September Film Challenge 🎬

[MedicalMuse]

Day 8
I watch it every fall with my boys.

 

[Sexy_Singer]

Day 8: The Natural

This movie typifies for me the magic that is in baseball.

 

[Awaywego]

Way behind:
Day 3 - Favorite movie pre-1970
Forbidden Planet

Day 4 - First movie you saw at the cinema
Snow White

Day 5: A movie you wished you had seen on opening night
Rocky Horror Picture Show

Day 6: A movie you've seen more times than any other
Shawshank Redemption

Day 7: A movie you can quote every line & Day 8: Favorite sports movie
Bull Durham

 

[Awaywego]

Day 8
I watch it every fall with my boys.

Coach started in the system I taught in for 15 years.

 

[MedicalMuse]

Coach started in the system I taught in for 15 years.

It’s right up the road from me.

 

[Awaywego]

It’s right up the road from me.

NC?

 

[MedicalMuse]

NC?

TC Williams is in Alexandria Virginia

 

[Awaywego]

TC Williams is in Alexandria Virginia

Yep and I love the area. Will be up there in November, in fact checking out the Birchmere music schedule. Coach Boone started in VA after college, then NC before T.C Williams.

 

[MedicalMuse]

Yep and I love the area. Will be up there in November, in fact checking out the Birchmere music schedule. Coach Boone started in VA after college, then NC before T.C Williams.

We play against them. Well, we did when my boys were in school. It’s an excellent program.

 

[Awaywego]

We play against them. Well, we did when my boys were in school. It’s an excellent program.

Cool to have that history! His team Williamston NC team was voted best in country just before he left for TC Williams. I got to meet him in 2003 or 2004.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 8: Favorite sports movie
Predictably, @lavendersilk snagged my choice. So here’s an alternate

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 8: Favorite sports movie
Predictably, @lavendersilk snagged my choice. So here’s an alternate

I utterly love this film from the opening credits to the outtakes. It does the remarkable balancing act between adoration and gentle satire, and the dialog is just so damn clever. @lavendersilk snagged your choice, and you snagged mine. You are being a cheer-tator, Monkey, and a pain in my ass!

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

I utterly love this film from the opening credits to the outtakes. It does the remarkable balancing act between adoration and gentle satire, and the dialog is just so damn clever. @lavendersilk snagged your choice, and you snagged mine. You are being a cheer-tator, Monkey, and a pain in my ass!

Well now I want to know if you’ll pick my third choice.

 

[UnquietDreams]

Well now I want to know if you’ll pick my third choice.

I would guess not, as I wouldn't have chosen your first one.

 

[curious_slut]

Day 8: Favorite sports movie

I don't particularly like sports or sports movie. But now that I think about it dark magic dance is a sport so why shouldn't Suspiria count

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 8: Favorite sports movie
I came into this series with the sequel, which I am also very fond of. I was too young to see the original on its first run. And it is a very 70s movie. It is a bit jarring for modern audiences to see foul-mouthed 12-year-olds spewing curse words and the occasional racial or sexual slur with a facileness that only a 1970s preadolescent can. (Don't fool yourself - I work around middle school kids. They still sound like this.) And I am not a big baseball fan. But this movie understands kid's sports in a way few films do.

The cast is fantastic. For the kids, you have Tatum O'Neal, already an Academy Award winner, bringing her tremendous talent with a girl caught between wanting to be a woman and wanting to compete for the closest person to a father for her, a complexity with mixed longing and anger and childlike joy. You have Jackie Earle Haley as the loan sharking, air hockey hustling, juvenile delinquent who is also the best athlete in town, Kelly Leak. God, I wanted to be as cool as Kelly Leak. I still do. As the "adult," and that is in quotes, you have Walter Mathau as Morris Buttermaker, a former minor league pitcher turned alcoholic pool cleaner who is bribed by the league (and competitive, rich parents) to coach an ad hoc expansion team thanks to a lawsuit due to excluding said kids. He doesn't care, and the first practice consists of him drinking beers one after the other until he passes out. The first game the Bears forfeit after allowing 26 runs in the opening inning without getting an out. When the team all threaten to quit, he starts to take an actual interest. Then he seeks out his former girlfriend's daughter, Amanda, who he had coached when she was younger, a phenomenal pitcher. She recruits Kelly. And then the Bears start to win...

The chemistry between the actors is what sells this film. All the characters are flawed, but realistically so. The relationship between Amanda and Buttermaker is wonderful and rocky, and painful, and beautiful. The cynicism of "youth sports" and specifically youth sports parents, is on full display. Kids act like actual kids. It is an unblinking, scathing look, but the humor is also very honest and unforced. Mathau and O'Neal are fantastic together. Not perfect, but a solid movie, and I love the ending, which is well earned. The sequel was less a great movie, but I saw it in a theater with my friends, and I love it for that. The less said about the final of the trilogy the better.

The Bad News Bears (1976)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Bad_news_bears_1976_movie_poster.jpg

 

[BreukelenAnima]

Day 8: Favorite sports movie

You can make an argument that this isn't a sports movie, but it ends with the "big race," so I'm going with it. A great coming of age film -- I think one of the best.

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 8: Favorite sports movie
I came into this series with the sequel, which I am also very fond of. I was too young to see the original on its first run. And it is a very 70s movie. It is a bit jarring for modern audiences to see foul-mouthed 12-year-olds spewing curse words and the occasional racial or sexual slur with a facileness that only a 1970s preadolescent can. (Don't fool yourself - I work around middle school kids. They still sound like this.) And I am not a big baseball fan. But this movie understands kid's sports in a way few films do.

The cast is fantastic. For the kids, you have Tatum O'Neal, already an Academy Award winner, bringing her tremendous talent with a girl caught between wanting to be a woman and wanting to compete for the closest person to a father for her, a complexity with mixed longing and anger and childlike joy. You have Jackie Earle Haley as the loan sharking, air hockey hustling, juvenile delinquent who is also the best athlete in town, Kelly Leak. God, I wanted to be as cool as Kelly Leak. I still do. As the "adult," and that is in quotes, you have Walter Mathau as Morris Buttermaker, a former minor league pitcher turned alcoholic pool cleaner who is bribed by the league (and competitive, rich parents) to coach an ad hoc expansion team thanks to a lawsuit due to excluding said kids. He doesn't care, and the first practice consists of him drinking beers one after the other until he passes out. The first game the Bears forfeit after allowing 26 runs in the opening inning without getting an out. When the team all threaten to quit, he starts to take an actual interest. Then he seeks out his former girlfriend's daughter, Amanda, who he had coached when she was younger, a phenomenal pitcher. She recruits Kelly. And then the Bears start to win...

The chemistry between the actors is what sells this film. All the characters are flawed, but realistically so. The relationship between Amanda and Buttermaker is wonderful and rocky, and painful, and beautiful. The cynicism of "youth sports" and specifically youth sports parents, is on full display. Kids act like actual kids. It is an unblinking, scathing look, but the humor is also very honest and unforced. Mathau and O'Neal are fantastic together. Not perfect, but a solid movie, and I love the ending, which is well earned. The sequel was less a great movie, but I saw it in a theater with my friends, and I love it for that. The less said about the final of the trilogy the better.

The Bad News Bears (1976)

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/f9/Bad_news_bears_1976_movie_poster.jpg

Wasn’t my third but in the top 10

 

[vagrantx]

Wow, I've seen like... none of the sports movies above. Apart from Suspiria @curious_slut you cheeky rule bender!

Day 9: Movie with the best car chase!

now it's getting hairy so we're changing the key,
never underestimate the power of E!
K-G fucking put his foot on the gas,
if i go to prison I've The Pick in my ass!!!

The Pick of Destiny could probably go on like 8 different days this month

 

[SluttyShannon]

Day 8: Favorite sports movie

 

[Nightbird]

Day 8

Bull Durham...

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Wow, I've seen like... none of the sports movies above. Apart from Suspiria @curious_slut you cheeky rule bender!

Day 9: Movie with the best car chase!

now it's getting hairy so we're changing the key,
never underestimate the power of E!
K-G fucking put his foot on the gas,
if i go to prison I've The Pick in my ass!!!

The Pick of Destiny could probably go on like 8 different days this month

I’m making a mental bet with myself which movies get posted for this prompt tomorrow (because we live in the past here)

 

[Lmizzler]

Day 8 favorite sports movie

 

[UnquietDreams]

Day 8: Favorite sports movie

You can make an argument that this isn't a sports movie, but it ends with the "big race," so I'm going with it. A great coming of age film -- I think one of the best.
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Absolutely a sports movie, and a fantastic one. The Little 500, the college bicycle race, is a real event every year at Indiana University. And Paul Dooley is a national treasure. This was another on my list. ( I had a long list.)

 

[SalaciousMonkey22]

Day 8 favorite sports movie

I have been waiting all day for this one