Best boxing movie?

FightFanAL · Post by **FightFanAL** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:01 pm

favorite comedy-Great White Hype

favorite comedy/drama- Diggstown

favorite drama-Rocky and Raging Bull

wimpy · Post by **wimpy** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:08 pm

Cinderella Man

Didn't see Great White Hype though.

Vastud75 · Post by **Vastud75** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:11 pm

Undisputed with Ving Rhames and Wesley Snipes wasnt bad either...

Primetyme199 · Post by **Primetyme199** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:24 pm

For me it's Cinderella Man and Million Dollar Baby.

FightFanAL · Post by **FightFanAL** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:32 pm

stenchasaurous wrote:Raging Bull, Gladiator (not the one with Russell Crowe), Million Dollar Baby and if bare-knuckle counts, Snatch and Hard Times are good (I'm hoping noone mentions either of those retarded Eastwood movies with the orangutan). I don't like Rocky 1 or 2 (blasphemy I know), find the 3rd and 4th ones good for comedy, never have watched the entire 5th one and refuse to watch the last one because I'm not Sylvester Stallone's personal whore. I think Great White Hype is a pile of shit but the Great White Hope with James Earl Jones is a great movie. Cinderella Man is a good movie if not completely accurate in character portrayal. I haven't seent The Harder They Fall or On the Waterfront so I can't rate them.

I'll go with Snatch or Raging Bull.

a little overboard wasnt it?

Primetyme199 · Post by **Primetyme199** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:44 pm

I actually thought the last Rocky movie was good. It was more along the lines of the original.

Primetyme199 · Post by **Primetyme199** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:48 pm

Has anyone watched Requiem for a Heavyweight? I was wondering if it was good.

wimpy · Post by **wimpy** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 2:57 pm

Primetyme199 wrote:Has anyone watched Requiem for a Heavyweight? I was wondering if it was good.

One of my favorites. I think Woo talked highly of it also.

mogologo · Post by **mogologo** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:38 pm

regulardude wrote:
stenchasaurous wrote:
regulardude wrote:Stench---On the Waterfront is a friggin' GREAT flick. Nothing really to do with boxing, though.
I just knew that Brando was supposed to be a fighter in it and that line of him about "coulda' been..." I'll go rent it based on your rec.
Yeh, Brando's an ex-boxer (not even really a has-been so much as a never-was) and his brother is in the mob. Brando witnesses a murder but won't talk because he doesn't want to be a rat. Main thing is that the mob is trying to bust up the union of dockworkers (Brando is one of the dockworkers) who are just trying to make a living. Elia Kazan directed it---pretty awesome stuff.

Really good movie. Kazan did a great job here. I think the deal was that Brando either got a title shot or could have had one if he would take a dive for the mob. Basically they built his career and then took it from him. That taxi cab scene is one of my favorites of all time.

novakstep · Post by **novakstep** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:39 pm

I thought The Hurricane was fairly decent, even though it was quite inaccurate at times.

Barry_BondsMVP · Post by **Barry_BondsMVP** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:44 pm

Gladiator was a good one, Rocky 6, Great White Hype, Million Dollar Baby, Ali, Undisputed. I still need to see Raging Bull.

Anyone seen The Great White Hope???? The Hammer looks funny also!

3Mosquitoes · Post by **3Mosquitoes** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 3:46 pm

stenchasaurous wrote:I'm hoping noone mentions either of those retarded Eastwood movies with the orangutan

Every Which Way But Loose, Baby!!

stenchasaurous wrote:refuse to watch the last one because I'm not Sylvester Stallone's personal whore

LMAO!!! Well said!!!

To the topic, I'm choosing Million Dollar Baby. Great acting, great story, great fuckin' movie!

Erison · Post by **Erison** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:21 pm

The Boxer, starring the greatest actor of all time.

Or Ali. Ali had the best and most realistic fight scenes of all time. Beautifully done.

Southpaw_uppercut · Post by **Southpaw_uppercut** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:20 pm

no love for Rocky on these boards

Shame on all of you....shame..shame....shame

RASTA666 · Post by **RASTA666** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 8:34 pm

Southpaw_uppercut wrote:no love for Rocky on these boards

Shame on all of you....shame..shame....shame

Rock 1....the rest sucked.

Thought Raging Bull to be the most historically accurate. Cinderella man for me was a little to Gladiator.

Lagaidh · Post by **Lagaidh** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:33 am

I don't know why exactly...

but I loved Play It to the Bone.

I mean... Woody Harrelson boning Lucy Liu on a stack of tires? Talking to Jesus? His reaction to Banderas... "I went gay a li'il while".

mogologo · Post by **mogologo** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 2:48 am

RASTA666 wrote:
Southpaw_uppercut wrote:no love for Rocky on these boards

Shame on all of you....shame..shame....shame

Rock 1....the rest sucked.

Thought Raging Bull to be the most historically accurate. Cinderella man for me was a little to Gladiator.

While Raging Bull was an incredible movie and probably top ten of all time I think that Scorcese ended up giving too much credit to LaMotta as a boxer and as a person. By all accounts he seems to be a scumbag.

RASTA666 · Post by **RASTA666** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:25 am

mogologo wrote:
RASTA666 wrote:
Southpaw_uppercut wrote:no love for Rocky on these boards

Shame on all of you....shame..shame....shame

Rock 1....the rest sucked.

Thought Raging Bull to be the most historically accurate. Cinderella man for me was a little to Gladiator.
While Raging Bull was an incredible movie and probably top ten of all time I think that Scorcese ended up giving too much credit to LaMotta as a boxer and as a person. By all accounts he seems to be a scumbag.

I think he was a better boxer than he was given credit for Mog. He out jabbed Robinson albeit Robinson was not at his best.
I thought it seemed historically accurate but as Napoleon Bonaparte said, "history is a set of lies agreed upon."

Just a guy · Post by **Just a guy** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:38 am

I guess we must be talking only fictional movies, because When We Were Kings was awesome... I loved that movie, even though everybody knew how it was going to end.

I also liked the Hurricane, with all of its inaccuracies. And Denzel really learns how to move and talk like the people he is portraying... this was no exception.

If we're talking about realistic, then I did like Ali - also liked Raging Bull, and that movie got some emotion out of me.

But overall, it's hard to argue the first Rocky is not the greatest fictional boxing movie of all time.

fsteddi · Post by **fsteddi** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 1:44 am

here is a list of some "Older boxing movies" Prior to 1980 that you might enjoy...and the year they hit the Silver Screen...

The Champ(1931) Prizefighter and The Lady(1933) Golden Boy(1939) The Crowd Roars(1939) EX-Champ(1939) They Made Me a Criminal(1939 City For Conquest(1940) Gentleman Jim(1942) The Great John L(1945) Body and Soul(1947) All-American Boy (1947) Killer McCoy(1948) The Set Up(1949) Champion(1949) Right Cross(1950) Iron Man(1951) TheRing(1952) Flesh and Fury(1952) The Fighter(1952) The Joe Louis Story(1953) Second Chance(1953) Champ For a Day(1953) Tennessee Champ(1954) Somebody Up There Likes Me(1956) The Harder They Fall(1956) The World in my Corner(1956) Monkey On My Back(1957) FIGHT FOR THE TITLE (1957) Requiem For a Heavyweight(1962) The Great White Hope(1970) Fat City(1971) Rocky(1976) The Greatest(1977)

pimparoni32 · Post by **pimparoni32** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 4:48 am

The Greatest starring Ali as himself was really funny. It was so much better than the Will Smith movie. Ali was hilarious.

RASTA666 · Post by **RASTA666** » Fri Mar 21, 2008 7:46 am

fsteddi wrote:here is a list of some "Older boxing movies" Prior to 1980 that you might enjoy...and the year they hit the Silver Screen...

The Champ(1931) Prizefighter and The Lady(1933) Golden Boy(1939) The Crowd Roars(1939) EX-Champ(1939) They Made Me a Criminal(1939 City For Conquest(1940) Gentleman Jim(1942) The Great John L(1945) Body and Soul(1947) All-American Boy (1947) Killer McCoy(1948) The Set Up(1949) Champion(1949) Right Cross(1950) Iron Man(1951) TheRing(1952) Flesh and Fury(1952) The Fighter(1952) The Joe Louis Story(1953) Second Chance(1953) Champ For a Day(1953) Tennessee Champ(1954) Somebody Up There Likes Me(1956) The Harder They Fall(1956) The World in my Corner(1956) Monkey On My Back(1957) FIGHT FOR THE TITLE (1957) Requiem For a Heavyweight(1962) The Great White Hope(1970) Fat City(1971) Rocky(1976) The Greatest(1977)

I need to see some of these. I have seen the last 5.

Tommy · Post by **Tommy** » Sat Mar 22, 2008 7:17 pm

Rocky is the only one I've watched more than a couple of times. Actually I used to watch it every week as a kid lol.