The Best Sports Movie of All Time

[CanadianChris]

And the 3rd one really sucks

There was no third one.

 

There was, but consider yourself lucky. I think Cerrano was the only returnee.

I don't know what you're talking about. There was no third Major League movie.

 

Next you'll be telling me there was a sequel to Caddyshack.

[RavishingRickRudo]

Fuck that, Back To the Minors was good fun. Bacula! Cleetus Van Dam!

[King Kamala]

Major League 3: Back To The Minors is perfectly forgettable direct to video crap but I'll forever passionately loathe it for introducing me to that stupid pop country song about minor league baseball that's now engrained in my head thanks to it being played before every Portland Sea Dogs game. "This town ain't big, this town ain't small" AGH GET THAT SHIT OUT OF MY HEAD.

 

Fake Edit: "The Cheap Seats" by Alabama. Worst song about baseball ever written. Even worse than "Centerfield" and I loathe "Centerfield"

[Maztinho]

Major League 3: Back To The Minors is perfectly forgettable direct to video crap but I'll forever passionately loathe it for introducing me to that stupid pop country song about minor league baseball that's now engrained in my head thanks to it being played before every Portland Sea Dogs game. "This town ain't big, this town ain't small" AGH GET THAT SHIT OUT OF MY HEAD.

 

Fake Edit: "The Cheap Seats" by Alabama. Worst song about baseball ever written. Even worse than "Centerfield" and I loathe "Centerfield"

 

Ew... Alabama... you are unclean. UNCLEAN!

 

 

Adding to the thread...

 

Emotional favorite: Rudy or Remember the Titans

 

Just plain Fun: Sandlot owns you

[KingPK]

I'd like to say The MIghty Ducks...but the fact that parts 2 and 3 were almost the exact same movie actually hurts the first one for me

 

Part 2 is basically them as the 1980 US hockey team with Finland taking the place of the USSR. Disney actually ripped themselves off with Miracle.

 

Rocky III is the best of that series as it doesn't drag like the first two movies did and has the best all-around story: Rocky's on top, is humbled, struggles with fighting while actually having responsibilites in his life and without the man he trusted for guidance and finds redemption in the end.

Edited April 2, 2008 by KingPK

[Richard]

It was Iceland

[CanadianGuitarist]

It was Iceland

 

Continuing with inaccuracy in Disney flicks, since when does 'the entire country' watch the Junior Goodwill Games?

[Zetterberg is God]

Other ridiculous things about D2 (and there are PLENTY but anyway):

 

-Somehow the US national team is made up of one junior team and like four people from the rest of the country (including a player who made the team despite not being able to stop and a figure skater who's somehow able to perplex opponents with his ice dancing prowess). The recruiting also extends to the streets of LA where a roller hockey player can make the team

-Canada is a complete non-factor despite being in the middle of a run of junior hockey dominance

-Trinidad and Tobago being in the tournament (WTF)

-The entire team being treated like celebrities, which is especially ridiculous considering most Americans could give a fuck about hockey, much less Junior Goodwill Games hockey

-Changing jerseys in the middle of the game, pretty much implying that playing for the glory of their regional junior team is more important than playing for the glory of America.

-A player (the aforementioned roller hockey virtuoso) who is able to change into goalie equipment in the middle of the game without anyone noticing, then firing a shot from his own blue line that results in the tying goal.

 

I know it's a kids movie and all that (and despite my criticisms I love the franchise) but I could never get past these and all the other ridiculous plot devices/inaccuracies in the films.

[muzz]

Instead of making the 'evil' team Russia or some such country, they made it Iceland. They're too much of an easy target.

[CanadianGuitarist]

I loved the Sandlot as a kid, but my all-time favourite kids sport movie is Little Big League, far and away.

[KingPK]

I know it's a kids movie and all that (and despite my criticisms I love the franchise) but I could never get past these and all the other ridiculous plot devices/inaccuracies in the films.

 

I know. You'd think bringing a lasso onto the ice and tying up an opponent would warrant more than a 2 minute minor.

[godthedog]

Rocky III is the best of that series as it doesn't drag like the first two movies did and has the best all-around story: Rocky's on top, is humbled, struggles with fighting while actually having responsibilites in his life and without the man he trusted for guidance and finds redemption in the end.

 

big, sweaty, gayer-than-gay-sex freeze frame redemption. it's a gayer movie than 'velvet goldmine'.

[Red Baron]

would Running Man count as a sport movie or more of a game show?

[Red Baron]

Besides, Why Didn't Gunner Stahl go Blocker Side?

[the max]

Besides, Why Didn't Gunner Stahl go Blocker Side?

 

He's fancy, so he went glove. Nevermind the fact that he stopped forward progress during the shootout. Or that the goalie counted his natural puck-moving as "dekes" and as such, Stahl never did his "patented" triple deke, which is one of the more basic hockey breakaway moves.

 

I liked D2 when I was a boy, but seeing it now, it's one of the more cringeworthy kids movies that I've ever seen. My favorite is the fact that Junior Goodwill Games hockey makes the front page of the paper. It's almost as bad as the first Mighty Ducks, when the national junior hockey paper follows the Ducks' chase for the playoffs like it's a national story and we all know what's going on in a small peewee league in Whogivesafuck, MN.