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Bad_Rich_Chic · 11-17-2003, 04:37 PM

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Originally posted by Did you just call me Coltrane?
"Hoosiers"
Or "Victory".

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

ThurgreedMarshall · 11-17-2003, 04:38 PM

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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
What is your favorite "kids" movie generally enjoyable by adults?

Aladdin.

In the sequence when they're introducing the princess' suitor and they're singing the song about all the shit he's got, there's one line where they say, "He's got ninety-five white Persian monkeys
(He's got the monkeys, let's see the monkeys)." Now that's some funny shit.

Also, I usually hate Robin Williams. But I didn't in this movie. Maybe it's because I couldn't see his smarmy fucking face.

And I usually despise Gilbert Gottfried, but he didn't bother me at all this movie. Maybe it's because I couldn't see his ugly, squinty face.

Also, the extended "Whole New (throw up all over yourself) World" song almost ruins the whole thing, but I got through it.

I hated the Lion King and it wasn't because it had the most overrated entertainer in the history of the world (Nathan Lane). It was just stupid.

TM

str8outavannuys · 11-17-2003, 04:41 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
I plan to watch Average Jew tonight but have never watched it in its entirety. Can someone sum up what happened in the last two(?) episodes? anything really funny?

Agreed that this is a boring-ass day.

Average Joe recap: A bunch of jews sat around and went on dates with a hottie girl. The only one to make any time with the girl was Zack Cohen. He did so by being very aggressive. Lots of smooching in the pool.

This one tiny little guy was doing pretty well on his date, until he started singing some Vienna Boys Choir stuff. Freaked her out. She gave him a tiny little peck on the lips goodnight, and he's been in rapture ever since, waxing poetic on and on about the kiss. One would think it was one of the five most romantic, most passionate kisses in history (save Buttercup and Wesley's, which topped them all). But it really wasn't. He squiqqued her out.

The solo dates were little guy, Zack, and Deepak Chopra, who hit a rare 100 out of 100 on the unintentional comedy scale by complimenting her intellect.

The other thing about it was that they talked about how much the dorky virgin guy had touched all their lives, like he was some sort of freaking cancer-victim. The way they spoke about him was way out of all proportion to his anything they showed on-screen.

str(on call 24/7 for all your reality show recap needs)8

purse junkie · 11-17-2003, 04:47 PM

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Tyrone Slothrop · 11-17-2003, 04:47 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Agreed that this is a boring-ass day.

You must not have been here yesterday.

Movies about sports are very difficult to pull off, because the need for narrative arc and closure in a movie is inconsistent with the uncertainty about what's going to happen that you see in the most exciting sporting events. When the good guys win, you can't forget the feeling that it had to be that way. (As a Red Sox fan, I know that my team is fated to lose, but that's a little different, and I digress.) So some of the better movies on people's lists make the sports secondary.

Greedy,Greedy,Greedy · 11-17-2003, 04:50 PM

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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
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

Grasshopper,

You forget the "Martial Arts" movies. If we have to let fencing in, we must let in Kung Fu.

So, no fencing.

Back to Bend it Like Beckham.

purse junkie · 11-17-2003, 04:51 PM

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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic

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

And don't forget the Bond movie with Madonna in it. For fencers, pure bliss.

purse junkie · 11-17-2003, 04:53 PM

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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Grasshopper,

You forget the "Martial Arts" movies. If we have to let fencing in, we must let in Kung Fu.

So, no fencing.

Back to Bend it Like Beckham.

You disregard the athletic prowess of Ralph Macchio?!

11-17-2003, 04:56 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I can't see out the window because of the rain, but I can still post.

Did you go to any of the tennis matches this week? Phenomneal.

Bad_Rich_Chic · 11-17-2003, 04:56 PM

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Originally posted by Replaced_Texan
I still haven't seen Bambi, because my mother had a traumatic experience with it when she was five or so and she had to be escorted from the theater.

My favorite Disney movies are ....

I was very freaked out by the dragon in Sleeping Beauty, myself. I'd have to say my fav. Disney movie as of right now is Pirates of the Caribbean. Mainly because of Johny Depp.

Hmm, having checked Disney's list of its movies, I have to say there are more there that I remember enjoying than I thought - the Music Man, Old Yeller and Tron, principally. Though they include Nightmare Before Christmas and Schoolhouse Rock on their list of "Disney" films, and I'm pretty sure I'd remember if either was actually, originally, a Disney show.

BR(never liked Fantasia - I was force-fed too much of it in music class as a little kid, so it's right up there with Peter and the Wolf for me on the list of manipulative shite that adults think kids will like)C

11-17-2003, 04:59 PM

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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
the Mr. thinks the Waterboy qualifies as great art

It doesn't?

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Aladdin.

Concur. For all the same reasons, including the monkey song, which is now stuck in my head. Damn you.

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Originally posted by ThurgreedMarshall I hated the Lion King....It was just stupid.

And I thought I was the only one - Lion King haters unite!

-T(I liked Happy Gilmore too (my nom. for sports flick) - so shoot me.)L

11-17-2003, 05:01 PM

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Originally posted by paigowprincess
Did you go to any of the tennis matches this week? Phenomneal.

News mentioned some players complained about the court surface, but didn't say why. Did they find the color offensive or what? -TL

11-17-2003, 05:01 PM

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Originally posted by str8outavannuys
Agreed that this is a boring-ass day.

Average Joe recap: A bunch of jews sat around and went on dates with a hottie girl. The only one to make any time with the girl was Zack Cohen. He did so by being very aggressive. Lots of smooching in the pool.

This one tiny little guy was doing pretty well on his date, until he started singing some Vienna Boys Choir stuff. Freaked her out. She gave him a tiny little peck on the lips goodnight, and he's been in rapture ever since,

What's a jew doing singing choir music? And whats his name, just for reference?

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The solo dates were little guy, Zack, and Deepak Chopra, who hit a rare 100 out of 100 on the unintentional comedy scale by complimenting her intellect.

They have the first Indian guy on reality tv ever, and its this show? How is sthis show not racist?

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The other thing about it was that they talked about how much the dorky virgin guy had touched all their lives, like he was some sort of freaking cancer-victim. The way they spoke about him was way out of all proportion to his anything they showed on-screen.

Name please. How many guys are left? and it is worth staying up to 11 for?

str(on call 24/7 for all your reality show recap needs)8 [/QUOTE]

notcasesensitive · 11-17-2003, 05:02 PM

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Originally posted by Bad_Rich_Chic
I was very freaked out by the dragon in Sleeping Beauty, myself. I'd have to say my fav. Disney movie as of right now is Pirates of the Caribbean. Mainly because of Johny Depp.

That witch/dragon give me plenty of nightmares when I was a kid. Definitely the scariest kiddy flick I've ever seen. I did not LOVE Shrek the way others did, but it may have been all the hype that wrecked it for me. Want to see Finding Nemo and I'm hoping it will not prove to be overhyped as well.

Oh, and, Hoosiers and Breaking Away rank as my favorite sports movies, but it may have to do with my Indiana heritage.

Least favorite sports movie - Days of Thunder/Top Gun/Color of Money. They are all the same, so I will not bother to differentiate among the pack as to which is the worst of the dreck.

11-17-2003, 05:05 PM

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Originally posted by TexLex
News mentioned some players complained about the court surface, but didn't say why. Did they find the color offensive or what? -TL

I didnt hear anything about complaints except that the surface got dangerous fast when even the tennsiest bit wet. I noticed that it said in big ass letters right behind the base line "tennis masters series" and thought that would be really really distracting if I was playing.

who are Jack and Linda Mc something who spent 27 mil of their own money to get this tourney there?