What do you consider to be the best football movie?

#26
#26
Any Given Sunday is good but they put in too much "shock" value crap to be taken seriously. The guy getting his eye gouged out? The alligator in the shower? The Cameron Diaz locker scene.
 
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#27
#27
Leatherheads has got to be the worst.

The Program, Friday Night Lights, Varsity Blues, and Any Given Sunday are all entertaining movies.
 
#28
#28
Most football movies suck. I guess I would say the original Longest Yard and Brian's Song, mostly because both movies were about more than just football. I was shocked that Brian's Song was actually a TV movie, that definitely deserved a theater release. The remake of both are awful.

Rudy is ok but I've not liked it as much after I found out the real story, and that the real Rudy is kind of a jackass.

The Replacements is entertaining yet silly.

Personally I hate both Remember the Titans and especially The Blind Side. Both are sensationalized, sappy pieces of garbage. I don't think RTT is as bad as TBS; that movie is just seriously one of the worst Oscar nominated movies I've ever seen. I have no idea how that got nominated nor how Bullock won Best Actress. It was on the level of some Hallmark Channel or ABC Family Christmas movie.
 
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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 agree, my mom went to highschool in Virginia and graduated from the school that they played in the championship game. Her school was completely integrated and was 25% black. Hollywood took a slightly above average story and ran with it.
 
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n_huffhines said:
Friday Night Lights

Most sports movies suck. There are few with much depth to them.
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This. I honestly can only think of a handful I like and think are actually great acted movies.

The problem usually is they fail at creating a realistic depiction of how the sport is. For example The Blind Side; they made high school coaches look like the dumbest bunch of idiots ever when they let Bullock's character walk on the field and SHE is the one who get him to understand how to block by telling him some sappy crap. In no way was any of that crap believable in the slightest.

The routinely get basic rules wrong, like stopping the clock, timeouts, etc. That stuff drives me insane.

And then one that really blows my mind, although it's not a sports movie: in Never Been Kissed, David Arquette's character pretends to be a high school kid and ends up being really good on the baseball team. They make the state finals, and before it he's busted. So how is it resolved? Simple, he's made a coach; and yeah the team isn't punished at all for having a 25 year old play all season.
 
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Rudy has always been my favorite.

I enjoy Remember the Titans too because it reminds me of my senior year of high school. My team was about 50/50 black/white but every team we played that year except 2 were either all black or all white.
 
#33
#33
That hate for sports movies in general on here is surprising. I think sports movies are generally very good movies. The ones I've mentioned, plus Glory Road, Moneyball, Coach Carter, are all very good movies. And those are just a few I can think of off the top of my head.
 
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#35
Necessary Roughness and Wildcats

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#47
#47
I have a friend named Dallas. His mother's name is Debbie. Why his parents decided to do this to him is beyond my level of comprehension.
 
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#49
Semi-Tough. (though the book was much better than the movie)

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkDB7Z6NZpQ[/youtube]
 
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VolsSportsFan said:
Any Given Sunday is good but they put in too much "shock" value crap to be taken seriously. The guy getting his eye gouged out? The alligator in the shower? The Cameron Diaz locker scene.
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Yep. Pretty such exactly why it falls short on my "favorites" list. They definitely touched on some issues that exist at the professonal level, but they went over the top with it.......by a good margin.
 
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