Quest was real good!

 

[CAHUSKY]

An old time classic All the Right Moves.

Stef Djordjevic was my role model in high School. Loved that flick.

 

[Fishy]

Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, Chariots of Fire.

Legend of Bagger Vance is on right now - there is a torturous scene where Charlize Theron tries on a southern accent. Holy crap, it's a car crash.

 

[seanmc94]

Miracle
Rocky
Vision quest
HM: Hoosiers, FNL, Warrior, the Fighter
Does anyone else think that Redford as an aging great doesn't pass the eye test?

 

[Scoe]

Stef Djordjevic was my role model in high School. Loved that flick.

How do you not let rifleman hold onto the football.

 

[BigV3032]

The Program, Rudy, Caddyshack.

 

[mauconnfan]

The Program, Rudy, Caddyshack.

Good call on The Program