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Top 5 Sports Movies Of All Time
http://theconservativecomeback.blogspot.com/ ^ | 2/18/09 | TheConservativeComeback

Posted on 02/18/2009 9:50:28 AM PST by TheConservativeComeback

If you have been reading this blog since its inception one month ago, you know that we like to mix in a lot of sports and movie posts. Today we combine those with our top 5 sports movies of all time.

A couple of rules you should be aware of with our selection process. First, if your favorite sports movie was made in the 40s or 50s...it is not on this list. I'm going to speak the truth right now and say what a lot of people won't say, Pauly Shore would've been a 5 time Oscar winner in the 40s. For the most part the acting was terrible.

Second, being that this list is so short we decided that sports comedies would be put under a different category. So while Slapshot, Major League, and Caddyshack are some of the great movies ever made, they fall under a different list.

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To: Elle Bee

“Grand Prix”
Bit of a soap opera plot..but truly innovative filming for its day.
There’s a great extra w/ the expanded DVD version..apparently Enzo Ferrari was unimpressed w/ being approached by Hollywood to assist in making a racing movie..up till then most consisted of a stationary camera w/ cars whizzing by...but when he got his first look at the behind the driver / groundhugging camera angles he became so enthused he told John Frankenheimer that he could have whatever he needed to make the film.


141 posted on 02/18/2009 12:23:58 PM PST by Dixiekraut (Rommel......you magnificent bastard....I READ YOUR BOOK !!!!)
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To: NotAnonymous

we will need that Miracle again.


142 posted on 02/18/2009 12:49:19 PM PST by longfellow (Bill Maher, the 21st hijacker.)
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To: longfellow
we will need that Miracle again.

You know, I've got a gut feeling that we might just get another one in next years' soccer World Cup.

143 posted on 02/18/2009 12:52:21 PM PST by dfwgator (1996 2006 2008 - Good Things Come in Threes)
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To: Dixiekraut
there are a list of great drivers who have cameos in the fill as well ..... I think I remember Fonzio

both films, GP & the original Longest Yard were great film making ... although Altman though talented is a leftist waste of skin

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144 posted on 02/18/2009 12:57:44 PM PST by Elle Bee
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To: major_gaff

Never seen it..but I heard Melinda Dillon of “Close Encounters” fame has a topless scene in it.


145 posted on 02/18/2009 1:04:28 PM PST by Dixiekraut (Rommel......you magnificent bastard....I READ YOUR BOOK !!!!)
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To: TheConservativeComeback
Lots of good ones on the list already...how about: Any Given Sunday. I loved Pacino's lockerroom speech...and this was one of the first movies I saw after installing surround sound at my old house...the subwoofer had a field day!

How about Bad News Bears? (honestly, I don't remember it much anymore...just throwing it out for consideration).

Got to agree with Slapshot. And, I'd lean toward the comedy end of the spectrum with Caddyshack (does anybody else yell "Noonan" at the TV when they want to see a miss?) and Happy Gilmore (for the Bob Barker scene!).

Disagree with The Natural...come on..."if you build it, they will come"...how hokey is that? And, definitely disagree with A League of Their Own...why?...Rosie O'Donnell...say no more.

146 posted on 02/18/2009 1:36:45 PM PST by Fredgoblu
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To: TheConservativeComeback
I'm a big fan of Hard Times. I think that it was Charles Bronson's best movie. I think that it is the best fight film ever. Since it deals with unregulated, bare-knuckle fights, does it qualify as a boxing movie?

I would rate that along with The Natural as my two favorite sports films.

147 posted on 02/18/2009 1:44:17 PM PST by CommerceComet
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To: Fiji Hill

Oh, yes! I loved it as a kid!


148 posted on 02/18/2009 2:23:00 PM PST by Redleg Duke ("Sarah Palin...Unleashing the Fury of the Castrated Left!")
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To: Hatteras

“Yer Killin’ me Smalls!”


149 posted on 02/18/2009 2:32:47 PM PST by Doomonyou (Let them eat lead.)
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To: TheConservativeComeback

Debbie does Dallas


150 posted on 02/18/2009 3:13:35 PM PST by shaft29 (Just your typical black woman.)
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To: dfwgator

amen bro....Arliss!


151 posted on 02/18/2009 5:40:28 PM PST by wardaddy (I'm for Sarah. Nuff said, you either get it or you don't.)
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To: IYAS9YAS
Did you ever see Mystery, Alaska?

I did. Never talk about your conquests in the locker room...

152 posted on 02/18/2009 6:26:25 PM PST by Onelifetogive (Let's get to altering or abolishing!)
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