Everything you describe happened in the feature film "Goldengirl." I don't think it was a series. The film was a box office victim of the 1980 Olympic boycott, and of its own ineptitude
Everything you describe happened in the feature film "Goldengirl." I don't think it was a series. The film was a box office victim of the 1980 Olympic boycott, and of its own ineptitude
41 posts already and no one's mentioned Personal Best? you guys disappoint me - are all the old timers taking the night off?
number 1 it's realistic and number 2 it involves LESBIANS? who could ask for more? think I'm gonna break out the VCR tape right now and start rubbin' one off!!! man, I got a thing for that Hemingway chick.
You know what, I've been thinking about it myself... And I cannot make out whether I'd put it in a category of good movies or bad movies... I'd be honest with you, like you said, it covers some "real" stuff in that movie and Hemingway at easst CAN run! Love that sand dune running--though she should have tried to keep her line of leg bringing straight...
jaybird wrote:
41 posts already and no one's mentioned Personal Best? you guys disappoint me - are all the old timers taking the night off?
Although one could argue that "Personal Best" was a heptathlon movie rather than a running movie, I would probably put it at or very near the top of the running-related feature films. Hemingway was a little soft to play a top heptathlete, but it was otherwise a realistic, intelligent, and (in the best sense) adult movie. Excellent direction and screenplay by Robert Towne, and an excellent cast (Hemingway, Scott Glenn, and a number of real track athletes, including Kenny Moore, Patrice Donnelly, Jodi Anderson, and Debi Laplante). It even had the infamous track coach Chuck Debus, who was a technical advisor for the movie and who had a small role in the film, and who appeared to be the inspiration for Scott Glenn's character. Vastly better than the sentimental, insipid "Chariots of Fire."
Excluding documentaries like Bud Greenspan's "Olympiad" series and the documentary-like "Endurance," most running-related films have been somewhere between mediocre and dreadful. One of the few that I could recommend is "On the Edge," with Bruce Dern. There were actually two versions of the film. The first version included a sexual relationship between Dern's character and a character played by Pam Grier. In the second version, Pam Grier's character was cut out entirely. I thought the second version played better.
"Vanishing Point" with Super Soul...is the best running movie ever made. It accurately reflects the status of what it it is to be a runner or running like in this world....
I mentioned this on the site once before. Dern appeared on Johnny Carson in the 70's and began discussing his interest in running. He told Carson how he would re-arrange his hotel room to run while a football game was on the tube. Carson's look of disbelief was unforgettable. Dern was running deranged and telling late night America all about it.
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Across the Tracks is still the number 1 film, its got it all. Got voted number 1 running movie by the oscars aswell
Best line from any running movie is from running brave.
Billy Mills: "But I like coming from behind, coach!"
That's gotta be pretty high on the unintentional comedy scale (with apologies to the Sports Guy)
(yeah, okay, I'm a dumb high schooler)
Evene though it's not going to win any awards, I really did like Five Thousand Meters. It was nice to see an insight into those guys.
I thought "Five Thousand Meters: Nothing Comes Easy" was a decent film. I wish more were made like it. This DVD was featured at http://www.runningmovies.com as the February 2005 movie of the month. In the description you can see quotes from each of the nine 5K runners featured in the movie.
It's time to turn this into a Pre thread (without mentioning his movies- which were both very good). Dern once said in a RW interview that Pre's moves on the last lap of the Munich 5000 was the greatest moment in running. This was looooong before all the Pre-haters on this board made him into a god. Yes, you Pre-haters have turned him into a god- not Nike- you losers did it. Now get off it and focus on the present.