Best sports movies

**Dexter Rutecki** · 09-19-2009, 07:32 AM

Whatta ya got? I think you have to do it by category.

Baseball: Bull Durham
Football: I don't know, I think that North Dallas 40 movie is one everyone loves but I've never seen it. Not a big Rudy fan.
Basketball: Hoosiers? Maybe. I feel like there must be something better, but I can't think of it. Hoop Dreams, maybe, but I only saw it once when it first came out.
Hockey: Slapshot, of course.
Skiing: Downhill Racer. An excellent movie even putting aside the fact that it's about skiing.
Tennis: Are there any? There was that one about Wimbledon from a few years ago, I think, sort of low budget and not very good.
Soccer: If people don't watch the sport itself, would anyone watch a movie about the sport?
Skateboarding: Couple good documentaries recently about 80's skate stars fucking up their lives--Gator and Hosoi (Gator murdered a girl and Hosoi got locked up for drugs). But Back to the Future gets the nod, of course.
Bowling: Kingpin. Are there other bowling movies? Lebowski is a better movie, but calling it a bowling movie is a stretch.
Golf: Not a sport.
Curling: the world is waiting.

advres · 09-19-2009, 07:45 AM

Originally Posted by Dexter Rutecki

Whatta ya got? I think you have to do it by category.

Baseball: Bull Durham
Football: I don't know, I think that North Dallas 40 movie is one everyone loves but I've never seen it. Not a big Rudy fan.
Basketball: Hoosiers? Maybe. I feel like there must be something better, but I can't think of it. Hoop Dreams, maybe, but I only saw it once when it first came out.
Hockey: Slapshot, of course.
Skiing: Downhill Racer. An excellent movie even putting aside the fact that it's about skiing.
Tennis: Are there any? There was that one about Wimbledon from a few years ago, I think, sort of low budget and not very good.
Soccer: If people don't watch the sport itself, would anyone watch a movie about the sport?
Skateboarding: Couple good documentaries recently about 80's skate stars fucking up their lives--Gator and Hosoi (Gator murdered a girl and Hosoi got locked up for drugs). But Back to the Future gets the nod, of course.
Bowling: Kingpin. Are there other bowling movies? Lebowski is a better movie, but calling it a bowling movie is a stretch.
Golf: Not a sport.
Curling: the world is waiting.

What a fucking hack of a list...

Baseball: Field of Dreams
Football: The Program, Rudy, The Waterboy, The Replacements (only cause keanu is terrifically bad in it!).
Basketball: White Men Can't Jump.
Hockey: Slapshot, of course.
Skiing: Ski Patrol
Tennis: Wimbledon
Skateboarding: Documentaries don't count asshole. Thasher is the best but you couldn't even come up with Gleaming the Cube?
Bowling: Kingpin.
Golf: Caddy Shack? Happy Gilmore? The Legend of Bagger Vance?
Curling: You're a douchehole.

**Daywalker** · 09-19-2009, 08:13 AM

Soccer: Shaolin Soccer

**marshalolson** · 09-19-2009, 08:38 AM

Baseball: major league
Football: unnecessary roughness (kathy ireland related)
Skiing: aspen extreme or better off dead
Skateboarding: Gleaming the Cube
bikes: rad or quicksilver. ultimate fight there.

**toast2266** · 09-19-2009, 09:22 AM

^^^ Rad. No question.

Although BMX bandits is pretty awesome, and I think it was Nicole Kidman's first movie ever.

**OSECS** · 09-19-2009, 09:32 AM

Biking: Breaking Away

Football: The original version of "Brians Song" (tear jerk factor)

**Dexter Rutecki** · 09-19-2009, 10:04 AM

Field of Dreams sucks, complete disappointment. I'd put The Natural ahead of that vomit inducer.
Happy Gilmore for golf, but as Happy says himself, it still isn't a sport. Or maybe Caddyshack, can't decide.
White Men Can't Jump--I forgot about it and would've put it in, which is ironic since I've seen it about 20 times (literally--had it on Laser Disc in 1993).
Breaking Away is a great movie, but is there any other biking movie? Not that comes to mind for me. I'm there must be some Euro movies, but I doubt I've ever seen them.

Surfing: Point Break. I know, all you hard core brahs will go with The North Shore or maybe Endless Summer (too much of a surf porn movie to count), but Point Break is a better movie.

**toast2266** · 09-19-2009, 10:28 AM

You seriously can't decide if Caddyshack is a better movie than Happy Gilmore?

**The AD** · 09-19-2009, 12:08 PM

Track and field: Chariots of Fire

**OSECS** · 09-19-2009, 12:46 PM

BasKetball
Dodgeball

**dookeyXXX** · 09-19-2009, 01:44 PM

this thread is pointless w/o the representation of "alternative" sports and alternative takes on popular sports, thus mention of:

Rollerball
Death Race 2000
Balls of Fury
Road Trip: Beer Pong
Beerfest
Hard Target
Airborne
Air Bud
Gus

and on the subject of curling: Men With Brooms

PS
other biking movies: American Flyers

**Steven S. Dallas** · 09-19-2009, 02:22 PM

Lightcycling: Tron
Bobsled: Cool Runnings
Sailing: Wind
That freediving sport that kills Europeans: The Big Blue
Getting a hummer from Chloe Sevigny: The Brown Bunny
Canoeing: Deliverance
Banjo playing: Deliverance
Sodomy: Deliverance
Figure skating: The Cutting Edge
Hockey: Slap Shot
Dog football: Air Bud II, Golden Receiver
Rodeo: Eight Seconds

The best soccer movie is definitely "Victory" with Sly Stallone, Michael Caine, and Pele.

"Bull Durham" is a much better baseball movie than "Field of Dreams," unless you have daddy issues. That movie isn't even about baseball. I also like "The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars."

There are some pretty good football movies, I like "The Program" (even though it is, technically, insane) but will go with "Remember the Titans" as best overall. I'm pretty sure I cried when I saw that, which wouldn't have been so bad except I was on an airplane at the time.

Bikes: Breaking Away or Rad. Rad is much radder, Breaking Away is a "better movie."

Has anyone else seen "Dead Solid Perfect," with Randy Quaid? Good golf movie, based on a book by some journeyman pro.

**NorthernSpotted...** · 09-19-2009, 03:15 PM

Victory? Pfft... Ladybugs FTW

Pool: The Hustler
Grifting: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

**Hong Jong Fuey** · 09-19-2009, 03:42 PM

Baseball: The Natural or Major League - toss up
Football: Brian's Song or Every Given Sunday (for the Pacino speech).
Basketball: Hoosiers. No question.
Hockey: Slapshot
Skiing: Better off Dead
Surfing: Point Break. North Shore.
Skateboarding: Gleaming the Cube.
Bowling: Kingpin
Golf: Caddy Shack.
Dodgeball: Dodgeball.
Boxing: Raging Bull
Horse Racing: Seabiscuit
Chess: Searching for Bobby Fischer

**OSECS** · 09-19-2009, 04:18 PM

Boxing: requiem for a heavyweight or Raging bull

**schindlerpiste** · 09-19-2009, 05:20 PM

Slapshot
Somebody Up There Likes Me
Endless Summer
Downhill Racer
A River Runs Thru It
Hoosiers
Raging Bull
Rocky I-III
Seabiscut
Miracle

**DJ2** · 09-20-2009, 10:28 AM

Baseball: tie, Bull Durham & Eight Men Out
Football: The Long Grey Line
Basketball: YouTube.com; search Michael Jordan
Skiing: Hot Dog the Movie
Roller Skating: Rollerball
Ice Skating: anything with Sonja Henie
Swimming: anything with Esther Williams
Soccer: Bend It Like Beckham
Boxing: Rocky (Raging Bull is a better movie, but it's not about boxing)
Horse Racing: Let It Ride
Fencing: The Princess Bride
Javelin: 300
Show Jumping: National Velvet
Biathlon: For Your Eyes Only
Marathon: Marathon Man
Hunting: Enemy at the Gates
Fishing: Moby Dick (the Gregory Peck one, and yes I know it's a friggin mammal)

**powder_prophet** · 09-20-2009, 11:22 AM

Cool Runnings dominates all these movies!

**weibo** · 09-20-2009, 11:30 AM

Originally Posted by DJ2

Baseball: tie, Bull Durham & Eight Men Out

Show Jumping: National Velvet
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National Velvet is a steeplechase movie.

**HankScorpio** · 09-20-2009, 06:13 PM

Originally Posted by DJ2

Skiing: Hot Dog the Movie

Thank you! why wasn't this the first mentioned

**Flexon Phil** · 09-21-2009, 02:17 AM

Originally Posted by OSECS

BasKetball
Dodgeball

x2 654321

**Rasputin** · 09-21-2009, 03:18 AM

Baseball: The Natural, hands down the best

Football: On Any Given Sunday or Friday Night Lights, both are very good

Basketball: Hoosiers is hard to argue against, but I seem to recall One On One being pretty good too

Hocky: Slapshot without question

Skiing: Sticking to movies with a screenplay Downhill Racer is the shit

Tennis: I never watched a movie about tennis, and feel no need to change that

Soccer: Victory was actually a really good movie featuring some legends of the sport

Skateboarding: The Lords of Dogtown obviously

Cycling:Breaking Away was a great movie

Track and Field: Chariots of Fire was certainly the best, even though Personal Best features Mariel Hemingway in lesbian love scenes.