Top 10 Sports Movie Clichés
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For this list, we’re taking a look at tropes that keeping popping up in sports movies. For this list, we’re taking a look at tropes that keeping popping up in sports movies.
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Remember The Titans is the Best Sports movie mainly because it didn't follow No. 1. They won every single game and was loved by everyone in town. The only cliches they followed that I can think of was the Two enemies on the same team become friends cliche. Inspirational speech cliche that gets reused a couple times, but come on its Denzel Washington. Lol Finally the tragic accident that inspires the team cliche. The only hitch was that this really did happen Lol
no death of a mentor cliche… come on … happy Gilmore … chubbs… anybody?
I swear isnt the kick to the face in karate supposed to be illegal???
The bad guy/team humbles up on defeat and salutes the winning good guy/team
lance armstrong???? best liar ever
The ending to the original "Karate Kid" makes no sense! The referee told them that no kicking in the face was allowed the moment when the bad guy tried to but when the hero does it he is declared a winner….WTF?!!!
Um, Watchmojo, when are you going to do a list called "Top 10 John Milius movies"?
This was accurate
What movie is at 4:18?
dont remind me of when the karate kid lost in the final battle
That wasn't a training montage in Karate Kid. That was competition.
The flying V would never work because they would automatically offside.
YEAH ROCKY!!!!!
I hate when people say that the crane kick in The Karate Kid was an illegal blow.
A. They show a clip of Daniel getting kicked in the face in one of his matches.
B. Blow to the face only become illegal in The Karate Kid 3.
they forgot winning by 1 point.
No jumping front kick is not an illegal move
So, you hipsters out there, are there some actual sports movies without much of these? (foreign, US) eventhought it kinda seems impossible to make a good sports movie without at least 1 qliche and we just like to point them out cause it's funny for our dialy internet enterteinment XD? (lol)
The black guy dies first cliché!
don't get advice from Lance Armstrong, he is gonna tell you to take drugs to win!
We need a montage, to show the passage of time.
If you are going to use clips from "The Longest Yard" use clips from the good version. Not that piece of crap Adam Sandler did.
I hate the underdog cliche. I want to see a movie where some undersize character losses all the time. Even as he does it training montage he keep messing up.And they are bullied and cnt fight back. Then in the final game just when u think he going to score the final goal or game winner he doesnt and crys. The bully feel a little bad and tell the kid hes been training since he was a child, u cnt pick any sport and use moltivation as your good luck charm. Typically a decade training beats a couple months of training and heart. Then when the person ask them to help him get better he tell him refuses and tell him to pick something hes good at not this sport
How about the unlikely hero. (Facing the Giants)
how about a top ten list for worst NFL coaches who won a Superbowl or The National title.
basically sums up why i HATE sport movies
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The training montage has to be my favorite part of all sports movies, you get too see the grind behind the success and the heartbreak before you make it to the top
Longest yard gotta be the funniest sports movie
Semi pro could have been futures on almost all of these.
Pretty sure they lose in FNL (spoilers)
I remember only two sport movie stories, not sure why, since they wasn't mentioned here, so maybe it was crap… anyway, I don't remember the names, so if anyone can help I'd be glad.
1. women playing baseball when men are in war, sisters rivality, … ?
2. high school football, main hero can't play anymore because he gives his kidney to a relative… ?
Hey watchmojo, can you do a top ten animated movie cliches? Thank you
this video is so true
FUn Fact: the crane kick was invented for the movie and was supposedly impossible to do in real life. 1 of my older brothers successfully pulled it off defending himself from bullies.
"For the love of the game" win (memorial win)
the Titans were never underdogs
Our heroes will show these jerks what it means to be part of a team! Shows the only sport movie where he pretty much did everything himself, because it's a 1 on 1 fight. Makes sense Watchmojo.
Go Team, get the ball, do the sport.
The last minute awesome player
What about the unsupportive parent/respected figure that refuses to support or believe in the protagonist (including forbidding them from playing the sport or kicking them out if they continue) but at the end of the movie shows that they believe in the protagonist after all?
The slow clap is as cheesy as it comes. Hard to stomach it.
you forgot the raising of the champions body and a freeze frame ending
How about the buzzer beater? Y'know, that incredibly long-shot, nearly impossible score to give the team those few winning points they need just as the last seconds of the game trickle out?