Off Topic 2014

[ImTellinTim]

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Goal! The Dream Begins is the best sports themed movie of all time. Followed closely by Goal II: Living the Dream.

Don't forget about Bend It Like Beckham

Sorry if it's been posted already, but this video is the most Joe Buck video ever.

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That is a joke. Believe it or not, Joe Buck actually has a decent sense of humor. He doesn't really take himself as seriously as he seems to when he's announcing.

[l3ulvl]

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That is a joke. Believe it or not, Joe Buck actually has a decent sense of humor. He doesn't really take himself as seriously as he seems to when he's announcing.

Yeah wasn't there one with people telling him how much he sucks last year or a couple years ago? Plus the one where he was walking around New York and people were yelling at him

[BlueNGold]

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Uncommon Opinion:

There are no football movies that I was describe better than "Meh, it was pretty decent" and sports movies, largely, are not good. There's rare exceptions, but as a genre, far more often than not they bore me.

The problem is most of them have the same, predictable structure where the final game is ridiculously close or there's some Cinderella comeback.

This was also one of my few issues with the Friday Night Lights TV show. The movie actually executed this very well though, I thought, and is probably a big reason why I'd rank it #1 for best football movie (and possibly sports movie).

[l3ulvl]

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The problem is most of them have the same, predictable structure where the final game is ridiculously close or there's some Cinderella comeback.

This was also one of my few issues with the Friday Night Lights TV show. The movie actually executed this very well though, I thought, and is probably a big reason why I'd rank it #1 for best football movie (and possibly sports movie).

It's annoying how predictable sports movies are. Has there ever been a movie about the team coming up short in the end? Well yeah probably, but it doesn't happen often enough to make you feel the outcome is actually in doubt.

I'd love to see a movie where the team gets absolutely bitchslapped in the big game lol, like a football themed Shakespearean tragedy.

[Bellsprout]

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It's annoying how predictable sports movies are. Has there ever been a movie about the team coming up short in the end? Well yeah probably, but it doesn't happen often enough to make you feel the outcome is actually in doubt.

I'd love to see a movie where the team gets absolutely bitchslapped in the big game lol, like a football themed Shakespearean tragedy.

BIG HUGE FRIDAY NIGHT LIIIIIIIIIGHTS SPOILER

Spoiler

They lose in Friday Night Lights, don't they? I remember them coming up one yard short or something. Kevin Dyson style.

[Chrisksaint]

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Sports movie are like comic book movies, you pretty know how it's going to end but you watch for the beginning and middle. I'm entertained easily and critique things so much so I enjoy both.

[Twenty Four]

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Spoiler

They lose in Friday Night Lights, don't they? I remember them coming up one yard short or something. Kevin Dyson style.

Yep. Right after my favorite line in all of sports movies: "For the state championship, I love all y'all baby." or something along those lines.

[BlueNGold]

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Sports movie are like comic book movies, you pretty know how it's going to end but you watch for the beginning and middle. I'm entertained easily and critique things so much so I enjoy both.

To some extent, maybe, but I wouldn't say that's entirely true. I had no idea how The Dark Knight or The Dark Knight Rises would end.

[Majingir]

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It's annoying how predictable sports movies are. Has there ever been a movie about the team coming up short in the end? Well yeah probably, but it doesn't happen often enough to make you feel the outcome is actually in doubt.

I'd love to see a movie where the team gets absolutely bitchslapped in the big game lol, like a football themed Shakespearean tragedy.

Not a movie but...
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And speaking of tragic endings...Imagine if more movies had those big tragic endings where absolutely nothing good happened to any of the main characters. lol, like if in Harry Potter had Voldemort won and took over the entire world and that's how the series ends. Or if the Spiderman movie series ends with Spiderman dying and the bad guys taking over the world.

[Chrisksaint]

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To some extent, maybe, but I wouldn't say that's entirely true. I had no idea how The Dark Knight or The Dark Knight Rises would end.

Well I mean you pretty much know Batman is going to live and probably win in some fashion.

[l3ulvl]

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Spoiler

They lose in Friday Night Lights, don't they? I remember them coming up one yard short or something. Kevin Dyson style.

Spoiler

I've never seen FNL

[Twenty Four]

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Well I mean you pretty much know Batman is going to live and probably win in some fashion.

There was a 15-25 second window where I honestly thought Batman was dead.

[BlueNGold]

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Spoiler

I've never seen FNL

I was worried you were going to say that and end up clicking that spoiler. Damn it.

You still have to watch it regardless. It really is a great movie.

[Chrisksaint]

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if in Harry Potter had Voldemort won and took over the entire world and that's how the series ends.

I would have burnt the book and not watched a single of the movies.

[Bellsprout]

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Spoiler

I've never seen FNL

See, I knew I should've labeled that spoiler.

Then my brain went "Ahh, **** it. Everyone's seen it." and I got lazy.

My bad, Bumweiser.