AFI Takes On Sports

Written by Rosolio

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The AFI released their list of Top Ten Sports Movies of All Time. Here’s what we got:

1. Raging Bull - Couldn’t agree more. Probably the most underrated movie of all time because it’s a Scorcese movie with De Niro that isn’t Taxi Driver or Goodfellas.

2. Rocky - You knew that. Who loves underdogs? Fat people from Philly.

3. Pride of the Yankees - Eh. Gets a free pass because the actual Gehrig story is so interesting. A documentary would have been twice as good.

4. Hoosiers - Yeah, this is good. Dennis Hopper in a great pre-Speed, post-I’ll-Smoke-The-Ashes-of-Xerxes role.

5. Bull Durham - Really good. A lot better than it should be. Plus, it thought it was successful because of Kevin Costner, when it was actually the Tim Robbins show. We were thanked with The Postman.

6. The Hustler - I actually don’t like this one. Paul Newman is awesome, and yeah the Color of Money Oscar was for this. But it was a hell of a bummer from beginning to end. Like Leaving Las Vegas with an eight ball.

7. Caddyshack - Yep.

8. Breaking Away - Underrated movie that few people have seen. Go do it.

9. National Velvet - Horses. They shoot horses, don’t they? Well, this one runs around with Elizabeth Taylor on top of it. Yes, it’s an it. Horses aren’t people. Your horse isn’t smarter than my honor student.

10. Jerry Mcguire - An abomination. Horrible, terrible movie. Cuba Gooding Jr should return his Oscar for proving during his acceptance speech that he wasn’t acting at all. The LAV-mics are way too hot in this movie; listen as Tom Cruise and Renee "Clint Eastwood" Zelwegger swish around their own saliva in between lines. Everyone who likes this movie, please do this: watch it again, and every time you think Cruise is likeable, remember that he thinks he can fly if he reaches OT level 10.

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