What is the best soccer film what is the greatest soccer film I'd go for theres only one jimmy grimble but I really want to see Soccer Mummy Cinema preview in simpsons episode. One film I cannot stand is when saturday come ludicrusoly unrealistic.
You just typed a bunch of words in no particular order didn't you???? Greatest soccer movie...thats a layup... The Big Green: http://us.imdb.com/Details?0112499
Re: Re: Best soccer film What is seen mine, for the Victory soccer movie best. Unseen has been A Shot at Glory good it but is heard was.
It's a toss up between "Bend It Like Beckham" and "Soccer Dog". Wait, I haven't see either movie, but I do want to check out "Bend It Like Beckham".
despite the predictability of it....I will make the cursory Beckham/Spice Girl/Porn joke... Nah, never mind
We will be lucky if we ever get to see that movie in North America, even on DVD. I want to see it more for the Indian family dynamic than the soccer.
I don't know, it sounds like something Miramax would pick up. But if they don't, you can always watch "East Is East" and imagine them playing soccer.
Maybe since the lead character has aspirations to play in the WUSA, maybe somebody will pick it up. I wonder if they would adopt a different US title though, since Beckham is unknown by the average Joe, and those that do know him think he's merely Posh Spice's wife.
I will have to say Victory for three reasons...Michael Caine, Pele and Bobby Moore. Mean Machine was supposed to be decent but it played in Atlanta for less than a week. I am not kidding. And I too am looking forward to Bend It Like Beckham and think it has a good shot being released in the U.S. Although it should have been called Bend it like Di Canio.
Shaolin Soccer sucked big time. Ladybugs alright for a kid movie. Rodney Dangerfield is halarious as the coach.
The DVD is subtitled. I can see why people with certain senses of humor would not laugh at this movie but I thought it was hilarious.
haven't seen many...not really a film, and being an Andrew Lloyd Webber fan, i think The Beautiful Game would be good. his 2nd not to make broadway
I don't know about the best, but the worst has to be "Hotshot." Pele actually appeared in this flick. It's so bad. Does anyone else remember this?
"The Goalkeepers Anxiety at the Penalty Kick" by Wim Wenders. The protagonist walks off the pitch at the beginning of the movie and kills a whole lot of people.
For all the films made about football (soccer) most are forgetable. I think in general most sports films fall into this category. Only Raging Bull, Hoosiers are memorable.
Bull Durham and Field of Dreams just called... I think the best "sports movies" aren't about the sport, they're about the characters. Everyone knows they'll win the game, but causing you to care about the characters is what makes them good. Of course, the same could be said of any flick. But we need to get soccer films with good characters, then we'll have something. Nobody mentioned Fever Pitch's brilliant style of keeping with the book. Oh, wait, there's a reason for that.
My extremely bias opinion Bull Durham is like North Dallas 40, good films not great. Field of Dreams was the biggest piece of tripe I ever saw. You had to buy into the set-up. If you did it was enjoyable. If you didn't, you absolutely dispised it. My ex-wife and I saw it many years ago when it opened, I was actually surprised she liked it, particuarly for it's being a sports film. I thought the whole idea of having Shoeless Joe Jackson appear like a saint in a cornfield so that Costner could see his long departed Dad was a tremendous reach. If they build it they will come. As if the damn game of baseball were a religious experience. Right! I remember thinking to myself who wrote and produced this, MLB and the MLBPA. I fully expected to see produced by MLB in the closing credits. The Natural is another film that's good, probably one of the best baseball myth films made with a great score. Though it is very uneven and the middle stretches of the film are pretty flat. Soccer for all it's passsion has not had a worthy film made. Victory, along with the film with Richard Harris as an aging soccer player are poor to fair. The kids soccer films are just amusing. Shaolin soccer looks absolutely ludicrous. It looks like soccer meets a bad Kung Fu flick and I really hated Kung Fu flicks except for Enter the Dragon. It's like the Kung Fu flick where a chick jumps over a river gorge the width of the Hudson River or leaps out a 10th floor window and lands on her feet. I'm willing to suspend belief if it furthers the plot to a point. However, when it reaches the point of stupidity I stop there.
errr....uhhh....hmmmm. Let's just say Sly was an added bonus. And that was probably the last good movie that he made. Okay, First Blood was good and Stop or My Mom Will Shoot is recognized as a comedy classic, but don't go on about the genius of Copland.
I've always liked Victory, especially the scene when Pele is explaining tactics. Also this summer in the June? July? issue of Empire magazine (it had Spiderman on the cover) they had a big article on the movie which was fun to read. If I can find a link to it, I'll post it.
There was a movie on BBC America last night called The Match, in which a pub team has to defeat a rival pub (or else the owner of said rival pub takes it over) based on a bet made by the long-dead owner. Allan Shearer has a cameo in it, and Peirce Brosnan seems to be a star. Also, there was a guy that I thought was an English doppelganger for Tom Sizemore, but it turned out to be Tom Sizemore doing a credible accent. It was a bit predictable, some of the things could've been done better, but I think it qualifies as a soccer film, no worse than some of the others mentioned. Anyone else see this? Anyone know anything about it? I would have to file it under "didn't suck, but not as good as it could've been."