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post #1 of 20
8/24/04 at 9:30pm
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The Olympics kind of got me into the sports mood and I saw Without Limits and Hoosiers inside of a week, so this just felt right. I was kind of surprised to not see a thread for this started when I searched the forum. Anyway, here goes:

1. Bull Durham
2. Hoosiers
3. Slapshot
4. The Natural
5. Field of Dreams

I need to get around to seeing Chariots of Fire- I'm pretty sure I'd bump Field of Dreams for it.
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post #2 of 20
8/24/04 at 10:12pm
This needs to be broken up into two separate categories, I think.

Top five dramas:
1) Field of Dreams
2) Hoosiers
3) Pride of the Yankees
4) Raging Bull
5) Brian's Song

Top five comedies:
1) Caddyshack
2) Slap Shot
3) Major League
4) Bull Durham
5) The Longest Yard

Now try paring that list down to 5? I can't.
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post #3 of 20
8/24/04 at 10:15pm
SLAP SHOT is awesome. Such a great, great movie.
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post #4 of 20
8/25/04 at 12:29am
no particular order...

Vision Quest
Bad News Bears
The Longest Yard
Caddyshack
The Sandlot (quite possibly my favorite child-hood movie of all time)


just the first five I could think of...definetly more of em
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post #5 of 20
8/25/04 at 1:03am
Screw that, any sports film has drama INHERENT in it.


1)Eight Men Out

2)Bull Durham - great mix of reverence and, well, irreverence

3)Slap Shot

4)North Dallas Forty

5)For Love of the Game - underrated

Just a bit outside: Bad News Bears, original Rollberball (nobody said it had to be a real sport), The Longest Yard, Tin Cup, Caddyshack (the golf is incidental, really)

Best SCENES in non-sports movies: the football game in M*A*S*H*; the baseball game in The Naked Gun; opening sequence in The Last Boy Scout
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post #6 of 20
8/27/04 at 12:10pm
Shaolin Soccer
The Legend of Bagger Vance
The Sandlot
Chariots of Fire
Field of Dreams
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post #7 of 20
8/27/04 at 12:39pm
Rocky
Hoosiers
Eight Men Out
Seabiscuit
North Dallas Forty

Honorable mention but just getting edged out - Rudy
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post #8 of 20
8/27/04 at 1:05pm
I can't believe I forgot SHAOLIN SOCCER.
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post #9 of 20
9/2/04 at 12:09am
Bull Durham
Tin Cup
Any Given Sunday
Eight Men Out
Varsity Blues
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post #10 of 20
9/2/04 at 12:49am
List, randomly sorted:

Field of Dreams
Caddyshack
Bull Durham
Shaolin Soccer
Slap Shot
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post #11 of 20
9/2/04 at 1:42am
Breaking Away, folks. Breaking Away!

Slap Shot is a close second.
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post #12 of 20
9/2/04 at 1:48am
Slap Shot owns all IMO.

Followed by...

Caddyshack

Baseketball

Major League

and I really did enjoy Any Given Sunday
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post #13 of 20
9/6/04 at 3:36pm
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Originally Posted by The Rain Dog

Baseketball
Gets more hate than it deserves, but no, doesn't warrant a place on this list IMO.
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post #14 of 20
9/6/04 at 7:31pm
I'm not shocked most of you boneheads don't have Raging Bull on your lists.
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post #15 of 20
9/6/04 at 11:31pm
Shut up. You just shut up. I'll fucking take care of you later.

Bang the Drum Slowly
Pride of the Yankees
Monday Night Mayhem
Hoop Dreams
The Jericho Mile

HMs: Passing Glory, Necessary Roughness, Ali, Raging Bull, *61...
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post #16 of 20
9/6/04 at 11:59pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Subotai

HMs: Necessary Roughness, *61...
Man, I missed 61*; it's a little too obviously made-for-tv, but it never fails to move me. Necessary Roughness is serviceable, but it sort of sabotages itself (for me at least) by making highly obvious jokes and ripping off Burt Reynolds flicks wholesale.

As for the absence of Raging Bull - good flick, but it doesn't make my personal list because I don't like boxing.
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post #17 of 20
9/7/04 at 8:21am
Pretty much same here.
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post #18 of 20
9/7/04 at 1:09pm
(Just imagine the front covers of five Air Bud DVDs. I'm too lazy to find them and post them.)
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post #19 of 20
9/7/04 at 3:50pm
Quote:
Originally Posted by Rex Hudler
(Just imagine the front covers of five Air Bud DVDs. I'm too lazy to find them and post them.)


This is probably the best one, if for nothing else than the fact that it hints at a raccoon sidekick/rival that probably throws in the mid 90's with a wicked change-up. Will hilarity ensue? Who will survive, and what will be left of them?
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post #20 of 20
9/12/04 at 8:14am
Grand Prix (could someone please get this out on DVD with a commentary track with James Garner and Jackie Stewart!)
Le Mans
Caddyshack
Bad News Bears
The Natural

Best wishes,
f86sabre
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