Saw this movie a while back and it was awesome. Besides this classic movie about a legend, any other recommendations to similar great sport movies?
The Rocket...Maurice Richard
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Saw the movie. My only complaint is the Rocket and the Quebec media complaining that he got hit because he was a Quebecois. Gordie Howe and Ted Lindsay took a lot of hits as well and they were not Quebecois.
I like "Brian's Song" and the theme song from that movie.
I like "Brian's Song" and the theme song from that movie.
Hoosiers is really good but isn't North Dallas Forty a comedy? What about that recent movie about Ernie Davis? Anyone seen it?bullitt said:
yes there are bad sports movies, pretty much every movie listed with the exception of Rocky, and Field of Dreams, blechhh!!! completely unwatchableguyroch said:
now great sports movies, Miracle,Friday Night Lights, the Natural are a few come to mind.
As for the Rocket, that is a superb movie, the man meant much more than a hockey player to a people who were used to centuries of being used as not much more than cheap labour for the Anglo bosses in Montreal
It was also a time when the media stuck to sports and out of their private lives. Babe Ruth was an alcoholic and a womanizer. Ty Cobb was a racist. Maybe, the Rocket had some skeletons in his closet as well.
Saw the movie a couple of years ago. The Montreal media was equally hard, maybe harder, on the Rocket. They called him "fragile" in the early days of his career. Accusing him of not being able to take a hit.
Okay I know what Richard stood for but not quite sure what Jim Brown stood for. Besides bedding down most of the white starlets in hollywood at the time.Which of course was rather daring, considering the racially motivated climate at the time.
I think the most courageous athlete ever was Jackie Robinson. The amount of physical and verbal abuse he suffered was beyond human endurance. He changed the face of MLB forever.
I agree with you on that one. Another one was Jesse Owens. I can't fathom what he went through running in front of the Nazi propaganda machine in the olympics in 1936.
Yes, Jesse was another trailblazer whose impact was felt outside his sport as well. Is it true that the American flag bearer at the 1936 Olympics was Jewish and he refused to dip the U.S. flag when he marched past Hitler? (The refusal to dip the American flag in front of foreigners was actually started in the 1908 Olympics held in England.)
