Sentences with phrase «sports films i've seen»

Not exact matches

For Shawn Levy and Real Steel, I felt like I had seen the film countless times before, just with other sports at the center of it all.

With such supercharged material under the hood, a magnetic man behind the wheel and a nimble director manning the pits, Senna is simply the greatest sports film I have ever seen.

The title character of «Jerry Maguire» is a sports agent, but it is easy to see why the pitch for Cameron Crowe's latest film was embraced by a Hollywood studio.

She's also seeing people dead people, a line that the script has the good grace to acknowledge as a tag line from another film, and to make sport of.

Jason and Brandon Trost's intentionally campy homage to classic underdog sports movies like «Rocky» and «The Karate Kid» (as well as other films ranging from «The Warriors» to John Carpenter's 80s oeuvre) is one of the strangest movies you'll ever see.

We've seen it unfold on screen in many varieties, whether it's characters in the field of sport, music, film or many others, but they all share that single, universal center of someone who is desperate to reach a level of skill so prominent that their name is remembered as one of the best there ever was.

The film hilariously uses every overdone and cliché sports - related film and makes it a film you can't stop laughing from, even when you saw it three weeks ago.

Still, it's an engaging sports film, and definitely should be seen by football fans in particular for the look at the game and what it means to small - town America.

We've all seen the typical sports film a dozen times.

Bryan Fogel's film sees the director set out to uncover the truth about doping in sports, only for a chance meeting with a Russian scientist to transform his story from a personal experiment into a geopolitical thriller involving dirty urine, unexplained death, and Olympic Gold — exposing the biggest scandal in sports history.

Greenwich Entertainment said it saw its theatrical possibilities: «It reminded us of an extreme Alpine sports version of an experiential non-narrative film like Baraka...»

Any of these films would be worthy of an Oscar win, but I'm personally rooting for the race documentary «13th» (a must - see for anyone, the kind of film they should show in schools) and «O.J.: Made in America,» which is a marathon at nearly eight hours in length (it was shown in parts on ESPN earlier this year), but a completely fascinating look at race, media and society as it was in the 1990s and today, and just happens to be a tragic portrait of the worst fall from grace for a sports star in the history of our country.

Unless you've got an intense curiosity to see it or a soft spot for either sports films or parody flicks, your best course of action would be to avoid The Comebacks on DVD altogether.

Wiggins plays Jacob, the rough - and - tumble adolescent seen at the beginning of the film smashing up cars outside the local sports stadium, a teenager sweating his rage and without a cause left.

Also like «Hoop Dreams,» it's not really a sports film; it's a film that uses sport as a way to see into lives, hopes and fears.

Some of the characters in this film see sports as their best career plan.

The Buzz: The film is based on a true story connected with the Shue family, and has been something of a pet project for Elisabeth and Andrew; that being said, neither of them seem to have been fighting packed schedules lately, and just because an inspirational sports movie is based on actual events doesn't mean we haven't seen the same story a million times already.

I'm thinking, too, about all of the sports films I've seen, and the teammates usually have more separating them than this one does.

While the story essentially has the basic frame of an underdog sports film - more specifically, a Rocky film that we've seen before - it fills the cracks with these snippets of black culture and images of blackness.

Admittedly, Seabiscuit is from an older school of storytelling, and you'll spot many a cliché from inspirational sports films you've seen before, but rarely driven home in as satisfactory a manner.

Margot Robbie's new movie I, Tonya deals with one of the most famous incidents in the history of sports, but the person who was the target of said incident hasn't gotten around to seeing the film yet.

Scarlett Johansson (Black Widow) and Chris Evans (Captain America) are also seen joking about the new hair cut their co-superhero Thor (played by Chris Hemsworth) is sporting in the upcoming film.

Back in 2012, I saw and reviewed a little independent film called Goon, an ice hockey comedy with a ton of heart that easily joined the ranks of one of my favorite sports films.

If you want to see more of Will Ferrell's take on the sports film genre, check out 2007's Blades of Glory and 2008's Semi-Pro — neither of which are on Hulu, sadly.

Woody Allen's latest film Following Match Point and Scoop, Woody Allen's third culturally clueless «London» - set outing sees a pair of working - class brothers — chronic gambler Colin Farrell (the film's one saving grace) and aspiring wide boy Ewan McGregor (sporting a cockney accent he's bought cheap off Del Boy)-- confronted with a solidly gripping moral -LSB-...]

Also, Saturday (which saw the film take a 32.3 percent drop from Friday) was a massive sports day that included Spurs / Clippers Game 7 and the Floyd Mayweather - Manny Pacquiao fight and almost certainly took away some business from the movies.

As every pop - song plays throughout the endless montages of tournaments, The Miracle Season follows a predictable formula seen in sports films for decades.

However, if you have seen any decent sports film, you already know it's never about a specific sport.

He did make an appearance in stepdaughter Kate Hudson's short drama Cutlass later that year, and also co-starred in the little - seen sports film Touchback, but by and large, the immensely popular Tombstone actor has been keeping a low profile.

After his impressive stint in The Departed I was actually looking forward to seeing DiCaprio sporting a South African accent, and his performance doesn't disappoint in Blood Diamond, even if the film leaves me a little underwhelmed.

You can see it in both The Fighter, which is at its core the same sort of inspirational sports movie in the vein of Remember the Titans or The Natural that we've seen a million times, and Silver Linings Playbook, which boasts a nearly insufferable storybook ending that nearly undoes the strong work done earlier in the film.

I have not yet seen the film so I'm unsure if this is supposed to be the same outfit worn for the same scene, or Streep just sports a similar hat and purple corsage.

But it was all for purpose, Boss is seen wearing a pinstripe baseball jersey throughout the film, which is a sport that both Americans and the Japanese share.

Given how protective he is in the film, I wouldn't be surprised to see Finn sporting some sort of shield or heal ability.