Best Sports Movie

[DallasCowpoke]

"Brian's Song", and there's not even a close second IMHO.

"Bang The Drum Slowly" is also very good.

"Breaking Away", not a great movie per say but very entertaining.

 

[Bigdog]

Miracle, Remember the Titans, Eight Men Out, Hoosiers, and Victory come to mind.

 

[03EBZ06]

Raging Bull
Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Heaven can wait
The Bad News Bears
The Natural
Chariots of Fire
Caddy Shack
Hoosiers
A league of their own
Hustler
Remember the Titans

 

[YosemiteSam]

So many great Sports Movies come to mind. The Best? IDK. For me, I guess it would be Friday Night Lights, 61*, Hoosiers, Rocky, Seabiscuit, or Rounders... depending on my mood at the time.


My all-around favorites, by sport/game...

Football:

1. Friday Night Lights
2. The Longest Yard (Burt Reynolds)
3. Jerry Maguire
4. The Replacements
5. North Dallas Forty
6. Remember the Titans
7. Brian's Song (James Caan/ Billy Dee Williams)
8. Invincible
9. Radio
10. Rudy

Baseball:

1. 61*
2. Bull Durham
3. The Sandlot
4. A League Of Their Own
5. Field of Dreams
6. Major League
7. Cobb

Basketball:

1. Hoosiers
2. White Men Can't Jump
3. He Got Game

Golf:

1. Happy Gilmore
2. Caddyshack
3. Tin Cup
4. The Greatest Game Ever Played
5. The Legend of Bagger Vance

Hockey:

1. Miracle
2. Slap Shot (Paul Newman)
3. Mystery, Alaska

Boxing:

1. Rocky
2. Raging Bull
3. Cinderella Man
4. Million Dollar Baby
5. The Hurricane
6. Diggstown
7. Gladiator (Cuba Gooding Jr.)

Wrestling:

1. Vision Quest

Bowling:

1. Kingpin
2. The Big Lebowski

Pool/Billiards:

1. The Hustler
2. The Color of Money
3. Poolhall Junkies

Horse Racing:

1. Seabiscuit
2. Phar Lap

Poker:

1. Rounders

Chess:

1. Searching for Bobby Fischer

Awesome list. I HIGHLY recommend "The Pride of the Yankees" and you will quickly add it to your baseball list.

 

[pjtoadie]

-Remember The Titans
-Rudy
-The Blind Side
-Major League (I'm partial to it because I'm from Cleveland)
-Field Of Dreams

 

[jobberone]

The Rounders

You just had to didn't you.

 

[Faerluna]

Any Given Sunday

 

[YosemiteSam]

-Major League (I'm partial to it because I'm from Cleveland)

I own this movie. I don't own movies unless they are great. Major League is a great movie. Maybe not a true sports movie, but still great none the less.

 

[Hostile]

I own this movie. I don't own movies unless they are great. Major League is a great movie. Maybe not a true sports movie, but still great none the less.

I live right down the street from the stadium they trained at to make the team. Hi-Corbett Field.

 

[pjtoadie]

I live right down the street from the stadium they trained at to make the team. Hi-Corbett Field.

Sweet!

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Rocky
Rudy
A League of Their Own
Remember The Titans
Field of Dreams

Any one of these could be rated as number one and I wouldn't have an issue with it. They were all outstanding movies.

 

[viman96]

LeMans
Warrior

 

[lane]

brian's song is hard to beat.... if you do not tear up ...you are not human.

hoosiers...gene hackman is one of the best actors ever.

remember the titans....just an all around great movie.

cinderella man..............damn that was a great movie.

 

[johnny utah]

brian's song is hard to beat.... if you do not tear up ...you are not human.

hoosiers...gene hackman is one of the best actors ever.

remember the titans....just a all around great movie.

cinderella man..............damn that was a great movie.

Good Stuff.

 

[lane]

forgot ...

raging bull

 

[wittenacious]

Awesome list. I HIGHLY recommend "The Pride of the Yankees" and you will quickly add it to your baseball list.

Good call!

I've seen "The Pride of the Yankees" (more than once) and I agree, not just a great movie but a Classic. My oversight to have left it off my list. It belongs near the top of my all-time favorite Baseball Movies list.

Yet another "D'oh!" moment, trying to recall so many wonderful movies.