Your top 3 Boxing Movies

[physiker]

Hollywood is fictionalized, and Million Dollar Baby did as admirable a job as you can expect as far as the actual fight scenes went. It also tried to present a more brutal side to the sport, which is why that final fight scene had so many fouls without a DQ. They weren't showing HBO prime time type fights. It was out there but it was still about as good as you can expect from a movie.

I hear you. I wrote what I did because some people (here too) say that the boxing matches and the boxing knowledge in the film is 100% right on. That's just not true. It could have been better there. E.g., why not have Freeman describe a KO usually coming from slamming the brain against the skull? Would have made no difference to the drama.

Still a great film, and the Gaelic Mo Cuishle ending gets me every time.

Eastland knows how to make em.

[bojangles1987]

And regarding "Ali", I thought it was a fine movie, as far as it went. If it was very good, it is because the subject matter is so fascinating. My probllem with it is that they left so much out of it. Some I understand was due to legal threats.

It could have been so much more than it was, IMO. Still a fine movie due to Ali's fascinating life.

Ali was good, but it just never clicked. Really, if not for the great job Will Smith did playing Ali that would be a very average movie.

[betmen]

1.FACING ALI


2.ROCKY


3.RAGING BULL


just downloaded facing ali 2 months ago and cant stop watching it, i mean frazier crying, norton thanking and canadian fighter cursing.

[minasyan]

Raging Bull is easily the best out there then Million Dollar Baby

[Mr. President]

Ali was good, but it just never clicked. Really, if not for the great job Will Smith did playing Ali that would be a very average movie.

Agreed, Michael Mann dropped the ball on that one.

[rocky_balboa23]

Cinderella man.

[..WaRSpencE..]

[Nick Name]

Raging Bull is the only boxing movie I can bear.

[Burning Phoenix]

1. Raging Bull (Scorcese's best movie)
2. Cinderella Man
3. Rocky

[physiker]

Thanks.

Looked up "Sons of Cuba" at IMDB. Looks good.
But I don't see it at Netflix, Amazon, anywhere.
Que Lastima.