Movie Genre - Top Ten Sports Films

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1. Raging Bull (1980) Directed by Martin Scorsese

2. Ford V Ferrari (2019) Directed by James Mangold

3. Touching the Void (2003) Directed by Kevin MacDonald

4. Rocky (1976) Directed by Sylvester Stallone

5. AFL Premiers Essendon 2000 (2000)

6. Moneyball (2011) Directed by the Bennett Miller

7. Field of Dreams (1989) Directed by Phill Alden Robinson

8. Friday Night Lights (2004) Directed by Peter Berg

9. Seabiscuit (2003) Directed by Gary Ross

10. White Men Can’t Jump (1992) Directed by Ron Shelton

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Rollerball.
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Hoooly crap.
You don’t have Any Given Sunday in your top ten?

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For me Al Pacino started believing his own hype around that period.

Forget any given Sunday, where is Mighty Ducks!

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Top of my head.
Rollerball.

…daylight…

Any Given Sunday

…and the rest…

Rocky IV (come at me)
Waterboy
The Mighty Ducks
Bad News Bears
Hoosiers
Raging Bull
The Wrestler
A League Of Their Own

Honourable mention: Cool Runnings

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So not a Pacino glamour pic.

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Sorry to quote myself, but any of those films…you watch the first ten minutes…even now, you will not stop.

I know there are some serious sports movies, but not going to lie, this is my favourite final game portion of any movie.

It has it all.
-so eighties
-the soundtrack
-the redemption arc
-the cheesy bad guy
-choosing the right girl
-the slow mo finale.

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Wasn’t a fan of the ‘masturbation’ scene.
I was of an age.
Kinda turned me off the movie.

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You bastard.
I’m supposed to be sleeping.

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9 posts and no Happy Gilmore. You people are monsters and should all go home. Why don’t you go home? Are you too good for your home? ANSWER ME

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I think I like the comedy/sport hybrid more now that people bring them up.

Lol.
Rated M.
The second lead is literally bludgeoned to death in slo-mo.

Edit: Bloody hell, I’d forgotten how good this film is.

I’m a huge fan of movies in that genre that generally people think suck.

For instance; I think Semi Pro is amazing. Makes me laugh every time I see it.

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Farrel has made heaps. Blades of Glory was good.

What’s the SouthPark one?

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Oh and Dodgeball is a classic.

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No baseketball?

I did enjoy The Replacements

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Ha I just asked what the SouthPark one was. Basketball was great.

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Telladega Nights is one of my favourite movies

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Major League is right up there.

The Rob Lowe ice hockey tour de force, Youngblood, has one of the best (in a totally cheesy sense) 80s montages to hit the screen.

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