Why? Because I like sports and people who make sports movies don’t seem to understand the first thing about what makes sports fun and interesting and engaging. Apparently, they think it mostly involves predictable fake looking sequences in slow motion and overly-sappy “inspirational” speeches by down on their luck coaches.
Of course, there are exceptions. Slap shot was pretty good. He Got Game is very underrated.
The original The Longest Yard was worth watching (the Adam Sandler version should have resulted in real prison time for anyone associated with it). There’s The Natural and Bull Durham and Field of Dreams. The first Rocky is a classic, and there are a few others.
But for the most part, sports movies all share at least some or all of the following flaws: They focus too much on the behind the scenes and not enough on the game which usually means a horrifically sappy love story They have 9 foot basketball hoops and many other things that make the sports sequences appear completely fake. They can’t replicate the real drama of a real game that means something. Not sure why, when they can do it much better with the exceedingly more difficult subject of war.
Why? Because I like sports and people who make sports movies don’t seem to understand the first thing about what makes sports fun and interesting and engaging.
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