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"Ali" was terrible. That film needed a better editor.
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If you guys want to see aREAL boxing movie a true to life one, have a look at "The Set Up" starring Robert Ryan. Ryan was at Dartmouth College for 4 years and was the heavyweight champion for all four years, a first ever for any College. So at least he actually knew something about boxing.
Those other movies you mention are good as movie spectacles, but the boxing is as phony as a lead dollar.Comment
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Not including Million Dollar Baby. Not that it outranks Raging Bull, but it deserves to be tied.Comment
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I have to re-watch raging bull. I don't recall it being as excellent as it was rated. (A lot of people were saying it was one of the best films of all time (not just sports.))
I've seen most of the others and I know that Christian Bale delivered a better performance than any of the other actors. However, the main character, Whalberg, just couldn't hang with that cast, and brought the film down overall.
I'd probably put in this order:
Raging Bull
Rocky
The Fighter
Ali
Haven't watched Cinderella Man or Million Dollar Baby.Comment
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Haha agreed man, if you don’t have it at 1 then you’re not real boxing fanI came in here solely to see if you had Raging Bull on your list, thinking you didn't, and was about to ream you for it and put you on blast for not being a real boxing fan and not being qualified to make such a list as a thread topic starter, but to my surprise, you passed the test.
Well done. I can care less how anyone rates boxing movies as long as Raging Bull is first by default and Rocky is in everyone's top 3.Comment
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The Fighter to me was incredibly overrated, Bale was great in it, but it felt to much like a movie, with a lot of cliche things happening.
Raging Bull is a perfect film, I can’t believe how most people can’t see that, the acting was incredible, the story being told was tragic, that ending with Deniro gaining all that weight.
Cinderella Man was good, but slightly overrated, I would have loved for them to show Braddock fighting Louis and would only fight him for taking a piece of his earnings for the rest of his career. Braddock wasn’t that nice of a guys like how they depicted in that film.
Rocky was a really good underdog story, but the fighting scenes were terrible, some actors were just way over the top, it was like watching wrestling.Comment
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Cinderella man is very underrated around here better then the fighter by a mile and Rocky is overrated I loved it when I was a kid but when I seen it as an adult all I was thinking was these guys are terrible boxersComment
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Yes it was, and it's a shame that guys on this site who are so keen on boxing, will ignore this film and waste their time on phony, dramatized stories that never happened the way the movies tell them. I KNOW that this movie was true to life, as my late uncle was a part time promoter and he told me a few things, and I heard him telling others about things he thought I didn't hear. Also, I've been in old time gyms full of dirt and sweat.
"The Harder they Fall" was also a good boxing movie that's often forgotten, The actor playing the heavyweight character was excellent and very believable, and although I've never liked Humphrey Bogart as an actor, he played his role well too. The movie was like what is supposed to have occurred with Primo Carnera. The only really phoney thing was the title fight against the champion. Max Baer fought against Carnera, and actually played this part in the movie. It looked fake, and Baer was really flabby as well as being a very poor actor. It must have been only a year or two before he died. I liked it because of the heavyweight character played by a guy called Mike Lane. Jersey Joe Walcott had a good part in it too as Moreno's trainer and second.
GOOD LUCK with your script.Comment
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