Boxing Movies

[100%CardsFan]

Of course the Rocky series is good but is there any other "Great" boxing movie that you guys have seen?

 

[Shane]

Play it to the Bone!

I love that movie

 

[100%CardsFan]

Play it to the Bone!

I love that movie

Sounds like boxing porn

 

[Chaplin]

Raging Bull is one of the best movies ever made, not just the best boxing movie.

 

[Ryanwb]

Can you consider "On the Water Front" a boxing movie? I guess not... but it was always one of my favorites as a kid. I also have always liked this movie called "Fat City" when I was younger. Stacey Keach (the cop from the Cheech and Chong movies) and a really young Jeff Bridges are in it one guy is at the end of his career, the other is just starting. Actually a really decent movie. http://imdb.com/title/tt0068575/

 

[Mulli]

"Somebody Up There Likes Me" with Paul Newman as Rocky Graziano. From the 50's but pretty good.

 

[100%CardsFan]

Raging Bull is one of the best movies ever made, not just the best boxing movie.

Never seen that. Im gonna check it out today.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Raging Bull - without a doubt - the greatest boxing movie and one of the greatest movie ever made.

 

[100%CardsFan]

Anybody see that newer movie..um Saturday night baby or something like that?

 

[CaptTurbo]

Raging Bull is one of the best movies ever made, not just the best boxing movie.

I just saw this. Had no idea Pesci and De niro had so much history together. How many movies did they make together?

 

[Cheesebeef]

Anybody see that newer movie..um Saturday night baby or something like that?

million dollar baby - overrated melodramatic piece of garbage IMO.

 

[Mulli]

million dollar baby - overrated melodramatic piece of garbage IMO.

 

[100%CardsFan]

Thanks for the heads up.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Thanks for the heads up.

don't just take my word for it though - it did win the Academy Award for Best Picture so I'm thinking I'm in the minority on that opinion - that being said - I still think it w as predictable piece of manipulative TV filmmaking.

 

[Mulli]

predictable piece of manipulative TV filmmaking.

About what you can expect now from Clint Eastwood. I suppose that is a minority opinion as well.

 

[Cheesebeef]

About what you can expect now from Clint Eastwood. I suppose that is a minority opinion as well.

I don't know - I LOVED Unforgiven, although I thought Mystic River was outrageously overhyped as well - for most of the same reasons $ Baby was.

 

[UncleChris]

For whatever reason, the Academy is in love with Eastwood right now (remember when they made fun of him??)


I absolutely agree with Cheesebeef on this.... And, quite frankly, I thought Mystic River was a depressing, senseless, over-rated piece of crap, too (although Tim Robbins was absolutely great in it. Sean Penn did his usual poor Robert De Niro imitation).

 

[Mulli]

I don't know - I LOVED Unforgiven, although I thought Mystic River was outrageously overhyped as well - for most of the same reasons $ Baby was.

I agree Unforgiven was excellent. I also agree about Mystic River. I didn't see $ Baby, but I have heard the same from a lot of people. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was not that great for Clint either.

 

[UncleChris]

Give me Dirty Harry and Every Which Way But Loose!!!

 

[100%CardsFan]

I don't know - I LOVED Unforgiven, although I thought Mystic River was outrageously overhyped as well - for most of the same reasons $ Baby was.

 

[100%CardsFan]

For whatever reason, the Academy is in love with Eastwood right now (remember when they made fun of him??)


I absolutely agree with Cheesebeef on this.... And, quite frankly, I thought Mystic River was a depressing, senseless, over-rated piece of crap, too (although Tim Robbins was absolutely great in it. Sean Penn did his usual poor Robert De Niro imitation).

 

[100%CardsFan]

I agree Unforgiven was excellent. I also agree about Mystic River. I didn't see $ Baby, but I have heard the same from a lot of people. Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil was not that great for Clint either.

 

[100%CardsFan]

Give me Dirty Harry and Every Which Way But Loose!!!

 

[Bada0Bing]

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I was thinking of using this for one of my movie-a-day posts until I saw this thread. It stars James Marshall and Cuba Gooding Jr. It’s one of my favorite early 90’s movies. It’s a great story with a killer soundtrack. It’s no Rocky or Raging Bull, but it’s a cool little movie about kids growing up in a poor neighborhood.

 

[dreamcastrocks]

I am suprised that no one mentioned The Hurricane with Denzel. It was a pretty good movie.

Raging Bull is just a hell of a movie, not just a good boxing movie.