Top Boxing Films

Not the best of all time by any means but if you haven't already done so check out a movie called "The Price of Glory". Not bad at all.

 

I dont care what anyone says all the Rocky movies were good,although 4 and 5 were kind of corny even though ive seen them alot. Raging Bull obviously, Rockymarciano movie that came out about 10 years ago was good.Also an old movie called The Ring about a young chicano boxer coming out of LA in the 40s or 50s I believe. Also Diggstown is good even have cameos by Randy Cobb and Alex Garcia. The Champ is the saddest one ive seen. I thought Million Dollar Baby is overrated. It really dragged on at the end kind of depressing.

 

The Boxer starring Daniel Day Lewis is a good film

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0OL60CD9-Q[/ame]

 

Nobody has mentioned the film, 'the champ', where that bloke trains with his son and wins his fights but dies after, used to sob my heart out when i was a kid to that film, quality film that,
IMO
1) Raging bull,
2) Cinderella man
3) Rocky 4

 

Haha, how did I forget about The Champ.

Definitely, one of the saddest films I've ever seen.

 

Yey that was a tear jerker

 

King Boxer
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Some of the dialogue in Rocky 3 was pretty damn good:

"Ya gotta have about half a pound of brain damage to fight a wrestler. I seen wrestlers as big as dinosaurs. Ya ever fight a dinosaur Rock?"

"No, have you?"

"They can cause a variety of damage!"

Good Stuff.

 

Is that the movie about a boxing family where the father is the trainer.

 

There is a film about the life of Primo Carnera, called " Carnera: the walking mountain", havent seen it yet.
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I like ones mentioned here (got a soft spot for Rocky 2 as it was on all the time when I was a kid and we first got cable TV). Add:

The Harder They Fall - Humphrey Bogart's last movie, "sort of" tells the story of Primo Carnera, also has the real Max Baer and Jersey Joe Walcott in minor roles

Homeboy - Mickey Rourke, say no more

Kelly The Second - I saw this goofy flick on TCM one night, made in 1936, where a feisty Irish woman becomes a boxing trainer. It's broad slapstick comedy but kind of interesting coming from a time when boxing was so much part of the mainstream culture in the US. More a curiosity but it was also entertaining to me.

 

You have got to watch Rocky films, and base them just on their entertainment value. So what if they are a little cheesy, its good leave your brain at the door, watchin.

 

Thing about Rocky movies for most of us is we probably got into them as kids, so we were less critical of the cheese, far-fetched action, etc.

Kinda like being into Superman.