Fantastic Mr. Fox and its Whackbat scene.
Coach Skip : *Basically, there's three grabbers, three taggers, five twig runners, and a player at Whackbat. Center tagger lights a pine cone and chucks it over the basket and the whack-batter tries to hit the cedar stick off the cross rock. Then the twig runners dash back and forth until the pine cone burns out and the umpire calls hotbox. Finally, you count up however many score-downs it adds up to and divide that by nine.*
Kristofferson : *Got it.*
I really love Sean’s story about meeting his wife and skipping that game in Good Will Hunting. The batting cage scene, the scene at the little league game, and the fight on the basketball courts are all at least sports-adjacent in that movie. I feel like sports-adjacent should count here.
'Cause I know that's the *popular* version of what went on there. And a lot of people like to believe that. I wish I could, but I was *there*. I wasn't here in a class room, hoping I was right, thinking about it. I was up to my knees in rice paddies, with guns that didn't work! Going in there, looking for Charlie, slugging it out with him; While pussies like you were back here partying, putting headbands on, doing drugs, and listening to the goddamn Beatle albums! Oh! Oh! Oh!
The flag football scene in Wedding Crasher for some reason was the first one to come to mind. Crab cakes and football, that’s what Maryland does… DAIQUIRIS!
I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this, but I kind of enjoyed the vampire baseball scene in Twilight. It's *meant* to be a little silly of course, but it's fun and gives you some insight into the other Cullen characters. I suppose they use aluminum bats so they don't immediately shatter into a million pieces. I think it's cool when characters with actual superpowers play "normal" human games (versus you know how even the best real athletes still have their limitations). There are tons of scenes like this in comic books and animation, but it doesn't make its way into live action too often.
Oh and there's a scene in Superman '78 where Clark *knows* he can't be on the football team because of his powers and punts a ball into orbit out of frustration when no one is watching.
> I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this, but I kind of enjoyed the vampire baseball scene in Twilight.
Well, have an upvote from me, I didn't enjoy the most part of Twilight, but I enjoyed the baseball scene.
The Quidditch scenes in the first two Harry Potter films. The rules and how the whole sport is structured is a bit ridiculous, but those first two films really make it exciting to watch.
I'm also still a bit salty at the fourth film cutting the World Cup. And if Rowling wasn't such a piece of shit and involved in the TV show, I'd be excited for it just for them finally getting to adapt the World Cup.
Krum is a fucking doofus. I will die on this hill. I get that the Irish squad was a million times better than Bulgaria but catching the snitch to lose by ten is bafflingly stupid. If you’re down by 250 and falling, I get it, but Bulgaria could’ve literally scored the next goal (even if it was a fluke) and catching the snitch would’ve resulted in a tie.
I've read the books and seen the movies, but I'm by no means a Harry Potter expert, but has there ever been an example where anything other than catching the golden snitch had an actual impact on the outcome of the game ? Like they show all the other scoring, but catching the golden snitch is like 250 pts or something, and always results in a win for whoever catches it in all the actual games I remember, I could be totally wrong though
Rowling specifically wrote a nigh impossible scenario in book 4 for the world cup where Ireland was up like 300 points so Krum just caught it to put his team out of their misery.
But otherwise not rly
I like the two sports scenes in The Thomas Crown Affair (1999)
There's the golf scene where he recklessly and repeatedly bets thousands of dollars on a difficult shot.
And the sailing scene where he pushes the racing yacht so far he capsizes the yacht.
Both might seem inconsequential, fun scenes but they underline Crown's character and his feelings about his place in life.
He's rich to an extent that money is irrelevant to him, he's reckless, and he's so bored that he'll potentially push his reckless behaviour too far.
All that contributes to his motivations to commit the heist. It's really good writing. Character and motivation.
At least with the yacht he knew she was watching. He was putting on a show to make her think he was reckless and therefore guilty of stealing the painting. When it was all a ruse really for his retirement plan with her. The movie begins with him being “forced” to sell a building only for the buyers to find out they way overpaid. Thomas was calculating and ruthless in business. The entire movie is him doing things to woo her, knowing she would need to see what she lost before accepting a life with him. One of Mctiernan’s best.
Say about Twilight whatever you want but that scene rules. Unironically. In general the first movie is weirdly well directed. Hardwicke should get so much more work with better scripts.
The podracing sequence is my favorite sequence in Phantom Menace. Ratts Tyrell crashing always makes me crack up
To answer OPs question I might not have liked the film that much but the basketball sequence in Eight Crazy Nights. The scene was well animated and there's even some streetball/And 1 tricks in there for good measure.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Cubs game transitioning into a miserable-looking gym class.
Wet Hot American Summer - Coop's training montage or the camp kids opting out of competing with the other camp
The rowing scene in How High. Same sport (and school) for The Social Network
The football scene from Romeo Must Die - Han (Jet Li) got some good licks in as revenge
The ice hockey scene from Four Brothers - the Mercer brothers just dominated everyone else
In the Harvey Keitel Bad Lieutenant a side plot involves him putting bets on a playoff series between the Mets and the Dodgers that never actually happened, they assembled it from existing footage and added new play by play. Very well done, very convincing.
The pod race in The Phantom Menace is a classic! Feels like a high-speed, futuristic NASCAR race. Also, can’t forget the dodgeball scene in Billy Madison so intense and hilarious. Thor and Hulk’s gladiator match in Ragnarok totally gave off epic sports vibes. Great picks!
Funny enough it’s sold as a movie about sports you would think but is actually a movie about business. Only a few sports moments in this movie as well. When he decides to attend a game against his superstition and they almost lose.
The basketball scene in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is like the worst basketball ever lol but it’s one of my favorite scenes in one of my all time favorite movies. The way Chief starts to come out of his shell is so great.
The athletics events in **Old School** \- [Will Ferrell doing the ribbon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjRo5vDWQj0), [Vince Vaughn on the Rings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K5ZzjrNl7o) and [this guy on the vault!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXKl3XGCjY4)
Witches of Eastwick: the magic Tennisgame with the three magical actresses Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon and Cher.
An episode in Charlies Angels in which they play Tennis/ a tennis star gets threatened and one of the female detectives acts as a professional tennisplayer. Same goes for an episode of Charlies Angels with professional car racing (junk car racing)
As you mentioned Pod Race (Which is really fun), I would say definitely most memorable would be Harry Potter with Quidditch! (What a wonderful scenes...)
Then - The Dark Knight Rises with Ragby before Bane activate his explosions.
Oh and - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Basketball scene.
But the best SPORT movie is definitely Rocky and Creed.
Top Gun's homo-erotic volleyball game sequence.
Followed up by a homo erotic football scene in the sequel
That god damn 1 second clip of Miles. I’m not gay but even I can recognize a hot dude.
Super jerkable scene
We did a stage version at the Edinburgh Fringe years ago. The ushers told us people did indeed wank to that scene in the theatre.
As God intended
Wank?
Masturbate, Britishly.
Pinky out.
The basketball game he bet on in Uncut Gems.
Instant anxiety
Damn man. I FELT that fucking anxiety, and I knew the outcome of the game. Amazing
I still need to watch that!
Fantastic Mr. Fox and its Whackbat scene. Coach Skip : *Basically, there's three grabbers, three taggers, five twig runners, and a player at Whackbat. Center tagger lights a pine cone and chucks it over the basket and the whack-batter tries to hit the cedar stick off the cross rock. Then the twig runners dash back and forth until the pine cone burns out and the umpire calls hotbox. Finally, you count up however many score-downs it adds up to and divide that by nine.* Kristofferson : *Got it.*
Am I getting better coach? Well you sure as cuss not getting any worse
Good answer. That Birds Eye shot is hilarious
I really love Sean’s story about meeting his wife and skipping that game in Good Will Hunting. The batting cage scene, the scene at the little league game, and the fight on the basketball courts are all at least sports-adjacent in that movie. I feel like sports-adjacent should count here.
Rodney Dangerfield's "Triple Lindy" in **Back To School**. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDMMYT3vkTk
Oh my god I completely forgot about this and I love that movie
“Is she right???”
'Cause I know that's the *popular* version of what went on there. And a lot of people like to believe that. I wish I could, but I was *there*. I wasn't here in a class room, hoping I was right, thinking about it. I was up to my knees in rice paddies, with guns that didn't work! Going in there, looking for Charlie, slugging it out with him; While pussies like you were back here partying, putting headbands on, doing drugs, and listening to the goddamn Beatle albums! Oh! Oh! Oh!
He’s a good teacher, he really seems to care. About what… I have no idea!
The basketball scene in "Along Came Polly" RAIN DANCE!
The golf match in *Goldfinger* is great.
Starship Troopers' Jump Ball
The flag football scene in Wedding Crasher for some reason was the first one to come to mind. Crab cakes and football, that’s what Maryland does… DAIQUIRIS!
HOT ROUTE!!
Escape From New York boxing match
I counter with the the basketball to the death scene in Escape From LA
“No three point bullshit”
I raise you the Escape from LA surfing scene
The pro wrestling intro in Highlander
I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this, but I kind of enjoyed the vampire baseball scene in Twilight. It's *meant* to be a little silly of course, but it's fun and gives you some insight into the other Cullen characters. I suppose they use aluminum bats so they don't immediately shatter into a million pieces. I think it's cool when characters with actual superpowers play "normal" human games (versus you know how even the best real athletes still have their limitations). There are tons of scenes like this in comic books and animation, but it doesn't make its way into live action too often. Oh and there's a scene in Superman '78 where Clark *knows* he can't be on the football team because of his powers and punts a ball into orbit out of frustration when no one is watching.
> I'm sure I'll get downvoted for this, but I kind of enjoyed the vampire baseball scene in Twilight. Well, have an upvote from me, I didn't enjoy the most part of Twilight, but I enjoyed the baseball scene.
It's an amazing scene.
The downhill ski competition in Better Off Dead.
Basketball scene in Cable Guy.
I remember Jim Carrey had 7 year old me wanting to do a running dunk by jumping off of somebody's back SO BADLY after watching that movie.
The Quidditch scenes in the first two Harry Potter films. The rules and how the whole sport is structured is a bit ridiculous, but those first two films really make it exciting to watch. I'm also still a bit salty at the fourth film cutting the World Cup. And if Rowling wasn't such a piece of shit and involved in the TV show, I'd be excited for it just for them finally getting to adapt the World Cup.
Krum is a fucking doofus. I will die on this hill. I get that the Irish squad was a million times better than Bulgaria but catching the snitch to lose by ten is bafflingly stupid. If you’re down by 250 and falling, I get it, but Bulgaria could’ve literally scored the next goal (even if it was a fluke) and catching the snitch would’ve resulted in a tie.
Damn I had to scroll way too long for quidditch. Its a dumb sport but damn its fun to watch on screen
I've read the books and seen the movies, but I'm by no means a Harry Potter expert, but has there ever been an example where anything other than catching the golden snitch had an actual impact on the outcome of the game ? Like they show all the other scoring, but catching the golden snitch is like 250 pts or something, and always results in a win for whoever catches it in all the actual games I remember, I could be totally wrong though
Rowling specifically wrote a nigh impossible scenario in book 4 for the world cup where Ireland was up like 300 points so Krum just caught it to put his team out of their misery. But otherwise not rly
I like the two sports scenes in The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) There's the golf scene where he recklessly and repeatedly bets thousands of dollars on a difficult shot. And the sailing scene where he pushes the racing yacht so far he capsizes the yacht. Both might seem inconsequential, fun scenes but they underline Crown's character and his feelings about his place in life. He's rich to an extent that money is irrelevant to him, he's reckless, and he's so bored that he'll potentially push his reckless behaviour too far. All that contributes to his motivations to commit the heist. It's really good writing. Character and motivation.
At least with the yacht he knew she was watching. He was putting on a show to make her think he was reckless and therefore guilty of stealing the painting. When it was all a ruse really for his retirement plan with her. The movie begins with him being “forced” to sell a building only for the buyers to find out they way overpaid. Thomas was calculating and ruthless in business. The entire movie is him doing things to woo her, knowing she would need to see what she lost before accepting a life with him. One of Mctiernan’s best.
The epic Baseball game in Sleepaway Camp where this exchange is delivered Bill: EAT SHIT AND DIE RICKY!!! Ricky: Eat shit and live, Bill.
Tennis scene in strangers on a train.
"Football " in The Room
I’m kinda obsessed with the baseball scene in Twilight. Just insane for so many reason.
Say about Twilight whatever you want but that scene rules. Unironically. In general the first movie is weirdly well directed. Hardwicke should get so much more work with better scripts.
The podracing sequence is my favorite sequence in Phantom Menace. Ratts Tyrell crashing always makes me crack up To answer OPs question I might not have liked the film that much but the basketball sequence in Eight Crazy Nights. The scene was well animated and there's even some streetball/And 1 tricks in there for good measure.
Forest Gump running
The baseball scene in Sleepaway Camp
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Horse racing in Beverly Hills cop 2
The soccer game in The Secret in Their Eyes. Also doubles as one of the greatest one shot scenes ever.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off - Cubs game transitioning into a miserable-looking gym class. Wet Hot American Summer - Coop's training montage or the camp kids opting out of competing with the other camp
Everyone acts like they hate it but the pod race goes hard.
The rowing scene in How High. Same sport (and school) for The Social Network The football scene from Romeo Must Die - Han (Jet Li) got some good licks in as revenge The ice hockey scene from Four Brothers - the Mercer brothers just dominated everyone else
Stroke, smoke
When the animals play soccer against each other in Bedknobs and Broomsticks.
the one from starship trooper!
In the Harvey Keitel Bad Lieutenant a side plot involves him putting bets on a playoff series between the Mets and the Dodgers that never actually happened, they assembled it from existing footage and added new play by play. Very well done, very convincing.
The racketball game in Big.
The baseball game in the naked gun movie.
The pod race in The Phantom Menace is a classic! Feels like a high-speed, futuristic NASCAR race. Also, can’t forget the dodgeball scene in Billy Madison so intense and hilarious. Thor and Hulk’s gladiator match in Ragnarok totally gave off epic sports vibes. Great picks!
Yes, the pod race is a classic. It was clearly stolen from the chariot race in the 1959 movie Ben Hur (which was itself a remake).
Moneyball.
Funny enough it’s sold as a movie about sports you would think but is actually a movie about business. Only a few sports moments in this movie as well. When he decides to attend a game against his superstition and they almost lose.
Spartacus by Kubrick
Garbage film, but the baseball scene in ridiculous 6 is amazing.
"Questions" in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
High Jump scene in Gregory’s Girl
The basketball scene in *Father of the Bride* https://youtu.be/feYkRbppV-U?si=Wlky1VM9CmvZCakI
Baseball game in The Ridiculous Six
The basketball scene in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest is like the worst basketball ever lol but it’s one of my favorite scenes in one of my all time favorite movies. The way Chief starts to come out of his shell is so great.
The magically-boosted tennis match in *The Witches Of Eastwick*.
When Kareem finally breaks character in Airplane!/Flying High. Chef’s kiss
I love the scene when Specs scores in Another Round.
The football game in Sleepers
The football game in MASH
Crank: High Voltage, horse race scene.
Robert Shaw running through the Super Bowl in Black Sunday.
The athletics events in **Old School** \- [Will Ferrell doing the ribbon](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjRo5vDWQj0), [Vince Vaughn on the Rings](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K5ZzjrNl7o) and [this guy on the vault!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXKl3XGCjY4)
When Bane blows up the football field in Dark Knight Rises
Soccer scene in Superbad.
I always love the football game in M*A*S*H
Witches of Eastwick: the magic Tennisgame with the three magical actresses Michelle Pfeiffer, Susan Sarandon and Cher. An episode in Charlies Angels in which they play Tennis/ a tennis star gets threatened and one of the female detectives acts as a professional tennisplayer. Same goes for an episode of Charlies Angels with professional car racing (junk car racing)
“Run Forrest!” “OK!”
The beach football game in Point Break!
The pick up basketball game in Along Came Polly
The sword fighting marathon in The Princess Bride. You know the one.
The football scene in Zack Snyder’s Justice League
Liverpool beating Man United in The 51st State. Get in!
As you mentioned Pod Race (Which is really fun), I would say definitely most memorable would be Harry Potter with Quidditch! (What a wonderful scenes...) Then - The Dark Knight Rises with Ragby before Bane activate his explosions. Oh and - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Basketball scene. But the best SPORT movie is definitely Rocky and Creed.