Sentences with phrase «team sports movies»

Ensemble pieces can be hard to pull off, which is why many team sports movies leave viewers unable to fully identify each prominently - featured team member when all is said and done.

And he absolutely hits out of the park (or the football equivalent of that) with a big locker room speech, the rare one to resonate out of all the team sports movies that try.

Not exact matches

Before he went on to direct and produce movies and TV series such as Varsity Blues, Coach Carter, Smallville and One Tree Hill, sports - fanatic filmmaker Michael Tollin made Hardwood Dreams, a documentary that chronicled one season of the Morningside High basketball team in Inglewood, Calif..

Seemingly random information about a candidate — his or her taste in movies, food and sports teams — could be revealing.

ICON Case Study Part 2 We've all got our favorites in life... Favorite sports teams, colors, movies, etc..

If they're all going to end and all those people will eventually die and all those movies and sports teams will eventually be forgotten?

The Mighty Ducks does not hold up as a «good» movie, but if you are looking for the ultimate piece of early «90s sports nostalgia, there is no one better to deliver it than Emilio Estevez and his ragtag team of hockey cast - offs.

That stock theme in Disney sports movies of losers and misfits being forged together into an unlikely winning team owes something to Paul.

We added a finished room upstairs so my husband could scream at his favorite sports teams and so I could drink wine and watch Redbox movies as loud as I wanted to.

Substitution Effect: Assuming that consumers have a fixed leisure budget, when a sports team moves to a city like Detroit from Pontiac, the money that a family spends going to a Lion's game is typically money that would have been spent on other leisure activities like bowling or going to the movies.

Reason why Team Radist can win it all — Captain Eric is from LA and in his personal sports movie, which will feature a comeback from a torn ACL, it needs to end with them holding the Crown.

In addition to frequent live performances and movie nights («Mean Girls» showed last summer), the bar keeps 10 HD televisions available for sports fans to root for their favorite teams.

Activities I enjoy include traveling, cooking, seeing a good movie and watching the local sports teams.

My favorite movies are all kinds, I'm not picku, I enjoy watching sports College Football is my favorite, I love all New York teams Giants, Yankees and Knicks!!!

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40 years old self - confident man who is interested in music, dance, movies, theatre, ethimology, gastronomy, cooking, travelling, team sports, chocolate...

A by - the - numbers underdog sports movie, but as a female athlete who benefited from the national attention that team brought to female athletes, I embrace this feel - good story.

Although it adheres to the tried - and - true sports - movie formula of an underdog team striving to overcome their limitations to become winners, Crooked Arrows lacks captivating emotional momentum.

Fish - out - of - water high school football coach Jim White (played by sports movie king Kevin Costner) moves with his wife (Maria Bello) and two daughters to the small, Mexican - American migrant worker town of McFarland, CA and decides to start a cross country team at the school after noticing four kids in his gym class who excel at running.

The Las Vegas tournament itself follows the time - honored formulas of all sports movies, but is considerably enhanced by the weird teams in the finals.

Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story has become a sports cult film of sorts — one of the best of the Frat Pack movies — telling the story of the scrappy dodgeball team at Average Joe's gym, led by Peter La Fleur (Vince Vaughn), going against Ben Stiller's White Goodman and the formidable Purple Cobras from his Globo Gym.

Director Maria Finitzo focuses on the girls» soccer team — specifically a few star players and the benevolent, paternal coach — but this doesn't feel like a sports movie so much as a lament for America's beleaguered working class.

Johnson's best «serious» drama is this familiar but very effective sports movie, in which he reforms teenagers in a juvenile detention center by starting a football team.

I give the team behind the new sports movie, «When the Game Stands Tall» a lot of credit for pulling - off something nearly impossible: they've made a film about the most successful high school football team of all - time that's about as exciting as a 0 - 0 tie in an NFL exhibition game.

When: February 20th Why: Proving that there are worst sports than swimming («Pride») to make a movie about, «McFarland, USA» tells the true story of a high school gym coach (who by terrible coincidence is named Mr. White) and his all - Latino cross country team.

Sure, it has the whole sports movie vibe for the build - up point of the film: there's a big game to be won, the main character struggles to work as a team, the coach character is distant and fatherly.

Cleveland is the butt of so many jokes when it comes to sports that the only way our teams win is when Hollywood makes a movie about them.

But generally speaking, the NFL hasn't approved use of the teams or name in any movie that depicts anything less than a golden portrayal of the sport (hence, Oliver Stone «s «Any Given Sunday» getting the shaft).

While the step dance team is certainly the least interesting part of this film, it does play an integral role of playing by subliminally layering in sports movie tropes about self - esteem and tenacity.

It really does have the martial arts shenanigans of The Matrix (yep, right down to pseudo-bullet time, but not used in a way that might make you sick of it), it's got the «loser team makes good» sports movie (I picked Major League because it's fun, that's all), and it's got the ADD - inflicted editing, pace, and sometimes even visual style of Moulin Rouge.

The team leader, James Curran (Michael Biehn) is relatively straight - arrow, but the team's cut - up, the one with the most screen time, is Charlie Sheen's Dale Hawkins, who makes his introduction in the movie jumping off a dangerously high bridge, for sport.

Fortunately, Disney's true story of the recently desegregated T.C. Williams football team as it named a black head coach over a popular, white, hall of fame - bound incumbent takes on the troubling history of Virginia's role in American racism, tied up in an inspirational sports movie package.

Wouldn't it be great if «Crooked Arrows,» a new movie about a Native American lacrosse team that takes on the prep school snobs, upended sports movie convention?

We've heard the old saying about the individual's role in a team (Here, it's stated as, «Team isn't about «I;» it's about «us»»), and a lot of sports movies fall into the nearly unavoidable trap of making a team's success wholly dependent on one or a select group of playteam (Here, it's stated as, «Team isn't about «I;» it's about «us»»), and a lot of sports movies fall into the nearly unavoidable trap of making a team's success wholly dependent on one or a select group of playTeam isn't about «I;» it's about «us»»), and a lot of sports movies fall into the nearly unavoidable trap of making a team's success wholly dependent on one or a select group of playteam's success wholly dependent on one or a select group of players.

For all underdog sports team movies, from Hoosiers (1986) to Remember the Titans (2000), from The Bad News Bears (197...

The bane of young nerds everywhere, this violent playground game offers the perfect vehicle to parody sports - movie clichés: the team of lovable misfits, the rich snob rivals, the tournament with a decisive sudden - death moment.

So now a sequel is arriving nine years later, and the movie finds Ron and his news team — reporter Brian Fantana (Paul Rudd), sports reporter Champ Kind (David Koechner), and weatherman Brick Tamland (Steve Carell)-- going from their beloved San Diego to New York, where they've been taken on at a 24 - hour news network, GNN.

But sports movies seem to be one genre where the studio consistently captures the spirit of the underdog, the incredible work ethnic needed to succeed and the strength of a team.

The film continues four years later and instead of Nicky's team going to another huge sporting event and ripping people off, he's by himself working with Formula One owner Garriga played by Rodrigo Santoro who is best known for playing Xerxes in the 300 movies.

Ryan Dunne (Prinze) is a southpaw pitcher for the Chatham A's, a Cape Cod amateur league baseball team with your usual band of post-Ron Shelton sports movie misfits.

The internal fighting threatens to rip the team apart in an otherwise very conventional sports movie written by John Logan (Gladiator, RKO 281).

That plot is the stuff of which inspirational sports movies are made: a losing team rallying together with a new star player and new plays slowly progressing up the ladder until the big game against the undefeated rival team.

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Enjoy watching your favorite sports team or movie on the big screen LCD television with Bose surround sound.

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Trivia games offer questions that can cover a wide assortment of subjects that could include movie characters, TV sitcoms, sports teams, literature, history, geography, and more.

- Original Dragon Ball story and characters - Dragon Ball Super story and characters - More Dragon Ball Z characters from series and movies - Ability to turn off time limit - Ability to pick different stages for local multiplayer and endless battle - Allow uneven battles from the start (1 - vs - 2, 2 - vs - 3, etc)- Allow free for all (all players fighting for themselves, rather than teams)- Permanent stage destruction - Ability to select if items can or can't be used in a match - Equipment should not be tied to stats - More variation in character creation, similar to sports games.