What's the best soccer movie

[tlw_soccergirl]

I Liked Bend It Like Beckham

[FATWEASEL]

I Liked Bend It Like Beckham

LIKED THE OLD MOVIE VICTORY BUT THE PROBLEM WITH SOCCER MOVIES
IS STAGING THE ACTION SHOTS AND THEY ALWAYS LOOK STAGED..

MICHAEL PALIN MADE A GREAT SHORT IN RIPING TALES ABOUT THE FAN
OF A LOSING TEAM GETTING THE OLD BOYS TOGETHER.. ONE MORE TIME
GREAT FUN..

[Rudy R9]

LIKED THE OLD MOVIE VICTORY BUT THE PROBLEM WITH SOCCER MOVIES
IS STAGING THE ACTION SHOTS AND THEY ALWAYS LOOK STAGED..

MICHAEL PALIN MADE A GREAT SHORT IN RIPING TALES ABOUT THE FAN
OF A LOSING TEAM GETTING THE OLD BOYS TOGETHER.. ONE MORE TIME
GREAT FUN..

I don't think bend it like beckham was all that good.

[Rudy R9]

yeah they do always look staged and the goals usually suck.

[Courey]

Has anyone seen the old school movie "A Minor Miracle"? My girlfriend introduced it to me a few weeks ago. John Houston played a reform school Priest/Principal who has a rag tag soccer team. Pele ends up coming to the school and training the team. He even jams on the guitar and sings in the flick. A hokey movie.. but sorta fun to watch.

[GuinnessFC]

A Shot At Glory.

Because I was in it. :cool:


Interesting this movie is on showtime a few times on Sunday!

[Mel Brennan]

I haven't made it yet.

[bndjasbnd]

There Is Only One Jimmy Grimble, My kids loved this one.

[Bill Archer]

Victory is a horrible movie. The story has more holes than a big chunk of Swiss, the acting is wooden, the soccer sequences are hokey and all in all it's a painful experience.

Now none of that has kept me from seeing it maybe 25 times, but the fact that Co Prins is standing around, or Osvaldo Arviles kicks a ball once in awhile is interesting, but hardly makes for great cinema.

[dice50]

mean machine

[(TxT)]

I have a feling that The Yank (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385002/) will either be really good or just completely suck.

[Upper90s]

Mean Machine ( soccer version of the Longest Yard. 1970's Bert Reynolds)

[beachesl]

Nobody has mentioned "Gregory's Girl", a 70's Scottish movie by the same Director that did A Local Hero (Forsyth?). Quriky and fun, the soccer is worked in because the lead is a goofy guy that falls in love with a tomboy who is the best player on a boys football team, and there is some footage about that on the pitch.

I liked The Cup, which I think was actually filmed in Bhutan. I think generally that most soccer fiction movies suck, but there are some exceptions.

Great soccer non-fiction documentaries out there. Have yet to see The Game of Their Lives about the '66 North Koreans returning to England. One of the best I remember is "Goal!" , a summary of the 1966 World Cup tournament narrated by a wonderfully voiced Sean Connery. Don't know if it still is available, as those were pre-video days, maybe lying in a lost vault with some unshown Dr. Who originals. I haven't seen it since the one time in the 60's when I was a 12 year old kid, the memories still stir- would LOVE to see it again.

[SABuffalo786]

I Liked Bend It Like Beckham


They need to make a sequel where the girls land in the States only to find the league has folded. The "Muah-muah-muuuuuuuuuuuuuuah" dissapointment sound effect plays, and then the movie ends.

[beachesl]

Here is a good Matthew Monk review of official feature film documentaries of World Cups. Apparently Connery did the narration of the 1982 "G'ole" as well.

http://www.planetworldcup.com/GUESTS/matt20010828.html

[Centennial]

They are all pretty lame. It's too bad that there isn't (at least I haven't seen one) a soccer movie in the caliber of "Field of Dreams".

[skipshady]

I don't think bend it like beckham was all that good.
Bend It Like Beckham was actually pretty good by sports movie standards (which isn't saying much, I concede).

Some of the match sequence was lame, especially the final goal. Plus, it was incredibly formulaic - absolutely nothing unpredictable about it. But it was the rare formula film that worked well, and it helped that instead of having the "good" overcoming the "bad" like too many movies of its kind, it had good characters with conflicting desires. Not great, but not bad either.

[(TxT)]

They are all pretty lame. It's too bad that there isn't (at least I haven't seen one) a soccer movie in the caliber of "Field of Dreams".


Maybe in like 40 years they'll do one about an Argentine guy whoes dad was a big Maradona fan but died while he was banned and never got to see his final match. Then this Argentine guy starts hearing voices and decides to build a soccer field on his farm land. Then Maradona and a bunch of other players who were banned at some time in their careers will walk out of the mist and play some soccer for one last go. At the end the farmers dad, who played some semi-pro ball, comes to kick the ball with his son. :rolleyes:

[ottoman]

Phorpa "the cup"
Tagline: Buddhism is their philosophy. Soccer is their religion.
need I say more

[bbsbt]

Shaolin Soccer.
simply... entertaining!