Sad that you need validation for your thoughts on the internet.
Sad that you need validation for your thoughts on the internet.
numchucker wrote:
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"
I also liked 'Across the Tracks'.
'Finish Line' was my all-time favorite- but a TV movie, nearly impossible to find. Was 1989 with Josh & James Brolin. HS star takes steroids to keep up in college. Those actors trump any in any other running movie.
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/finish_line/Hate to agree with formerD1 but I do agree that those movies sort of sucked and most running movies are pretty cheesy (like most sports movies). I really disagreed with the apologetic stance both movies took towards Pre and how he somehow lost because the system was unfair and Pre was disadvantaged in some form, without touching the possibility that Pre simply lost because he wasn't close to being good enough.
I'll start off by saying that neither of these films are appropriate for your event.
However, the thread title asks for best, so...
Paan Singh Tomar- based on a true tale of an accomplished Indian runner who eventually becomes a murdering bandit/ guerilla fighter. There's an amazing final scene of him surrounded by the army visulaizing the situation as if it were a steeplechase race.
The Robber- one day seeking either a running movie or an action film came across this Austrian gem. Elite marathoner takes up bank robbing. Plenty of scenes of his run away. Solidly made.
The Berlin Marathon winner now old dude movie is "Back On Track".Haven't seen it, but I hear it is good.
General interest wrote:
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.
The two Pre movies were both inspired by an excellent documentary on him called "Fire on the Track". I would put that up against anything for a "top" running movie to show HS kids.
"Personal Best" has a lot of strong points for taking on some challenging subject matter with female athletes, but it's definitely an R-rated movie. I believe Kenny Moore has a brief scene of full frontal male nudity at the end as Muriel Hemingway's boyfriend (after she ends the same-sex relationship with the pentathlete).
i threw up wrote:
. . . I really disagreed with the apologetic stance both movies took towards Pre and how he somehow lost because the system was unfair and Pre was disadvantaged in some form, without touching the possibility that Pre simply lost because he wasn't close to being good enough.
Pre came in fourth in the Munich 5000 on merit and most likely would have fared worse in Montreal. Pre was no Rod Dixon (roughly same age, Dixon won a medal, Pre never beat Rod, etc.). Even Rod's stache was better.
Lol at all these hobby jogging nerds telling Hs kids to watch a movie about Pre, an arrogant drama queen who whines about losing to better athletes.
"Ok girls running is a pure guts race no matter if you are born slow and even if you lose its because the world is so so very unfair!"
Breaking Away is good, but I've got to go with Vision Quest on this one.
Seriously, watch Vision Quest.
Not really a team builder, but Four Minute Mile is awesome. It almost plays out like a boxing movie or something.
I watched McFarland when it was in theaters, very good movie. Highly recommend it.
MovieSuggestingGuy wrote:
Not really a team builder, but Four Minute Mile is awesome. It almost plays out like a boxing movie or something.
You're joking.
That is one of the worst movies I have ever seen.
What kinda kid who runs everywhere thinks he's a 400m runner?
The running through water scene was awful
the actors were complete trash and the whole gang violence stuff was laughable.
I agree with others about breaking away . Great film - although a bit dated and more of a bro movie. No one has mentioned running brave. Not as high quality but based on a true story, and, the best dramatization of a true story in the running genre. Way better than eith e r of the pre movies.
Anoth r r suggestion would be the recently (finally...) released Bannister everest on the track. Great great film.
"Life at These Speeds" is being made into a movie. I enjoyed the book, and consider as one of the best fiction running books.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2184233/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ql_1
(I think even the brojos spoke highly of the book).
Spirit of the Marathon
RE Pre -
Girls aren't looking for instructional - track movies, but if they were then watch the footage of the actual 5000m race at Munich. First watch Pre, then watch Viren. Have a math teacher in the room. Discuss.
State of Bankruptcy wrote:
RE Pre -
Girls aren't looking for instructional - track movies, but if they were then watch the footage of the actual 5000m race at Munich. First watch Pre, then watch Viren. Have a math teacher in the room. Discuss.
How about the NCAA scene the night before his race?
Saint Ralph (its good despite being about marathon running)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0384488/
and
Jericho Mile
^^Endurance, biopic of Haile Gebreselassie. And he plays himself in the movie!
You guys must not have been coming to LetsRun.com when we first started. We held a contest to pick the best running movie of all time.
And the winner was:
Steve Prefontaine Fire on the Track