#58 What’s the best sports movie?
We fought over shocking and impactful movie deaths in our last go around, and spoiled a few movies in the process. Jess scored a last minute win and in doing so earned the right to ask:
What’s the best sports movie?
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Okay the tie is finally broken and the winner is Mama Mia with The Karate Kid. Congratulations, MM, you get to choose Monday's question.
Several of my top picks were already taken so I'm falling back on the sports movie that I watch most frequently, and that is Miracle. I'm a hockey player and until Miracle came out we were stuck with terrible movies to represent our sport. The best we had to cling to was Youngblood, which wasn't good, and later on Mystery Alaska (meh) and Mighty Ducks 3 (where they finally started playing some actual hockey for a change).
Miracle was exceptional because they chose to find hockey players who knew how to act instead of finding actors willing to learn how to play hockey. It made all the difference. Even Kurt Russell is a hockey player and therefore knows how hockey players talk and act. Watch this to see what I mean: https://youtu.be/2RJRkIQuW28?si=HTjvZ00nDIqyWx0V
Miracle, I love it.