Coopington wrote:
If you do not watch the last 10 minutes of this, your life will not be complete.
jordanian wrote:[quote]Push Alt F4 wrote:
It's on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KerRVrAHhE&feature=related
They mixed up the maxim about the lion and the antelope.
The opening to Chariots of Fire opens with the team running in bare feet. Come on. We all know that running in bare feet causes your legs to fall off. It's completely unbelievable that competitive runners would shed their shoes and run. The director must thing we're a bunch of idiots.
Everything about this movie is summed up by the guy who won and the crowd's reaction to him breaking four.
It's just kinda like "oh I broke four. cool."
I also love the cross training shoes they race in.
I think there should be a class action lawsuit by the worlds actual runners against the maker of this piece of s**t.
It's not a movie or TV, but I'm seriously pissed that they put a picture of a person running on a beach on the front of the reprint of Once a Runner. It was bad enough that they didn't reproduce the iconic cover from the old edition, but they had to go and put a picture of someone running on a beach? Did no one involved in the publishing process bother to read the f*cking book?! It looks like an issue of f*cking Runners World!!!
Fred Gwynne wrote:
"Running" a Michael Douglas movie where he trains for the olympic marathon. It was pathetic.
I'm watching this film right now laughing my ass off.
There was a Charlie's Angels episode where the girls were going undercover as runners. With no visible training whatsoever, they did a couple Achilles stretches and set off to run a marathon. They did look hot though.
Schwimm wrote:
You'd never see a basketball movie where the main character drops 100 shooting granny-style or kicks an 80 yard field goal for the win in football. Why make a mockery of other sports? I know they do little things wrong in those movies, but these would be the equivalent of some guy breaking 4 minutes like it is an easy task.
Yeah, but every football game ends in a last second touchdown and every basketball game is a buzzer beater.
This thread made me go back and look for clips of Prefontaine and Without Limits.
Prefontaine, eh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXyh4dAuZl8
Kind of looks like the guys aren't running naturally. It looks funny.
But Without Limits, really nice. Bill Crudup's got a nice stride, and he really looks like Pre, the same barrel-chest and everything. Good clip here, there's a race that starts right at 6:00:
Friday Night Lights wrote:
Schwimm wrote:You'd never see a basketball movie where the main character drops 100 shooting granny-style or kicks an 80 yard field goal for the win in football. Why make a mockery of other sports? I know they do little things wrong in those movies, but these would be the equivalent of some guy breaking 4 minutes like it is an easy task.
Yeah, but every football game ends in a last second touchdown and every basketball game is a buzzer beater.
Um . . . a lot of football games end in last second touchdowns and a lot of basketball games end in buzzer beaters.
Remember the Titans had one of the worst endings ever. Down 7-3, the Titans ran a 75-yard reverse to win on the last play of the game. A reverse (or any running play for that matter) would be the least effective play you could possibly call in that situation.
If we talk about chase scenes, then most movies are terribly inaccurate. Every time Tom Cruise or Will Smith chase somebody, they look like they are running low 50's 400m pace and continue to do so for a few minutes, dodging obstacles and stuff. And the criminals they chase are also ridiculously fit, too.I am struggling to think of other movies with actual track / road times involved. In the Ringer, Johnny Knoxville's character says he ran something like a 2:07 800m in high school - seems realistic at least.
Alf Shrubb wrote:
I saw an Australian TV programme where two plainclothes detectives were chasing a criminal, eyeballs out, for over a mile through an airport.
That they were able to sprint for over a mile without appearing to get out of breath wasn’t the most laughable aspect - it was the fact that they ran the whole distance alongside each other!
It never occurred to the director that it was virtually impossible that two civilians would run all out for a mile at exactly the same pace.
But if you want to see running at it’s most hilarious - watch a film called The Games (1970)
The worst movie ever made about running.
Staring Michael Crawford, Ryan O’Neal and Charles Aznavour.
to the dude who mentioned Across the Tracks with Pitt and Schroeder. I agree that movie was terrible. The thing I loved the most was how they started all their races in the middle of the straightaway. So after making their final turn, they run 50 meters and done.
I didn't read the entire thread, so I apologize if this was already mentioned. How about Bolt's Olympic performances? He was on drugs so his performances were, in a way, fake and not legitimate.
dipdong wrote:
Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man. He runs like a retarded, 12 year old girl.
That's just Hoffman. He looks like a retarded, 12 year old girl.
Two snippets from the film I mentioned, The Games.
It was supposed to be about 4 runners training for the Olympic marathon.
Charles Aznavour was a chain smoking, French crooner, popular at that time.
A runner I knew that was an extra in the movie told me how they had to run so slow in the scenes on the track, to allow Aznavour (a Zatopec clone!) to overtake them, they were almost falling over each other.
He could ‘run’ for about 30 metres before giving up and having to receive oxygen!
Podgy Ryan O’Neal was supposed to be a 400mt runner in the USA team, when he turns to the US coach and says, “Coach, I want to run the marathon in the Olympics.”
And the coach, instead of telling him to piss-off and not waste his time - takes him seriously!
And I must mention Michael Crawford - his coach grabs him by the shoulders just before the race and tells him - he wants him to run a 2 hour marathon!
You couldn’t make it up - hilarious.
Sort of related, a friend of mine was an extra in the movie "The Skulls" in the rowing scene. They got several Canadian university teams to fill out the field. Him and his teammates almost got kicked off set after they tried to make it look like a real race and ruined two takes by smoking the boat with the actors in it.
My life is now complete! That "chasing a dream" movie clearly powns the others. The director obvously has never seen a picture of a 4 minute miler.
And that black dude with an African accent sent me over the edge!!!
The amount of time these guys sprint has always stunned me. They're fighting, sprinting, and jumping for 8 minutes straight and show no fatigue.
Not a running movie, but in Star Wars when Natalie Portman falls out of a flying ship into the desert, rolls around in the sand a couple times, and then gets up take a few strides in the most pathetic girly-girl run always pisses me off...