Ping-Pong the Animation is also great, albiet a shorter and more focused show with some fantastic visuals and a really well done examination of hard work and effort, natural skill, and the implications of them.
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
You sir, have no heart. Go and watch the grinch saves Christmas and have your heart grow 5 sizes
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
You sir, have no heart. Go and watch the grinch saves Christmas and have your heart grow 5 sizes
If the grinch had just stayed home and maintained social distancing he wouldn't have wound up with that Covid-related myocarditis.
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I'm afraid Tenet was wasted on me. It's definitely fine craftsmanship, but I found the story and characters to be hollow and unengaging, and IMO it's the worst-written Christopher Nolan film to date.
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What am I missing about Rudy that makes it bad? It's a story of a walk on no talent normal person who makes it on notre dame back when they were good. He overcame all these odds and played in a game. What's bad about it?
What am I missing about Rudy that makes it bad? It's a story of a walk on no talent normal person who makes it on notre dame back when they were good. He overcame all these odds and played in a game. What's bad about it?
It lionizes tribalistic sports culture and turns a story about a unqualified athlete with poor grades who only played about two minutes his whole career during times when it didn’t matter into a hagiography.
Also the real Rudy is a conman and grifter and a total piece of shit.
What am I missing about Rudy that makes it bad? It's a story of a walk on no talent normal person who makes it on notre dame back when they were good. He overcame all these odds and played in a game. What's bad about it?
It lionizes tribalistic sports culture and turns a story about a unqualified athlete with poor grades who only played about two minutes his whole career during times when it didn’t matter into a hagiography.
Also the real Rudy is a conman and grifter and a total piece of shit.
On the other hand, Sean Astin is a national treasure.
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Watching kickboxer right now. It's cheesy as fuck but I love it as much as I did when I was a kid still.
@RickRude Watch the new Kickboxer movies - Kickboxer: Vengeance and Kickboxer: Retaliation. Vengeance is a reboot that has Van Damme playing the old master who has to train someone out to avenge his brother, and Alain Moussi in JCVD's original role of Kurt Sloane. Alain Moussi is great, and they stack the cast with Dave Bautista as Tong Po in Vengeance and a ton of MMA folks like Georges St Pierre and Cain Velasquez among others. I streamed them for friends over the last couple of months and everyone loved them. Retaliation is its own thing that just follows on as a direct sequel from Vengeance.
They're both on Netflix and totally worth watching. Just go into the second one as blind as possible so you can be surprised by all of the changes to the cast. There will be some great "holy crap, he's in this?!" moments if you do.
Not only is it a great cheezy 80s monster mash that looks like a Sega Genesis game come to life but it's also an unofficial Babylon 5/Deep Space 9 crossover.
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I'm a sucker for romantic sports films, seeing as how the only two I own fall under that category(Love & Basketball and Save The Last Dance).
What's that one with Matt LeBlanc and a chimp and he plays baseball?
LeBlanc, I mean
I can't remember if the chimp plays
Jesus. I remember that movie. Because it came out while I worked at Blockbuster, and there was trivia on the trailer tapes played in store constantly about how they shot a scene where he catches a ball in reverse, including having him say his lines in reverse.
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I'm afraid Tenet was wasted on me. It's definitely fine craftsmanship, but I found the story and characters to be hollow and unengaging, and IMO it's the worst-written Christopher Nolan film to date.
I made the mistake over the last few days of thinking about the timey-wimey shenanigans.
'Cause at first watch it felt like they had really tried to stay internally consistent.
Diggstown is more of a heist movie than a boxing movie, but it's still my favorite boxing movie.
But watching it involves supporting James Woods, which makes me feel uneasy these days.
We watched White House Down again last week and realized James Woods wasn't actually playing a character in that movie.
Also White House Down continues to be awesome.
Wait what's wrong with James Woods?
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Goon is my favorite sports movie.
And holy cow Arena. If it's the one I'm thinking of don't they use red and blue lights to boost or weaken each fighter so they're basically the same strength? What a movie.
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I'm afraid Tenet was wasted on me. It's definitely fine craftsmanship, but I found the story and characters to be hollow and unengaging, and IMO it's the worst-written Christopher Nolan film to date.
I said this before, but I feel the first time is just taking the ride, and understanding what is happening, and the second time you can focus more on the motivations of characters. Especially Neil's character gets way more interesting the second time around. Especially if you connect the dots.
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I recall loving Best of Times when I was a kid, which stars Robin Williams as a guy who fucked up a key play in a football game in high school and has never lived it down, and Kurt Russell as the football star who had his promising career ended as a result. Williams tries to get together a redo of the critical game as an adult.
It's less a sports movie and more a sports adjacent movie, but it's fun and it has Kurt Fucking Russell in it.
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I recall loving Best of Times when I was a kid, which stars Robin Williams as a guy who fucked up a key play in a football game in high school and has never lived it down, and Kurt Russell as the football star who had his promising career ended as a result. Williams tries to get together a redo of the critical game as an adult.
It's less a sports movie and more a sports adjacent movie, but it's fun and it has Kurt Fucking Russell in it.
I thought that was an episode of the Simpsons
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Haikyuu's probably the best out there and is on Netflix and Crunchyroll.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aNg8cV65Os
Ping-Pong the Animation is also great, albiet a shorter and more focused show with some fantastic visuals and a really well done examination of hard work and effort, natural skill, and the implications of them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcSuAhbtIFg
You sir, have no heart. Go and watch the grinch saves Christmas and have your heart grow 5 sizes
If the grinch had just stayed home and maintained social distancing he wouldn't have wound up with that Covid-related myocarditis.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
I mean, they don’t even once mention legendary Alabama coach Paul “Bear” Bryant
How dare they.
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It lionizes tribalistic sports culture and turns a story about a unqualified athlete with poor grades who only played about two minutes his whole career during times when it didn’t matter into a hagiography.
Also the real Rudy is a conman and grifter and a total piece of shit.
On the other hand, Sean Astin is a national treasure.
@RickRude Watch the new Kickboxer movies - Kickboxer: Vengeance and Kickboxer: Retaliation. Vengeance is a reboot that has Van Damme playing the old master who has to train someone out to avenge his brother, and Alain Moussi in JCVD's original role of Kurt Sloane. Alain Moussi is great, and they stack the cast with Dave Bautista as Tong Po in Vengeance and a ton of MMA folks like Georges St Pierre and Cain Velasquez among others. I streamed them for friends over the last couple of months and everyone loved them. Retaliation is its own thing that just follows on as a direct sequel from Vengeance.
They're both on Netflix and totally worth watching. Just go into the second one as blind as possible so you can be surprised by all of the changes to the cast. There will be some great "holy crap, he's in this?!" moments if you do.
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But watching it involves supporting James Woods, which makes me feel uneasy these days.
We watched White House Down again last week and realized James Woods wasn't actually playing a character in that movie.
Also White House Down continues to be awesome.
https://youtu.be/fHKnU-YkOE4
Not only is it a great cheezy 80s monster mash that looks like a Sega Genesis game come to life but it's also an unofficial Babylon 5/Deep Space 9 crossover.
LeBlanc, I mean
I can't remember if the chimp plays
Jesus. I remember that movie. Because it came out while I worked at Blockbuster, and there was trivia on the trailer tapes played in store constantly about how they shot a scene where he catches a ball in reverse, including having him say his lines in reverse.
If the chimp did play, one would assume you'd remember it.
I made the mistake over the last few days of thinking about the timey-wimey shenanigans.
'Cause at first watch it felt like they had really tried to stay internally consistent.
But nope, a lot of it falls apart.
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Blades of Glory
Wait what's wrong with James Woods?
And holy cow Arena. If it's the one I'm thinking of don't they use red and blue lights to boost or weaken each fighter so they're basically the same strength? What a movie.
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Amores Perros is great, though.
I said this before, but I feel the first time is just taking the ride, and understanding what is happening, and the second time you can focus more on the motivations of characters. Especially Neil's character gets way more interesting the second time around. Especially if you connect the dots.
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I like to move it, move it FCE2-0000-00D7-9048
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It's less a sports movie and more a sports adjacent movie, but it's fun and it has Kurt Fucking Russell in it.
What a sick cover
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I thought that was an episode of the Simpsons
Yeah, this is not the shitty Crash everyone knows about
Vision Quest.
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Oscar-winning Crash is about Hollywood striving and failing to be relevant on racism.
David Cronenberg's Crash is about car crash injury fetishists.
Very different films.
I think I remember this. It's a bad mechwarrior movie right ? Think I loved it as a kid.
The film called Crash that won all the awards is actually the bad one, shocking, I know.
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