ATD Summer Fun - All Time Sports Movies Draft

[ResilientBeast]

I haven't seen many boxing movies, so I'll take one I've seen Creed 2 - Boxing

 

[tony d]

Coach Carter Basketball

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

I've been going back and forth between 2 hockey movies, since BB sent me his list, I'll take the one that he didn't have on his:

Team PTA selects Goon - Hockey

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

BB list picks:

Mr 3000 (Baseball)

Maurice Richard (Hockey)

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

There are a lot of great choices left in the Other category, this one definitely isn't the best of that group from a film criticism perspective, but it's a personal favorite. Team PTA selects Rounders - Other (Poker)

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

BB list picks:

Maurice Richard (Hockey)

FYI the English version of this is called The Rocket, good movie.

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

BB list picks:

Mr 3000 (Baseball)

This is one I haven't seen, I like Bernie Mac though.

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

Do you guys want to vote after the draft is over?

If so, here's my idea for how it would go:
- Everyone sends in their rankings of all 6 teams.
- Put your own team first as a reward.
- Only the Top 3 finishers get announced - this is so subjective anyway, let's not have a last place

 

[ResilientBeast]

It's objectively not a good movie, and is really stupid in parts but I haven't seen many other football movies and it's on a unique topic.

Draft Day - American Football

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

It's objectively not a good movie, and is really stupid in parts but I haven't seen many other football movies and it's on a unique topic.


Draft Day - American Football

Fair review, and if there was ever a topic that suited this board, this is it! I hope someone tries to make another draft based movie in the future.

 

[BenchBrawl]

There are a lot great choices left in the Other category, this one definitely isn't the best of that group from a film criticism perspective, but it's a personal favorite. Team PTA selects Rounders - Other (Poker)

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As a poker player, this was a great movie.

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

I haven't seen many boxing movies, so I'll take one I've seen Creed 2 - Boxing

Stallone has now been chosen 4 times

 

[BenchBrawl]

I haven't seen many boxing movies, so I'll take one I've seen Creed 2 - Boxing

You haven't seen the 5 original Rocky's?

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

As a poker player, this was a great movie.

The plot follows a familiar sports movie storyline too: player gets beaten badly, player quits, player is forced to come back under extreme circumstances, player eventually faces off again with the opponent who initially beat him

 

[ResilientBeast]

You haven't seen the 5 original Rocky's?

I plead the fifth

I have tons of older movies on my list that I just get bogged down and then procrastinate

And there's the mountain of modern content that I try and keep up with

 

[BenchBrawl]

The plot follows a familiar sports movie storyline too: player gets beaten badly, player quits, player is forced to come back under extreme circumstances, player eventually faces off again with the opponent who initially beat him

This plot structure transcends sport movies to be honest.

I plead the fifth

I have tons of older movies on my list that I just get bogged down and then procrastinate

And there's the mountain of modern content that I try and keep up with

Plead? What do you mean? Unfamiliar with this word used in this context.

Modern content sucks compared to 80s/90s era. It's not nostalgia neither, 60s/70s content were just as good. Something happened to the medium in a bad way.

 

[ResilientBeast]

Plead? What do you mean? Unfamiliar with this word used in this context.

Modern content sucks compared to 80s/90s era. It's not nostalgia neither, 60s/70s content were just as good. Something happened to the medium in a bad way.

Definition of TAKE/PLEAD THE FIFTH

: to refuse to answer questions in a court of law because the answers might be harmful to one or might show that one has committed a crime

I enjoy modern stuff, we'll just agree to disagree

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

This plot structure transcends sport movies to be honest.

Isn't it basically the same structure as Rocky III?

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

Modern content sucks compared to 80s/90s era. It's not nostalgia neither, 60s/70s content were just as good. Something happened to the medium in a bad way.

I'm not a fan of most of the "main stream" modern content (i.e. if you look at the highest grossing movies of the past decade or something like that), but there's good stuff to be found out there.

It would be nice to see more of those kinds of movies get bigger budgets though (and be profitable). Unfortunately, at the end of the day it all comes down to dollars and cents.

 

[tony d]

"Kingpin" - Bowling (Other)

 

[BenchBrawl]

Definition of TAKE/PLEAD THE FIFTH

: to refuse to answer questions in a court of law because the answers might be harmful to one or might show that one has committed a crime

I enjoy modern stuff, we'll just agree to disagree

What confused me was the use of "fifth"; Rocky 5 is notoriously considered the worst of the original series (although I still like it in its own way). I thought you were talking about that.

 

[BenchBrawl]

I'm not a fan of most of the "main stream" modern content (i.e. if you look at the highest grossing movies of the past decade or something like that), but there's good stuff to be found out there.

It would be nice to see more of those kinds of movies get bigger budgets though (and be profitable). Unfortunately, at the end of the day it all comes down to dollars and cents.

I'm sure there's a lot of great lower budget movies. But as you say, the blockbusters suck ass compared to 80s/90s and even 2000s.

It doesn't help that the landscape is filled with countless TV series since the HBO Sopranos/Wire era. It was fun for a while but I'm not watching another TV series again in my life. Takes too long.

 

[Hawkey Town 18]

"Kingpin" - Bowling (Other)

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Love this movie! It was between this and Rounders for my last pick.

That also puts both Bill Murray and Woody Harrelson in the 3 timers club!

 

[Claude The Fraud]

For my final pick, I’ll go with «The Program».

 

[rmartin65]

Team Eastwood selects Brian's Song, american football