Don't like that list at all except for Rudy, where's Brian's Song, North Dallas Forty, The Longest Yard? I'd even settle for The Waterboy, The Replacements or The Blind Side before that list. As far as golf movies go , how can you not put Caddyshack #1? And Caddyshack 2 was awful.
I completely agree that some of the rankings are head scratchers (e.g., I can see omitting one of the football movies you mentioned, but not all of them; the Pistol over Hoosiers; Major League 2 over Field of Dreams; Mighty Ducks 2 over Slapshot; Caddyshack only 4th best golf movie.)
However, in Mike's defense the lists are
his favorite movies for each sport. He's not saying these are the highest quality, best screenplay, best acting, best directing, etc.; they're simply his personal favorites. If I listed my top ten overall favorite movies there would probably be a couple that would not be among any expert's top
100 movies of all-time - but just because that is so it doesn't mean I don't enjoy that particular movie.
Me, I end up watching The Replacements every time I'm channel surfing and I see it playing; yet I've seen it listed multiple times as 'the worst football movie ever made'. One person might rank Jerry Maguire number one; it might not crack the top twenty in the next person's list. Myself, I think I would say
Invincible is the best football movie ever made - and I am sure I will get far more people to tell me that I'm wrong than I would get to agree with me. After that I'd say Rudy, Longest Yard (original), North Dallas Forty, Brian's Song, We Are Marshall, The Program, Remember The Titans, Varsity Blues, and All The Right Moves would round out my top ten - though it's tough to omit The Waterboy and The Replacements.
Maybe an easier question is this: what was the
worst football ever made? I think I would say Necessary Roughness, followed by Wildcats and Heaven Can Wait.
