What are some of the (best) and (worst) sports movies you've seen?

The Natural
The Harder They Fall
The Sandlot
Money Ball
The Rievers
Gran Prix
Downhill Racer


Worst:
Any Movie about soccer , basketball or chess
National Velvet
K-2
The Whitbread Cup (a documentary about competition blue sea races that really sucked )


The rest, I can watch and enjoy, say every 5 years or so.
The Whitbread Cup (a documentary about competition blue sea races that really sucked )

If you're throwing in documentaries into the mix:

These sports docs are STELLAR watches!
Senna (2010): Riveting biopic of one of Formula One's greatest rivalries.
Harvard Beats Yale 29-29 (2008): A college football rivalry that also mirrors the US in the middle of its stride towards the worst of the Vietnam War.
Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001): Birth and history of skateboard culture in America.
When We Were Kings (1996): "The Rumble in the Jungle," between champion George Foreman and underdog challenger Muhammad Ali?!
Deep Water:(2006): Around the world yachting competition with an amateur sailor/boat designer? So much hubris for this water bound Icarus. My second favorite documentary of all time.
Unforgivable Blackness: The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson (2004): One of boxing's greatest legends, race in America and Ken Burns? Always a great soundtrack if that's your thing.

Yeah, The Damned United is a very good film. It made me appreciate football just that much more.

I'm not that into sport to be honest, football's about as far as it goes. I don't think I'd have enough time for any others.

Michael Sheen does Brian Clough just like he did Tony Blair, bang on. He's got a real gift for catching real life people.

Mike Bassett is very funny, more about public figure's relations with the media than anything else.

Seabiscuit.

Oh... that fodder for the glue factory??


;-D

No love for Bend It Like Beckham?

Also on the good side:
Invictus

On the bad side:
Days Of Thunder

No thank you. The only two soccer films I enjoyed were the insanity that was Shaolin Soccer (2001) and the biopic The Damned United (2009) where Michael Sheen should have gotten an Oscar nod that year.

Although it's been many years since I've seen it,
I seem to remember enjoying the 1974 version of "The Longest Yard."

The 2005 version was okay.

What was the one that was about a soccer game escape in a WW2 POW camp - where Sylvester Stallone was in goals.

I think soccer was actually secondary to the story. It was a pretty cool movie about well-intentioned generational misunderstanding. And the experience of second gen migrant families.

Escape to Victory, known simply as Victory in North America, is a 1981 American film about Allied prisoners of war who are interned in a German prison camp during the Second World War who play an exhibition match of football against a German team. The film was directed by John Huston and starred Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Max von Sydow, Pele, and Daniel Massey.


I'm not sure, but I think I once saw a part of this movie.

Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius is a golf movie about one of the greatest golfer of his era who never turned pro.

Tin Cup, another golf movie with Kevin Costner.

Oh, I've just remembered my all time favourite sports movie....

DODGEBALL!!!!

Youngblood with Rob lowe was good, Worst: The Mighty Ducks & The Tooth Fairy, I can imagine the rock got a 6 figure cheque for his efforts.

Leatherheads
Major League: Back to the Minors
The Next Karate Kid
These are the best sports movies best ever.

Field of Dreams is a hokey fantasy, not really a sports movie

I agree. Didn't care for Field of Dreams at all.

The Big Green

Hopeless kid's soccer team do better under the tutelage of Olivia D'abo. Who wouldn't, eh?

Wow, I could make quite a list, but ones that I enjoy that haven't come up yet are:

Forever Strong
Any Given Sunday
Peaceful Warrior