Sentences with phrase «sport flick»

What follows is a predictable underdog sports flick chock full of training sequences and bathroom humor with a few moments of true beauty and pure comedy.

The fact is, competitions of endurance do not make thrilling sports flicks, and true stories of competition stall without an interest in the payoff of hard work.

Terrio's script — which, admittedly, isn't all that bad until envisioned by junior - slump maestro Ben Affleck — will compete alongside newfound Academy favorite David O. Russell, who made impressive genre soup out of Matthew Quick's novel, delivering a romantic comedy by way of sports flick, family saga, and mental - illness dramedy.

For the most part, Baby is a standard sports flick about an amateur boxer named Maggie Fitzgerald who rises to the top thanks to Eastwood's grizzled Frankie Dunn, a legendary cutman and trainer.

A tight, eventful, rags - to - riches sports flick with never a dull moment and career best performances.

Kante's journey from the suburbs of Paris, to within touching distance of Premier League glory at the East Midlands club is straight out of the material for an inspiring sports flick.

I have to admit Americans sure know how to make a good sporting flick about their beloved national games, although Baseball doesn't fare as well as Football.

If it was up to me, there'd be a Government ban on any post-1990 sports flick featuring a slo - mo montage of team successes put to stirring music or cheese - fuelled up - and - at - em speeches made by men in tracksuits.

I was hoping Disney's latest sports flick, Million Dollar Arm would supersede the genre and stand on it's own as a solid movie, period.

That unlikely assault on the championship is the subject of The Mighty Macs, an overcoming - the - odds sports flick reminiscent of such basketball classics as Hoosiers, Glory Road and Coach Carter.

This is a glowing example of everything wrong with formulaic sports flicks.

This third film, Major League: Back to the Minors, will do little to bring new fans to the series, but for those who like these irreverent, eccentric sports flicks, it's dumb entertainment, but entirely watchable nonetheless.

Part ethnic comedy and part romance, Bend It Like Beckham is also an exhilarating sports flick, with plenty of training montages and all the action of a soccer game edited down to 45 seconds worth of quick cuts.

Personally speaking, I like these sorts of sports movies, but there are two things which makes Blackball a poor example of how to make an outrageous sports flick.

Romantic - sports flick for boys and girls?

Underdog tales, last - minute wins, and the development of camaraderie on a once - polarized team are all important factors in some of the greatest sports flicks of all time, and lucky for us, Netflix understands this.

The blandly inspirational sports flick «The Mighty Macs» is warm - spirited but all too obvious, even as the charms of its lead performer Carla Gugino help sell this familiar story.

It is predictable like all sport flicks but the fact its based on true events does make you ignore that, well you have to ignore that.

Dunaway and Wood's primary focus seems to be a brief commentary on all the manner of genres that Linklater has tackled: Sports flick, Bad News Bears; Period piece, Me and Orson Welles; Western, The Newton Boys and Sci - Fi, A Scanner Darkly all get a look in while highlighting his lack of pretension and his ability to dig deeper into more meaningful and intelligent projects.

Director Mira Nair's inspirational AF drama, QUEEN OF KATWE, subverts and eschews stereotypical «sports flick» formulas in order to tell its special tale about a young female chess prodigy who, herself, subverts expectations.

Although almost three - quarters of the film moves to the sound of drums, the images in one's mind veer more towards drill sergeant movies, sports flicks and cult initiation rites.

Splitting the difference between heritage film and sports flick, «Crooked Arrows» gets neither right, whiffing at an open net.

John Lee Hancock «s modest list of directorial credits, includes 2009's The Blind Side, which earned a Best Picture nomination, and another inspirational sports flick, The Rookie (2002).

Better still, he scrubs his film free of smarm and superiority by extending the tired components of the sports flick past the point of satire into a realm of pure lunacy: For instance, the romantic lead needs a villainous, dislikable fiancée to stand between him and the true love interest.

In his new fight - flick Bleed for This, writer - director Ben Younger — best known for the Mamet-esque white - collar crime drama Boiler Room — achieves a better result focusing on one of Durán's more colorful opponents: Vinny «The Pazmanian Devil» Paz (née Pazienza), whose comeback from a catastrophic injury seems more far - fetched than any sports flick's faux - inspirational contrivance.