Your top 3 Boxing Movies

[physiker]

Not just your #1, but your 3 faves. Can include documentaries, or dramas, old or new.

Mine:

Raging Bull
The Hurricane
Ring of Fire

Hon. Mention: Requiem for a Heavyweight (with young Cassius Clay retiring Anthony Quinn character)

You can tell us why.

FWIW I saw "The Fighter" and thought it was OK, maybe even good, but to me over-rated, and of course didn't even have the Gatti trilogy. (I understand there may be a part two?) I'd pick some old boxing movies above this one. I can recall some with Kirk Douglas, John Garfield. The boxing in them was poor, but they were good dramas.

[physiker]

Oh, I should add another Honorable Mention to "Million Dollar Baby"

Though many things regarding boxing were wrong, it was a great drama.
Once I saw the "Mo Cuishle" ending, I knew an Acadamy Award for the film was coming.

[BallisticAffair]

Topic's been done, but let's do it again.


The Set-Up is my fav boxing movie,






Raging Bull, though visually beautiful, is hideously overrated...and that's coming from a big fan of the Scorsese/De Niro partnership. The way Marty projects his Catholicism onto LaMotta, a man who never had time for the Catholic faith or the notion of God, is especially sickening.

[Mr. President]

1- Floyd Mayweather: Soul Of A Champion

2- Raging Bull

3- Rocky

[Mr. President]

Not just your #1, but your 3 faves. Can include documentaries, or dramas, old or new.

Mine:

Raging Bull
The Hurricane
Ring of Fire

Hon. Mention: Requiem for a Heavyweight (with young Cassius Clay retiring Anthony Quinn character)

You can tell us why.

FWIW I saw "The Fighter" and thought it was OK, maybe even good, but to me over-rated, and of course didn't even have the Gatti trilogy. (I understand there may be a part two?) I'd pick some old boxing movies above this one. I can recall some with Kirk Douglas, John Garfield. The boxing in them was poor, but they were good dramas.

The fact that you don't have Floyd Mayweather: Soul Of A Champion or Rocky (the first boxing movie to win an Oscar for best picture) included anywhere in your opening post makes your list lose a lot of credibility.

[Steak]

Million Dollar Baby
Rocky III(I dont know, personally my favorite of the series for some reason)
Cinderella Man

[physiker]

1- Floyd Mayweather: Soul Of A Champion

2- Raging Bull

3- Rocky

I looked up your #1. Is that just a 22-minute doc? Or is there more. (Didn't view it. Just wondering if hte 22 minutes is the whole thing?)

[physiker]

The fact that you don't have Floyd Mayweather: Soul Of A Champion or Rocky (the first boxing movie to win an Oscar for best picture) included anywhere in your opening post makes your list lose a lot of credibility.

Thanks.

Hopefully u r joking. If not, you have no credibility now whatsoever.

Your Floyd pick appears to be a 22-minute thing for Floyd lovers I guess. Not everyone is.

Rocky is a nice feel good movie. But it is a fantasy film, and my top two are dramas based on real people. And my #3 was a great documentary on Emile Griffith.

Skip your judgementalism. Try just posting your opinion without denigrating others who don't share yours.

[Mr. President]

I looked up your #1. Is that just a 22-minute doc? Or is there more. (Didn't view it. Just wondering if hte 22 minutes is the whole thing?)

That's the one and believe me when i tell you, it's the most inspiring and entertaining 22 minutes you'll see in a boxing related film.

I highly recommend it and you owe it to yourself as a boxing fan to see it.

[BallisticAffair]

The fact that you don't have Floyd Mayweather: Soul Of A Champion or Rocky (the first boxing movie to win an Oscar for best picture) included anywhere in your opening post makes your list lose a lot of credibility.

Soul Of A Champion is not a "boxing movie". It's a boxing profile/documentary, and far from the best one out there.



It doesn't lose anybody any credibility if they don't have a single Rocky movie in their Top 3 boxing movies of All-Time. Academy awards, ultimately, don't speak to a movie's quality as there have been many unworthy movies that won an Academy award.

I wouldn't knock anybody for having the original Rocky in their 3, as it is worthy for the beautifully executed romance element, but I also wouldn't knock anybody if they had 3 other movies above it.