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RE: Great sports movies - JJJ - 12-11-2020
Watched “Twelve” and was pleasantly surprised. Cute family film that brought back many memories of son’s baseball weekends. No spoiler alert but watch until the end.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7033498/
lex24 - lex24 - 12-11-2020
Ok, Bull Durham and Field of Dreams have to be somewhere on this list. Susan Sarandon is terrific in Durham.
And as corny as Field of Dreams is, well it’s an ode to baseball. And, having roots in Iowa, I love that’s its filmed there. Best line: (Might have been a question from Shoeless Joe, but I’m unsure “Is this Heaven.” “No, it’s Iowa.”
RE: Great sports movies - BrevinsBest - 12-11-2020
I recently watched Foxcatcher, a movie that was released about 6 years ago. Initial reviews were good (but not great), but I thought it was really well done. It's a very depressing movie. Steve Carrell was great as was Mark Ruffalo. I highly recommend although I'm not sure if it should be considered a great sports movie.
RE: Great sports movies - Spiny_Norman - 12-11-2020
(12-11-2020, 12:20 PM)BrevinsBest Wrote: I recently watched Foxcatcher, a movie that was released about 6 years ago. Initial reviews were good (but not great), but I thought it was really well done. It's a very depressing movie. Steve Carrell was great as was Mark Ruffalo. I highly recommend although I'm not sure if it should be considered a great sports movie.
Dave Schultz graduated from Palo Alto High, was the son of Stanford graduates and had been an assistant Stanford wrestling coach.
RE: lex24 - JJJ - 12-11-2020
(12-11-2020, 11:49 AM)lex24 Wrote: Ok, Bull Durham and Field of Dreams have to be somewhere on this list. Susan Sarandon is terrific in Durham.Agreed on all of the above. Your quote is accurate and apparently they sell t-shirts at that cornfield lot. I just threw away my VHS tapes of those because I now have DVDs (and also For Love of the Game).
And as corny as Field of Dreams is, well it’s an ode to baseball. And, having roots in Iowa, I love that’s its filmed there. Best line: (Might have been a question from Shoeless Joe, but I’m unsure “Is this Heaven.” “No, it’s Iowa.”
RE: Great sports movies - teejers1 - 12-11-2020
(12-11-2020, 11:23 AM)JJJ Wrote: Watched “Twelve” and was pleasantly surprised. Cute family film that brought back many memories of son’s baseball weekends. No spoiler alert but watch until the end.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7033498/
Thanks for trailer - will have to check it out.
Coached several (head a couple times; assistant a couple more times) LL All Star Teams. Thought I was a good coach; however, I was not prepared for the cheating that went on in both my sons' 12 year old year All Star Tourneys, which ended up being their last LL games. I still smh in looking back at that thinking that adults - who were specifically advised not to cheat (namely, by relaying pitches to the batter) by the tourney organizers, still did so. It literally never crossed my mind . . . until it was too late.
And when I finally figured it out (once with help of another PALL coach who was in the stands) and once when I tried to convince myself "nah, he wouldn't do that, I'm imagining things," the damage was done. Team fell behind and never able to tie the game back up. Still bothers me.
And btw, it's also why I find Astros (and Red Sox?) cheating to be especially bad. It makes an enormous difference - even at Little League level - when the batter knows what pitch is coming.
RE: Great sports movies - JJJ - 12-11-2020
(12-11-2020, 01:40 PM)teejers1 Wrote:Just to manage expectations, this was a cute family movie, nothing more. It's no Bull Durham, Field of Dreams, or even Bad News Bears. No one will win an Oscar. But I definitely did not feel like I wasted my time.(12-11-2020, 11:23 AM)JJJ Wrote: Watched “Twelve” and was pleasantly surprised. Cute family film that brought back many memories of son’s baseball weekends. No spoiler alert but watch until the end.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7033498/
Thanks for trailer - will have to check it out.
Coached several (head a couple times; assistant a couple more times) LL All Star Teams. Thought I was a good coach; however, I was not prepared for the cheating that went on in both my sons' 12 year old year All Star Tourneys, which ended up being their last LL games. I still smh in looking back at that thinking that adults - who were specifically advised not to cheat (namely, by relaying pitches to the batter) by the tourney organizers, still did so. It literally never crossed my mind . . . until it was too late.
And when I finally figured it out (once with help of another PALL coach who was in the stands) and once when I tried to convince myself "nah, he wouldn't do that, I'm imagining things," the damage was done. Team fell behind and never able to tie the game back up. Still bothers me.
And btw, it's also why I find Astros (and Red Sox?) cheating to be especially bad. It makes an enormous difference - even at Little League level - when the batter knows what pitch is coming.
lex24 - lex24 - 12-12-2020
(12-11-2020, 01:40 PM)teejers1 Wrote:(12-11-2020, 11:23 AM)JJJ Wrote: Watched “Twelve” and was pleasantly surprised. Cute family film that brought back many memories of son’s baseball weekends. No spoiler alert but watch until the end.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt7033498/
Thanks for trailer - will have to check it out.
Coached several (head a couple times; assistant a couple more times) LL All Star Teams. Thought I was a good coach; however, I was not prepared for the cheating that went on in both my sons' 12 year old year All Star Tourneys, which ended up being their last LL games. I still smh in looking back at that thinking that adults - who were specifically advised not to cheat (namely, by relaying pitches to the batter) by the tourney organizers, still did so. It literally never crossed my mind . . . until it was too late.
And when I finally figured it out (once with help of another PALL coach who was in the stands) and once when I tried to convince myself "nah, he wouldn't do that, I'm imagining things," the damage was done. Team fell behind and never able to tie the game back up. Still bothers me.
And btw, it's also why I find Astros (and Red Sox?) cheating to be especially bad. It makes an enormous difference - even at Little League level - when the batter knows what pitch is coming.
Well, hopefully at LL level it’s fastball or change up.
RE: Great sports movies - jonnyss - 12-12-2020
gallipoli is not exactly a sports movie, but it follows 2 australian sprinters, first in races and then into ww1. magnificent and memorable film though painful and tragic. a very young mel gibson.
lex24 - lex24 - 12-12-2020
Has anyone mentioned Chariots of Fire? Or, what is considered one of the greatest movies of all time, Raging Bull. That is a very hard movie to watch. Just so brutal.
Then there is Moneyball. A farce of a movie. What they did to Art Howe stunk. Always thought Beane could have done something about that. But I’m sure he was too busy drinking in Brad Pitt playing him. Ego the size of Alaska .
RE: Great sports movies - jonnyss - 12-12-2020
expanding the horizons beyond college sports, how about
a bowling movie - the big lebowski!
2 boxing movies - million dollar baby, hurricane;
a rugby movie - invictus;
a pool movie - the hustler;
a skateboarding movie - dog town & z-boys;
a bicycling movie - breaking away;
a car-racing movie - ford vs ferrari.