Reidy1987 Posted April 22, 2004 Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 1. When Saturday Comes 2. Chariots of Fire 3. This Sporting Life 4. Mean Machine 5. Bull Durham Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom McB Posted April 22, 2004 Report Share Posted April 22, 2004 1.Raging Bull 2.This sporting life 3.Chariots of Fire 4. Field of Dreams 5. Rollerball - original ( stretching it a bit I know) Honorable mention to WSC Like sport itself the best sporting films deal with much more than the game. (sounds pretentious- ) Best laugh- Escape to victory Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ST SID Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 1. Slap Shot 2. Caddyshack 3. Hoosiers 4. Kingpin 5. Geordie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glittersnood Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 1. Field of dreams 2. caddyshack 3. Cool runnings 4. Kingpin 5. Rocky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted April 23, 2004 Report Share Posted April 23, 2004 1. Escape To Victory 2. Mean Machine 3. Happy Gilmore 4. When Saturday Comes 5. Grand Prix Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloomsbury Bud Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 Touching the Void When We Were Kings This Sporting Life Chariots of Fire The Natural Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HSS Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 Any older members remember a film about the 1970 World Cup in Mexico??It was about a wee boy who ran away from home to watch the football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorizaar Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 And still no mention of the classic "A Shot At Glory"! Surprised at that!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 And still no mention of the classic "A Shot At Glory"! Surprised at that!! Perhaps we could go for the top 5 accents used by Bobby Duvall in that film? Scottish certainly wasn't one of them Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorizaar Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 Perhaps we could go for the top 5 accents used by Bobby Duvall in that film? Scottish certainly wasn't one of them Bobby Duvall? You must be one of those smug actors who annoyingly shortens other actors first names to make sure everyone knows they are friends!! Bob DeNiro and Bill Shatner are other commonly used ones!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howard Hughes in BlueSuedeShoes Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 Touching the VoidWhen We Were Kings This Sporting Life Chariots of Fire The Natural Have to disagree with you on your final choice there, my erstwhile Helensburgh residing chum. The Natural is a fine novel written by the late Bernard Malamud. The ending in the book is very sad and completely un-feelgood. Hollywood, being the utter b*****ds that they are, twisted it round and gave it a totally different ending. The usual bollocks of "they all lived happily ever after" as Robert Redford is throwing the baseball in his back yard with his son, with the missus looking. Pile of dingos kidneys if you ask me. Read the book. It's worthwhile. Aoart from that totally agree with Chariots of Fire and When We Were Kings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10ent Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 Any Given Sunday Happy Gilmore Major League Midnight Sting The Cannonball Run (technically not a sporting film but it is about a race!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stu Posted April 27, 2004 Report Share Posted April 27, 2004 Bobby Duvall? You must be one of those smug actors who annoyingly shortens other actors first names to make sure everyone knows they are friends!! Bob DeNiro and Bill Shatner are other commonly used ones!! I'll have you know Bobby Duvall is one of my good friends and I'm allowed to use that term. So there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chingford Posted April 28, 2004 Report Share Posted April 28, 2004 (edited) I'll have you know Bobby Duvall is one of my good friends and I'm allowed to use that term. So there I've always been a firm advocate of employing the 'So there!' tactic when skating on thin intellectual ice! Brilliant move, Stu... Espesh when ye stick on a at the end of it! Ye cannae argue wi that! Edited April 28, 2004 by chingford Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ST SID Posted April 28, 2004 Report Share Posted April 28, 2004 is one of my good friends Is that you in gingy denial again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paisleysaint Posted April 29, 2004 Report Share Posted April 29, 2004 Fever Pitch was a sporting movie based on arsenals incredible league win back in 1989 not bad movie - the bit at the end when they are dancing in the street only reminds us of the time we were doing the same thing in the streets of Paisley ah soaked in drink toasting the championship wonderful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ST SID Posted April 30, 2004 Report Share Posted April 30, 2004 What was the TV Movie about the undercover polis infiltrating the casuals down in €ngland called? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
10ent Posted April 30, 2004 Report Share Posted April 30, 2004 What was the TV Movie about the undercover polis infiltrating the casuals down in €ngland called? I'm sure it was called ID. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom McB Posted April 30, 2004 Report Share Posted April 30, 2004 Can't believe that no one else has picked Raging bull- best goddam boxing fim ever. Ching you should know better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ST SID Posted May 1, 2004 Report Share Posted May 1, 2004 Can't believe that no one else has picked Raging bull- best goddam boxing fim ever.Ching you should know better Scumbag.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Sea Saint Posted May 1, 2004 Report Share Posted May 1, 2004 "When we were kings" is a much better boxing movie because...it features real boxing! BTW, did you know Mr. McB that Muhammed Ali (or Cassius Clay as he was then) fought in an exhibition match at Paisley Ice Rink? Oh come on, you must know that, you were old enough to have gone to see it I was there, I was only a boy but I was there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom McB Posted May 1, 2004 Report Share Posted May 1, 2004 "When we were kings" is a much better boxing movie because...it features real boxing! BTW, did you know Mr. McB that Muhammed Ali (or Cassius Clay as he was then) fought in an exhibition match at Paisley Ice Rink? Oh come on, you must know that, you were old enough to have gone to see it Nope - news to me- Cassius Marcellus Clay III of course Suppose I went for Raging bull because of the attempt to depict boxing- When did the event occur? And does anyone else remember the BBC series ( early 70's ?) by Harry Carpenter on the Heavyweight champions from the start to that time- quality television. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ST SID Posted May 1, 2004 Report Share Posted May 1, 2004 It was in 1965 I believe. Love Street was a venue for a World Championship fight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
North Sea Saint Posted May 1, 2004 Report Share Posted May 1, 2004 Was it not before he became World Champion Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom McB Posted May 1, 2004 Report Share Posted May 1, 2004 The greatest sportsman ever and this is one of my all time favourite photographs One of the few joys of being d'un certain age is watching that fight live- think that dad McB (god rest his soul) woke me up to see it on the beeb during the middle of the night. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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