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McKinneyttu97 
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| re: Favorite sport movie (Posted on 2/26/13 at 1:43 pm to Navajo61490)
Dead Solid Perfect
if you can find this movie buy it steal it borrow it. A+
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yurintroubl 
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| re: Favorite sport movie (Posted on 2/26/13 at 1:43 pm to Navajo61490)
The Natural
Bull Durham
Miracle
I liked The Running Man when I was in Junior High... Does that count?
Not many good soccer movies out there.
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bluestem75 
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| re: Favorite sport movie (Posted on 2/26/13 at 1:48 pm to yurintroubl)
Bend It Like Beckham
Just kidding.
Hoosiers
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craigbiggio
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| re: Favorite sport movie (Posted on 2/26/13 at 1:49 pm to bluestem75)
The Replacements
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CocomoLSU 
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| re: Favorite sport movie (Posted on 2/26/13 at 1:49 pm to Navajo61490)
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Favorite sport movie
The Sandlot.
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Zamoro10
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| re: Favorite sport movie (Posted on 2/26/13 at 1:57 pm to CocomoLSU)
Breaking Away
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alajones
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| re: Favorite sport movie (Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:00 pm to bluestem75)
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Bend It Like Beckham
That's a solid movie. I would put it in a sports movie top 20 easily.
Keira Knightly looks great in it also.
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alajones
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Friday Night Lights?
Will never watch.
I loved the book too much.
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Ace Midnight
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| re: Favorite sport movie (Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:03 pm to ornagestorm)
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Breaking Away
That's one of those movies that is nothing (or vitually so) about the sport - and everything about the human condition as told through the medium of the sport.
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alajones
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| re: Favorite sport movie (Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:05 pm to Ace Midnight)
That's how I see Rudy.
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Ace Midnight
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| re: Favorite sport movie (Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:09 pm to alajones)
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That's how I see Rudy.
That's fair - I don't really think of either as a "sports" movie, per se.
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Zamoro10
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| re: Favorite sport movie (Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:13 pm to Ace Midnight)
Still love it - there's no coming of age rule or OP parameters that the movie has to be just about the sport. The Sandlot isn't about baseball. A lot of movies just have a sport in it as a backdrop to frame the story.
Has a lot cycling and a race at the end. It qualifies in my book...
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Ace Midnight
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| re: Favorite sport movie (Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:17 pm to Zamoro10)
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Still love it - there's no coming of age rule or OP parameters that the movie has to be just about the sport. The Sandlot isn't about baseball. A lot of movies just have a sport in it as a backdrop to frame the story.
Has a lot cycling and a race at the end. It qualifies in my book...
I was complimenting the moviemakers in using a tool seamlessly. I think that's harder. Obviously, Remember the Titans is first, and foremost a football movie. The fact that it does a lot more than that during the running time is one of the things that makes it a good movie.
Breaking Away, Rudy, and to a certain point the original Rocky movie were able to make the sport itself, secondary to the journey of the main character.
This post was edited on 2/26 at 2:18 pm
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Zamoro10
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| re: Favorite sport movie (Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:19 pm to Ace Midnight)
Well I wholeheartedly agree about Rocky (original only.)
I've always hated when people talk about it as a "boxing movie."
It's a love story.
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Displaced
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| re: Favorite sport movie (Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:19 pm to alajones)
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That's a solid movie.
agree
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I would put it in a sports movie top 20 easily.
ehh, maybe a stretch
i love how KKs parents think she is a lesbo the whole movie tho.
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ornagestorm 
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| re: Favorite sport movie (Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:20 pm to Ace Midnight)
Vision Quest
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Ace Midnight
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| re: Favorite sport movie (Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:21 pm to yurintroubl)
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Not many good soccer movies out there.
Victory is the only one, and I liked the idea better than the execution. It has its moments, though.
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Displaced
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| re: Favorite sport movie (Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:22 pm to Ace Midnight)
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Victory is the only one, and I liked the idea better than the execution. It has its moments, though
The Big Green
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alajones
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| re: Favorite sport movie (Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:22 pm to Ace Midnight)
Pretty sure in reality the players were executed after beating the Nazis.
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Citizen Kane
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| re: Favorite sport movie (Posted on 2/26/13 at 2:29 pm to Navajo61490)
The best sports movies are as follows
1. The Sporting Life (1963) - richard harris comes into his own.
2. Hoop Dreams (1994) - basketball documentary
3. Raging Bull (1980) - nough said
4. Rounders (1998)
5. Friday Night LIghts (2004)
6. The Wrestler (2008)
7. Fat City (1972) - Jeff Bridges coming of age flick
8. Rocky (1976)
9. Chariots of Fire
10. Any Given Sunday
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