The Top 10 Sports Movies of All Time

There have been thousands of sports movies throughout the years. Some have been absolute crap and most are mediocre at best, but there are that select few that remain deep-seated in our memories. Those movies not only invoke our passion of sports, they manage to cross over and teach us greater life lessons. They teach us the importance of hard work and learning from our mistakes. They teach us that the impossible can come true. Thats what I consider a great sports movie. Well, either that or it has to be really funny.

Below are my Top 10 sports movies of all time. There are some popular movies missing either because I dont think they are as good as everyone else, or because I havent seen them.

10. Major League - This one falls under the comedy category. Willie Mays Hays, Jake Taylor, Pedro Cerano, Rick Vaughn, and Jake Taylor somehow manage to band together to win the pennant in spite of their owner. Its not the best comedy ever, but its certainly th e best sports comedy ever. Major League 2 is equally as good. Lets pretend that Major League 3 was never made.

9. Remember the Titans The best part about this flick is that it shows how sports can transcend society. The unification of the black and white high school is successful only because of the bonds formed between the two schools on the football field.

8. Rudy How can you not be inspired watching this? No one believed in this kid and he not only got into ND, he made the football team. Most people would have given up long before Rudy, and it is a testament to his character for enduring and being able to live his dream.

7. Miracle I am a huge Miracle on Ice fan so I was a bit skeptical about the movie. Usually they find a way to screw up history. But amazingly, Disney stuck to the story nearly perfectly. By involving everyone from the original team in the making of the movie, including the late Herb Brooks, they made sure the movie was accurate. I love having Al Michaels call the action; it feels like I'm actually watching the real game!

6. He Got Game This film chronicles high school senior Jesus Shuttlesworth, the best college basketball prospect in the country, as he deals with pressures from his father and girlfriend who are trying to influence his decision for their own benefit. Ray Allen is the perfect choice for Shuttlesworth because Allen WAS Shuttlesworth in real life a few years before that. How many actors can make that claim?

5. Eight Men Out The best part of the movie was that they didn't try to dumb it down for Hollywood - they made a point to follow the story as it was told in the book. This meant that it had the feel of a documentary, which is probably why this movie isn't that popular, but true sports fans will appreciate that what they are getting is close to the truth.

4. Field of Dreams - This movie will appeal to sports fans and non sports fans alike. Sports fans will lo ve how they work in Shoeless Joe and other classic greats. Non sports fans will appreciate the fantastic journey that Ray takes to build the field of his dreams. If you build it, he will come is one of the great movie quotes of all time.

3. When We Were Kings I'm too young to remember Ali as a fighter, but this movie truly shows his greatness. Forman is the superior fighter, but Ali uses his wit to defeat Forman in The Rumble in the Jungle, one of the greatest fights ever.

2. Hoosiers If you ever need to get pumped up, watch this movie. Nothing seems impossible after seeing Coach Norman Dale lead his team to the Indiana state championship.

1. The Natural I own the DVD of The Natural and Ive seen it more times than I can remember. Yet, anytime I see it on TV I immediately freeze and watch. It captivates me like few movies do. Roy Hobbs gets that second chance that we all want. He had the talent to be the best pitcher ever, but had it taken away by a mysterious shooter. Years later, he reappears as an outfielder and leads his team to the top of the league with his famous Wonder Boy bat.

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Free Movies

In life, there is no such thing as a free lunch, but amazingly one can watch free Movies. Free Movies are those Movies that are made for free distribution or have entered the public domain. Sometimes free Movies may be downloaded from the Internet, which may be done legally or illegally.

Initially, this business started with free Movie clips. Movie clips may be screened in a theatre before or after a full-length feature or advertised on certain sites on the Internet, but technology has changed. Movie players can now be downloaded free of charge over the Internet, including the Apple Quick Time Player, The Windows Media Player and The Real Media Player.

Such software can be used to play free Movies from the Internet. There are hundreds of sites that offer Movies for a small fee. Why spend a fortune on Movie tickets when one can watch their favorite Movies at a fraction of the price from the comfort of your personal computer? Film directories like Scour and Ifilm are like virtual multiplexes. The advent of free Movie sites have made online Movie watching a popular activity.

A good place to down load free Movies is at ibiblio.org and archive.org. Both these sites have a growing collection of public domain Movies that can be easily downloaded. It is legal to down load these Movies as their copyrights have expired and hence they are in the public domain. An example is the classic Frank Capra film, Its a Wonderful Life, which was termed as a free Movie in the public domain for the last several years since its copyright had not been renewed.

Some of the popular free Movie sites are Watch Free Movies Online, Shared Movies, Free Movies Now, Movie Download World, 123 Movie Download, Cinema Download, Netbroadcaster.com, and Singingfish. Some low fees sites include CinemaNow.com and Movie Flix.com. Downloading a Movie with a broadband connection requires only a few minutes. The flipside to the free Movie phenomenon is that it has made Movie piracy easy.

The Napster experience of music piracy is threatening the motion picture industry in what is known as the Wrapster phenomenon. Microsofts new operating system will have strong anti-Movie< /a> -piracy features to prevent illegal downloads.

There are a lot of sites on the market offering free downloads. The burden is on the customer to determine whether the Movie is a legal or pirated copy. Sometimes, claims on the Internet maybe false. Most DVDs cannot be downloaded from the net without paying a fee. Only those Movies released into the public domain such as when a director has not sought a copyright can be actually downloaded free of cost.

Free Movies provides detailed information about free Movies, free anime Movies, free Movie clips, and more. Free Movies is affiliated with Free Movie Downl oads.

Author:: Ken Marlborough
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Angelina Jolie To Star In New Werewolf Movie "Bitten"

We've learned that A-List actress Angelina Jolie will be starring in a new upcoming werewolf movie for Warner Brothers called Bitten. Jolie will be playing a woman who's bitten by a werewolf, and leaves her pack for a normal human life where she begins a career, and falls in love. She is soon drawn back into the pack however when a rogue band of Werewolves threaten the world she now loves. No word yet on a helmer for the pic, but I'm sure they're going to get someone if not top notch atleast very well known to helm this one. Bitten should hit theaters in 07' or 08'. In the mean time..we'll be sure to keep you guys posted on this one!

This film will make Angelina Jolie's Horror film debut. The actress has taken on many roles ranging from action star (Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider 2:The Cradle Of Life, Mr. and Mrs. Smith), to drama star (Alexander), to thriller star (Taking Lives). It'll be interesting to see how well she does in her first Horror film role. Since she is taking on the starring role in Bitten, this might put a serious cramp in those rumors that surfaced a few months back which had the 30 year old actress returning to play Lara Croft once again in another Tomb Raider film, which would've been the third movie in the video game adaptation film series which kicked off back in 2000 with Lara Croft:Tomb Raider.

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Author:: Nikki Jones
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Two Big Reasons Why Brad And Angelina Won't Marry

Okay, you are busted! You are officially diagnosed with CELEBRITY ADDICTION. There are five main characteristics of this disease and you just confirmed that you have the first main characteristic.

1.You have an insatiable desire to find out what the Celebrities are doing and what they said to whom and where they said it.

2.You try to copy hair styles and fashion of the stars.

3.You purchase and subscribe to all the magazines that have Celebrity coverage.

4.You record all of the television shows that have Celebrity coverage.

5.You cant believe it when your favorite Celebrity does something humanlike have a bad day or get mad at someone.

It is safe to say that the majority of people in the U.S. have Celebrity addiction. Otherwise, how could all the magazines, newspapers and television shows survive? I have to say that even though Celebrities are well-paid nowadays, it must be very hard to be under constant scrutiny on a day-to-day basi s.

Just imagine if there was a camera pointed at you all day, recording everything you are saying and watching what you are doing.

In short, to further satisfy Celebrity Addictive behavior, Hair Resources has developed a Celebrity Hair Styles Gallery with all the recent and trendy hair styles for you to check out and copy for yourselves.

If you are truly addicted, you can download your copy of our new E-book release, Top 100 Celebrity Hair Styles. Find out right now, using your computer, who made the list and how to re-create their styles on your own.

By the way, my guess is, in reference to the Brad and Angelina story, that Angelina was making a fancy pasta dish for dinner, ran out of fresh tomato and needed to run to the store really quick. It appeared that she stormed out of the house because both kids begged to go with her so they could buy a candy bar. They were both wining and had been fighting with each other all day long. Angelina was fed up with their behavior and that accounts for the storming out of the house with both kids.

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Films Stargate Extended Cut

It's 8000 B.C. An alien ship lands in a desert world and a young boy is curious to find out what's inside. Fast forward to Egypt, 1928 an archeologist's daughter discover an ancient relic and her father uncovers a big surprise, the Stargate. It's now present day and Professor Daniel Jackson, played by James Spader asks the question Who Built the Pyramids? in his university classroom.

The scene now takes you to Colonel Jack O'Neil, played by Kurt Russell. Jack O'Neil is told by his commanding officer that he is reinstated to active duty and been given a special mission to accomplish. Back to Professor Daniel Jackson; he receives a relic and a map from a now older woman of the 1928 archeologist. Professor Jackson examines the map of sorts and tries to translate the symbols on the doorway between worlds, now known as the Stargate.

Professor Jackson has a bad translation of the symbols on the Stargate because he discovers there is a seventh symbol that needs to be translated. Once Professor Jackson translated the seventh symbol, he, Colonel Jack O'Neil and a small, elite military team make their first official walk through the Stargate. As the take a look around the new, desert world, they discovered only sand , so the Professor and Colonel O'Neil and his team decide to camp out for the night. Continuing their journey in the morning, they discover these strange domesticated monsters, which look like a cross between a camel and a mammoth.

The team discover desert people and thanks to Professor Jackson being able to interpret their language, these desert people take the whole team in. The professor translated ancient writings within the village of the desert people reads about the history of the Sun god Ra played by Jaye Davidson. Professor Jackson discovers that the Sun god Ra was actually an alien who possessed the body of a young, curious boy 8000 years ago.

The professor and the military team make a trip furt her within the desert, found an ancient pyramid and went inside. Greeted by unfriendly guards with animal masks on their heads, the guards take the professor and the military team to a throne room where the look upon the Sun god Ra in the flesh, for the first time. With the professor being able to translate Ra's words, Ra brings a military weapon in front of the professor and Colonel O'Neil. The professor realized that the Colonel mission was to destroy the desert planet. While the colonel and his team are taken to a watery prison, Ra talks to the professor and tells him that he will send the military weapon through the Stargate and destroy the earth instead. Unfortunately, Ra had to face the desert people uprising as well as an attack on his pyramid. Ra decides to send the military weapon through the Stargate to earth sooner, however, the professor and the rescued Colonel O'Neil spoils his plans by sending the weapon to his pyramid instead, destroying Ra.

FILM F ACTS: Desert sandstorms were re-created by 10 huge wind machines. Howard Hughes former Spruce Goose airplane hanger was used for one of the film sets. Filming was done in the dunes of Arizona, California, Colorado and New Mexico. 12,000 gallons of water were shipped each day along with 12,000 pounds of ice. The cast along with 1500 extras drank water as well as salt tablets to avoid dehydration from the 120-degree heat.

Michael Russell

Your Independent guide to Films

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