Strange Brew
The Natural
Bull Durham
Field of Dreams
I LOVE baseball and can’t wait for the season to start.
Remember the Titans… if you want to analyze just how loosely the words “based on a true story” can be interpreted.
[quote]jtrinsey wrote:
Remember the Titans… if you want to analyze just how loosely the words “based on a true story” can be interpreted.[/quote]
Let’s not get picky. I don’t generally hear award winning orchestra music in my daily life either. Shit, Titanic was based on a true story.
Anywhoo:
The Program
Any given Sunday
For the record, Teen Wolf was all about the basketball.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
Let’s not get picky. I don’t generally hear award winning orchestra music in my daily life either. Shit, Titanic was based on a true story.
Anywhoo:
The Program
Any given Sunday
For the record, Teen Wolf was all about the basketball.[/quote]
Oh don’t get me wrong, I loved the movie, just always kills me the creative licenses that are taken.
I loved Any Given Sunday, I thought Jamie Foxx did a great job and if you don’t get chills during Pacino’s speech, then you aren’t human.
I actually enjoyed the new “Longest Yard” movie, even though it was obviously way MTV’d up and all that, it was a fun two hours. I’ll watch anything Chris Rock is in.
My favorite of all time though is definitly White Man Can’t Jump. It has the perfect mix of good acting and incredibly cheesy yet somehow incredibly enjoyable basketball scenes. The dialouge kills me every time and I’ve probably seen it 20 times already. And don’t get me started on the amazing early-90s fashion either. Just amazing all-around.
[quote]jtrinsey wrote:
My favorite of all time though is definitly White Man Can’t Jump. It has the perfect mix of good acting and incredibly cheesy yet somehow incredibly enjoyable basketball scenes. The dialouge kills me every time and I’ve probably seen it 20 times already. And don’t get me started on the amazing early-90s fashion either. Just amazing all-around.
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Your mom’s an astronaut.
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
I thought we had this thread already, but I searched for it, and couldnt find it. If anyone else can, feel free to post it and end this thread.
Anyway, I have to analyze a sports movie for my sports psychology class.
What are some good ones?[/quote]
Yeah, I remember adding Hoosiers, Tin Cup and Lucas to that earlier thread. I also feel some self-contempt for neglecting to include The Big Lebowski.
For your class purposes, I think Tin Cup would lend itself to a really easy paper.
Gymkata.
Nothing else compares.
If this was mentioned, I missed it:
When We Were Kings – documentary about the famous Ali/Foreman fight, taking in a lot of the local scenery and the political atmosphere surrounding it. One also sees the late, great James Brown, among others.
IMO an important movie and well done – won an Academy Award, too, I think.
Teen Wolf was based on a true story.
Gymkata is based on a true story – mine. That’s me on the poster, there, except that in real life I’m less angry and less Aryan than the guy they got to play me. Also, in the event depicted in the poster, there were five ninjas in real life (they were edited out because it made things look “busy”), but none of them had an Uzi – or a gun of any kind. That’s just sensationalism and, frankly, it bothers me.
caddy shack… hands down
[quote]jtrinsey wrote:
And don’t get me started on the amazing early-90s fashion either. Just amazing all-around.[/quote]
Besides the show being so friggin’ funny, that’s one of the reasons I love watching Fresh Prince. That show rocks the shit outta’ some early-90’s fashion.
/hijack
[quote]malonetd wrote:
Your mom’s an astronaut.[/quote]
LMAO. Good shit. I’m going to have to remember to use that one from now on…
Fightin Irish:
I know your mocking me but I don't care. Underdog teams always make great stories. How about that Stallone movie where the American pow's play a soccer match and win! I know I've posted anti-soccer things before but its a good movie. Again can't remember the name of the movie.
Speaking of Underdog teams what about the movie that was recently made about the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey team beating the Soviets. That game was so incredible when it happened My whole was screaming their heads off and I loved the movie starring Kurt Russell as the coach.
Sorry Fightin I meant Barney Fife. Man I’m having trouble with names today.
[quote]malonetd wrote:
jtrinsey wrote:
My favorite of all time though is definitly White Man Can’t Jump. It has the perfect mix of good acting and incredibly cheesy yet somehow incredibly enjoyable basketball scenes. The dialouge kills me every time and I’ve probably seen it 20 times already. And don’t get me started on the amazing early-90s fashion either. Just amazing all-around.
Your mom’s an astronaut.[/quote]
Take your country ass back to Mayberry. And tell Aunt Bea she better have my bean pie or I’mma kick her ass.
[quote]CC wrote:
jtrinsey wrote:
And don’t get me started on the amazing early-90s fashion either. Just amazing all-around.
Besides the show being so friggin’ funny, that’s one of the reasons I love watching Fresh Prince. That show rocks the shit outta’ some early-90’s fashion.
/hijack
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Haha I could go all day about that show. In the interest of keeping this thread somewhat on topic, I won’t…
[quote]deputydawg wrote:
Fightin Irish:
I know your mocking me but I don't care. Underdog teams always make great stories. How about that Stallone movie where the American pow's play a soccer match and win! I know I've posted anti-soccer things before but its a good movie. Again can't remember the name of the movie.
Speaking of Underdog teams what about the movie that was recently made about the 1980 U.S. Olympic Hockey team beating the Soviets. That game was so incredible when it happened My whole was screaming their heads off and I loved the movie starring Kurt Russell as the coach. [/quote]
The first one is Victory, and the second is Miracle
What about “Long Gone”? Anyone else seen it? It’s one of my favorite baseball movies of all time.
Also “North Dallas Forty”.
I can’t believe everybody forgot Youngblood.
That was an amazing movie especially the part where Youngblood could skate around and around and around the goalie and nobody would touch him.
Beautiful story! Really!!!
I still have chills.
I can’t believe I paid to see that one.