Thursday, March 26, 2009

What is the greatest Sports movie of all time

All of the sports movies nowa days r either kids movies or rather cleashea. So we have to go back a bit to look at truly great sports movies. I'll start with the oldest ones I can remember and thats Hoisiers good movie but I found it rather slow. Similiarly Rudy is equally inspiring but also rather slow. Another one to that good but rather slow category is Field of Dreams.
More recently was Glory Road another great movie however wasn't the least bit original. It was just another movie about overcoming racism in sports. In fact if it wasn't for the fact that it was a different sport you could just say its Remember the Titens. I don't mean to knock Remember the Titens in anyway because it is quite possibly my favorite sports movie. It shows not only the overcoming of racism from the outside culture but also amongst teammates and coaches. One thing is for sure it is the greatest sports movie dealing with racism.
Now when you talk about inspiring and motivating there is only ones title of sports movies that should come to mind and that is Rocky. I'm not talking about the latest Rockies and Sylvester Stalone's apperant midlife crisis destroying evry good movie title he ever made I'm talking about the first 4 and more particularly the first 2. I remeber the first time I saw Rocky I was so pumped I wanted to fight the world and later that day I picked a fight with my younger brother and won by way of knockout (Dad walking in). But seriosly thats the true underdog story right there not every new sports movie trying to imitate just because its based on a true story like Cinderalla Man.

Sticking with boxing how bout Million Dollor baby. Not even close to my favorite but its not hard to see why people like it, it brings situations completely unknown to sports movies such as being Euthanized. If u like differnt scenerios than u might like In a League of their own but lets face it women were never supposed to play baseball professionally. The final movie that is definatly worth a mention is Cool Runnings its different and is the only true sports movie that is comical and no Dodgeball doesn't count as a sports movie in my opinion.

There are plenty of movies I'm leavin out for sure probably because I don't remember it or never saw it. Unless its really bad.
So whats your favorite sports movie?

Thursday, March 12, 2009

Ratso dies with life fulfilled

There is an underlining message when it comes to Ratso and his name. Several times during the film he asks Joe not to call him Ratso but instead his real name Enrique. Ratso was the name given to by people who dispised him and called him what he was a thief and a scum. However as he and joe begin to develop a friendship he constantly asked not to be called ratso. Maybe joe would call him Enrique once bu then went right back to Ratso. During Ratso's fantasies he dreams on a beach in Florida having a good time with a good friend Joe. In the last scene on the way down Ratso finally makes it down to Florida with his good friend Joe Buck who calls him Enrique. Oh yea on the bus he was also surrounded by all those old ladies he fantasized about about.

Monday, March 2, 2009

Red Dawn

I saw an old 1980's movie Red Dawn this weekend starring Patrick Swayze. It was interesting sort of like a true story of what could have happened if The Soviet Union invaded the U.S. during the height of the Cold War. The movie got my immagination going as I pictured myself as one of the high school students who hid out in the wilderness to avoid Soviet occupation. The high shcool students led by Swayze began to run a series of terrorist type missions against the Soviet Soldiers. This was the first movie that I can remeber seeing in which America was being invaded making it very interesting. Thoughts of what if that happened today couldn't stop running through my head. Overall it was good but a little cheesie especially the last scene.