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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
"Hoosiers"
Or "Victory".
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Definitely the best basketball and soccer movies ever, respectively. Even though Victory has Stallone in it. I think Hoosiers is the best sports movie period. Slapshot for hockey, no competition.
I have never been able to get into baseball movies, for some reason, though there are lots that I would have to admit are objectively good movies. Even Bull Durham - I just can't get excited about it. I guess I'd have to go with the Natural for simple aesthetics, but I can't say I really liked sitting through it. Redford sorta gets up my nose.
Football, too, has something of an embarrasment of riches. Longest Yard, Remember the Titans, North Dallas 40 (which I think is my favorite, but I can't explain why). However, football also has some really watchable silly-movies, which I have to mention because I liked them (though they obviously aren't great art): Waterboy, and that Goldie Hawn thing where she plays a HS coach is surprisingly watchable.
However, there is one sport which clearly has the best movies to its credit, and you never think of them as "sports" movies. Go ahead, try to guess the sport.
go on
Fencing.
HUGE number of GREAT movies featuring AMAZING athletic feats. Small sampling: Captain Blood; Scaramouche; the 1920 Mark of Zorro, El Maistro de Esgrima, Princess Bride, a bunch of stuff by Kurosawa (Sanjuro, Seven Samurai, Yojimbo, Ran), both the '35 and '73 Three Musketeers, Prisoner of Zenda, Sea Hawk, Thief of Bagdad, Sunshine. You have to include LotR and Star Wars movies, for that matter. That's not even a good starter list. I am waiting for a Liev Schrieber fencing movie - he fenced at Yale. And he's cute.
BR(the Mr. thinks the Waterboy qualifies as great art)C
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