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(Onion AV Club) Cool 11 sports movies where the losers are the real winners. All you need to know about a person rests in their opinion of the ending of #5   (avclub.com) divider line 117
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buckeyebrain
2010-03-09 02:42:13 AM
The ending to #5 was HILARIOUS and quite fitting.

/Bad News Bears should have been #1
 
robsul82 [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 03:38:35 AM
That's a rule of life worth writing down.
 
Peaceboy [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 04:22:16 AM
Re: Friday Night Lights (spoiler below)...

A fantastic film, and I was jaw-droppingly stunned at the ending. It defied my expectations of sports movies where the underdog finds some miraculous way to prevail and the audience goes home happy. (See: Hoosiers. Actually, don't see Hoosiers, it's predictable and formulaic.) I realize it was based on a(n altered) true story, but I still thought that took some balls.

Boobie Miles' breakdown was one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever seen. And Tim McGraw can actually act, wtf. Nice work.
 
johnnyboog
2010-03-09 07:41:56 AM
Is Kingpin funny? Should I watch it?
 
Zanysportslady
2010-03-09 07:49:24 AM
I like Tin Cup.. What?
Painful at the end - makes me a little sad - but I liked it.
 
MugzyBrown
2010-03-09 07:49:43 AM
They criticize Rocky for having the decision read in the background. That's the whole point.. it doesn't matter if he won or lost, he just wanted to go toe-to-toe with the champ and be still standing at the end of the fight.



It's amazing how many people don't even remember that he lost the fight.
 
D-O-single_G
2010-03-09 07:51:05 AM
I love the fact that they included North Dallas Forty on the list. Whenever I mention this film, no one under the age of forty seems to have ever seen it (I'm in my twenties). It really is a shame, as it's funny and paints a brutally realistic picture of the meat market-style business culture of professional sports teams that still hits very close to home thirty years after it's release.
 
phaseolus
2010-03-09 07:51:51 AM
"All you really need to know..."??? Really???!?

I guess all y'all really need to know about me is that I've never watched a movie about golf.
 
Strik3r
2010-03-09 07:57:14 AM
MugzyBrown: They criticize Rocky for having the decision read in the background. That's the whole point.. it doesn't matter if he won or lost, he just wanted to go toe-to-toe with the champ and be still standing at the end of the fight.



It's amazing how many people don't even remember that he lost the fight.

Through the whole movie, he repeats the line "I just wanna go the distance" several times. Amazing to me that people miss that also.
 
kradio
2010-03-09 08:00:18 AM
The problem with "Tin Cup" is

1. It's a golf movie

2. Because that's not bad enough-it's a golf movie with Kevin Costner as the star.
 
Vash's Apprentice
2010-03-09 08:02:45 AM
Replace "Bring It On" with "Mystery, Alaska", and you'll really have something. The players weren't even paid, they just loved the game.
 
PredDawg8
2010-03-09 08:03:00 AM
Little Big League.

Twins fight their way into a one-game playoff with Seattle.

Bottom of the 9th. Down by 1 run. One on. Two out. The kid manager's father-figure steps to the plate. Smashes a hit to deep left center! It's going... going... going...

Robbed by Griffey, making a leaping catch over the wall to win the game.
 
Master of the Flying Guillotine
2010-03-09 08:03:03 AM
Where's your hat?

/love that moment
 
Jamdug! [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 08:04:24 AM
Friday Night Lights was a terrific movie. And Explosions in the Sky did the soundtrack as an added bonus.
 
AbiNormal
2010-03-09 08:06:43 AM
Bad News Bears was farking awesome!!!
 
mlkmandan
2010-03-09 08:06:58 AM
No Happy Gilmore?
 
djgrundel
2010-03-09 08:11:13 AM
hmmmm #5 is golf... nope. all you need to know about me you can learn from knowing i refuse to watch and golf movie that's not Happy Gilmore.
 
pkellmey
2010-03-09 08:14:04 AM
The only thing more boring than watching golf is watching a movie about golf.

//Unless if it has Dorf in it.
 
OSULugan
2010-03-09 08:14:42 AM
Strik3r: Through the whole movie, he repeats the line "I just wanna go the distance" several times. Amazing to me that people miss that also.

It's the ultimate "It's not if you win or lose, it's how you play the game" movie. It's also what really sets it apart from the rest of the franchise until the most recent Rocky Balboa.
 
schattenteufel
2010-03-09 08:16:04 AM
The end of Tin Cup was amusing & a little refreshing.

Throwing the whole tournament just so he could try & try & try to make a nearly impossible shot proves that some people believe there are things better than fortune & glory.


/just don't tell Indiana Jones that.
 
Another Government Employee
2010-03-09 08:16:40 AM
Tin Cup is Caddyshack without the jokes.

North Dallas Forty is really good.
 
astrotri
2010-03-09 08:22:06 AM
'Bring it On' at #4!? Holy fark.

I print that page out just so I could wipe my ass with the list.
 
2chris2
2010-03-09 08:23:30 AM
I somehow fail to believe that for the 99% of the people on the planet who have never seen the #5 movie, there is nothing more that needs to be known about them besides this.
 
jamiekate
2010-03-09 08:26:55 AM
Mighty ducks, mighty ducks, mighty ducks. Quack quack quack mr. Ducksworth
 
Listen To Me Im On The Internet
2010-03-09 08:32:17 AM
I think my favorite on the list is Friday Night Lights, it's not the best movie, but it definitely hit home. However in reality losing is not that fun.

/2001 Ohio Div. 1 Football State Runner-Up
//Damn Anthony Gonzalez
 
the_rev [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 08:34:42 AM
I loved Tin Cup. It's one of those movies you watch, and realize you're grinning from ear to ear all the way through it.

And the soundtrack is kickass.
 
moistD
2010-03-09 08:35:46 AM
Zanysportslady: I like Tin Cup.. What?
Painful at the end - makes me a little sad - but I liked it.

I always watch it when its on, I don't know why I enjoy that movie so much


mlkmandan: No Happy Gilmore?

Happy wins at the end, thus cannot count.


/rocky sucks, all of them
 
devildog123 [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 08:43:37 AM
Vash's Apprentice: Replace "Bring It On" with "Mystery, Alaska", and you'll really have something. The players weren't even paid, they just loved the game.

I agree, "Mystery, Alaska" was a way better "underdogs don't win" movie than "Bring It On".
 
DamnYankees [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 08:44:43 AM
Man, Cool Runnings gets me every time. What a great movie.
 
thurstonxhowell
2010-03-09 08:46:33 AM
kradio: The problem with "Tin Cup" is

1. It's a golf movie

2. Because that's not bad enough-it's a golf movie with Kevin Costner as the star.

Nailed it. I'm not saying that having an opinion on Tin Cup makes you a bad person, I'm just saying it means you watched a Kevin Costner movie about golf and are not ashamed of it enough to keep it a secret.
 
Wrong_Intentions
2010-03-09 08:51:06 AM
Major
friggin'
League
 
radioman_
2010-03-09 08:58:23 AM
All you need to know about a person rests in their posting a list in which Bring It On is a) considered a sports movie, b) even on the list at all.
 
puckrock2000
2010-03-09 09:00:21 AM
What, no Brian's Song?
 
Raug the Dwarf
2010-03-09 09:00:23 AM
johnnyboog: Is Kingpin funny? Should I watch it?

Go. Now. Friggin' hilarious.

/just don't get Munsonned.
 
BEER_ME_in_CT [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 09:01:14 AM
Wow. Tin Cup hate. I guess I shouldnt be surprised at that movie snobbery on here. I enjoyed that movie. Then again, I also enjoy movies like 2012 and Independence day, so I guess it fits.
Kevin Costner is a decent actor, this isnt waterworld folks.
 
DamnYankees [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 09:03:21 AM
Wrong_Intentions: Major
friggin'
League

They win in Major League.
 
OtherLittleGuy [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 09:04:11 AM
Wrong_Intentions: Major
friggin'
League

Spoiler Alert: They won.

If the National Spelling Bee on ESPN then qualifies it as a "sport", then "A Boy Named Charlie Brown" deserves Honorable Mention.

And yeah, "Bad News Bears" deserves #1.

Best part for me is listening to the cars driving by the field in the background after the pitcher gets pushed down and yelled at. All this drama about winning, and there are people nearby who don't know and don't give a shiat about it.
 
buwolverine
2010-03-09 09:07:53 AM
Peaceboy: Re: Friday Night Lights (spoiler below)...

A fantastic film, and I was jaw-droppingly stunned at the ending. It defied my expectations of sports movies where the underdog finds some miraculous way to prevail and the audience goes home happy. (See: Hoosiers. Actually, don't see Hoosiers, it's predictable and formulaic.) I realize it was based on a(n altered) true story, but I still thought that took some balls.

Boobie Miles' breakdown was one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever seen. And Tim McGraw can actually act, wtf. Nice work.

You do understand that the ending of Hoosiers was the only part that was actually based on the true story? It was predictable because it actually farking happened.
 
wolvernova
2010-03-09 09:15:26 AM
For some reason I thought #5 was going to be Million Dollar Baby.
 
spqr2001
2010-03-09 09:16:43 AM
Tin Cup was good and I agree that you can learn a lot about a person based on their reaction to the end of the movie
 
Digitalstrange
2010-03-09 09:19:23 AM
MugzyBrown: They criticize Rocky for having the decision read in the background. That's the whole point.. it doesn't matter if he won or lost, he just wanted to go toe-to-toe with the champ and be still standing at the end of the fight.



It's amazing how many people don't even remember that he lost the fight.

The author didnt seem to criticize it so much as point it out, and since the whole article is about sports movies where the protagonist loses the big game at the end but is still a winner id say they got the point
 
Broktun
2010-03-09 09:19:28 AM
Peaceboy: Re: Friday Night Lights (spoiler below)...

A fantastic film, and I was jaw-droppingly stunned at the ending. It defied my expectations of sports movies where the underdog finds some miraculous way to prevail and the audience goes home happy. (See: Hoosiers. Actually, don't see Hoosiers, it's predictable and formulaic.) I realize it was based on a(n altered) true story, but I still thought that took some balls.

Boobie Miles' breakdown was one of the most heartbreaking things I've ever seen. And Tim McGraw can actually act, wtf. Nice work.

Here is a great article about Hoosiers (new window)
 
schattenteufel
2010-03-09 09:28:54 AM
mlkWrong_Intentions: Major
friggin'
League

mandan: No Happy Gilmore?


They won at the ends of those movies, which isn't hat the article is about.
 
gdowell
2010-03-09 09:32:13 AM
How can there be no love for Slap Shot on this list?
 
Shrugging Atlas
2010-03-09 09:34:56 AM
Mystery Alaska should have made that list if for no other reason than to remove a movie about cheerleaders.
 
rbaron71
2010-03-09 09:37:19 AM
Tin Cup = awesome, awesome movie.

The ending was entirely fitting. "Enjoy second place, David" or something like that.

I think, though, that by being the unnanounced winner of the US Open, Peter Jacobsen's real major chances were jinxed.
 
the_rev [TotalFark]
2010-03-09 09:38:33 AM
rbaron71: The ending was entirely fitting.

"Nice par, Dave."
 
kradio
2010-03-09 09:41:58 AM
thurstonxhowell: kradio: The problem with "Tin Cup" is

1. It's a golf movie

2. Because that's not bad enough-it's a golf movie with Kevin Costner as the star.

Nailed it. I'm not saying that having an opinion on Tin Cup makes you a bad person, I'm just saying it means you watched a Kevin Costner movie about golf and are not ashamed of it enough to keep it a secret.

Actually, I had never seen the end of that movie until I looked at the clip in the article. It's one of those movies you see on the TeeVee and stop for some Cheech Marin and leave because Costner's awesome acting abilities start overwhelming the senses.
 
stagirite
2010-03-09 09:42:51 AM
D-O-single_G: I love the fact that they included North Dallas Forty on the list. Whenever I mention this film, no one under the age of forty seems to have ever seen it (I'm in my twenties). It really is a shame, as it's funny and paints a brutally realistic picture of the meat market-style business culture of professional sports teams that still hits very close to home thirty years after it's release.

THIS. North Dallas 40 is the best. Sports movie. Evar.

/Bull Durham close second
 
overCee
2010-03-09 09:44:12 AM
Digitalstrange: MugzyBrown: They criticize Rocky for having the decision read in the background. That's the whole point.. it doesn't matter if he won or lost, he just wanted to go toe-to-toe with the champ and be still standing at the end of the fight.



It's amazing how many people don't even remember that he lost the fight.

The author didnt seem to criticize it so much as point it out, and since the whole article is about sports movies where the protagonist loses the big game at the end but is still a winner id say they got the point

My recollection is that Rocky doesn't talk about just going the distance until the very end of the movie. The night before the fight is when he realizes that he can't win. That threw me the first time I saw the movie. The whole time he wants to win, and then at the last second he changes his goal to just survive.
 
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