OT - basketball movies

[Judtech]

Wow, great off topic thread.
The Good
Hoosiers is the best if only b/c I have a personal tie in and grew up in Indiana!!!
FastBreak with Gabe Kaplan is a forgotten classic. Plus it had Bernard King!
Amazing Grace and Chuck interesting, but couldn't get passed Alex English in a Celtic Uniform
One On One - Chicks dug Bobby Benson. Guys thought "I can take this guy" And watching him hopped up on speed was hilarious. And who can forget the classic "All the way with a red hot poker!"
Hoop Dreams - My Alma Mater gets a cameo appearance!
White Men Can't Jump - Well, b/c we cant!
The Air Up There - Cheezy, but I liked it. Sort of a precursor for the wave of international players
Forget Paris - My mother in law reads everysign on the road much like Crystal's father inlaw
Finding Forrester - Sean Connery hoops fan? Gotta love it
Semi Pro - Loved the nut huggers
He Got Game - Denzel, Milla Jovovich, Jim Brown, Travis Best, Rick Foxx. What a cast
Playing For Knight - Who didn;lt love watching Arvin get laid out every week by Coach nite

The Bad
Space Jam - Cartoons? Really? Sort of playing into the NBA stereotype dont u think?
Eddie - LIke we already don't think Whoopi thinks she knows it all!
Like Mike - Not as bad as Like Mike 2 - Street Ball
Air Bud - And its follow up movies. (and I am a DOG lover!)
Celtic Pride

Plus there are a ton of good documentaries out there. But I will now get off my Movie Review Box

[bainsey]

That's easy. Coach Carter.

As for Air Bud, don't tell me you didn't consider the proper free throw administration to a golden retriever.

[Adam]

More bad:
Teen Wolf
High School Musical (almost made me stop previewing movies for my kids.)

Frankly, it's almost impossible for me to watch a show or movie with basketball as a significant sub plot. It's apparent the writers and producers and directors spent less time on a basketball court than I spent acting in high school.

[BillyMac]

Originally Posted by Snaqwells

It's apparent the writers and producers and directors spent less time on a basketball court than I spent acting in high school.

Really good point. By the way, I'm available to be a consultant. My fee would only be 1% of the movie's gross.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Really good point. By the way, I'm available to be a consultant. My fee would only be 1% of the movie's gross.

Rumor is the next movie stars Betty White who takes over her husband's small college men's team after he has a nervous breakdown.

[Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.]

Originally Posted by BillyMac

Really good point. By the way, I'm available to be a consultant. My fee would only be 1% of the movie's gross.

And some basketball movies are really really gross, .

MTD, Sr.

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.

And some basketball movies are really really gross

I think this is a scene from one of those.

[dsqrddgd909]

Originally Posted by Mark Padgett

I think this is a scene from one of those.

Best uniform and shoes EVER!

[DLH17]

Glory Road
Hoosiers
Coach Carter
White Men Can't Jump

TV: The White Shadow

[doubleringer]

Hoosiers is always going to get top billing for me, but Fastbreak is right up there. I was disappointed with Glory Road. Great story, but I didn't think the movie was well done. I was extremely annoyed with how they made the game scenes look like today's game.

[Nevadaref]

The Absent-Minded Professor !!!

[Mark Padgett]

Originally Posted by Judtech

Semi Pro - Loved the nut huggers

Don't forget Semi-Tough was probably the best football movie ever - along with Knute Rockne All-American.

[dbking]

Easy answer for me...

Hoosiers, the home of Hickory is where I played 7th grade basketball.

Hoosier by birth, Boilermaker by blood!

[BBrules]

"Glory Road" and "Hoosiers" are up at the top for me.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by dbking

Easy answer for me...

Hoosiers, the home of Hickory is where I played 7th grade basketball.

Hoosier by birth, Boilermaker by blood!

And in Hoosier's news, Dennis Hopper died this morning.