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03-02-2006, 06:56 PM
FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS
varsity blues
remember the titans
rudy
the junction boys
varsity blues
remember the titans
rudy
the junction boys
03-02-2006, 11:16 PM
BLOOD OF HEROES was a good one too. Well not really football but all the greatness that football stands for. Beating the crap out of your opponents, displaying your superiority and pain is temporary- glory is forever.
03-03-2006, 10:44 AM
1.) Friday Night Lights
2.) Remember The Titans
3.) Varsity Blues
4.) Junction Boys
5.) The Replacements
2.) Remember The Titans
3.) Varsity Blues
4.) Junction Boys
5.) The Replacements
03-03-2006, 10:58 AM
water boy
03-03-2006, 11:35 AM
How can anybody say that Friday Night Lights is a good movie? The team loses at the end. I always thought that The Replacements by far is the best football movie EVER!
03-03-2006, 01:03 PM
You all are forgetting about Any Given Sunday! That's my second favorite movie to Friday Night Lights. Rudy is #3
03-03-2006, 03:22 PM
Any Given Sunday!
The speech that Al Pacino gives in the locker room before the game is AWESOME!
The speech that Al Pacino gives in the locker room before the game is AWESOME!
03-03-2006, 03:55 PM
You can keep all your "hollywood-fancied-up" movies made to look all slick and stylized. THE PROGRAM was about as UNrealistic toward football (and technically INaccurate) as THE WATERBOY was (at least the WATERBOY meant to be funny).
As far as GOOD football movies that really hold up to a REALISTIC standard (Xs and Os talked about being accurate, game-violence being true to life -- not 'cartoonish' like ANY GIVEN SUNDAY, and the lives of the players being REAL and not stylized)...
1. All the Right Moves
Best depiction of what high school football is REALLY about from a player's perspective...both on AND off the field. Also, gives people in a BASKETBALL state a look at what football means in a FOOTBALL state! (Pennsylvania)
http://www.apolloguide.com/mov_fullrev.asp?CID=3958
2. Brian's Song (original, ABC made-for-tv movie)
Makes pro athletes look a lot more "like us" than they seem on tv...and gives a look at what the game was like before it was THE primary professional sport. Also, is fun to watch from an X's and O's point of view -- with wide-open offenses, the high school game TODAY is much more advanced than the pro game was then!
Also, the ONLY movie where it's okay for a GUY to CRY!
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1003076-.../about.php
3. Something for Joey
Another made-for-tv movie from the early 80s about Brian Cappelleti -- overachieving running back from Penn State who overcame a terrible injury to be the nation's #1 back in the late 70s -- and his relationship with his younger brother, Joey, who had terminal leukemia. When it shows Brian accept an award for courage at a banquet and say he's nowhere near as courageous as Joey and asks him to come up on the stage because the trophy should belong to him...well, it's ROUGH!!!
Okay, there's TWO movies it's alright for a guy to cry while watching (kind of welling up right now just thinking about it!).
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/something_for_joey/
4. EVERYBODY'S ALL AMERICAN
WAY too long, but GREAT actual football footage from 50's LSU games; based on novel by sportswriter Frank Deford that was loosely based on life of LSU Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/search/mov...hby=movies
5. FOOTBALL AMERICA
It's not an actual "movie," but a documentary -- or rather, a series of 15 minute vignettes about great REAL-LIFE football stories throughout the country.
One features Gaulludet University's team (an all-deaf school) and the different things they have to do to play (like use a big bass drum on the sidelines to give VIBRATION for the snap count each play).
Another is about a team in Alaska that plays its home games on the only piece of flat land available -- grass can't grow on it because of the weather...it's all just GRAY SILT (imagine sand and dirt mixed together with thousands of small rocks right at the surface).
There's a great story of a 65 year old semi-pro player that just can't stop playing.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/nfl_foot.../about.php
Honorable Mention: Knute Rockne: All American -- the story of the father of Notre Dame football.
As far as GOOD football movies that really hold up to a REALISTIC standard (Xs and Os talked about being accurate, game-violence being true to life -- not 'cartoonish' like ANY GIVEN SUNDAY, and the lives of the players being REAL and not stylized)...
1. All the Right Moves
Best depiction of what high school football is REALLY about from a player's perspective...both on AND off the field. Also, gives people in a BASKETBALL state a look at what football means in a FOOTBALL state! (Pennsylvania)
http://www.apolloguide.com/mov_fullrev.asp?CID=3958
2. Brian's Song (original, ABC made-for-tv movie)
Makes pro athletes look a lot more "like us" than they seem on tv...and gives a look at what the game was like before it was THE primary professional sport. Also, is fun to watch from an X's and O's point of view -- with wide-open offenses, the high school game TODAY is much more advanced than the pro game was then!
Also, the ONLY movie where it's okay for a GUY to CRY!
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1003076-.../about.php
3. Something for Joey
Another made-for-tv movie from the early 80s about Brian Cappelleti -- overachieving running back from Penn State who overcame a terrible injury to be the nation's #1 back in the late 70s -- and his relationship with his younger brother, Joey, who had terminal leukemia. When it shows Brian accept an award for courage at a banquet and say he's nowhere near as courageous as Joey and asks him to come up on the stage because the trophy should belong to him...well, it's ROUGH!!!
Okay, there's TWO movies it's alright for a guy to cry while watching (kind of welling up right now just thinking about it!).
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/something_for_joey/
4. EVERYBODY'S ALL AMERICAN
WAY too long, but GREAT actual football footage from 50's LSU games; based on novel by sportswriter Frank Deford that was loosely based on life of LSU Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/search/mov...hby=movies
5. FOOTBALL AMERICA
It's not an actual "movie," but a documentary -- or rather, a series of 15 minute vignettes about great REAL-LIFE football stories throughout the country.
One features Gaulludet University's team (an all-deaf school) and the different things they have to do to play (like use a big bass drum on the sidelines to give VIBRATION for the snap count each play).
Another is about a team in Alaska that plays its home games on the only piece of flat land available -- grass can't grow on it because of the weather...it's all just GRAY SILT (imagine sand and dirt mixed together with thousands of small rocks right at the surface).
There's a great story of a 65 year old semi-pro player that just can't stop playing.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/nfl_foot.../about.php
Honorable Mention: Knute Rockne: All American -- the story of the father of Notre Dame football.
03-03-2006, 05:00 PM
Football24_7 Wrote:You can keep all your "hollywood-fancied-up" movies made to look all slick and stylized. THE PROGRAM was about as UNrealistic toward football (and technically INaccurate) as THE WATERBOY was (at least the WATERBOY meant to be funny).
As far as GOOD football movies that really hold up to a REALISTIC standard (Xs and Os talked about being accurate, game-violence being true to life -- not 'cartoonish' like ANY GIVEN SUNDAY, and the lives of the players being REAL and not stylized)...
1. All the Right Moves
Best depiction of what high school football is REALLY about from a player's perspective...both on AND off the field. Also, gives people in a BASKETBALL state a look at what football means in a FOOTBALL state! (Pennsylvania)
http://www.apolloguide.com/mov_fullrev.asp?CID=3958
2. Brian's Song (original, ABC made-for-tv movie)
Makes pro athletes look a lot more "like us" than they seem on tv...and gives a look at what the game was like before it was THE primary professional sport. Also, is fun to watch from an X's and O's point of view -- with wide-open offenses, the high school game TODAY is much more advanced than the pro game was then!
Also, the ONLY movie where it's okay for a GUY to CRY!
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/1003076-.../about.php
3. Something for Joey
Another made-for-tv movie from the early 80s about Brian Cappelleti -- overachieving running back from Penn State who overcame a terrible injury to be the nation's #1 back in the late 70s -- and his relationship with his younger brother, Joey, who had terminal leukemia. When it shows Brian accept an award for courage at a banquet and say he's nowhere near as courageous as Joey and asks him to come up on the stage because the trophy should belong to him...well, it's ROUGH!!!
Okay, there's TWO movies it's alright for a guy to cry while watching (kind of welling up right now just thinking about it!).
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/something_for_joey/
4. EVERYBODY'S ALL AMERICAN
WAY too long, but GREAT actual football footage from 50's LSU games; based on novel by sportswriter Frank Deford that was loosely based on life of LSU Heisman Trophy winner Billy Cannon.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/search/mov...hby=movies
5. FOOTBALL AMERICA
It's not an actual "movie," but a documentary -- or rather, a series of 15 minute vignettes about great REAL-LIFE football stories throughout the country.
One features Gaulludet University's team (an all-deaf school) and the different things they have to do to play (like use a big bass drum on the sidelines to give VIBRATION for the snap count each play).
Another is about a team in Alaska that plays its home games on the only piece of flat land available -- grass can't grow on it because of the weather...it's all just GRAY SILT (imagine sand and dirt mixed together with thousands of small rocks right at the surface).
There's a great story of a 65 year old semi-pro player that just can't stop playing.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/nfl_foot.../about.php
Honorable Mention: Knute Rockne: All American -- the story of the father of Notre Dame football.
Was it Gen Siskel or is Robert Ebert your father? :lmao:
03-03-2006, 05:58 PM
The Original Longest Yard
Friday Night Lights
North Dallas Forty
The Program
Rudy
Worst one ever
Any Given Sunday
Friday Night Lights
North Dallas Forty
The Program
Rudy
Worst one ever
Any Given Sunday
03-03-2006, 07:25 PM
PantherPride68 Wrote:The Original Longest Yard
Friday Night Lights
North Dallas Forty
The Program
Rudy
Worst one ever
Any Given Sunday
How could I forget the ORIGINAL Longest Yard!?
...oh, and POND CREEK, my momma always taught me, if I'm gonna do anything, always do my best.
03-03-2006, 07:31 PM
Friday Night Lights is the BEST!! I cried at the end. I would have died if it had happen to my team. I also like Remember the Titans, it used to be my fav. until Friday Night Lights came out.
03-03-2006, 10:41 PM
Friday Night lights most def... had something like that kinda happen to our team last season which kinda touched me
03-04-2006, 12:19 PM
Pond Creek Wrote:Any Given Sunday!That speech was great but it was the only good part of that turd of a movie IMO.:dump:
The speech that Al Pacino gives in the locker room before the game is AWESOME!
03-04-2006, 12:24 PM
pirate_girl Wrote:Friday Night Lights is the BEST!! I cried at the end. I would have died if it had happen to my team. I also like Remember the Titans, it used to be my fav. until Friday Night Lights came out.Something like that did happen to us my senior year in '94 when we fumbled on the 3 yard line with 1:00 to go in the game and lost by 6 against beechwood. The first time I saw FNL I balled my eyes out. Also felt more real being that the team was called the Panthers.
03-04-2006, 09:57 PM
The Replacements
03-05-2006, 02:50 AM
Myself I like Varsity Blues... FNL is the shit though!
03-05-2006, 03:00 AM
TERMINATOR X Wrote:Myself I like Varsity Blues... FNL is the shit though!Yeah, It was a funny movie!
03-05-2006, 03:01 AM
1.Friday night lights
2.Rudy
3.Any Giving Sunday
4.The Waterboy
5.Remember the Titians
2.Rudy
3.Any Giving Sunday
4.The Waterboy
5.Remember the Titians
03-05-2006, 06:54 PM
i like varsity blues and friday night lights
03-05-2006, 07:41 PM
1.Remember the Titans
2.Friday Night Lights
3.The Longest Yard
4.Rudy
5.The Replacements
2.Friday Night Lights
3.The Longest Yard
4.Rudy
5.The Replacements
03-09-2006, 01:54 AM
i love any type of football movie but Rudy had to be the top football movie ever. it has the tradition of football the pride of football and the toughness of football. i have watched Rudy id say 20 times or more and i never get tired of seeing them carrying him off of the field i get chill bumps every time.
heres my favorite
1. Rudy
puts distance on every other movie
2. The Program - i haven't seen it on any ones list its a bad movie
3. FNL
4. Remember The Titian's
5. The Longest Yard
heres my favorite
1. Rudy
puts distance on every other movie
2. The Program - i haven't seen it on any ones list its a bad movie
3. FNL
4. Remember The Titian's
5. The Longest Yard
03-09-2006, 02:00 AM
Friday night lights
Necessary Roughness
Varsity Blues
Rudy
The Program
Remember the Titans
Hometown Hero
Necessary Roughness
Varsity Blues
Rudy
The Program
Remember the Titans
Hometown Hero
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