Sentences with phrase «underdog sports movie»

I may not be the biggest sports fan in the world, but I have to admit I'm a sucker for a good underdog sports movie.

This was also a good time for underdog sports movies.

Writer - director Michael McGowan proves there's a reason people keep making underdog sports movies.

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.

Cliched underdog sports movie, that's predictable, contrived and its familiar derivative plot line is put to poor use.

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.

There are not, as yet, many underdog sports movies about volleyball, and the early moments of The Miracle Season make that seem like an oversight.

Aspects culturally specific to black and mixed race people, through the lens of a fairly typical underdog sports movie.

This is a different kind of underdog sports movie, one where percentages and balance sheets and backroom trades are bigger drama than home runs and double plays.

While it is the first film of the traditional musical Bollywood mold to make the final Oscar cut, Lagaan is remarkably Yank - accessible, from the presence of prominent British characters to its straight - out - of - Tinseltown underdog sports movie formula (never mind that the sport in question was cricket).

And yet, it works, not unlike The Fighter and Silver Linings Playbook, because we meet it halfway with our own awareness of the forebears Russell lightly subverts (whether underdog sports movies, screwball comedies or, now, Scorsese's American crime epics), and we're willing to fill in the blanks to enjoy trappings like Bale finessing Irving's «rather elaborate» combover or Lawrence yammering Rosalyn's way into getting what she wants.

Is this a feel good underdog sports movie or is it basically Paul Blart: Mixed Martial Arts Fighter?

Although we joked about «Warrior» above, we actually really enjoyed Gavin O'Connor's MMA film, perhaps even because of (rather than in spite of) its commitment to exploiting every underdog sports movie convention in cinema history.

His latest film is an outstanding family comedy, an underdog sports movie set in the prehistoric age, all about football, which is incidentally referred to throughout as «football» and thankfully not «soccer», because it is not set in the United States.

Hands Of Stone, a biopic about the Panamanian prizefighter Roberto Durán, can't decide whether it wants to be a portrait of the athlete as an independent hero of his times (like Ali), a character study about machismo (like Raging Bull), or just an underdog sports movie.

It's equally strange for the director to frame Tim's struggles in an underdog sports movie, as if a winning heat at the regionals will somehow be a satisfactory comeuppance for the relentless cruelty that led to his friend's death.

Both as an underdog sports movie and as a coming - of - age family drama, Queen Of Katwe is undeniably formulaic, and the moments of triumph and defeat occur exactly when — and how — you'd expect them to.

The result is a lightweight but satisfying confection that tugs playfully at memories of My Fair Lady, Breakfast at Tiffany's — it's no coincidence that a photo of Audrey Hepburn is taped conspicuously to Rose's bedroom wall — Simply Ballroom, and every underdog sports movie ever produced.

In fact, Staying Alive is an underdog sports movie that sees Tony hit it out of the park in the Big Game to the admiration of men and the lascivious attention of women, dancing badly in a ridiculous construction called «Satan's Alley» in which, in one of Stallone's dips into bad - allegory country, Tony literally and metaphorically battles his demons to ascend to Heaven.

Battle of the Sexes shuffles along with this underdog sports movie narrative.

The story follows a ragtag tribe of cavemen who must defeat an invading force of Bronze Agers in a game of soccer to save their home, and if that sounds suspiciously like the underdog sports movie, «The Longest Yard» (which already received the soccer treatment in 2001's «Mean Machine»), that's because it's basically a riff on that film, except with cavemen as the prisoners and foreign invaders as the prison guards.

So, Nick describes it as: he always wanted to make an underdog sports movie, being the least sporty person in the world.

It was also my opportunity to make an underdog sports movie by having a severe lack of talent.