Sports

I am positive everyone has seen at least one sports movie and loved it. I am a girly girl and have several sports movies on my list of top movies. To define a sports movie is rather easy. It is a movie that has a dominating sports setting, whether it be golf, basketball, baseball, football, etc. Many sports movie has one low player or the whole team is considered bad. Sometime they come over considerable odds or they have a personal triumph throughout the movie. As I was going through the list of the ten sports movies I noticed many have been remade several different times since the original was put out. If not remade then a sequel was done. I find that many sequels to movies are never as good as the first which is I think a matter of opinion but I'm sure many agree.

The first sports movie I came across is "Raging Bull". I haven't seen this movie but it sounds like any other boxing movie. Since it hit number one I'm sure there are some original qualities in it that make it stand out against the other ones. The movie is about a grade A boxer who is prizewinning with his attack and attitude in the ring but when he uses the same attitude at home he soon realizes that that is not the way he wants to go. He wants his families love but they are to scared of him to give it to him one hundred percent. Many boxing movie characters have a very strong personality to win the crowd and many don't know when to draw the line with their family. The only movie where I think there is an exception is "Million Dollar Baby". The movie came out in, I think, 2005. There is determination and the leader boxer, a girl, knows how and when to draw the line between the ring and home.

The second movie on the list is the movie "Strangers on a Train". This movie is made in 1951, I have never heard of it but obviously it is good. The summary was very well written. The movie is about a Young man who meets a pro tennis player on a train and the tennis player jokes about wanting his wife dead instead of getting a divorce. The young boy wants his father dead but since he has a motive he cannot do it himself. The tennis player jokingly throws around switching murder victims. The young man takes it seriously and kills the tennis player's life. When he realizes it he takes matters into his own hands to frame the tennis player and his actions threaten the tennis player's life and pro career. It almost sounds like it should be an action movie instead of a sports to me.

The third movie on the list is "Iqbal". This movie sounds a little confusing to me. It is about the sport cricket in the country of India. One man despises cricket and of course ends up having a son who loves the game. The son then gets a farm hand to teach him the game and after a few victories at various matches he is on the India team. Well one boy doesn't like Iqbal because he is slowly taking his star spot on the team, so he tries his hardest to get Iqbal's father to get Iqbal off the team. If that was confusing for you them good for you, but I was lost by the end of it and had a hard time writing it here.

Since I have done the top three movies on the list I now get to do my favorite movie in the sports genre. It is very well known and it came in 36 on the list I am using. Can you guess it?... "Remember the Titans"! This Obviously is by far my favorite sports movie and it might take the drama card too. This movie is about a football team that is one of the fist schools to be integrated with the black schools. many of the teammates and parents have an issue with this. The team learns to overcome the trials and tribulations of segregation and inequality and make one of the best winning seasons in that teams history.