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SFBadger96

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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #518 on: March 04, 2025, 12:42:38 PM »
More recent non comedy/non retelling of a true(ish) story:

Creed (sequel, though)
Challengers
Goon
Chasing Mavericks
The Wrestler
Older: 
Friday Night Lights
Million Dollar Baby
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #519 on: March 04, 2025, 12:44:48 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on March 04, 2025, 12:16:37 PM
I love auto racing but don't consider it to be an actual sport.

Never heard of the others.  I suppose I'm thinking more specifically of mainstream non-comedy non-spoof sports movies.  Things like Field of Dreams or Rudy or Remember The Titans.  I don't recall seeing or hearing anything about any such movies in a very long time.
Air was the movie about MJ signing with Nike.  It was pretty mainstream.

I think Boys in the Boat was advertised non-stop a year ago at Christmas, about the 1936 US Olympic rowing team, directed by George Clooney.  I thought it was odd that they released it then, and not around the Olympics, but I think they must have figured it was Oscar bait
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #520 on: March 04, 2025, 12:47:51 PM »
Oh yeah I saw Air.  I thought it was a straight streaming release, though.  Did it ever screen in movie theaters?

I have no recollection of the Olympic rowing movie though.
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #521 on: March 04, 2025, 12:49:36 PM »
Quote from: SFBadger96 on March 04, 2025, 12:42:38 PM
More recent non comedy/non retelling of a true(ish) story:

Creed (sequel, though)
Challengers
Goon
Chasing Mavericks
The Wrestler
Older:
Friday Night Lights
Million Dollar Baby

Yeah Creed was 2015, 10 years ago.   FNL was 2004, 21 years ago.  Million Dollar Baby is also 21 years ago.  I don't know the other ones.
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #522 on: March 04, 2025, 12:54:48 PM »
But I suppose the general answer to my question is, yes there have been.  I'm just not finding out about them for whatever reason.

It's true that I don't watch as much TV as I used to, but I do watch a lot of live sports still, and I do listen to sports talk radio from time to time.

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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #523 on: March 04, 2025, 12:56:56 PM »
Not going to lie to you, don't know how you missed Boys in the Boat. That was a big budget, big promotional release movie.
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« Reply #524 on: March 04, 2025, 12:58:11 PM »
Quote from: SFBadger96 on March 04, 2025, 12:56:56 PM
Not going to lie to you, don't know how you missed Boys in the Boat. That was a big budget, big promotional release movie.
If you say so.  I've never heard of it.
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #525 on: March 04, 2025, 12:58:55 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on March 04, 2025, 12:54:48 PM
But I suppose the general answer to my question is, yes there have been.  I'm just not finding out about them for whatever reason.

It's true that I don't watch as much TV as I used to, but I do watch a lot of live sports still, and I do listen to sports talk radio from time to time.



If you are inclined to watch one from the lists above, make it this one.  The Wrestler
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« Reply #526 on: March 04, 2025, 01:01:39 PM »
Quote from: utee94 on March 04, 2025, 12:58:11 PM
If you say so.  I've never heard of it.
To elaborate, I've heard about ALL of the auto racing movies mentioned above, and I've seen all of them, and will see the new Brad Pitt F1 movie when it's released this summer.
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #527 on: March 04, 2025, 01:02:12 PM »
Quote from: jgvol on March 04, 2025, 12:58:55 PM
If you are inclined to watch one from the lists above, make it this one.  The Wrestler

Thanks  I'll put it on the list.
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #528 on: March 04, 2025, 01:43:32 PM »
I bought the book "Boys in the Boat", and made it through a chapter.  It's gone now.  I watched the movie on a plane, it was pretty good.
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #529 on: March 04, 2025, 01:45:54 PM »
I have a 15 hour plane ride in a week and might watch something, or just read and try to nod off.  Our first flight leaves at 5:17 AM, which would not be my choice, to DFW.  Then DFW to Seoul.  I paid extra to get into "Premium", which is OK mostly.

Then we'll be gone a month plus a bit, ending up going around the flat earth.
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #530 on: March 04, 2025, 04:40:25 PM »
I did sports movies as the OT Tourney years ago.  I know Rocky won.  It's not my favorite, but I think it does the best job of not just being a movie about a dude that happens to be an athlete; while also not being a sports movie that doesn't make you care about the people in it.

A movie someone else brought up was Challengers.  That movie was so horribly mis-marketed as a sex movie.  It had the scene from the trailers, and one other scene.  Major League had as many sex scenes.  But it was actually a pretty damn good sports movie.  I'm guessing because they had Zendaya, the studio made a choice to go a specific way.  As a former tennis player, who has torn his ACL twice, I will say the tennis parts of it were spot on.  The decision to use the "ball camera" later was cringe, but otherwise, I really enjoyed it
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Re: OT - TV shows and Movies
« Reply #531 on: March 04, 2025, 04:44:16 PM »
Oh now I know what Challengers is.

Yeah, if it was actually a sports movie then it was terribly mis-marketed, because from the trailers it seemed sports was nothing more than maybe a backdrop.

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