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ENJOY TIME AT HOME TOP 5 SPORTS MOVIES
Top 5 Sports Movies of all Time
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THURSDAY night used to be so simple, 7pm turn on the tellie, sit back, feet up and scream at the television, ‘watch the 10…. He’s been doing it all night…. Come on ref… kick your guide dog… he’s gone to sleep’. Now we get excited watching Gordon the gecko slowly inching his way up the outside wall as he stalks that complacent moth. Will Gordon win? Will Monty the moth fly off before Gordon can pounce? Is that moth doomed to be consumed? What are the current odds on Sportsbet? If Monty is up by half time will Sportsbet pay out? Thursday night has forever changed, and some could say for the better, so long as you do not cheer for the moths. With the cessation of live sports on television I thought I would be timely to review the Top 5 Sports movies of all time. Log onto your streaming service, dust out the old dvd’s and lean back, feet up, cold beverage in hand and settle down to scream and cheer just like the first time you watched these classics. Number 5 – White Men Can’t Jump. A 1992 American sports comedy starring Woody Harrelson (Cheers) and Wesley Snipes (Coming 2 America). A streetball comedy where unsuspecting chumps and duped into thinking a bumbling white boy could not possibly play basketball, primarily because of the colour of his skin. A great feel good movie great basketball action, 3 pointers and heaps of hangtime and more air than Jordon. Number 4 – Karate Kid. Wax on… wax off, he was taught the secret to karate lies in the mind and hearts and not in his hands. Released in 1984 Karate Kid tells the story of a bullied teenager desperately seeking to win the affections of a beautiful girl. Starring Ralph Macchio (My Cousin Vinny), Pat Morita Arnold in Happy Days) and Elisabeth Shue (Jennifer Parker in Back to the Future Part II and III). A classic, boy meets girl, boy falls in love, boy get in fight, gets the living suitcase beaten out of himself, but comes back with a highly unusual move, ‘the crane’, smashing his opponent into the a quivering mess and wins the affection of the girl forever, and chaired out of the ring by an adoring public, what’s not to like. Gee sounds like a Rocky Movie. Number 3 – Chariots of Fire. Winner of 4 Academy Awards from 7 nominations, Chariots of Fire was a memorable movie from 1981. It’s title was inspired by the line “bring me my chariots of fire’, from the William Blake poem And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time. Chariots of Fire tells the story of two great runners from the University of
Cambridge who compete in the 1924 Paris Olympics. In an era before drugs in sport, Chariots of Fire blends willpower and natural talent along with a stirring storyline and a great soundtrack. Still one of my favorite all-time movies. Number 2 – Ali. Perhaps the greatest sporting bio-pic of all times, definitely about the greatest boxer of all generations, Muhammad Ali. It might have bombed at the box office but Will Smith captured the essence of Ali and transferred it to the big screen with class and power. Ali will always be remembered as the greatest boxer with a sharp wit and unflinching belief in himself as well as the social issues that surrounded America during that era. I can remember the opening ceremony of Atlanta Olympic 1996, with Ali lighting the Olympic Flame, seeing a proud and strong man, 36 years after winning gold in Rome. This biopic could never do justice to the career of this fighter, nor could it adequately underline the generations who grew up seeing and believing in a man who symbolised equality for all men in the ring, but Will Smith breathed life into Ali and left a lasting indelible legacy to this once great man. Now, stop the alarm clock, crack the raw egg heart-starter, dust out the old grey sweat suit and cue the music from Bill Conti – Gonna Fly Now, it’s time for Number 1 Rocky, and all seven sequels. Now the plot is a bit twee, with the same depth as the vocabulary of its star Sylvester Stallone, but this movie has some of the greatest action fight scenes of all times. Slow motion, closeups of pain and flying sweat and a storyline that is guaranteed to draw you in tighter and closer than a clinch with the ear-bitter ‘Iron Mike’. Rocky follows the fortunes of a poorly educated, well-meaning Italian-American boxer Rocky Balboa as he is offered a shot at the top by Apollo Creed. Surrounded by his community his girlfriend Adrian, Trainer Mickey and friend Paulie, Rocky launches, lurches, falls, rises, falls again and again and eventually wins the fight on a split decision. This judge’s decision is clearly Rocky is a knockout, a true heart thumping soul stirring winner, guaranteed to have you out of your chair, doing star jumps in the lounge and one armed push-ups by the tens, or maybe less in this case. Well that’s the Top 5 Sports movies; next week maybe we should consider the Top 5 Bathurst Races and moments. Until then, ease back into that lounge, feet up and drift into blissful sleep dreaming of past sporting glories and eagerly awaiting the return of the NRL.
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