I think in this order. I can’t think of any other ones as funny as these.
- The Longest Yard
- The Replacements
- North Dallas Forty
- Water Boy
- Semi Tough
- Necessary Roughness
The only list that this movie shoud be number two on is “Most Blatant Waste of Celluloid since Klippendorf’s Tribe”
The only actual correlation it has to your list is that it is literally “Number 2”, if you see what I mean.
I haven’t seen The Waterboy, so my list is as such …
1 - North Dallas Forty
2 - The Longest Yard
3 - Semi-Tough
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1,000,000 - Necessary Roughness
Number that doesn’t exist yet - The Replacements
Oh come Jack that movie was hilarious. Sure it was bizarre and probably couldn’t never happened but it was funny. I laughed a bunch. It was definetely funnier than Semi Tough. I never said it was better than North Dallas Forty but it was funnier. And I can’t believe haven’t seen Waterboy yet?
There were some potentially humorous situations in The Replacements but it could not possibly have been more predictable if it tried. A review of this movie wouldn’t need spoiler warnings, because anybody with an IQ over pi knows what’s going to happen.
What? A washed up college quarterback with a really cool name and lives on a boat gets a chance to play in the big-time? And he’s cool and composed and a natural leader? And he get’s into a bar-fight to bolster his team’s morale? And he falls in love with the head cheerleader, who tells him from the get-go that she doesn’t date football players, but she relents anyway? And the regular quarterback comes back for the big game, replacing him, but all the players want the hero? And that regular quarterback is a jerk? And the hero comes back to win the big game with a spectacularly self-sacrificing broken play in the last minute?
No way, I didn’t see any of that coming. :rolleyes:
I’ve kind of wanted to see The Waterboy but I can’t convince myself to shell out five bucks to see an Adam Sandler movie.
Jack,
Everything you said couldn’t be more true. Mattter of fact, I was very bored with Keanu Reeves’ and his character. They could have got somebody cheaper to play his part.
What I like were the other characters, the cheerleaders and what they did on the field. The stuff they did was just hilarious. I mean the cheerleader bit and the opposing team loosing their concentration watching them starting with the quarterback then the center then the whole line looking at them just cracked me up. Remember I said rank them for their comic appeal not that it was a good movie or not.
Most people don’t think of this as a football movie, but what about “Horsefeathers,” with the Marx Brothers?
What about “Three Little Pigskins”
What Astorian said. “Horsefeathers.”
I hate to admit I got a few laughs from “The Waterboy.” I hate Adam Sandler, but I couldn’t help but like some of the movie. Loved the ESPN bits.
“North Dallas Forty” was funny???
“Semi-Tough” was hilarious. Loved the Gene Autry music over the football scenes.
You might be surprised, Bill, to learn that The Replacements is in fact based on the true story of the 1987 Washington Redskins. That year the 'Skins put together a rag-tag team of replacement players (complete with washed-up jailbird QB) that actually managed to defeat their biggest rivals, the Dallas Cowboys. The truth behind the story didn’t keep the movie from stinking though.
How come nobody’s mentioned Wildcats yet, starring Goldie Hawn?
Some other choices that might place higher than The Replacements:
The Program (supposed to be a drama, but it was funny as hell; especially when those idiot kids tried to re-enact the “lie down in traffic” scene)
Air Bud: Golden Receiver…ok, maybe not.
Frankenstein: The College Years: Not really a football flick, but the big lug does become BMOC after making the team!
Angels in the Endzone One word: Barf.
And one I’ve never seen but came across on an IMDB search for “football”:Bend Over Babes (1990):
I’ll leave it to someone else to check this one out :eek:
I was thinking just that thought to myself, as well. I think some of the promo material for the movie kind of hyped it as being funny, but that’s not what I remember actually seeing.
I’d read the book before I saw the movie, and it’s certainly not a comedy, regardless of what Hollywood did with it on the silver screen. I think it’s a marvelous book, BTW - Peter Gent, a former receiver for the Cowboys, has a cynically eloquent writing style that I really enjoy.
The movie combines a few characters, changes the ending, and removes some wonderfully written scenes. Oh, well…
How 'bout “MAS*H”?
From what I hear
North Dallas is about as close to what being a football player is
I have a cousin who plays for the Vikings and when I went to visit him in the off season I asked the same question. He told me he knows more guys like Nick Nolte in the entire league than any other flick he ever saw on football.
And it does have some comedic elements…and of course…THE TOOZ at his prime
TOOOOZZZZ!!
God help you if you don’t know who he is
Wait, someone named “Peep This” is passing up watching a porno!?
–Tim