Your favorite boxing movies

I quite enjoyed Streets of Gold with Wesley Snipes.

 

I also love Buster Keaton. Battling Butler has footage showing the interior of the famed Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles, only a short time after it was built. My favorite Keaton film is Sherlock Jr., which is one of my two favorite silent movies along with a film directed by Kid Vidor, The Crowd.

- Chuck Johnston

 

1. Rocky II
2. Rocky
3. Cinderella Man

 

No mention of "The Great Wite Hope"?

 

1) The harder they fall- Bogart and Max Baer
2) The great white hope- James Earl Jones in a great performance
3) Rocky- Stallone's acting was pretty good
4) Fat City- Stacy Keach was an unknown before this. Former WW champ Curtis Cokes.

 

I liked the movie, Rocky, until Apollo Creed came onto the scene. Afterwards, the movie became far too cartoon-like. Moreover, the cartoon-like features of the sequels to Rocky were even more pronounced, which made them almost unwatchable.

- Chuck Johnston

 

Fat City of course-just like my moniker!

 

I watched "Resurrecting the Champ" with Samuel L Jackson a few months ago and it was okay, I'd have probably liked it better if he wasn't in it.

 

1- raging bull
2- great white hype
3_ Ali

 

Raging bull is head and shoulders above most boxing films.requiem for a heavyweight was good too.I saw the first 2 rocky films and thought the story was good but Stallone as a boxer is hard too imagine.
He has no semblance of a boxer or a fighter whatsoever and it's annoying that he's better known as a boxer than a lot of all time greats.
Rocky seems to be aimed at non-boxers anyway.

 

Raging Bull, The Harder they Fall, Requiem for a Heavyweight.

Rocky is a great movie, not sure it's a great boxing movie though. I'm sure there was a round in one of Rocky's fights that lasted about 10 minutes!

 

The best sport easily has the best films on their sport. Restricting it to 3 is difficult, but here goes ;
CHAMPION - KIRK DOUGLAS.
THE SET UP - ROBERT RYAN.
THE HARDER THEY FALL - BOGART.
Forget about Raging Bull, an anti-boxing flick. Scorsese was only interested in the character and freely admitted he was not a fight fan, and boy, does it show.

 

Top 10
Rocky 1
Raging Bull
Cinderella Man
The Fighter
Ali
Million Dollar Baby
Rocky Balboa
The Hurricane
When We were Kings
Tyson

You could easily include the whole Rocky series...except Rocky 5.
So Terrible...only in America. Lol

 

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Play it to the bone/Streets of gold/