Rush23 Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 Dell's recent list was the Top 10 Greatest Football movies ever. Wanted to get everybody's thoughts on the list, do you agree with it? What movies should be higher? What movies should have been included in the Top 10? Personally, I think Varsity Blues should be a little higher. Easily my favorite football movie, high school Quarterback who faces the adversity of "high school politics" in Texas football. Plus the blonde chick's whipped cream bikini http://www.virtualsportsnet.com/2010/01/18...ootball-movies/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corp000085 Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 No love for Gus? How sad... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billsfreak Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 I have always considered Brian's Song the best sports movie period. I am a big fan of Heaven Can Wait and Friday Night Lights too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountDorkula Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 I know we are talking football movie, but my fav sports movie is Blue Chips. Its a basketball movie, but it shows how colleges would illegally buy players and players families to come to their school, and the players expected it. Excellent movie if you have not seen it, i highly reccomend it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PushthePile Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 I have always considered Brian's Song the best sports movie period. I am a big fan of Heaven Can Wait and Friday Night Lights too. Brian's Song is an all-time classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quester74 Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 Neccassary Roughness?!? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKRAAPY Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 Neccassary Roughness?!? Seriously! Sinbad, Kathy Ireland, the guy from Quantum Leap...Christ the movie even had a Jim Kelly cameo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CountDorkula Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 Neccassary Roughness?!? Jim Kelly was a convict in that movie... how B.A. is that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DDD Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 Neccassary Roughness?!? Any movie that casts Kathy Ireland as a place kicker gets my vote. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KD in CA Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 Good topic. In my mind, there are really two categories; serious movies (including serious comedies) and light comedy/guilty pleasure. IMO they deserve separate lists, because while I might enjoy movies like The Replacements, it really doesn't belong on a list with great movies. Real movies, roughly in order: North Dallas Forty - The standard bearer. Also foreshadowed Tony Romo's famous fumbled snap. Eerie. The Longest Yard -- Great football movie plus hardcore southern prison? Hard to beat that combo. Heaven Can Wait -- Go back and look at the cast for this movie. Hugely underrated. Rudy -- Bonus points for filming on campus at ND! Brian's Song -- Hell yes I cried during the locker room speech. Another classic, even if the made-for-TV production quality was evident. Friday Night Lights -- Easily the best movie I've seen about HS sports. Everybody's All American -- Underrated story of aging hero. Great performance by Dennis Quaid. All The Right Moves -- Pretty good; early Tom Cruise. Jerry McGuire -- Ok, it's a chick movie, but watchable. Any Given Sunday -- Good, not great. A tad overrated IMO. Remember the Titans -- Bleech. Horrible bunch of sanitized clichés. Semi-Tough probably belongs on this list somewhere too, but I haven't seen it in about 20 years and don't remember much of it. Silly movies, roughly in order: The Best of Times -- Hysterical Robin Williams-Kurt Russell flick. The Replacements -- Go Falco!! Varsity Blues -- Pretty standard formula w/ super hooky ending, but still enjoyable. Invincible -- Overdone, but decent. Wildcats -- Now we're getting into 'really bad' territory. Goldie Hawn coaching inner-city football. Yeah, I'll buy that. Second String -- An unintentional comedy, comedy? Why didn't they just get Flutie to play the QB role? The Waterboy -- Didn't get the appeal; a little too much Adam Sandler for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgrid Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 What about The Express? good flik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NobesBLO13 Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 Second String anyone? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metzelaars_lives Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 There are very few really good football films, whereas with baseball you got Bad News Bears, Major League, The Natural, Field of Dreams, The Sandlot, League of Their Own, Bull Durham, etc. The only football movie that I've ever seen that really stirs up any real emotion in me is Rudy. I guess The Express does too, but that's certainly not a great film by any stretch. Varsity Blues? Cheese. I hear people referencing the Replacements on here- literally one of the worst movies I've ever seen. That being said, how in God's name has nobody mentioned Little Giants? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
purple haze Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 All The Right Moves: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_the_Right_Moves Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
todzilla Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 I don't think the great, defining football movie has been made yet. Like Bull Durham/Field of Dreams/The Natural, Hoosiers, Raging Bull/Rocky, Miracle for other sports. I think that the 1st season of Friday Night Lights on TV was the best football based drama I have seen. I like Rudy Remember the Titans The Longest Yard Brians Song Waterboy Varsity Blues Jerry Maguire Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vincec Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 North Dallas Forty should get some love. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Astrojanitor Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 I'd add: Big Fan Horse Feathers (football is the backdrop...I say it counts) that terrible Disney movie from the 70s about the donkey that kicks field goals In general I find nearly all sports movies awful. The drama in football loses its power when you know its being re-enacted. Especially since watching football is so attainable (as opposed to watch war or elves fight orcs). As a result sports movies are either thinly disguised fart comedies or inspiring tales of magical retarded kids who taught a team how to believe. Practically every film on that list is the exact same movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wnyguy Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 No mention of the movie We Are Marshall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillsNYC Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 No mention of the movie We Are Marshall. At the bottom they do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wnyguy Posted January 18, 2010 Share Posted January 18, 2010 At the bottom they do. Yeah I went and checked it again. Tragic thing, that was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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