Best football movie

corblimey

So the thread below this (at time of writing) is about yet another Adam Sandler vehicle.

But what's your favourite American football movie? For me, it's got to be Little Giants. The realism, the bone crunching tackes, the chess-like strategy of that guy from Little Shop of Horrors vs that guy from Married With Children. Total class. And the underdogs win it too, totally unexpected finale.

j/k. My fave is far and away Any Given Sunday. Pacino rocks, Diaz is a bitch, and even that fool Foxx is passable. Stick Dennis Quaid, James Woods and LL Cool J into the mix, add Stone's passion for realism, and a great soundtrack, and you have one of the better movies of 1999, and easily the best gridiron movie of all time.

Vikings

Any Given Sunday is a good football film, The Longest Yard is a good football film, Friday Night Lights is a great football film.

To me Friday Night Lights is the best american footballl film that I have seen, it captures every aspect of the game.

Crania

The best football film is Any Given Sunday, without a doubt, it really feels as if you are in the action

is_that_so

IncredibleBulk wrote:

The Longest Yard is a good football film.

The original and not the dreadful remake.
My personal favourite is Any Given Sunday

kmart6

Any Givin Sunday=best football movie ever

Basq

Any Given Sunday!!

But Varsity Blues is a very under-rated little gem too!

dwayne

Gotta be the Longest Yard for me.

That being said, I have yet to see Friday Night Lights.

Winning Hand

Any given sunday. Although friday night lights kicked ass too

cruiserweight

Have none of you seen Rudy?

Macka

Friday Night Lights although I do like Remember The Titans

jtmassey

Remember The Titans is a great film centered around football but about much more.

Funkstard

Varsity Blues/Remember the Titans. They're two of my favourite films ever

evil_seed

Funkstard wrote:

Varsity Blues/Remember the Titans

Nuff Said!!!!

Padwick

The Program is my personal fave, but I enjoyed Any Given Sunday too.

20 Times 20 Times

Rudy it ws on today on sky

Ruuuuudy ruuuuudy ruuuudy , then he finaly gets on

youcancallmeal

Definitely Any Given Sunday, The inches speech is still up there with my all time top favourite movie scenes.

Padwick

youcancallme>al wrote:

Definitely Any Given Sunday, The inches speech is still up there with my all time top favourite movie scenes.

Pacino is a legend. That speech is amazing and makes the film.

limerick_man

Remember the titans is great!
The Longest Yard is so funny!

tetsujin1979

Friday Night Lights is fantastic, one of the best films I saw this year. Although it is more about the impact football has in a small town - the coach is paid more than the principal, tons of money going into the ground. We can defaintely relate with local GAA clubs here.

youcancallmeal

anyone seen 'go tigers!' supposed to be good but never seen it myself.

NoDayBut2Day

Remember the Titans is definitely my favorite.
Rudy was pretty good too.
Never saw Varsity Blues, but some of my friends really like that movie.

galwaydude

i loved ruddy, so inspiring

I can just hear them now in the stadium shouting his name RUDDY RUDDY!!

remember the titans was pretty good too

What about jerry mcguire, pretty ok film

NoDayBut2Day

galwaydude wrote:

What about jerry mcguire, pretty ok film

Was that a football film? I can't even remember, although I'm sure I've seen it.. or I might be thinking of something else... haha. :rolleyes:

galwaydude

yep cuban gooding junior was the middle of the road footballer, down in his luck at the start and blaming everyone and with jerry's help he became a superstar overnight and got his million dollar contract. Can only happen in america baby!!!

NoDayBut2Day

galwaydude wrote:

Can only happen in america baby!!!

Or perhaps just in the movies

d22ontour

Does the Waterboy fall into this catagory ?

If so then i think that it is the greatest american football flick.

RuggieBear

favourite is Friday night lights....apparently the author of the book isn't welcome in odessa anymore

Loved Rudy for sheer disneyesqe cheese.

Remember the titans and varsity blues have some awesome football moments

I hated and i mean hated Any Given Sunday....it was over the top, annoyingly edited and the actors chewed the scenery

Domer

It has to be RUDY for me too. I am an Alumi of Notre Dame so it has special meaning. I was back on campus last week for the ND-USC game...and the real RUDY spoke at the Pep Rally on Friday night...in front of 45,000 fans...it was amazing...unfortunately we lost the game thanks to a pair of very bad calls, but what a game!!!

RUDY, RUDY, RUDY!!!!!!!! (and GO IRISH!!!!!)

("Knute Rockne, All American" is also a good football movie with Ronald Reagan as George Gipp, and the famous "Win one for the Gipper" speech by Rockne)

irishraven

Definitely Any Given Sunday, The inches speech is still up there with my all time top favourite movie scenes.

I have to agree...the speeh is class!!! Foxx and Pacino when he invites him for dinner is amazing also, the hits are class and there is even the eye popping out incident (Zeus for the Browns a few years ago)

Remember the Titans is a classic though, what it stands for is what makes is great!

Friday Night Lights is excellent too and Rudy is up there but it has to be Any Given Sunday:D

dacowboy

How about All the Right Moves.



Honestly, even though Football is my favorite sport there is not a be-all-and-end-all football movie. There are a lot of okay football movies.. but nothing spectacular.

Hoosiers is an Excellent Basketball Movie. There is no Hoosiers for football.

RuggieBear

dacowboy wrote:

How about All the Right Moves.



Honestly, even though Football is my favorite sport there is not a be-all-and-end-all football movie. There are a lot of okay football movies.. but nothing spectacular.

Hoosiers is an Excellent Basketball Movie. There is no Hoosiers for football.

not that tom cruise rubbish;)

agree about hoosiers....absolute classic