Comments Thread For: Quentin Tarantino Breaks Down His Top 5 Boxing Movies

[boogbx]

Million dollar baby is terrible.

That scene where the broad nearly dies in the ring almost made
Me smash the movie theatre. Complete BS.

The OG Gladiator with Cuba Gooding Jr is greatness and great mention. That’s probably my favorite after Rocky.

[Dariusz]

I must admit frankly, I do not like movies about boxing as all of them that I've seen contain unreal fighting scenes.

[MDPopescu]

I don't know why people forget "Somebody Up There Likes Me" (1956) -- Rocky Graziano's biopic, with Paul Newman in the leading role...

[CubanGuyNYC]

Never liked Million dollar baby.

The other movies he mentioned are legit.

I would add:

Body and Soul
Requiem for a Heavyweight
The harder they fall
When we were kings - Doc
Unforgivable Blackness - Doc

Requiem for a Heavyweight is a nice call. Fun to see real-life boxers like Ali (then Cassius Clay), Jack Dempsey, Willie Pep and Barney Ross, among others.

[Noelanthony]

I've never seen Million Dollar Baby and I didn't even know it was a boxing film. Worth watching?

100 percent

[texasboi15]

CINDERELLA MAN

And of course Rocky I

[CubanGuyNYC]

The original Rocky is my number one favorite boxing movie of all time. Raging Bull is certainly better as far as films go, but I believe Stallone’s classic focuses more on the sport itself. Million Dollar Baby and The Fighter, while both good films, don’t have nearly the same replay value for me. I wish that Quentin had assessed his picks a little more.

[DaNeutral.]

Boxing movies were all worth watching but the best are the real life stories of prizefighters, Oscar Bonavena, Benny Kid Paret, Marcel Cerdan, Sonny Liston, Salvador Sanchez, Diego Corrales, Vernon Forrest, Alexis Arguello, Arturo Gatti, Edwin Valero, Hector Camacho

Definitely this. Some of the sports classic fights have been put into documentary films, I love them.

But I do like Rocky, the 1st one.

[DaNeutral.]

Does anybody remember a film called hard times? It's an older film, I've never seen it but it's supposed to be a fantastic fighting film, it may be about bare knuckle.

[F l i c k e r]

Would be interesting to see a QT directed boxing film.

Would probably have to be Jack Johnson or something way back. He likes that controversial s.hit with grimey scenes and offensive words.