Best Sports Movies

[Almadacr]

Originally Posted by EricJ

If you mean "Victory", as it's known in the US, it's up there.
Still nowhere near "Miracle", but a good contender.

A sampling of the ESPN 30 For 30 documentaries should also be up there--
There's not many fictional sports films out there better than "Four Days in October" or "June 17, 1994".

I saw it the first time in Europe and it was " Escape to Victory " and it has more sense to Europeans for 2 reasons : Football and second WW , wile Miracle doesn't have the same appeal .

One thing i agree with you the 30 for 30 series from ESPN are great documentaries .

[EricJ]

Originally Posted by Almadacr

wile Miracle doesn't have the same appeal

Miracle just shatters all the "Inspirational coach" drama cliche's by focusing on the real hard work and the context of the championship game at the time--
It's easily more of an ESPN movie than a Disney movie. (Given how many of Disney's other "Inspirational sports" movies made us cringe.)

Originally Posted by Almadacr

One thing i agree with you the 30 for 30 series from ESPN are great documentaries .

I've only started watching them, and they're all good:
"Silly Little Game" is the only clinker out of the bunch, trying to make a "comedy documentary" (yuk yuk) out of the founding of Fantasy Baseball--

But "Four Days in October" goes past all the "loyal Red Sox nation" cliches to focus on the MLB footage, and remind you just how nailbiting that Red Sox vs. Yankees championship was.
And "June 17, 1994" manages to be both bitter and touching, as we saw three of the biggest events in sports history that year in one day almost ignored by the news because an ex-football star was driving away from the police in a white Bronco on the LA freeway.