OT: 2 basketball movies I used to love...
...but the more I watch the more I think they are rediculous.
1. Hoosiers. Still kinda like this movie. However, when Coach Dale played only 4 guys to prove a point was just plain stupid. Not to mention the 4 pass rule before you shoot. Then, when Jimmy comes and decides that he will play only if Coach Dale stays sends a bad message. No player is above any program, not even at Hickory.
2. Teenwolf. A short unathletic guy turns into a werewolf and is king shit of fuck mountain on the court. Need I say more?! They even made a sequel out of it.
Sorry, it's Sunday and I am thinking of work tomorrow. I am a bit irritable.
All the rest of your basketball movies can go to the bargain bin.
teen wolf...... specifically for the basketball scenes (with Fox). He had no left hand and was supposed to be a point guard? And that shooting motion?
Regarding Hoosiers. will always enjoy that movie. And FYI, Dale played 4 guys to prove a point..... that one player isn't above the program.
2 things.
1. They played with 4 guys because Ray wouldn't pass the ball 4 times before he shot. However, disregarding this stupid rule actually helped the team. You can't tell me if you had a fast break that you would stop and pass the ball 4 times first.
2. Even if the point was to ensure the no player is above the team, the tatic clearly hurt the rest of the team. 4 players on the court severely hurt the rest of the team. The rest of the team should not suffer for this.
No mention of The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh?
was one of my favorites....DC Dacee.....Swish, Bull, Preacher,...good stuff...
Like Mike. 10 year old Lil Bow Wow can Dunk? What's that about?
I liked how the same basketball game in that movie are each shown 3 times during the movie. I also liked the coach and the fat guy who played on his team.
Hoop Dreams is my favorite, though a bit on the long side.
Best sports movie of all time. Yeah, I said it.
it again after watching it many years ago. It's still great and I loved it even more. They should've won awards for the best documentary but they didn't. At least some movie critics named it as one of the best movies of the 90s.
The funny thing is it was originally supposed to be a 5 months(or something like that) but it became a 5 year project. This is the gold standard of sports documentary.
Blue Chips.
If this topic is regarding best basketball movies of all time, Hoop Dreams is bar none the king. Chilling when William Gates says "people always say to me, When you make it to the NBA don't forget about me." Well I should have said to them "If I don't make it, don't forget about me." Unreal movie.
Arthur's coach says how easy it is to picture Arthur spending the rest of his life telling people how far he could have gone in basketball if he had the grades. A couple minutes later they ask Arthur's dad about his basketball career and he says something like "I would have played college basketball and probably professionally, but I didn't have the grades in high school."
The Monstars had Chuck, Patrick Ewing, Larry Johnson, Muggsy, and Shawn Bradley, not to mention the movie also had MJ, Bill Murray, and Newman, and a good soundtrack.
One of my favorite movies growing up.
It took you a second viewing to realize the premise of Teen Wolf was ridiculous?
He Got Game.
Ray Allen is cool, but that movie just sucked.
Is "rediculous" the same as ridiculous, but with more red coloring?
Can't Jump. Certain friends of mine all thought that was funny as hell and got the t-shirts. Got my revenge with my "Black Men Can't Ski" shirt....
2. Teenwolf. A short unathletic guy turns into a werewolf and is king shit of fuck mountain on the court. Need I say more?! They even made a sequel out of it.
Also known as The Glen Rice in the 1989 NCAA Tournament movie.
BTW, speaking of Blue Chips...it was written by the same guy (Ron Shelton) who wrote White Men Can't Jump (and Tin Cup and Bull Durham).
I dated a woman who worked at Paramount when that movie was in production. I got to be in the gym when they shot the game footage. They did it in the summer and I managed to get the magazine I was writing for to pay for my trip.
I got several features out of it, but unfortunately, I had my credentials pulled. I had a copy of the script and went through and started circling stuff and identifying the books that they had cribbed the material from....which was fine until I said out loud that they should have had Armen Keteyian's name on the script since it was lifted straight from his book.
The original draft was very different. Neon Boudreaux was pretty heavily based on Chris Washburn. Shaq wouldn't go close to it until they rewrote the character into a much more admirable guy. Once it became more about the little easter eggs (hey, that's Bob Cousy!), the story started to get watered down. The studio basically just turned it into a basketball version of "The Program."
I was one of several dozen reporters who got access for all the vanity features the studio wanted. They were relying on us to build up the hype for the movie by promoting Penny, Shaq, Vitale, Hurley, Calbert Cheney, etc.
I was kinda pissed when I found out that the guy who wrote Bull Durham and the director of the Exorcist and French Connection were RIGHT there and i was stuck interviewing Bobby friggin' Hurley. I did get to chat with Todd Donoho, who had a small part. I told him I used to watch "Time Out For Trivia" on the Financial News Network in the mid-80s. He thanked me for not telling him to "take a hike."
Anyway...
Love and Basketball - and it's not close.
SPOILER ALERT! But it doesn't matter, you shouldn't watch this movie, it is awful.
Follows this guy and this girl throughout about 10 years, they're neighbors and they both play ball. They date, they break up, a few times, there's a hilariously awkward sex scene, and they both end up at USC. They Date. He leaves early to go pro, she gets mad, they break up. He blows out his knee. He gets engaged to someone else. Night before the wedding they play 1 on 1 "For Love" (according to her). He DESTROYS her in 1 on 1, scoring the game winning point by backing her down, throwing an elbow across her face and dunking. All through her tears. Then he says "double or nothing." Happy ending - she's in the WNBA and theyre married, no explanation.
If anyone else has ANYTHING that can be remotely that bad, I'd love to hear, and not go see it.
I grew up on Teen Wolf. There is a MGOB member named Scott Howard...
You gotta love Styles, he's a fun character. You also gotta love how they use the same shots through out the movie(basketball game). But the grand daddy of them all is the end credits when an extra throws out his dick while standing on the bleachers(left hand corner).
...a great basketball TV show was The White Shadow.