What is your favorite football movie of All-Time?

[Irish Envy]

What is your favorite football movie of All-Time? Why?

 

[jiggafini19]

Friday Night Lights because it was a true story and is the best book I've ever read.

1. FNL
2. Rudy
3. Remember the Titans
4. Any Given Sunday
5. All the Right Moves

 

[irishnd31]

My mouth is saying Rudy for obvious reasons, but my heart is saying Remember The Titans. Denzell was great in that movie, and it was a fantastic mix of story line and game time scenes.

 

[KMac151993]

I love Rudy, but I think I am going to have to go with Remember The Titans. There is just something about that movie that is just special.

"You demanded perfection, and I'm not saying I'm perfect 'cuz nobody is but up till now this team is perfect...and if its alright with you coach I'd like to keep it that way."

 

[scooper]

I'm going to echo the others. Rudy is an obvious favorite, but Remember the Titans was an all around great movie. Great story. Great characters. Superbly acted, and the on field action was pretty darned good. Thoughts on some others:

Rudy does a nice job of capturing game day in South Bend and does a great job of incorporating real scenes into the movie. It is 1B for me for ND reasons. Had it taken place at Texas or somewhere else, I would still like the movie, but it would not be as strong.

Friday Night Lights-I think it did a great job of capturing the essence of a great book. The on field action was pretty tight.

The Program-This movie fires me up for some reason. I will always enjoy it. Though I have some issues with the on field stuff.

Radio-My wife and I loved this movie (she's a football fan) I know it was panned and is quite sappy, but I like the feel of big time HS football in a small town. Football's the world to Radio. I can relate.


One big beef I have with football movies is the on field action. Every big scene is slowed down, as the QB makes much too scripted spiralling escapes from on charging DL only to reverse field and find that WR that always breaks open. The action and audio always return to full speed as he crosses the goal line and the crowd erupts. It's way too scripted and hollywood. Give me realistic scenes ala remember the titans anyday. No superhuman heroics. Just well executed football plays. I guess that's why the true stories tend to have the best on field action.

 

[maison bleu]

I like the original Longest Yard, but not the Adam Sandler piece of crap.
ND40
Friday Night Lights
Brian's Song

A famous football movie not on the list: Paper Lion, based on the George Plimpton book.

 

[irishnd31]

I like the original Longest Yard, but not the Adam Sandler piece of crap.
ND40
Friday Night Lights
Brian's Song

A famous football movie not on the list: Paper Lion, based on the George Plimpton book.

Which one did you vote for?

 

[maison bleu]

Which one did you vote for?

Friday Night Lights.

 

[irishnd31]

Friday Night Lights.

Great flick. Definitely top three behind Titans and Rudy.

 

[punishment]

I wanted to say Varsity Blues, but then I pretended that the whipped-cream bikini scene did not happen, and Varsity Blues plunged on my list of all time favorites.

So, I went with Remember the Titans.

 

[Óglaigh_na_hÉireann]

I went with Friday Night Lights, but it was close. Rudy finishes second, most likely because I've seen it so many times.

As for "the program", I tried watching it a few weeks ago, but couldn't get past the first 30 minutes. It just seemed to outdated... idk, the part where the QB plays his girlfriend in a tennis match while the one offensive-lineman with the really messed up haircut watches.... just killed me.

 

[dankus]

Any Given Sunday then Friday Night Lights

 

[NDgettysburg]

I went with the DVD I'm most likely to pull off the shelf and watch....came down to Rudy and Longest Yard (original). Since I'm a homer, I voted Rudy.

 

[scooper]

I went with the DVD I'm most likely to pull off the shelf and watch....came down to Rudy and Longest Yard (original). Since I'm a homer, I voted Rudy.

I would think Remember the Titans as a substantial part of the movie took place in your backyard.

 

[ACCIrish]

Rudy and Remember the Titans are my favorites but in the end i think Rudy gives me more chills throughout the whole movie...

 

[NDgettysburg]

I would think Remember the Titans as a substantial part of the movie took place in your backyard.

I live in a townhouse...you couldn't fit an offensive line across my backyard.

And if movies being filmed near me was the criteria, I'd be a huge Girl, Interrupted fan because they shot a few scenese in this town.

 

[scooper]

I live in a townhouse...you couldn't fit an offensive line across my backyard.

And if movies being filmed near me was the criteria, I'd be a huge Girl, Interrupted fan because they shot a few scenese in this town.

Hmm, didn't Ted Turner's company film a quaint little movie near you as well?

FWIW, I thought the Gettysburg Cemetary scene was a great one in Titans.

 

[absoluteirish59]

Remember the titans, The program(" welcome to the jungle"), brian's song, varsity blues( whipped cream bikinni)

 

[Óglaigh_na_hÉireann]

lol, who else thinks "Necessary Roughness" is one awful pun?

 

[NDgettysburg]

Hmm, didn't Ted Turner's company film a quaint little movie near you as well?

He filmed one over in Gettysburg as I recall...it had a quaint running time of just over 4 hours

FWIW, I thought the Gettysburg Cemetary scene was a great one in Titans.

I've not seen it so it really had no chance to win my vote.

 

[NDgettysburg]

lol, who else thinks "Necessary Roughness" is one awful pun?

Maybe but it had Kathy Ireland in it so it wasn't all bad

 

[scooper]

He filmed one over in Gettysburg as I recall...it had a quaint running time of just over 4 hours


I've not seen it so it really had no chance to win my vote.

Gettysburg was actually my dad's favorite movie. And one of his favorite road trips.

Check out Remember the Titans. It's a great movie all around.

 

[UNTITLEDPROJECT]

How did "The Program" not get voted for?

Outside of "Friday Night Lights" and ''Varsity Blues", nothing touches it.

Yeah, Rudy is...Rudy, but im not going to say it was the best.

 

[Fitzgerald]

If Rudy hadn't won this there'd have to be an investigation.

 

[jiggafini19]

The Program consisted of these characters:

An alcoholic QB.
An illiterate LB.
A steroid using D-lineman.
A backup QB with an Andy Katzenmoyer class load.
The coach who turned his back on all of it.

It was tough to root for these characters. Good movie and all, but in the end I didn't really care if they made their bowl game or not.

Varsity Blues was too late 1990's teen movie for me.

Friday Night Lights, Radio. Rudy, Titans were all based on true stories. Perhaps that is what makes those films better for me.

Nothing beats Craig T. Nelson's "together" speech before the big game in All the Right Moves.

 

[dankus]

Friday Night Lights and Rudy are really tied for me. I just wanted to go against the grain.

 

[BGIF]

Shame on you!

Knute Rockne All-American

A U.S. President got his nickname from this picture.

 

[BGIF]

A good football movie that few of you have probably ever seen is "Trouble Along The Way". Made in 1953 the movie's about an unemployed head coach Steve Williams (John Wayne) banned from several football conferences for rule violations who takes a job at financially troubled Catholic college. The naive head of the college thinks playing a big time football schedule will do the same for his school as it did for Notre Dame.

Coach Williams needs a job or he will lose his 10 year old daughter to his ex-wife (25 years before Kramer versus Kramer). His daughter speaking to a social worker utters the famous line which years later was attributed to Vince Lombardi, "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing!"

How they go about winning will show you why the NCAA rulebook is so thick today. Paid players, kickback schemes, fakes grades and exam scores are all business as usual as they were part of the game when the real "pros" played on Saturdays and the guys out of eligibility played for the NFL.

 

[WalshND]

Hands down favorite... Rudy!

But I gotta give a nod to Brian's Song. We watched this at the Firehouse a couple months ago. Not a dry eye in the station.

 

[IrishThunder05]

RUDY!!RUDY!!RUDY!!!
FNL stunned me a bit...damn you dallas-carter.