Top 10 basketball movies

I haven't seen "Semi-Pro," but is it that bad that nobody will put it on their list? Below "The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh" or "Fast Break?"
Surprised nobody's brought up "The Great Santini" ("Toomer! How ya 'doin, sports fan?" just put me in hysterics in a scene that's not supposed to be funny). The way Michael O'Keefe dealt with dad Robert Duvall's harassment would not have been out of place in a Pistons-Pacers game.

 

Probably just backlash.

However, while I admired the performances out of Hackman and Hopper, I found the movie rather boring, drab and heavy-handed. Also, while a fairly accurate portrayal of some small-town prep parents, I would have loved nothing more than to watch every single townsperson in that movie get slowly run over by a wheat thresher.

 

I've seen Semi-Pro, though I didn't even think to include it.
It's not great, but it's better than Baseketball.

 

Sounds like someone here is from South Bend Central

 

Nope. It's just an absolute snooze of a movie.

 

If no one has mentioned the Harlem Globetrotter on Gilligan's Island (a 1981 TV movie) this whole thread is all for not!

 

"The Harlem Globetrotters" (1951) was quite the movie.

Dorothy Dandridge was in it. The cast also included:

Roscoe Cumberland ... Roscoe - Globetrotter
William 'Pop' Gates ... 'Pop' Gates - Globetrotter
Marques Haynes ... Marques - Globetrotter
Louis 'Babe' Pressley ... 'Babe' Pressley - Globetrotter
Ermer Robinson ... Elmer Robinson - Globetrotter
Ted Strong ... Ted Strong - Globetrotter
Reece 'Goose' Tatum ... 'Goose' Tatum - Globetrotter
Frank Washington ... Frank Washington - Globetrotter
Clarence Wilson ... Clarence Wilson - Globetrotter

 

Don't understand the hate on Hoosiers. The movie set the template for the underdog tale. Coach looking for redemption, boy needing a father figure, coaches unorthodox methods, the team "mascot" winning a game, the last second shot in the final...a lot of the movies on a lot of these lists wouldn't have even been made without the success of Hoosiers.

 

Hoosiers came out in 1986. Are serious in thinking it "set the template"? Of the themes you mentioned (underdog, need for a father, unorthodox coaching methods) were all covered in "Rocky" and "Rocky II" a decade earlier. I'm sure there are dozens more.

Hoosiers was an OK flick, incredibly boring and cliche-ridden, but OK. I just don't put it on some pedestal it clearly doesn't deserve.

 

After Hoosiers we saw a flood of similarly plotted and themed sports movies (which had been out of fashion in Hollywood for a while).

 

these are some similar movies that i have experienced:
He Got Game (1998)
Finding Forrester (2000)
The Basketball Diaries (1995)

 

"Hoop Dreams" is number one, and there isn't a close second. I've never seen a better documentary, let alone a better basketball film.