Inspirational sports films

[Brodizzle]

Now, we all know there is nothing better then a inspirational sporting story about the underdog winning against the odds or just putting in a good performance far above expectations. But the problem is alot of these films are American so are based on crappy sports eg. Ice Hockey, Gridiron, Baseball...now, to the matter at hand, are there many films of this type of Rugby? I know there would probably be Football ones but I think rugby is very under done in movies. I mean, Wales v Fiji this world cup would make an excellent movie, Englands world cup win in 2003 in the most dramatic fashion could be another....the only Rugby related movie I can remember is that the characters in 'Alive' were rugby players...which isn't the best thing for rugby to be related to cannabalism.

 

[nam97]

Now, we all know there is nothing better then a inspirational sporting story about the underdog winning against the odds or just putting in a good performance far above expectations. But the problem is alot of these films are American so are based on crappy sports eg. Ice Hockey, Gridiron, Baseball...now, to the matter at hand, are there many films of this type of Rugby? I know there would probably be Football ones but I think rugby is very under done in movies. I mean, Wales v Fiji this world cup would make an excellent movie, Englands world cup win in 2003 in the most dramatic fashion could be another....the only Rugby related movie I can remember is that the characters in 'Alive' were rugby players...which isn't the best thing for rugby to be related to cannabalism.
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First of all, Ice Hockey isn't crappy. Secondly, no, there are no Rugby films from what I've looked into. There is Murderball, which is about wheel chair rugby, but that movie is lame.
Even though I can't stand American Football, the best movie of this type I've seen is Brian's Song.

 

[woosaah]

http://us.imdb.com/***le?Old+Scores+(1991)

old scores, was class when i was a kid. damn funny movie

 

[sambãd5]

skin and bone, taken from the screenplay of forskins lament. f***ing awesome movie if you ever get the chance

 

[SaintsFan_Webby]

Living With Lions. Not strictly a movie, but watchable over and over again whether you support the Lions or not.

 

[Bullitt]

http://www.imdb.com/***le/tt0120422/

It's not very good mind. Worth watching though for Samantha Janus being nekkie.

 

[DC]

as far as inspiration goes i would reccomend the American Football movie Rudy.

you can hate american football as much as you want but its a very very good inspirational movie.

also look into friday night lights, and remember the ***ans

both excellent inspirational movies

ice hockey movie that is inspirational has to be miracle..

best sports movie inspirational quote has to be Al Pacino's speech in any given sunday.

"I don't know what to say really.
Three minutes
to the biggest battle of our professional lives
all comes down to today.
Either
we heal
as a team
or we are going to crumble.
Inch by inch
play by play
till we're finished.
We are in hell right now, gentlemen
believe me
and
we can stay here
and get the **** kicked out of us
or
we can fight our way
back into the light.
We can climb out of hell.
One inch, at a time.

Now I can't do it for you.
I'm too old.
I look around and I see these young faces
and I think
I mean
I made every wrong choice a middle age man could make.
I uh....
I ****** away all my money
believe it or not.
I chased off
anyone who has ever loved me.
And lately,
I can't even stand the face I see in the mirror.

You know when you get old in life
things get taken from you.
That's, that's part of life.
But,
you only learn that when you start losing stuff.
You find out that life is just a game of inches.
So is football.
Because in either game
life or football
the margin for error is so small.
I mean
one half step too late or to early
you don't quite make it.
One half second too slow or too fast
and you don't quite catch it.
The inches we need are everywhere around us.
They are in ever break of the game
every minute, every second.

On this team, we fight for that inch
On this team, we tear ourselves, and everyone around us
to pieces for that inch.
We CLAW with our finger nails for that inch.
Cause we know
when we add up all those inches
that's going to make the f***ing difference
between WINNING and LOSING
between LIVING and DYING.

I'll tell you this
in any fight
it is the guy who is willing to die
who is going to win that inch.
And I know
if I am going to have any life anymore
it is because, I am still willing to fight, and die for that inch
because that is what LIVING is.
The six inches in front of your face.

Now I can't make you do it.
You gotta look at the guy next to you.
Look into his eyes.
Now I think you are going to see a guy who will go that inch with you.
You are going to see a guy
who will sacrifice himself for this team
because he knows when it comes down to it,
you are gonna do the same thing for him.

That's a team, gentlemen
and either we heal now, as a team,
or we will die as individuals.
That's football guys.
That's all it is.
Now, whattaya gonna do?"

substitute "rugby" for "football" and you have a classic speech

 

[SaintsFan_Webby]

It is a good speech, but it's also a speech that someone has sat down and scripted.

Some of the speeches the likes of Jim Telfer has made, while obviously thought about, have really embraced the passion of the moment. That's the one thing a movie can never truly replicate - the intensity of a real life situation.

 

[Prestwick]

Stalingrad.





























Well war is a sport...right?

 

[jeffb]

This Sporting Life, with Richard Harris. Say no more

 

[Brodizzle]

Has this film that was being thrown around about the 1995 World Cup been green lighted?

Better have rugby in it and not all about the racial issues and stuff....

 

[Bullitt]

It's Hollywood so it'll feature the Gridiron World Cup, thus allowing yanks to relate.