The Crush
The Crush
I have not seen it yet, but McFarland USA has gotten good reviews. Probably better for team bonding than the others.
http://variety.com/2015/film/reviews/film-review-mcfarland-usa-1201423326/
Play the Forrest Gump running scene on Youtube, because nothing gets better than that, c'mon the dude runs across the country multiple times. Then watch Without Limits.
Running Man really speaks to the motivation aspect of it.
Lol what. Most running movies are incredibly cheesy and make their protagonists out to be lazy whiners.
Prefontaine/Without Limits? HA! Complaining about only being able to afford to eat meat once a week blah blah poor Pre. Compare Pre and his once-a-week meatless diet and 4th place Olympic finish, to Bikila, who couldn't afford running shoes and won Gold on barefeet.
Put on last year's WC track and field events like the 5,000 or 10,000 to show your girls what real running is.
Personal Best.
Definitely MacFarland USA. Try to ignore how fat the actors are.
If you want to watch the absolute worst running movie ever made, watch Chasing a Dream. Again with fat actors playing runners.
Running.
Michael Douglas, 1979
I won't ruin it for you, but apparently they put Vodka in water bottle in Montreal.
Run fatboy run
Personal Best would be an interesting and edgy choice. The protagonist, a beautiful, talented, but slightly whiny runner, fends off a creepy advance from her male coach and plunges into a lesbian relationship with her even more talented pentathlete teammate. There's an amazing extended scene where the two women run repeats up a very steep sandy dune hill while the coach eyes them from the summit.
Yes! This is your film.
But also the Pre movies. Without Limits is as much a chick flick as a guy's flick. Great moment when Pre runs his first race on the track at Oregon and the rock music starts.....
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formerD1 wrote:
Lol what. Most running movies are incredibly cheesy and make their protagonists out to be lazy whiners.
Prefontaine/Without Limits? HA! Complaining about only being able to afford to eat meat once a week blah blah poor Pre. Compare Pre and his once-a-week meatless diet and 4th place Olympic finish, to Bikila, who couldn't afford running shoes and won Gold on barefeet.
Put on last year's WC track and field events like the 5,000 or 10,000 to show your girls what real running is.
What about:
Running Brave (Billy Mills biopic starring Robby Benson)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086220/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
The Long Green Line (Documentary about Joe Newton and the York High School Cross Country team):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1267833/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Fast Women (Documentary about three women in Arizona trying to make the Olympic Trials)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1715759/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
Transcend (Documentary about Wesley Korir's running and capaign for Kenyan parliament -- the DVD/Downloads includes a short documentary about the Robertson twins)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3891660/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Also.. try to find the ESPN E:60 pieces on (now former) High School Runners Kayla Montgomery and Mikey Brannigan.
McFarland was hilarious.
Without Limits is inspiring.
Prefontaine was below average.
Others to think about are Saint Ralph, Chariots of fire, Unbroken
Dustin Hoffman portrayed a runner in two of his early films.
The Graduate
Marathon Man
Monty Python and the Holy Grail was our movie of choice at team parties.
Across the Tracks.
Brad Pitt + Ricky Schroder as 800m racing brothers at rival high schools.
Trailer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGjwttet6KU
"Going bad is easy. Staying good is tough"
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McFarland was hilarious.
Without Limits is inspiring.
Prefontaine was below average.
Others to think about are Saint Ralph, Chariots of fire, Unbroken
St Ralph- as "dumb" as it is is a great movie.
My daughter and her teammates watched it all the the time.
w/o limits and chariots of fire are better
there was one about a highschooler trying to run a sub 4 min mile that was okay. he had a troubled life.
there was one about some old dude who had won the berlin marathon and wanted to run it again (see in a nursing home) and tries to win again. That was kind of funny. The best truism there for running was doing it while everyone thinks its bad for your health etc.
Rochelle Rochelle
Chunnel
Am I living in the twilight zone? The Boston Marathon weather was terrible!
Des Linden: "The entire sport" has changed since she first started running Boston.
Matt Choi was drinking beer halfway through the Boston Marathon
Is there a rule against attaching a helium balloon to yourself while running a road race?
2024 College Track & Field Open Coaching Positions Discussion
How rare is it to run a sub 5 minute mile AND bench press 225?