I haven't seen Under the Silver Lake, but doesn't it share that same dream like quality as It Follows? That might just be the aesthetic he likes for his movies, which works well for a creepy monster movie. Probably not always a good fit for every story, though.
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I haven't seen Under the Silver Lake, but doesn't it share that same dream like quality as It Follows? That might just be the aesthetic he likes for his movies, which works well for a creepy monster movie. Probably not always a good fit for every story, though.
Not really, no. I suppose it does have something of a dream like quality to it, but in a very different way than It Follows. More of a surreal quality I guess. Some combination of surrealism and absurdity.
Under the Silver Lake is interesting, but a big disappointment in the end. The surreal aspects and crazy conspiracies never really come together in a satisfying way, so while there were moments and performances that I did enjoy I can't really recommend it to anyone and I'm unlikely to ever watch it again. It doesn't live up to its trailer, or what I would have hoped for coming from the director of It Follows.
It's like you guys are trying to evade the It Follows monster, but it works with bad puns instead of sex.
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Ok movie thread, here's something I've never seen brought up. I need a list of great sports movies. My gf hates sports, and I always try to show her the magic of them. There's great moments and inspirational stories. Like Rudy! I need some movies to show her. Right now I'm thinking
Rudy
The rocky series
Major league and maybe part 2
Slapshot
Bull durham
Field of dreams
I'm trying to think of more and especially more emotional movies. I'm sure she'd enjoy any given sunday and the program, but I'm trying to look at movies that are more about the sport and inspiring, instead of the negative side of sports and side effects.
I wonder if she's ever seen the sandlot or mighty ducks, although I'm not sure those count.
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Rocky IV
Mighty Ducks 1 & 2
Best of the Best
Baseketball
The Cutting Edge
King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Hoop Dreams
Little Giants
Senna
Rocky IV
Mighty Ducks 1 & 2
Best of the Best
Baseketball
The Cutting Edge
King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Hoop Dreams
Little Giants
Senna
I forgot about the cutting edge. I actually showed her this movie and she loved it! For some reason I loved it as a teen, maybe I had a crush on the girl. I dunno.
Ok movie thread, here's something I've never seen brought up. I need a list of great sports movies. My gf hates sports, and I always try to show her the magic of them. There's great moments and inspirational stories. Like Rudy! I need some movies to show her. Right now I'm thinking
Rudy
The rocky series
Major league and maybe part 2
Slapshot
Bull durham
Field of dreams
I'm trying to think of more and especially more emotional movies. I'm sure she'd enjoy any given sunday and the program, but I'm trying to look at movies that are more about the sport and inspiring, instead of the negative side of sports and side effects.
I wonder if she's ever seen the sandlot or mighty ducks, although I'm not sure those count.
Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, and the dad from A Christmas Story as an evil bad guy. It's the Arthurian legend in baseball form.
Ok movie thread, here's something I've never seen brought up. I need a list of great sports movies. My gf hates sports, and I always try to show her the magic of them. There's great moments and inspirational stories. Like Rudy! I need some movies to show her. Right now I'm thinking
Rudy
The rocky series
Major league and maybe part 2
Slapshot
Bull durham
Field of dreams
I'm trying to think of more and especially more emotional movies. I'm sure she'd enjoy any given sunday and the program, but I'm trying to look at movies that are more about the sport and inspiring, instead of the negative side of sports and side effects.
I wonder if she's ever seen the sandlot or mighty ducks, although I'm not sure those count.
Baseketball!
White men can't jump! feel my thirstyness
All the right moves
Mystery Alaska
Youngblood
Goon and Goon 2! I really do love these movies
Miracle
Bend it like Beckham
The Replacements!
The Express
The Last Boyscout!!! and then some.
Waterboy! You can do it! Any Given Sunday
Invincible!
Tin Cup
The Natural
Blue Chips
Ok movie thread, here's something I've never seen brought up. I need a list of great sports movies. My gf hates sports, and I always try to show her the magic of them. There's great moments and inspirational stories. Like Rudy! I need some movies to show her. Right now I'm thinking
Rudy
The rocky series
Major league and maybe part 2
Slapshot
Bull durham
Field of dreams
I'm trying to think of more and especially more emotional movies. I'm sure she'd enjoy any given sunday and the program, but I'm trying to look at movies that are more about the sport and inspiring, instead of the negative side of sports and side effects.
I wonder if she's ever seen the sandlot or mighty ducks, although I'm not sure those count.
The Sandlot
A League of their Own (for my money, the best baseball movie)
Cool Runnings
The Karate Kid
Hardball (maybe a touch depressing, but solid forgotten Keanu Reeves movie)
Baseketball!
White men can't jump! feel my thirstyness
All the right moves
Mystery Alaska
Youngblood
Goon and Goon 2! I really do love these movies
Miracle
Bend it like Beckham
The Replacements!
The Express
The Last Boyscout!!! and then some.
Waterboy! You can do it! Any Given Sunday
Invincible!
Tin Cup
The Natural
Blue Chips
Ok my mind is now a blank
Hoosiers
White men can't jump, totally forgot about that. I think I showed her goon, think we saw goon 2 but I can't remember honestly. Love goon. Seems she loves the comedies.
The last boy scout I'm not sure counts but I definitely need to show her that if she hasn't seen it.
Tin cup I think she'd love. Costner is great in that. The natural was one I was thinking but couldn't remember the band of. I remember liking blue chips but I have to admit something.
Ok movie thread, here's something I've never seen brought up. I need a list of great sports movies. My gf hates sports, and I always try to show her the magic of them. There's great moments and inspirational stories. Like Rudy! I need some movies to show her. Right now I'm thinking
Rudy
The rocky series
Major league and maybe part 2
Slapshot
Bull durham
Field of dreams
I'm trying to think of more and especially more emotional movies. I'm sure she'd enjoy any given sunday and the program, but I'm trying to look at movies that are more about the sport and inspiring, instead of the negative side of sports and side effects.
I wonder if she's ever seen the sandlot or mighty ducks, although I'm not sure those count.
I am irrationally fond of Gridiron Gang. It's got a terrible score with the tomatoes, but I love it to pieces. It stars The Rock as a juvenile probation officer who decides to start a football team. It's based on a true story, but I cannot say how accurate it is. What I love, though, is that The Rock gives a very moving football speech at the end. During the credits, they play video of the real coach giving the same exact speech, filmed during a game from the stands. It's 10 times more powerful coming from the heart in the moment. All the credit footage is real video from the juvenile detainees, which makes the fictionalized story come to life after just having seen it.
It doesn't endorse the system that locked up these kids, it's just a story about a guy that tried something different in a shitty system to reach out and help.
Ok movie thread, here's something I've never seen brought up. I need a list of great sports movies. My gf hates sports, and I always try to show her the magic of them. There's great moments and inspirational stories. Like Rudy! I need some movies to show her. Right now I'm thinking
Rudy
The rocky series
Major league and maybe part 2
Slapshot
Bull durham
Field of dreams
I'm trying to think of more and especially more emotional movies. I'm sure she'd enjoy any given sunday and the program, but I'm trying to look at movies that are more about the sport and inspiring, instead of the negative side of sports and side effects.
I wonder if she's ever seen the sandlot or mighty ducks, although I'm not sure those count.
The Sandlot
A League of their Own (for my money, the best baseball movie)
Cool Runnings
The Karate Kid
Hardball (maybe a touch depressing, but solid forgotten Keanu Reeves movie)
Oh snap. Karate kid, cool runnings, and a league of their own, 3 movies I definitely forgot. Haven't seen hardball.
I actually saw a league of their own in theatres. It was because 3 ninjas was sold out, but in hindsight, I saw the better movie.
I’m not sure sports movies will get your partner to like sports. I feel like that’s something they have to cultivate on their own.
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Remember the Titans is a pretty decent fooball movie, even if the central conceit is kind of bullshit.
(I used to live right down the street from TC Williams, the high school in the movie. It's literally one exit away from the Pentagon. Backwoods rednecks these people were not; their parents overwhelmingly served in the military, which had been integrated for two decades by the time the school opened. Mostly the team was hated because they absorbed the junior and senior classes from like three other schools in the area when TC Williams opened, so their talent pool was fucking absurd compared to everyone else.)
I also remember liking Trouble With The Curve, although I like pretty much every movie Amy Adams is in, because Amy Adams is in it and I am shallow.
Baseketball!
White men can't jump! feel my thirstyness
All the right moves
Mystery Alaska
Youngblood
Goon and Goon 2! I really do love these movies
Miracle
Bend it like Beckham
The Replacements!
The Express
The Last Boyscout!!! and then some.
Waterboy! You can do it! Any Given Sunday
Invincible!
Tin Cup
The Natural
Blue Chips
Ok my mind is now a blank
Hoosiers
White men can't jump, totally forgot about that. I think I showed her goon, think we saw goon 2 but I can't remember honestly. Love goon. Seems she loves the comedies.
The last boy scout I'm not sure counts but I definitely need to show her that if she hasn't seen it.
Tin cup I think she'd love. Costner is great in that. The natural was one I was thinking but couldn't remember the band of. I remember liking blue chips but I have to admit something.
I'm a huge sports fan. I love sports movies.
I've actually never seen hoosiers.
Hoosiers is a very feel good Basketball movie. Get on that!
AtomikaLive fast and get fucked or whateverRegistered Userregular
I don’t know that there’s a single movie that accurately portrays the toxicity and harm done in sports. Big Fan is probably the most accurate examination of sports fandom, but I can’t think of any film that takes it on from within that doesn’t pull its punches and ultimately side with “sports are cool!”
Movies like Any Given Sunday, The Program, and Blue Chips definitely get at some of the problematic aspects of that world, but ultimately stick to the same thesis arguing that sports would be super awesome if not for a small handful of bad actors.
The bad actors, in reality, are the majority and have all the power.
And seriously, fuck Hoosiers. Goddamn piece of fucking racist patriarchal apologist bullshit.
And seriously, fuck Hoosiers. Goddamn piece of fucking racist patriarchal apologist bullshit.
I'd be interested in hearing your more in-depth take on this. Racist because it's a white underdog vs. black pro story, like Rocky? That's a trope that makes me a *little* uncomfortable that I've never actually seen anyone complain about
Omg no! Never heard of or seen this. Is there a way to see it legally without hbo? It looks amazing!
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Ok movie thread, here's something I've never seen brought up. I need a list of great sports movies. My gf hates sports, and I always try to show her the magic of them. There's great moments and inspirational stories. Like Rudy! I need some movies to show her. Right now I'm thinking
Rudy
The rocky series
Major league and maybe part 2
Slapshot
Bull durham
Field of dreams
I'm trying to think of more and especially more emotional movies. I'm sure she'd enjoy any given sunday and the program, but I'm trying to look at movies that are more about the sport and inspiring, instead of the negative side of sports and side effects.
I wonder if she's ever seen the sandlot or mighty ducks, although I'm not sure those count.
Does it have to be a movie? Because Hajime No Ippo is good boxing shit but it’s no movie
Edit: also Creed is basically the best of all of these
And Rudy is terrible
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Not really, no. I suppose it does have something of a dream like quality to it, but in a very different way than It Follows. More of a surreal quality I guess. Some combination of surrealism and absurdity.
Under the Silver Lake is interesting, but a big disappointment in the end. The surreal aspects and crazy conspiracies never really come together in a satisfying way, so while there were moments and performances that I did enjoy I can't really recommend it to anyone and I'm unlikely to ever watch it again. It doesn't live up to its trailer, or what I would have hoped for coming from the director of It Follows.
It's like you guys are trying to evade the It Follows monster, but it works with bad puns instead of sex.
Rudy
The rocky series
Major league and maybe part 2
Slapshot
Bull durham
Field of dreams
I'm trying to think of more and especially more emotional movies. I'm sure she'd enjoy any given sunday and the program, but I'm trying to look at movies that are more about the sport and inspiring, instead of the negative side of sports and side effects.
I wonder if she's ever seen the sandlot or mighty ducks, although I'm not sure those count.
Mighty Ducks 1 & 2
Best of the Best
Baseketball
The Cutting Edge
King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters
Hoop Dreams
Little Giants
Senna
I forgot about the cutting edge. I actually showed her this movie and she loved it! For some reason I loved it as a teen, maybe I had a crush on the girl. I dunno.
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Robert Redford, Glenn Close, Kim Basinger, Wilford Brimley, and the dad from A Christmas Story as an evil bad guy. It's the Arthurian legend in baseball form.
Oh we've seen this and it was amazing. She loved it. It came out when we were hbo subscribers because of game of thrones.
White men can't jump! feel my thirstyness
All the right moves
Mystery Alaska
Youngblood
Goon and Goon 2! I really do love these movies
Miracle
Bend it like Beckham
The Replacements!
The Express
The Last Boyscout!!! and then some.
Waterboy! You can do it!
Any Given Sunday
Invincible!
Tin Cup
The Natural
Blue Chips
Ok my mind is now a blank
Hoosiers
The Sandlot
A League of their Own (for my money, the best baseball movie)
Cool Runnings
The Karate Kid
Hardball (maybe a touch depressing, but solid forgotten Keanu Reeves movie)
White men can't jump, totally forgot about that. I think I showed her goon, think we saw goon 2 but I can't remember honestly. Love goon. Seems she loves the comedies.
The last boy scout I'm not sure counts but I definitely need to show her that if she hasn't seen it.
Tin cup I think she'd love. Costner is great in that. The natural was one I was thinking but couldn't remember the band of. I remember liking blue chips but I have to admit something.
I'm a huge sports fan. I love sports movies.
I've actually never seen hoosiers.
I am irrationally fond of Gridiron Gang. It's got a terrible score with the tomatoes, but I love it to pieces. It stars The Rock as a juvenile probation officer who decides to start a football team. It's based on a true story, but I cannot say how accurate it is. What I love, though, is that The Rock gives a very moving football speech at the end. During the credits, they play video of the real coach giving the same exact speech, filmed during a game from the stands. It's 10 times more powerful coming from the heart in the moment. All the credit footage is real video from the juvenile detainees, which makes the fictionalized story come to life after just having seen it.
It doesn't endorse the system that locked up these kids, it's just a story about a guy that tried something different in a shitty system to reach out and help.
Oh snap. Karate kid, cool runnings, and a league of their own, 3 movies I definitely forgot. Haven't seen hardball.
I actually saw a league of their own in theatres. It was because 3 ninjas was sold out, but in hindsight, I saw the better movie.
I’m not sure sports movies will get your partner to like sports. I feel like that’s something they have to cultivate on their own.
(I used to live right down the street from TC Williams, the high school in the movie. It's literally one exit away from the Pentagon. Backwoods rednecks these people were not; their parents overwhelmingly served in the military, which had been integrated for two decades by the time the school opened. Mostly the team was hated because they absorbed the junior and senior classes from like three other schools in the area when TC Williams opened, so their talent pool was fucking absurd compared to everyone else.)
I also remember liking Trouble With The Curve, although I like pretty much every movie Amy Adams is in, because Amy Adams is in it and I am shallow.
Hoosiers is a very feel good Basketball movie. Get on that!
The Blindside!
The Replacements really shouldnt work, but it just does.
MWO: Adamski
Slap Shot
Major League
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It’s 3rd on the list I posted. Tom Cruise football movie.
-Indiana Solo, runner of blades
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Adam Devine thought it was a baseball movie when he showed up for his audition so... sure?
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I would say so. It follows the standard formula.
Movies like Any Given Sunday, The Program, and Blue Chips definitely get at some of the problematic aspects of that world, but ultimately stick to the same thesis arguing that sports would be super awesome if not for a small handful of bad actors.
The bad actors, in reality, are the majority and have all the power.
And seriously, fuck Hoosiers. Goddamn piece of fucking racist patriarchal apologist bullshit.
Omg no! Never heard of or seen this. Is there a way to see it legally without hbo? It looks amazing!
Does it have to be a movie? Because Hajime No Ippo is good boxing shit but it’s no movie
Edit: also Creed is basically the best of all of these
And Rudy is terrible