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Your favorite Sports movies?

Discussion in 'Lounge' started by Phins4ever, Jul 15, 2017.

  1. Phins4ever

    Phins4ever Member

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    In no particular order here are sports movies that I enjoy watching.
    1. The Mighty Ducks
    2. Mighty Ducks 2
    3. Slap Shot
    4. Major League
    5. the Little Giants
    6. Ace Ventura Pet Detective: hilarious movie with the Miami Dolphins in the movie
    7. the Bad News Bears: the original not the remake
    8. Caddyshack
    9. Happy Gilmore
     
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  2. Ronnie Bass

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    Slap Shot
    Hoosiers
    Breaking Away
     
  3. Boik14

    Boik14 Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    Any Given Sunday
    Remember the Titans
    Eight Men Out
    Rocky
    White Men Can't Jump
    Happy Gilmore
    Major League
    Moneyball
    Dogeball
    Jerry McGuire
    Caddyshack
    The Natural
    The Blind Side
    The Mighty Ducks
    Coach Carter
     
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  4. eltos_lightfoot

    eltos_lightfoot Well-Known Member

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    That's a pretty good list. I would add Bull Durham.
     
  5. Ohio Fanatic

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    Hoosiers
    The Natural
    Field of Dreams

    fun movies -but far distant behind the first two
    Happy Gilmore
    Dodgeball
    The Replacements
    Major League
     
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  6. The_Dark_Knight

    The_Dark_Knight Defender of the Truth

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    Million Dollar Baby
    Rocky I, II
    Hoosiers
    The Blind Side
    Coach Carter
    Remember the Titans
    Marshall
    Major League
    Slap Shot

    As much as I love Caddyshack and Happy Gilmore, I just don't view golf as a sport...same as race car driving, be it Formula 1, Indy or NASCAR
     
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  7. muscle979

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    I have to question everything when the Sandlot isn't anywhere on any of these lists.
     
  8. ToddPhin

    ToddPhin Premium Member Luxury Box Club Member

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    I've read through the posts so far and I gotta question everything when there's no mention of Rudy, Brian's Song, Tin Cup, or Miracle..... and no mention of The Hustler, The Color of Money, Raging Bull, Sea Biscuit, 8 Seconds, or A League of their Own? ...... or no Days of Thunder, Breaking Away, The Express, The Program, The Waterboy, Varsity Blues, or Necessary Roughness?..... or no We are Marshall, Coach Carter, The Hurricane, Legend of Bagger Vance, Ali, Radio, or The Rookie?

    You guys need to watch more movies. :D ....especially the opening poster. :tongue2:
     
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  9. ToddPhin

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    I have to question everything when you're only question is the missing Sandlot. :p
     
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  10. muscle979

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    Well, not the only glaring omission but the most obvious one to me LOL.
     
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  11. Boik14

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    Ya I don't know how I left The Program out. That's probably my single favorite sports movie of them all. Omar Epps and James Caan were awesome in and it was one of the few movies to accurately portray the lifestyle of a major college football star. It was also filmed at Williams Brice field for those Clemson fans who can't stand the original USC and Epps and Kristy Swanson both also starred together in another good movie Higher Learning.

    A league of their own was blah imo. Varsity Blues was another one of my faves I accidentally forgot about. How, I don't know. Ali Landry in a whip cream bikini will forever be etched in my mind :lol:
     
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  12. The_Dark_Knight

    The_Dark_Knight Defender of the Truth

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    What did you do, Google every sports movie ever made?

    Two of the movies you listed, I did list.
     
  13. ToddPhin

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    Swanson and Larter were the bomb! Watching all those actors age before our eyes just makes me feel old knowwhutImean.

    I like how the campus and classroom scenes in The Program were filmed at Duke however. Guess they didn't feel SC's campus was worthy enough. :tongue2:
     
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  14. ToddPhin

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    It was partially a Joe Dirt homage to his firework stand scene.

     
  15. Boik14

    Boik14 Season Ticket Holder Club Member

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    As opposed to Clemson not even being in rhe movie since they were not relevant enough :hide:
     
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  16. RoninFin4

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    Baseball - The Natural, Field of Dreams, The Sandlot, Major League
    Football - Any Given Sunday, The Program, Remember the Titans
    Hockey - Slap Shot, Miracle
    Basketball - Blue Chips, Hoosiers

    I think of all of those, The Natural is probably my overall favorite.
     
  17. ToddPhin

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    There are a bunch of movies that I wish I were older (like 30+) when I first saw them, The Natural being one. Think I would've enjoyed 'em much better.
     
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  18. Dol-Fan Dupree

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    **** Rudy.

    I do like Major Leagues and Cool Runnings
     
  19. ToddPhin

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    Dem's fightin words man!! Leave our overachieving white football player movie alone! :lol:
     
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  20. Fin-O

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    Eight men out (or as Todd pronounces it, ate-men-out)
    Bagger Vance
    Above the Rim
    The Program
    Diggstown/Gladiator
    Youngblood (cliche 80's movie, but still)
     
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  21. ToddPhin

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    ... or as FinO calls it- 8 Men In.
     
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  22. The_Dark_Knight

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    Youngblood? YOUNGBLOOD?????? Give me your Man Card....need to cut a corner off of it!!! LOL
     
  23. ToddPhin

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    It was either that or The Cutting Edge so.....
     
  24. Fin-O

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    It was similar to blood sport, except you saw Rob Lowes ***.


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  25. phinswolverinesrockets

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    1. Rocky IV - Ivan Drago fan (he's gonna be in Creed 2)
    2. Million Dollar Baby - Emotional
    3. Friday Night Lights - Accuracy of small town football was spot-on.
    4. Above the Rim - Classic; Tupac
    5. Little Giants - Al Bundy coaching football, lol.
    Honorable Mention: The Program and Hoop Dreams.
     
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  26. Unlucky 13

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    Most of the time, I just don't enjoy sports movies as dramas. At best, the sport itself is minimized and only used as a backdrop to tell some other story. At worst, they get everything wrong and its too distracting. For me, comedies translate much better, because even if its over the top and silly, thats part of the fun. I agree with Ohio Fanatic's list, and also add Baseketball, which while make believe and intentionally silly, is at its heart a sports movie also, and a good parody of sports at the time that fans are about to enjoy more than the rest of the audience.
     
  27. Boik14

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    I gotta say, I agree with Dupree...not literally of course but Rudy was not one of my favorites. At best it was unimaginative...and it was about a school I can't stand since I grew up a Canes fan in the 80's. :theu:
     
  28. ToddPhin

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  29. Boik14

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    I'm talkin about Rudy not being a very good movie imo. :couch:
     
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  30. Unlucky 13

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    I've got your back, Boik. I've always thought that Rudy looked like such a lame movie, that I've never cared to waste my time watching it. :up:
     
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