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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North Dallas Forty was pretty entertaining and Dayle Hadden neekid
I own that one. It is a sleeper for sure!
With the Gipper!
What???! "Knute Rockne All-American" Hello?? Win one for the Gipper? It doesn't get any better than that!
I love “Remember The Titans” — and I know absolutely nothing about football.
There are definitely bad actors today but I dont think there is a better sports movie from that era than the 5 that are on the list
All the Right Moves.
I had a coach exactly like that one in highschool.
Breaking Away
(Everybody cheats. Even the Italians.)
haha I know Im starting to get a lot of flak for the statement. It was lighthearted. I still dont think Knute Rockne beats the 5 on the list
Hoosiers.
Yeah that was a very good movie. Cant look at the same way though since Tom Cruise went insane
I don’t have an arguement with his picks, but would add “Bang the Drum Slowly”, “Tin Cup”, and “Bull Durham”. Though in the last two the parts are greater than the whole. As long as they stayed on the baseball diamond or the golf course they were great.
all excellent choices, but no place for ‘Slap Shot’?...c’mon!
I know it is not anywhere in or near the top tier, but I think “The Cutting Edge” about ice skating deserves a mention somewhere.
Hoosiers is a classic, no doubt about it
Pride of the Yankees
I know. Being it was a top 5 I had to cut out sports comedies. That will be a different list. Slap Shot, Major League, and Caddyshack all wouldve been in consideration if sports comedies were allowed
‘2) Hoosiers- Even though this was about the 50s , it is probably the most accurate depiction of high school basketball ever made. From the crowds to the locker room atmosphere, it doesn’t get any better than this. Does Gene Hackman make some questionable decisions as coach? Of course. Who would set up a play with 10 seconds left in the championship and not get the ball to Jimmy Chitwood?’
If you ever find yourself in tiny Milan Indiana, don’t say this.
You will be brutally beaten to death, and hung from that water tower in the opening scene...(chuckle)
I was there on business not long after the movie was released and everybody in the town wanted to kill the writers, director, and Gene Hackman for the entirely fraudulent events depicted.
To quote ‘Jimmy’ who is still alive and playing basketball at the new highschool after hours ‘the only thing in that movie that was accurate was the shot that won the state championship’.
Death Race 2000
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