BEST SOCCER SKILLS OF ALL TIME MOVIE
This is the rare sports movie that keeps sports in its proper perspective: It’s there to help, but the hard work - that you’ve got to do yourself. The basketball scenes are well orchestrated and put together - you can tell director Gavin O’Connor knows his hoops - but the sports stuff in many ways is a red herring this is the story of a man at war with himself, someone for whom sports serves as a reason to keep on going … but not as his be-all and end-all salvation. (Available on Amazon Prime Video )īen Affleck clearly digs into something tortured about his own addiction in his portrayal of a former high-school-basketball star who gets a second chance as coach of his old high school’s basketball team.
You wouldn’t want to live in The Natural, but it’s fun to visit. Barry Levinson luxuriates in Caleb Deschanel’s sepia-tinged period cinematography, inviting us to share in this hogwash fantasia for a couple of hours. Will he find his redemption? Will he get the girl? Will he sock a magnificent dinger while he’s bleeding badly from his side? Yes, yes, and absolutely yes. Robert Redford plays Roy Hobbs, a nearly divine being with a talent for hitting who is looking for his shot after a dark past. As for the movie, it’s a paean to the sacred beauty of baseball - which, even for two people like us who are baseball diehards, can be a bit much. The Natural’s most lasting contribution to popular culture is Randy Newman’s shimmering, inspirational score, which would soon be parodied and appropriated, quickly becoming the go-to music for any walk-off homer. The best sports surprise us: These great sports movies do the same. Those are not the sort of sports movies you will find on our list of the 50 best sports movies of all time. But for some reason, many sports movies insist on being predictable, adhering to the formula. The thing audiences love about sports and movies, the thing they have in common, is that they are unpredictable: You never know when you sit down to watch either what’s going to happen. This is to say: Our favorite sports movies tend to avoid the traditional “meet hero, see hero overcome adversity, see hero win big game” sports movie structure, or at least deconstruct it enough to justify themselves.
The best sports movies are independent of the sport they’re depicting, with universal stories that should appeal to anyone whether they love the sport or not. It’s like saying that “desert movies” are a genre, or “ocean movies” are. It is strange that sports movies are considered a genre since, all told, they really are just a setting. This story was originally published in 2019 and has been updated to include recent releases.
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