What do you consider to be the best football movie?

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Any Given Sunday takes the cake for me. Al Pacino does an incredible job as a head coach (best pregame/halftime speech of all time) and the character depth in all the key players is incredible.

It's pretty ironic that I would go with that as my favorite since I hate pro football, and most football movies are about high school/college, but it's just that good of a movie.

Probably have to go with We Are Marshall at #2.
 
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I put Any Given Sunday in the category of good bad movies, like Point Break or Varsity Blues.

For best football movie overall, I've got to go with either Jerry Maguire or Remember the Titans.
 
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Hard to pick a favorite. Remember the Titans would be in my top three though. So would Invincible. Then it gets really hard to decide.
 
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I can't stand Remember the Titans because they played up the racial aspect so much. All the schools were integrated when they won state. Blacks and whites at TC Williams had been integrated on the football team for like 4 years already. They won state like 30-0, not on a last second trick play.

If they just called it fiction I would love the movie, but when they present it as truth while trying to make important social points I think they hurt the message.
 
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n_huffhines said:
I can't stand Remember the Titans because they played up the racial aspect so much. All the schools were integrated when they won state. Blacks and whites at TC Williams had been integrated on the football team for like 4 years already. They won state like 30-0, not on a last second trick play.

If they just called it fiction I would love the movie, but when they present it as truth while trying to make important social points I think they hurt the message.
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I think you're downplaying social tension. It was pretty much the biggest thing going on in American culture at the time. That being said, it's a Hollywood movie, not a sports documentary.
 
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Chris4Vols22 said:
I think you're downplaying social tension. It was pretty much the biggest thing going on in American culture at the time. That being said, it's a Hollywood movie, not a sports documentary.
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No I'm not. I'm asking them to tell us what happened. I know social tensions were higher than they are today. Just show us what really happened....like Boone didn't have a brick thrown through his window...it was a toilet. That's the truth and that's a more impactful story than a brick.

I'm not asking it to be a documentary, I just hate that they claim "based on a true story". They could have made that movie about any school in the south and it would have been about as accurate.
 
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n_huffhines said:
No I'm not. I'm asking them to tell us what happened. I know social tensions were higher than they are today. Just show us what really happened....like Boone didn't have a brick thrown through his window...it was a toilet. That's the truth and that's a more impactful story than a brick.

I'm not asking it to be a documentary, I just hate that they claim "based on a true story". They could have made that movie about any school in the south and it would have been about as accurate.
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Oh, I see, fair enough. I mean, you gotta accept that any major Hollywood movie "based on a true story" is going to be riddled with embellishments. They are looking to please the widest possible audience to sell tickets and DVDs.
 
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vollygirl said:
Hard to pick a favorite. Remember the Titans would be in my top three though. So would Invincible. Then it gets really hard to decide.
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Add Friday night lights & that's a good list. The program, varsity blues, any given Sunday were ok & entertaining but not "great".
 
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govols/cc said:
Add Friday night lights & that's a good list. The program, varsity blues, any given Sunday were ok & entertaining but not "great".
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If you follow Any Given Sunday very closely and let yourself get caught up in what's going on I think you'll see how good of a movie it really is. Aside from giving you the most honest possible look at pro football (drugs, playing on unnecessary medications just so they don't feel as much pain, people griping over money, etc.) it also tells multiple stories at once.

Dennis Quaid is the old broken QB trying to stay in the game.

Al Pacino is the old coach trying to hold on to his job.

LL Cool J is the running back that used to be a star, now he is just collecting a paycheck so he's losing the respect of the fans.

Lawrence Taylor is the linebacker who puts everything he has on the field, but he's one injury away from being crippled for life.

And of course Jamie Foxx is the 3rd string QB who finally gets his shot and has success, but doesn't really know how to handle it.

There's a few more stories in there as well. And they they finally all come together and start playing as a team, just an overall fantastic movie IMO.
 
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