With the NFL season getting warmed up. I'm in the mood for some good foot ball movies. Any suggestions? I already have-

Any Given Sunday

Friday Night Lights

Any other suggestions?

~Zack~

Her favorite movie is Varsity Blues.

Are we talking about real football (aka Soccer for you yanks) or the watered down commercial interrupted girly type of football played in the  NFL?

A lesser known football movie is The Best of Times with Kurt Russell and Robin Williams.  Pretty decent comedy.

Necessary Roughness and The Longest Yard (the original) are also good.

This thread confuses me.

So I'm gonna go with Victory!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083284/

I'll interpret this thread as I see fit!

Quoted from Death Monkey So I'm gonna go with Victory!

Me too!!

Sly and Pelé in the same movie...my God...it's full of stars!!!

Yeah and it has the best villains of all time. A Nazi football team that plays DIRTY!

American - Rudy and Radio

English - Green Street (and I'm about to watch Football Factory soon)

Shaolin Soccer (Real football) but certain people will not enjoy this film because it is CGI based soccer action and not die hard "realistic" action.

American style football how about Remember The Titans or Gridiron Gang. Gridiron Gang catches a lot of negative press because it has The Rock but if you've never known him as a wrestler you can't judge him as an actor based on that.

And don't forget The Longest Yard (Either version)

I'll go The Slaughter Rule for number one. It's one of Ryan Gosling's early films.    

2/ Friday Night Lights which Varsity Blues actually ripped off. Sure Varsity Blues came out at the movies first, but the Friday Night Lights book preceded it, or so I'm lead to believe.

I don't really have a third, although I'm keen to see Dallas North Forty. I’ve heard it’s a great film.

Unfortunately there has never been a good movie made about Australian Rules Football. In fact I only know of two movies that have revolved around Aussie Rules and both of them weren't much chop. I guess the reason for this is that we don't have big enough film budgets to do our great game justice on the big screen. I guess the only option would be to do a behind the scenes look at football life, that way we wouldn't have to fill stadiums to stage matches.

Here's a website that specializes in sports movies: http://www.sportsinmovies.com/

Any one seen 'We Are Marshall'? It's one of  the best football movies I've ever seen, but I can't seem to find out when it's released on DVD.

~Zack~

Coming from Texas, I have to say that any movie that tries to capture that "Friday night and I'm at a football game feeling" fails. I guess that's just me. I never actually played football, but I had season passes with my parents, so we went to about every home game until I was 14 or so.

I've never seen a movie to really capture what it's like. FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS comes close.

(GO YELLOW JACKETS!)

I try to avoid these kinds of movies. Not only football movies, but any kinds of sports movies. I've never been much if a sports kinda guy, and I've never been able to really get into a movie that has a lot of it. I enjoyed Remember the Titans though. For what it was, it was good. And Denzel Washington can always be counted upon to carry a movie.


Matt.

REMEMBER THE TITANS also has Kip Pardue. Love him!

I don't mind these movies too much... except they can be a little predictable. The protagonist team (Can a team be a protagonist) will always win in the end. I don't think I've ever seen one lose. If the movies became about the players instead of the sport, I may like it better.

I'm still waiting for a good swim team movie.

There are movies where the protagonist team loses in the end.

I haven't seen one. You got some examples, Mike?

Remeber the Titans has Hayden Panettiere! Even though she was like 11 at the time, so that's kinda creepy. It also has Ryan Gosling and Will Patton who both rock.

But the movie itself, while entertaining enough, was kinda preaching to the choir I think. But maybe that's because I'm not American.

But I think Matt is right. Sports movies, in general, are predictable. Even mroso than romantic comedies.

Here's the gist of the plot:

The team sucks.

The team gets a player/coach/cheerleader that gets them into shape.

The team overcomes internal problems and starts winning.

The team loses the player/coach/thing that got them great, or at least the team's morale drops to a all time low during the BIG GAME.

THEN Emilio Esteves gives a firebrand speech that turns the tide!

The Team wins OR learns that it's not about winning or losing, blah blah blah.


Btw. anybody seen the original ending for Dodgeball? That's one of the greatest endings of all time. Not just in a sports movie.

Quoted from ABennettWriter I haven't seen one. You got some examples, Mike?

Again, watch the original ending for Dodgeball.

Quoted from ABennettWriter I haven't seen one. You got some examples, Mike?

SPOILERS, SPOILERS, SPOILERS




North Dallas Forty (Football)
The Bad News Bears (Baseball)
Rocky - this is debatable (Boxing)
Best of the Best (Some form of karate)
Kingpin (Bowling)
A League of Their Own (Baseball)
Tin Cup (Golf)
The Slugger's Wife (Baseball)
All the Right Moves (Football)

I'll post more as I think of them

Actually - though it's never shown - the Miami Sharks loses the final game (for the pantheon cup) in Any Given Sunday.

'We Are Marshall' only wins 9 games over a period of 10 years.

~Zack~

I haven't seen anybody mention The Program yet, that's a good college football movie.

The best footie (soccer) movie has got to be 'There's only one Jimmy Grimble'.  It's not that well known but it's really funny and shows proper school football, all mud, sweat and tears.  Brilliant movie.