Boxing and the silver screen

[dondada]

http://news.boxrec.com/news/2012/boxing ... ver-screen

Good overview here, by a good little writer.

What are your favourite boxing films...and why?

And your worst?

[stujones]

I find watching the Greatest, while an interesting concept, is a difficult watch at times. Ali, still heavyweight champion in 1977, but definately showing slurred speech in places trying to literatully re-capture his youth. He says the old poems but that fraction slower and more slurred than when he did them originally.

I only wish that Ali actually started when the Greatest left off, instead it just ended up a better version of a re-hash.

[thepocketrocket]

I find the the poetic license in these films awful.

Ruining someone's reputation for the sake of a film is horrendous. Was it Joey Giardello who got the shaft job in Hurricane, saying the fight was a robbery and Carter should have won?

That is nothing in comparison to showing Baer as a loathsome man who seemed to get a kick the fact he killed people in 'Cinderella Man'

If you are going to do a boxing film you have to be fair to everyone, not just your subject matter. Because these other people are real people...

[Ezzard]

They forgot one of the best. “Requiem For A Heavyweight” Bit of an oversight but a good article.

[slapbangwhallop]

They forgot one of the best. “Requiem For A Heavyweight” Bit of an oversight but a good article.

Requiem never got a shout but the Calcium Kid did! Deary moi!!

[dondada]

They forgot one of the best. “Requiem For A Heavyweight” Bit of an oversight but a good article.

Fair observation, nicely put

[binipop]

Good to see Diggstown in the list, though i'll always know it as Midnight Sting. Plot is highly implausible but a very funny and exciting film with an excellent cast (James Woods, Bruce Dern, Oliver Platt amongst others...) and some good fight scenes.

[damianhucker1]

Anyone seen a film where a Young lad growing up near a shipyard ends up Joining the Navy and Boxing for them ? cant for the life of me find out what its called i watched it on tv around a year ago late at night and quite enjoyed it , the main lad was played by Spidermans buddy in the first 2 of the newer series of films .

[Bennyblanco]

Anyone seen a film where a Young lad growing up near a shipyard ends up Joining the Navy and Boxing for them ? cant for the life of me find out what its called i watched it on tv around a year ago late at night and quite enjoyed it , the main lad was played by Spidermans buddy in the first 2 of the newer series of films .

http://www.imdb.com/rg/em_share/rt_ipho ... /tt0417433

[Gazmac81]

Teen Wolf Too anyone ?

[Gazmac81]

I find watching the Greatest, while an interesting concept, is a difficult watch at times. Ali, still heavyweight champion in 1977, but definately showing slurred speech in places trying to literatully re-capture his youth. He says the old poems but that fraction slower and more slurred than when he did them originally.

I only wish that Ali actually started when the Greatest left off, instead it just ended up a better version of a re-hash.

yea i found it hard to watch , terrible
im sure at one point hes talking to a guy behind a desk and Ali looks down and looks to be reading his lines , was on ITV4 a few years ago ,

[iamasadlittleboy]

I really enjoyed "The Great White Hype" (1996) which was a boxing comedy that was funny enough to enjoy and never took it' self too serious.

Sam and Max (I think it was called) was really good as well. So too was Cinderella Man and The Fighter.

There was one with Mickey Rourke (Homeboy, I think) that was crap.

On this subject, someone (anyone!) needs to make a film on Vincent Gigante, that mans life is crying out to be put to the silver screen (OK his boxing career was only a small part of his life but still...)

[Gazmac81]

i remember years ago when i was in school there was film on Tv and it was about Rocky Graziano who i had never heard off at the time.

i only knew of Balboa and Marciano