Tons of sports movies from the era...what are your favorites? I'd have to go with Rocky 3 and Vision Quest...
Posted by Peter Lemonjello (Member # 37395) on :
THRASHIN'... the best skateboard movie ever, despite the cheese. Great cast and lots of real skater legends in the background and doubling the actors on the boards.
NORTH SHORE... great surfing movie with a Hawaiian setting, some zen surf philosophy and a scorching hot Nia Peeples. My only problem is the lead guy... he should have been re-cast.
YOUNGBLOOD... Rob Lowe as an up'n'coming hockey star flanked by the likes of Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Cynthia Gibb and Ed Lauter. Solid soundtrack, montages and good hockey footage.
OXFORD BLUES... another Rob Lowe joint, this time seeing him enrolling into Oxford University to row crew and win the affection of a British aristocrat beauty. Harmless fun.
WINNERS TAKE ALL... enjoyable dirt bike movie with Don Michael Paul in front and every sports movie trope in the book present. Great supporting cast of familiar faces too, counting Courtney Gains, Peter DeLuise, Tony Longo, Gerardo Mejia etc.
ROCKY 3 and 4 goes without saying.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
I really love the basketball drama Hoosiers aka Best shot with Gene Hackman and the awesome boxing movie Street's of gold with Wesley snipes and Adrian pasdar,Over the top with Stallone and also Rocky's 3 & 4.
Young blood and Oxford blues are ace as is Vision quest,never seen Thrashin',Winners takes all or North shore.
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
^ Hoosiers, Over The Top, Youngblood, Vision Quest, Rocky 3 & 4
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Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
ALOT of good choices people. BULL DURHAM is mine but also like these a lot
Karate Kid, The Natural, All the Right Moves Caddyshack Vision Quest
Still haven't seen Hoosiers or Raging Bull
Posted by Pyro (Member # 7658) on :
Lucas (1986)
I think this would be considered more a coming of age movie as opposed to a sports movie. But I'll go with it anyway. Still a favorite of mine either way.
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Posted by aTomiK (Member # 6575) on :
What Lemonjello said plus:
Long Gone (1987) - awesome baseball comedy with a great cast.
Spetters (1980) - Verhoeven dirt-bike film like youŽve never seen.
Dream to Believe (1986) - Teen dance/sports flick with great soundtrack and supercute Olivia dŽAbo.
Dead Solid Perfect (1988) - The best golf movie IMO.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
I was thinking Long gone not heard of that one,but I have as looking at the pics it's Stogies which I remember being released by guild home video in the UK.
Never seen seen it though but it's got an awesome cast!
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
? YW.
There is a great scene of Madsen in a bed in Long Gone.
I'm a fan of DSP and Long Gone also atomik. DSP had to grow on me though. I was expecting more comedy from Quaid but his character ended up being very serious.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
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