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2019-10-17, 09:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Favorite Football Movies?
I think there are more Football movies out there than baseball. North Dallas 40 and Any Given Sunday come to mind quickest. I remember really liking a somewhat cheezy one in the 80's maybe with Kevin Kostner and Robin Williams where they had an old timers game. I'll have to dig it up and rewatch it.
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2019-10-17, 09:46 AM (ISO 8601)
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*whistles innocently*
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2019-10-17, 10:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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*also whistling innocently*
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Seriously though, Remember the Titans was a great film.
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2019-10-17, 12:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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I'll second North Dallas 40. Also Necessary Roughness, and the original The Longest Yard.
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2019-10-17, 01:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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I assume you mean American Football, aka gridiron, and not what the entire rest of the world calls "football" right?
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There's also this pretty great one from Germany.
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2019-10-20, 10:50 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-28, 07:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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If you ever wonder why the NCAA is so freaky with recruitment & the transfer of players, watch "Horse Feathers" with the MArx Brothers.
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2019-10-29, 03:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Brian's Song".
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2019-10-29, 03:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-10-30, 02:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Rudy
- Any Given Sunday
- Remember the Titans
- Brian's Song
- Invincible
Maybe in that order. I stick the comedy football movies elsewhere (but really liked Little Giants).
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2019-10-30, 03:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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If people want to list Rugby football, association football, or even Australian rules football movies, they should name them in the thread, rather than just linking to youtube videos of Rick Astley. And no, I'm not going to check whether anybody did that.
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2019-10-30, 11:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Uh... Mighty Ducks? No, that's ice hockey. But still the closest there is.
Seriously, are there football-movies? American or otherwise? I guess there should be but I can't think of any.Signatures are so 90's.
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2019-10-31, 05:25 PM (ISO 8601)
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Without looking anything up, in addition to the 6 I listed already, I'd add:
- The Longest Yard (Original)
- The Longest Yard (Remake)
- Wildcats
- Necessary Roughness
- We Are Marshall
- The Blind Side
...and there's a bunch of soccer/football movies, but I've not seen many beyond Victory.
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2019-11-01, 10:05 AM (ISO 8601)
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Can't avoid at least mentioning Air Bud: Golden Reciever. 😁
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2019-11-01, 10:33 AM (ISO 8601)
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Horse Feathers. It counts.
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2019-11-01, 03:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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It has been a long time since I saw Horse Feathers. Does it have significantly more football than M*A*S*H* (the movie) did?
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2019-11-02, 07:40 PM (ISO 8601)
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The last quarter of the movie is a football game. The rest of the movie plot is about recruiting the wrong players &/or mocking college life.
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2019-11-02, 08:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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I was going to google this, as it's the only football movie I recall liking enough to regret having forgotten the title of. I was going to guess Kung Fu Football.
If I had to pick an American Football movie... School Ties, maybe? It's not big on the football thing so much as racism, but it still technically involves football and is a pretty good movie.
Granted the only other one I can remember watching was Little Giants which was one of the many Mighty Ducks clones that the 90's was way into.
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2019-11-04, 02:54 PM (ISO 8601)
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If "technically involves X" is the criteria, does that make Thelma and Louise a car movie, a kid movie, an action movie, a western and a comedy all at the same time?
Re: Little Giants/Mighty Ducks: In that they both have children, both have sports with underdogs, and are both in America I guess I can get behind them being clones. But that's about as deep as the similarities run.
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2019-11-04, 03:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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See, none of them (or any other movie mentioned in this thread, with the exception of Mighty Ducks) ring the bell for me. I have literally never heard of any of them. Even though I tend to think of myself as a "movie guy". And I did play football in school... when they made to... and with general disintrest. Heh, sorry.
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Signatures are so 90's.
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2019-11-04, 03:44 PM (ISO 8601)
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I don't know. Is, say, 42 the Jackie Robinson biopic a baseball movie? The Wrestler a wrestling movie? Will Smith's Concussion an American Football movie? I'd personally say yes, but how much of the sport has to be the focus of the work for it to be a [blank] movie is up to interpretation, I guess.
School Ties is considered a sports drama, and is about an American Football player, so, [Football] movie?
As to the Mighty Ducks/Little Giants, I don't remember enough about either for a side-by-side comparison and they're both Bad News Bears-esque anyways, but it's more that the Ducks started a specifically early-90's trend towards family sport comedies with a number of similar archetypes in characters and story.
Not that the Mighty Ducks was a cinematic tidal wave of success or anything, but it cost very little to actually make and made much more than that. So it was a success in the way horror movies are often considered successful.
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2019-11-04, 03:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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"I've never heard of them" is not a terribly good criteria though. Blind Side, for instance was nominated for Best Picture and won Best Actress at the Oscars. That's pretty dang high-profile, but you've never heard of it, which underscores just how much whether or not anyone has heard of a movie has no bearing on its overall popularity or fame.
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2019-11-04, 04:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-11-05, 02:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Interesting questions. I think my gut answers would be yes (42), kind of (Wrestler) and no.
42 is both a biography (of Jackie Robinson) and a history of baseball, features a lot of baseball activity and inextricably tied to baseball, so yes.
The Wrestler is a fictional depiction of the (for lack of a better word) damage caused by fame and fortune of pro wrestling and the inability to cope with the world outside. Any of a number of high dollar jobs (music, art, other sports) could have replaced wrestling and the movie would have been relatively unchanged...but it does offer several glimpses into the world of pro wrestling outside of prime time, so that's why I say "kind of" or "maybe".
Concussion requires football to tell the story and presents (as I recall) some football activity, but mostly as a backdrop/background information for the story. Without football, there is no Concussion, but football can effectively be referenced without presentation. This is kind of like Born on the 4th of July for me - it requires war, presents war...but isn't a war movie.
I remember School Ties as a story about an outsider (Jewish kid) trying to fit in at a boarding school...basically an integration/segregation story...and the sports aspect is just the vehicle used to explain why he was at the school he couldn't otherwise attend. That could have easily been replaced with a music scholarship, science prodigy or any other sport, so I think that's why I don't view it as any more a football movie than I do Teen Wolf a basketball movie. Frankly, I didn't even remember that football was included until you mentioned it in this thread.
So I guess for me the sport must be necessary to the story, presented frequently in the story, and feature heavily in the lives of the main characters of the story for me to label it a [sport] movie. YMMV.
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2019-11-11, 07:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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It's about the business and the politics and the people more than the sport, but I recommend Draft Day with Kevin Costner.
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2019-11-25, 12:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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That he's never heard of an movie from just 10 years ago which was nominated for an Oscar and for which Sandra Bullock won an Oscar would tend to undermine his position as a "movie guy" and make pretty much anything else he has to say about movies suspect, wouldn't it?
Anyhow, a few other fairly well-known football movies (not necessarily my favorites):
The Freshman. Silent comedy with Harold Lloyd. One of his best-know roles.
Knute Rockne, All American. Biopic with Ronald Reagan in a supporting role as The Gipper.
Jim Thorpe--All-American. Another biopic, with Burt Lancaster in the lead role.
Bonzo Goes to College. Not to be confused with Bedtime For Bonzo; Reagan wasn't in this one.
Paper Lion. Based on a George Plimpton book and starring Alan Alda.
Two-Minute Warning. Basically a crime thriller about a sniper terrorizing a stadium during a game; could have been any other popular sport without really changing the plot, so arguably not a football movie.
Gus. Mule as a pro team's placekicker; part of the "animals playing sports" subgenre.
Black Sunday. Terrorist attack on the Super Bowl; similar to Two-Minute Warning in that you could use a different sport as the backdrop/setting.
Semi-Tough. Comedy with Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson; the movie poster advertising it probably wouldn't be approved nowadays.
All the Right Moves. On of Tom Cruise's early hits.
The Program. Generated controversy over the scene of players laying down in the middle of a highway, which was later cut.
Jerry McGuire. Movie about a sports agent; Oscar for Cuba Gooding, Jr., but he could have just as easily been a player in a different sport; "Show me the money!"