Best football movie ever?
 

As Bee said in the "Worst..." thread, there aren't really that many "good" football movies.

But I saw "Brian's Song" (on DVD) for the first time yesterday, and was thrilled by the quality of acting, but even more so by the footage of real-life Gale Sayers highlights. He looked so good, I wasn't totally convinced it was real games being shown until I got it confirmed today.

MASH, the movie has some surprisingly good football scenes. ESPN once had a special reviewing football movies and a lot of ex-NFL players said they were the best football scenes they'd ever seen in a movie.

North Dallas Forty was pretty good too.

Paper Lion was also really good. They had sense enough to use the real Detroit Lions for the backdrop.

It took me some time but I now like Any Given Sunday a lot...The Replacemens was quite fun.
And "Rudy", although I saw it only once, was very cool.

dola,
JERRY MAGUIRE is my favourite "football-related" movie of all.

Y'all may not believe this, but my cousin is the QB that Rudy sacked (in real life), and his first name is Rudy.

Dola--

Without a doubt Rudy

Remember the Titans.

Rudy is pretty close. But Denzel's performance is wht breaks the tie.

Incidentally, Denzel is in both the Best Football and the Best Basketball movie (He Got Game).

I'm with you, oykib. The Titans take the cake for me.

"Water is for cowards. Water makes you weak. Water is for washin' blood off that uniform, and you don't get no blood on my uniform. Boy, you must be outside your mind! We are going to do up-downs until Blue is no longer tired....and thirsty!"

Interesting.

I find it hard to imagine anyone who has seen "Hoosiers" could consider "He Got Game" to be the best basketball movie.

"He Got Game" was a cliche ridden piece of poo. Hooker with a heart of gold. Of course... What other kind of hookers are there?

The Longest Yard

"All I'm saying is you could of robbed banks, sold dope, stole your grandmother's pension check and none of us would have minded. Shaving points off a football game?, man that's unamerican."

The Longest Yard might be my #2.

How could I forgot about "Remember the Titans"...I LOVED IT !!

I'd have to say there's a top three for me... In no particular order:

Rudy
The Longest Yard
Remember the Titans

I watch them three a few times a year...

FM

I feel like I'm in the scene in the barber shop in Coming to America.

"Why, everytime you talking 'bout boxing, some white guy's got to pull Rocky Marciano out his ass!"

Actually, I thought about Hoosiers when I said that. I happen to like He got Game much more. Also, the hooker doesn't have a heart of gold in the movie. She just a battered woman. Given the chance to turn her life around she does. Many battered women do.

Even based on a true story as it is, I think that Hoosiers hits more well-traveled territory. I'd still put it number one.

And we can probably agree that Blue Chips was the worst piece of garbage that ever masqueraded as a basketball movie. It was worse than Heaven is a Playground and One-on-One.

Your cousin didn't pull a Brett Favre, did he? :D


Definitely "Rudy" for me football-wise. "Hoosiers" wins out on the basketball front, closely followed by "The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh" :p

:D

Debbie Does Dallas... oh wait you mean you want actually football movies okay "Remember the Titans"


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noop

What's scary is the Noop just posted about Debbie Does Dallas from SCHOOL! (I'm assuming....)

I like that Damon Wayans and Bruce Willis movie. I think it was the Last Action Hero or something like that. (More of an action movie than a football, but I still liked it) All of the ones mentioned above were good, but too sappy and bring me down more than they lift me up. Instead of feeling good after watching Rudy or Remember the Titans it always makes me wonder what the hell I am doing with my life.

School... nope I'm taking a "Sick Day"


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noop

The Last Boy Scout is the one you're talking about.

SkyDog beat me to panerd's movie title. :)

My favorites:

The Longest Yard
Remember the Titans
Best of Times

General sports favorites:

Hoosiers
Bad News Bears

Boo me out of the Stadium, but I belive "The Program" deserves an honorable mention.

I loved how The Program went full circle. The end of the movie left them right back to where they started.....The Circle of life.


And, who could forget North Dallas Forty?

You can agree! Blue Chips sucked my ass. Though the Shaq's scene in the English History class is a classic. It makes absolutely no sense or no point other than Shaq's character is very dumb.

I liked All the Right Moves because it was so similar to my own situation.

Small, dying town
strong willed coach
fear of not getting a scholarship
I looked like a pre-gay Tom Cruise :)

We walked around for months saying, "You are not God! You are a high school football coach!"

Still, love The Longest Yard and The Program. Those seem the most realistic.

CREWE!!!!

Johnny B. Goode

"My dick's broke, coach."

Gotta give a shout out to Rudy, but what puts it over the top over Remember the Titans is that Titans is more about the race struggle than football, and has a clearly defined moral. Rudy makes you think a little more and celebrates the human spirit winning over any obstacle.

Without a doubt Rudy! What person who loves football doesn't dream to have 80,000+ chanting their name. Fantastic movie.

Remember the Titans was also a really good one.

Remember the Titans is my favorite

I have to go with Rudy too. I can't stand a lot of things about Notre Dame, but everytime I see that movie it gives me goosebumps and brings me close to tears, and I've heard other people who dislike Notre Dame say the same thing. I think that says a lot about a movie.

I enjoyed Johnny B Goode, I thought it was a more entertaining than, say, Varsity Blues.

Varsity Blues. :p

I think I'd have to go with Remember the Titans (although Pacino's speech from Any Given Sunday was cool)

For comedy, I remember laughing a lot during The Best of Times (Robin Williams and Kurt Russell)