Best football movie

corblimey · 13-09-2005 10:03am #1

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 · 13-09-2005 2:37pm

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 · 13-09-2005 9:58pm

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

is_that_so · 13-09-2005 10:03pm

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 · 15-09-2005 8:20pm

Any Givin Sunday=best football movie ever

Basq · 15-09-2005 8:22pm

Any Given Sunday!!

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

dwayne · 17-09-2005 11:19am

Gotta be the Longest Yard for me.

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

Winning Hand · 18-09-2005 6:24pm

Any given sunday. Although friday night lights kicked ass too

cruiserweight · 26-09-2005 5:10pm

Have none of you seen Rudy?

Macka · 26-09-2005 7:21pm

Friday Night Lights although I do like Remember The Titans

jtmassey · 27-09-2005 5:38pm

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

Funkstard · 02-10-2005 10:50am

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

evil_seed · 04-10-2005 9:32am

Funkstard wrote:

Varsity Blues/Remember the Titans

Nuff Said!!!!

Padwick · 06-10-2005 12:08am

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

20 Times 20 Times · 06-10-2005 12:19am

Rudy it ws on today on sky

Ruuuuudy ruuuuudy ruuuudy , then he finaly gets on

youcancallmeal · 06-10-2005 12:46am

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

Padwick · 06-10-2005 12:48am

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 · 06-10-2005 2:39pm

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

tetsujin1979 · 06-10-2005 2:46pm

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 · 11-10-2005 8:55pm

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

NoDayBut2Day · 16-10-2005 3:59am

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 · 16-10-2005 4:02am

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 · 16-10-2005 4:27am

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 · 16-10-2005 4:33am

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 · 16-10-2005 8:38am

galwaydude wrote:

Can only happen in america baby!!!

Or perhaps just in the movies

d22ontour · 16-10-2005 8:57am

Does the Waterboy fall into this catagory ?

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

RuggieBear · 19-10-2005 12:25am

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 · 24-10-2005 10:21am

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 · 25-10-2005 8:12pm

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 · 26-10-2005 3:27am

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 · 26-10-2005 3:34am

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

galwaydude · 26-10-2005 3:39am

while not entirely a football movie, this move is excellent and leaves a lump in your throat!!

For an underdog movie you cant beat rudy

Vegeta · 26-10-2005 4:03pm

Yup Rudy is just class, what a show

Pherekydes · 26-10-2005 5:40pm

All time classic: Horse Feathers. Contains the funniest Football scenes ever.
Not another Teen Movie is good, too.

Not about Football per se, but excellent. Friday Night Lights is the best pure Football documentary, IMHO.

Kinetic^ · 02-11-2005 8:51am

Friday night lights was very good but the replacements was a classic.

WellyJ · 17-11-2005 8:19pm

Any Given Sunday or Friday Night Lights,

The T.O. cameos in AGS are good including his rushing TD.

Pacino is just brilliant as Tony.

FNL is more of a realistic kind of film though, great viewing also

Vikings · 17-11-2005 8:31pm

Saw Rudy today for the first time, got in from work at 10 this morning and it was on sky movies. Saw the first 45 minutes before I was fast asleep. It was repeated around 5 and I watched it again - RUDY RUDY RUDY!!

Still, Firday Night Lights is my favourite football film. Followed by Any Given Sunday, The Waterboy and the rest.

NDMARSHALS · 19-11-2005 2:37am

Two Words Boobie Miles

Best football movie

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