Favorite Sports Movies

[Eric Pascarello]

I would say top of my list are Major League (I would say the whole series), Remember the Titans, and Hoosiers

The worst would be Rollerball

Eric

[fred rosenberger]

well, Strange Brew has some hockey in it.

Caddyshack is a must for any sports movie list.
[ December 22, 2005: Message edited by: fred rosenberger ]

[Ulf Dittmer]

Any Given Sunday is a great one. It helps if you know a few things about football (the American kind) beforehand.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Bull Durham and A League of Their Own are good ones; the latter would have been great if Rosie O'Donnel weren't in it.

Fever Pitch was the worst movie I've seen in several years.

[Jim Yingst]

[Eric]: The worst would be Rollerball

I haven't seen the remake Eric refers to, but I think the original version was a pretty good movie.

[Henry Wong]

Shaolin Soccer is an interesting movie. Everyone that I know, who is male, liked it. Everyone that I know, who is female, absolutely hated it !!

Henry

[Jessica Sant]

Definitely, A League of Their Own.

[Mark Spritzler]

OK, no links but

"The Natural"
"Field of Dreams"
"Happy Gilmore"
"Slapshot"

Mark

[Bridget Kennedy]

"Tin Cup"
"Bull Durham"
( Weird, because I'm not particularly a Kevin Costner fan. Scary. Maybe its subconscious... )
"A League of Their Own"
"Remember the Titans"
"Miracle"

[ December 22, 2005: Message edited by: Bridget Kennedy ]

And I thought "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story" was very silly and hilarious.
[ December 22, 2005: Message edited by: Bridget Kennedy ]

[Ulf Dittmer]

Happy Gilmore

I lived in Boston for years and didn't think of that! The shame, the same!

[Bridget Kennedy]

Oh yeah, "Bend It Like Beckham" was a great movie.

[Stan James]

Slapshot is one of the greats. The Hanson brothers still play now & then. And still carry toy cars in their luggage.

[Peter Rooke]

Raging Bull
Chariots of Fire

[Ulf Dittmer]

Chariots of Fire

That's a great one. For some reason it didn't occur to me to categorize it as a sports movie, although, obviously, it is. Maybe because sports is just a manifestation of a driven-ness that goes way deeper, and as such, is really only incidental to the themes at hand.

[Ernest Friedman-Hill]

Originally posted by Ulf Dittmer:
For some reason it didn't occur to me to categorize it as a sports movie,

Yeah, that's how I feel about "Bend it like Beckham" -- it's a very good movie, but didn't appear in my mental catalogue of "sports movies."

[Gregg Bolinger]

Baseball:
A TV movie, but still very good IMHO. 61.
8 Men Out

Football
Any Given Sunday (link already given)
The Replacements
Necessary Roughness

Golf
Tin Cup

Ok, I am going home now...

And also

[Eric Pascarello]

"The Replacements" is a great movie too. I love watching sports movies where the underdogs are going to win. But I was not into the mighty ducks! But the "Little Giants" was a good movie.

Eric

[Janhavi Namshikar]

Remember the Titans

Mighty Ducks

..... and many more but I can' t remember

Janhavi.

[Mark Spritzler]

I just remembered another that doesn't get much notoriety, but a fantastic great movie, even if you don't like sports.

"The Sandlot"

Mark

[Rick Beaver]

Jerry Maguire "SHOW ME THE MONEY"

[Henry Wong]

Since no one mentioned this. A baseball related movie that I really liked was For the love of the game.

Henry

[Peter Rooke]

Does Kung Fu (1972) qualify as a sports movie? I'm not sure.

[Ganpi Srinivasan]

Color Of Money (Paul Newman and Tom Cruise) - about pool and pool-table hustlers! hate those guys!!

[Axel Janssen]

Das Wunder von Bern (The miracle of Bern)
http://www.zdf.de/ZDFde/inhalt/20/0,1872,2121460,00.html
Film about german team winning world cup first time in 1954.
[ December 23, 2005: Message edited by: Axel Janssen ]