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Football - Remember the Titans; Rudy is a close second. Any movie ending with Tech losing has a lot going for it.
Baseball - Sandlot or The Natural, couldn't pick
Basketball - Hoosiers
Hockey - Mighty Ducks
Golf - Caddyshack
Boxing - Cinderella Man
Nascar - Days of Thunder
Martial Arts - Bloodsport
Poker - Casino Royale
BONUS - The original Michael Myers "Halloween" mask was actually a plastic "Captain Kirk" Halloween costume mask with heavy white paint on it.
One thing that I really like about sports movies is how they are often set in a specific time and place, more so than most movies. I'm a sucker for slice of time/period stuff so I enjoy a lot of the baseball movies that are set in the 50s-60s or football in the south or soccer in the UK, etc.
Even non authentic ones are usually trying to portray a milieu: Varsity Blues playing off small town TX HS ball or the Waterboy making fun of the bayou people and all the random Louisiana schools. Just a thought that I had lol.
PS: If it hasn't been mentioned already, He Got Game is a great basketball flick. Again, shows an approximation of NYC inner city b-ball.
Great topic
Football - Burt’s original version of “The Longest Yard” Honorable mention kid’s flick “Gus” with Don Knotts
Golf - Tough call between Happy Gilmore and Caddyshack, but in the end only one is truly an iconic flick.
Soccer - Victory
Bicycling - Breaking Away
Boxing - Rocky II
Martial Arts - Enter the Dragon
Basketball - Hoosiers but “White Men Can’t Jump” is a classic “We goin’ Sizzler....we goin’ Sizzler...”
Baseball - Bull Durham is my favorite but someone needs to mention Gary Coleman in the remake of “The Kid from Left Field” and don’t forget about “The Bad News Bears”.
Pool - The Color of Money
Road Racing - Death Race 2000
Drag Racing - Grease. 😄
Whitewater rafting - Deliverance
Too many good movies.
Remember the Titans, The Longest Yard(original), Varsity Blues, Brians Song
The Natural, Field of Dreams, Major League, Moneyball
Rocky 1and 2, all Bruce Lee
Adam Sandler is usually too obnoxious in his movies for me to bear watching. I do like The Water Boy though.
All the Right Moves deserves a mention. I had forgoten about that one, but it was pretty good.
Football - Draft Day, Remember The Titans, Radio.
Baseball - Money Ball, 42, For The Love of The Game
Nascar - Days of Thunder
Basketball - Hoosiers, Coach Carter
Forgot about For the Love of the Game, good one right there
If Debbie Does Dallas counts as a sports/football movie, I change my vote.
A late addition :
Marital Arts - Legend. I think it should be a classic - Jet Li doing a bit of a bio pic...great fight scenes and it captures the "true" essence of martial arts...
I can't believe I'm the only He Got Game fan. It probably doesn't hold up in some ways but it is the only one to star a legit professional player in Ray Allen. Him and Denzel play a game of 1 on 1 and supposedly Denzel got competitive and scored the first few so Allen got pissed and started really playing hard.
Oh, and for baseball movies I was always a fan of 8 Men Out. In fact as a kid I was pretty fascinated with the 1919 Black Sox scandal because it was part of the Field of Dreams plot and because Shoeless Joe Jackson was from SC, Greenville County or area IIRC. There's an old apocryphal story where Ty Cobb(from Georgia) saw Jackson working in a liquor store in later years and when he acted like he didn't remember Cobb, he called him on it and Joe said "I didn't think you'd want to know me anymore Ty". Sad story.
Oh, and btw, If anyone else is a podcast junkie like me, Bill Simmons' The Ringer Network does a podcast called The Rewatchables where he and several people break down classic/cult movies. As he's supposed to be "The Sports Guy" and there are surprisingly few movies about basketball in Boston(his area of utmost expertise), they do some classic sports movies like The Natural, though it's not just sports movies. Usually funny with a decent amount of trivia and facts on the making of.
I also love He Got Game (not the ending)
How can we forget White Men Can’t Jump ?
Forgot to add the /s to that one 🙄
Actually forgot about Days of Thunder... But Ricky Bobby was pretty hilarious.
Also forgot about Blood Sport - hands down - the best Van Damme movie ever!
Where is Blue Chips? I figured since opposing fanbases accuse Kirby of being Nick Nolte that it would have been listed.
Summer Catch is a worthy watch. Several scenes with Jessica Biel in skimpy bikinis. Pretty sure it was about a guy playing baseball in there too.
Just a few that haven't been mentioned yet.
Baseball- Moneyball
Boxing- When We Were Kings and Diggstown
Wrestling- The Wrestler with Mickey Rourke
Soccer- Green Street Houligans
Dodgeball- Dodgeball
Basketball- Semi-Pro
Rocky. I was 9 and it was such a grown up movie for me at that age. It won best picture for 1977, and was a legitimately great film. Totally changed the way I thought about what movies could be.