How would you rate the best ones, give us lists or comments. I just watched creed last night and thought it was the best i'd seen so far. (Sorry if this topics been done recently)
Haven't seen "Creed" yet. Of the last 15 years or so, I'd say I like "Ali", "Cinderella Man", "The Fighter", and "Great White Hype" "Ali" most people hated, but I liked the Michael Mann stylized vision of it. "Cinderella Man" probably the most well rounded in regards to quality of the boxing action and drama of the storyline "The Fighter" was fairly shitty on the boxing and the actual timeline of the life of Micky Ward but really good on the non-boxing aspects of the story "Great White Hype" was just fairly fun bullshit. Most others I don't have much patience for.
Actually forgot about Cinderella man, I'll pick it up tomorrow. Fighter was excellent I thought. Southpaw pretty bad. Ali good. Balboa a bit silly but good. Didn't think much of great white hype.
I don't like boxing films. Fight was fun but Marky Mark looks and acts NOTHING like Mickey Ward so couldn't relate to who he was supposed to be portraying. Cinderella man was decent. Ali was disappointing. If I didn't know the story of Ali I may have liked it...but an Ali film where they simply gloss over the first Frazier Ali fight is criminal. Plus Will Smith gets on my nerves.
yeah, quite liked creed million dollar baby was rubbish, from what I remember. can't be many people with more undeserved Oscars/Oscar nominations than clint eastwood has.
Agreed. They're all pretty much average: Hands Of Stone, Creed, Southpaw, The Fighter, etc..the more authentic / realistic they try to make these movies, the more mediocre they are. Even 'Raging Bull' is tough to watch these days. The 'Rocky' movies though...infinitely watchable.
Southpaw is the worst boxing movie ever made. Bar none. Gyllenhaal is a brilliant actor, but they didn't give him much to work with that comically bad script. Plus, while we know that there is corruption in boxing, this piece of shit movie just went WAAAAAAAYYYYY over-the-top and portrayed the sport as a lot more crooked than it is. Any movie that co-stars Curtis Jackson isn't gonna be a quality movie.
Agreed on Whalberg as Ward. If anything, Tim Roth shoulda played Mickey Ward. He looks the most like him of any major actor, and he's a much better actor than Marky Mark.
Come on man....Ward winning by a point isn't all that controversial. Give it up. It was a close fight.
Creed was pretty good. Think the fighting scenes were very well done and possibly the best ever filmed. Southpaw was OK. I loved Cinderella Man. Still need to see Hands of Stone and there's another boxing film out called Bleed for This. Miles Teller (Whiplash), plays Vinny "The Pazmanian Devil" Pazienza. It's got some very good reviews.
A boxing film about a real life highly celebrated fighter would always be awful. You need a boxing fan to make such a film not some Hollywood writer that does a little research for the project. That Ali film was a travesty...I refuse to watch it ever again. In watching that film the average viewer would have no idea why Ali was great.
being hollywood, there is also always an effort to make a social statement. i do not know if this was true in real life, but based on the movie, Duran was just as passionate about his country's politics as he was about boxing. seems unlikely.
The Fighter, Cinderella Man and the 1st Rocky were all about average fighters. I'd love to see a movie about Emanuel Augustus....................but maybe that belongs in the "Is Hollywood Racist?" thread. :: That said, I did not run out to see the Vinny Paz movie either.
Rocky's different. Yeah, it's suppose to be loosely based off Chuck Weapner, but the Rocky character is also partially based off Joe Frazier too.
They were, I really loved the fight scene with one long take. Also liked how the training scenes showed more padwork. The fight scenes were lousy. I remember reading how Marky Mark trained for so long in the boxing gym, I think even at Wild Card, for the role. Then you watch the fight scenes and the choreography was terrible.
I like Great White Hype a lot. I feel like the movie is funnier and more relatable if you are a hardcore boxing fan like we are as opposed to casual fans. Ali was okay to me. The details on the fight scenes were cool, especially what the coloring. Outside of that, it was kind of underwhelming, although I thought Will Smith did an excellent job with Ali's voice. It's a tall task to do a bio on someone like Ali
I thought ali was ok too, I enjoyed it says it all about ali as a personality that it's impossible to find a hollywood actor good looking and charismatic enough to really sell a portrayal
Favorite oldies probably none of you have ever watched: Somebody Up There Likes Me awesome performance by Paul Newman as a young Rocky Graziano in this feel good rags to riches story. Requiem for a Heavyweight great performance by Anthony Quinn as an aging heavyweight whose career comes to an end when knock out by a young Cassius Clay. Great drama. Champion Kirk Douglas getting a bloody beating and still winning. How not to love this one?
Haven't seen "Champion" but the other two were excellent. There was also an earlier Playhouse version of Requiem with Jack Palance that is also excellent.
Saw "Prizefighter And The Lady" a few weeks ago for the first time. A 1933 film starring Myrna Loy with Max Baer and Walter Huston with a bunch of cameos by real-life boxers. The plot was wretched, but Max Baer was actually really good and kicked ass pretty hard in the most elaborate song and dance scene I've ever seen in a boxing movie. :: It is also easy to see the portrayal they gave Max in "The Cinderella Man" movie. He was supposed to be a good guy in this film, but he was also kind of an asshole that fucked everything that walked by him, as long as it had two legs and a vagina. ::
