lexsooner
1/9/2006, 08:05 PM
In no particular order:
All the Right Moves - accurately depicted high school football in a small Pennsylvania town where the blue collar steel worker locals lived vicariously through the team. The fat slob booster Bosko "What's the matter, Georgevic, ain't dis town good enough for ya?" was great. Tom Cruise played the hero and Lea Thompson was his sweetheart. Craig T. Nelson was the coach even before Coach - "You quit on me, man." Curiously, the Italian American running back who fumbled turned to a life of crime. "Help me , coach, help me!"
North Dallas Forty - Peter Gent's semi-fictional story of the Dallas Cowboys in the wild 70s, made into a movie with Nick Nolte back when there were some white receivers in the NFL. It was one of the first honest movies about pro football which showed the drugs, women, painkillers, partying, uncaring coaches and administration. Mack Davis played the qb based upon Dandy Don Meredith. The straight Christian qb was based on Staubach, I assume.
Oklahoma's own G.D. Spradlin played the Landry-like emotionless coach who believed in formulas and numbers.
Rudy - I can't stand Notre Dame, but I have to admit this was a well-made movie.
Henry Goldfarb Please Come Home - lightweight comedy from the 60s starring Shirley McClain. An Arab oil sheik is upset his son got cut from the Notre Dame football team, so he enlists a downed U.S. pilot to coach a team comprised of his son, a bunch of Arabs, McClain, and a herd of camels and goats. He then kidnaps the Notre Dame team and makes them play his team. The team of Arabs and goats and camels beat Notre Dame, with McClain scoring the winning td thanks to a big oil geiser which erupts at the right moment. This film is only noteworthy because it involves Notre Dame losing.
The Longest Yard - the original version. The underdogs win it. [Burt Reynolds:] "So where did you play ball? [ Sonny Sixkiller:] Oklahoma State. Oklahoma State U? No, Oklahoma State pen."
I am sure Friday Night Lights was a great movie, but I have not seen it. I have read the book. There was a real idiot named Jerrod McDougal who played OL and whose whole life was high school football. He was a poor student who hypocritically complained about America's future competing against countries with smart, educated kids.
Honorable mention: Waterboy.
All the Right Moves - accurately depicted high school football in a small Pennsylvania town where the blue collar steel worker locals lived vicariously through the team. The fat slob booster Bosko "What's the matter, Georgevic, ain't dis town good enough for ya?" was great. Tom Cruise played the hero and Lea Thompson was his sweetheart. Craig T. Nelson was the coach even before Coach - "You quit on me, man." Curiously, the Italian American running back who fumbled turned to a life of crime. "Help me , coach, help me!"
North Dallas Forty - Peter Gent's semi-fictional story of the Dallas Cowboys in the wild 70s, made into a movie with Nick Nolte back when there were some white receivers in the NFL. It was one of the first honest movies about pro football which showed the drugs, women, painkillers, partying, uncaring coaches and administration. Mack Davis played the qb based upon Dandy Don Meredith. The straight Christian qb was based on Staubach, I assume.
Oklahoma's own G.D. Spradlin played the Landry-like emotionless coach who believed in formulas and numbers.
Rudy - I can't stand Notre Dame, but I have to admit this was a well-made movie.
Henry Goldfarb Please Come Home - lightweight comedy from the 60s starring Shirley McClain. An Arab oil sheik is upset his son got cut from the Notre Dame football team, so he enlists a downed U.S. pilot to coach a team comprised of his son, a bunch of Arabs, McClain, and a herd of camels and goats. He then kidnaps the Notre Dame team and makes them play his team. The team of Arabs and goats and camels beat Notre Dame, with McClain scoring the winning td thanks to a big oil geiser which erupts at the right moment. This film is only noteworthy because it involves Notre Dame losing.
The Longest Yard - the original version. The underdogs win it. [Burt Reynolds:] "So where did you play ball? [ Sonny Sixkiller:] Oklahoma State. Oklahoma State U? No, Oklahoma State pen."
I am sure Friday Night Lights was a great movie, but I have not seen it. I have read the book. There was a real idiot named Jerrod McDougal who played OL and whose whole life was high school football. He was a poor student who hypocritically complained about America's future competing against countries with smart, educated kids.
Honorable mention: Waterboy.