Best sports movie

[Glenn]

What is the best sports movie? It seems to me that baseball has dominated the silver screen but other sports have been interesting.

I like Major League and Bull Durham although Major League is one I could watch over and over because it is so damn funny and it is great seeing relatively unknown actors at the beginning of their careers including Pedro Cerrano. The Perfect Game (2009) is interesting to me because it is a true story and a true rags to riches story It's also difficult pitching a perfect game at any level of baseball.

My mind has gone blank as to great movies about other sports. Why does baseball dominate?

I think this has been discussed before but why not another go around?

 

[upinsmoke]

major league for me.

 

[Glenn]

This is where I crank up the sound on my home theater. Beware some adult language is involved.

 

[Darren]

He Got Game
Moneyball
Spacejam

 

[Warhawk]

Rollerball (1975) and Gladiator, perhaps?

 

[LPKingsFan]

Baseball: The Sandlot
Basketball: Space Jam
Football: Remember the Titans
Golf: Happy Gilmore

 

[pdxKingsFan]

Slap Shot.

And yeah, Major League is up there. Friday Night Lights. I keep trying to get my son to watch The Sandlot.

I have a major soft spot for Victory. A lot of talent, WWII, evil cheating nazis turn their own against them, not a great movie by any stretch but I can't not watch it.

 

[LPKingsFan]

Can't believe I forgot
Hockey: Mighty Ducks (and the sequel might even be better)

 

[63royals]

Lots of good movies already mentioned but for me it's Hoosiers.

 

[TyFreak Evans]

Miracle, The Rookie, Any Given Sunday, The Blind Side

 

[Glenn]

Rollerball (1975) and Gladiator, perhaps?

Gladiator???

 

[upinsmoke]

The Sandlot is a classic too as mentioned above but Hoosiers falls short for me maybe its a generation thing.

 

[Capt. Factorial]

Rollerball (1975) and Gladiator, perhaps?

"Do you like gladiator movies?"

 

[Warhawk]

Gladiator???

In it's day it was considered sport, was it not?

 

[Spike]

"Are you not entertained?!"

 

[mcsluggo]

cheerleader carwash offered a particularly compelling and insightful peek into the travails of modern athletes.


(although.... i am not sure if i got the title right... ... its been years since I watched the scrambled version)

 

[Hoovtrain]

Friday Night Lights is amazing.
Tin Cup is underrated too. Can't go wrong with the likes of Bull Durham, Major League etc

 

[Turgenev]

Surely raging bull.

The Tyson documentary directed by James torbeck was brilliant.

I watched a documentary recently called 'ride to the moon' (?) about a young cyclist. Def worthwhile.

Hoop dreams from many moons ago also decent.

 

[Bricklayer]

I've always thought that this was what a REAL sport should look like:

 

[Jespher]

Boxing has a contributed bunch of excellent sports movies, and award winners none the less:

Rocky
Raging Bull (mentioned...)
The Fighter
Million Dollar Baby
The Hurricane
Far and Away
The Power of One
Cinderella Man
Every Which Way But Loose

Basketball has several that haven't been mentioned yet:

Hoop Dreams (edit - mentioned...and awesome)
Glory Road
White Men Can't Jump
The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh (Dr. J!)
The Basketball Diaries
Blue Chips (Shaq and Penny)
Semi-Pro

Football has some excellent slapstick comedies, as well as heartfelt dramas and tear jerkers:

Jerry MaGuire
Brian's Song
The Blindside (mentioned above...)
The Longest Yard
M*A*S*H*
Rudy
Varsity Blues
Any Given Sunday (mentioned...)
The Waterboy
Radio
Remember the Titans (mentioned...)
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Baseball has the most sports movies, and some excellent ones to boot:

Field of Dreams
Major League (mentioned and awesome)
The Natural
Bull Durham (above...)
The Bad News Bears
Eight Men Out
A League of Their Own
42
The Rookie (mentioned...)

The usually emo films of horse racing include:

The Black Stallion
Seabiscuit
National Velvet
Hidalgo

Not as emo, but appealing none the less are these golf flicks:

Caddyshack
Tin Cup (above...)

Hockey brought us:

The Mighty Ducks
Miracle (mentioned...)
Mystery, Alaska
Strange Brew

Track and Field contributed a best picture winner:

Chariots of Fire

Bowling contributed:

Kingpin

Fishing gave us:

Jaws
A River Runs Through it
The Old Man and the Sea

Dodgeball brought us, well:

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

Surfing contributed:

The Endless Summer (I+II)
Point Break
Blue Crush
Riding Giants
Beach Party

If Martial Arts are sports, there is an entire genre to add, including:

Blood Sport
Enter the Dragon
The Karate Kid
Warrior

Table Tennis has:

Forrest Gump
Balls of Fury

Wrestling (and arm wrestling) fans may enjoy:

Vison Quest
Over the Top
The Wrestler

Wheelchair Rugby brought us:

Murderball

And last, but not least, don't forget the mighty contribution from Bobsledding:

Cool Runnings

 

[The Hammer]

Boxing has a contributed bunch of excellent sports movies, and award winners none the less:

Rocky
Raging Bull (mentioned...)
The Fighter
Million Dollar Baby
The Hurricane
Far and Away
The Power of One
Cinderella Man
Every Which Way But Loose

Basketball has several that haven't been mentioned yet:

Hoop Dreams (edit - mentioned...and awesome)
Glory Road
White Men Can't Jump
The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh (Dr. J!)
The Basketball Diaries
Blue Chips (Shaq and Penny)
Semi-Pro

Football has some excellent slapstick comedies, as well as heartfelt dramas and tear jerkers:

Jerry MaGuire
Brian's Song
The Blindside (mentioned above...)
The Longest Yard
M*A*S*H*
Rudy
Varsity Blues
Any Given Sunday (mentioned...)
The Waterboy
Radio
Remember the Titans (mentioned...)
Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Baseball has the most sports movies, and some excellent ones to boot:

Field of Dreams
Major League (mentioned and awesome)
The Natural
Bull Durham (above...)
The Bad News Bears
Eight Men Out
A League of Their Own
42
The Rookie (mentioned...)

The usually emo films of horse racing include:

The Black Stallion
Seabiscuit
National Velvet
Hidalgo

Not as emo, but appealing none the less are these golf flicks:

Caddyshack
Tin Cup (above...)

Hockey brought us:

The Mighty Ducks
Miracle (mentioned...)
Mystery, Alaska
Strange Brew

Track and Field contributed a best picture winner:

Chariots of Fire

Bowling contributed:

Kingpin

Fishing gave us:

Jaws
A River Runs Through it
The Old Man and the Sea

Dodgeball brought us, well:

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story

Surfing contributed:

The Endless Summer (I+II)
Point Break
Blue Crush
Riding Giants
Beach Party

If Martial Arts are sports, there is an entire genre to add, including:

Blood Sport
Enter the Dragon
The Karate Kid
Warrior

Table Tennis has:

Forrest Gump
Balls of Fury

Wrestling (and arm wrestling) fans may enjoy:

Vison Quest
Over the Top
The Wrestler

Wheelchair Rugby brought us:

Murderball

And last, but not least, don't forget the mighty contribution from Bobsledding:

Cool Runnings

How in the hell is this list worth anything if you don't even have Hoosiers on here under basketball?

 

[Jespher]

How in the hell is this list worth anything if you don't even have Hoosiers on here under basketball?

Lots of good movies already mentioned but for me it's Hoosiers.

Basketball has several that haven't been mentioned yet:

Hoop Dreams (edit - mentioned...and awesome)
Glory Road
White Men Can't Jump
The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh (Dr. J!)
The Basketball Diaries
Blue Chips (Shaq and Penny)
Semi-Pro

 

[The Hammer]

Oh.

Ok.

I guess I can calm down now.

 

[Spike]

Please Hammer, don't hurt 'em.

 

[Chupacabra]

Above the rim. Has a classic hip hop soundtrack also.