Red Hood

Not an error per se, but the Rocky films created an unrealistic way on how the action happens in boxing, especially at a heavyweight level.

Also, not a movie, but I always wondered how Steve Urkel, who was the team's waterboy, was able to go in and play in his breakout game, even though he wasn't part of the roster.

Mabuse

Sounds like the movie Lucas didn’t get much right. Has there been an explanation over the years regarding why they were so lazy with the rules?

DVD Josh

Major League (the Indians) was filmed in Baltimore (the Orioles) as I recall.

Geddlo

If I recall they played at Milwaukee's Fulton County Stadium

Vipper II

Major League II was filmed at the then new Oriole Park at Camden Yards.

GoldenJCJ

That was my biggest problem with the football game at the beginning of The Last Boy Scout. It was a professional football game and it looked like it was being played at night with no stadium lights on. That and the fact that the announcer was speaking over the stadium PA in the middle of a play.

JTH182

In the first Mighty Ducks, the Ducks would get called for interference during the flying V. Don't even get me started on D2!

devilshalo

That final 180° jump set is fuckin' horrible.

Original Desmond

Color of Money, can't tell you how many of the shots were a heap of bull

Side Out is an awesome movie for hot 90s bikini babes ! leave it alone lol

mrhan

Not really an error on the events that transpired in Rush but the hatred between James Hunt and Niki Lauda was made up for drama. They were actually good friends throughout their racing careers and after.

Drexl

It's not a movie, but on Seinfeld in the episode with Keith Hernandez, they say that Mookie Wilson got "that hit" in Game 6 of the World Series (1986). But Wilson's only hit in that game was an uneventful single in the 5th inning. They're referring to the point in the bottom of the 10th when a ball hit by Wilson was able to get Ray Knight home from 2nd to win the game and keep the Mets alive for Game 7.

That was not a hit; the ball infamously rolled under Bill Buckner's glove, so Wilson reached base on an error.

Mabuse

Give an example. I don’t know pool. But a lot of the time Vince is deliberately showboating. So if you’re criticizing that I don’t think that’s fair.

Finisher

Tony Scott was a strong visualist, but downside there is he would shoot unrealistic stuff based on it looking compelling/dramatic. Like a more extreme version of his brother.

SmackDaddy

Good god this drives me nuts!!! I sort fo forgive it when they are on road/street courses, but on an oval you are NOT shifting into this magical gear on the straights and passing!!! It's like some of the cars have 10 speeds...

Nick Danger

Which reminds me of all those movie and TV show scenes where the main character goes into a dive bar that has a pool table, and you can see that the players have never held a cue in their lives.

Coral

Most hockey movies.
It's obvious the star(s) of the movie only laced on skates for the first time for the movie.

Ash Ketchum

I've played pool at different times in my life, but was never any good at it. I probably never held the cue properly even once.

TomOpus

What do you guys consider holding a cue correctly? Are you talking about how you hold it when waiting your turn or when you're aiming for a shot? My dad taught me to do what feels comfortable. I've seen many players use different techniques.

JeremyM

You're dead on with Bradley, but if you were going for pure talent, Bogues would've had to have more than anybody considering the disadvantage his height gave him.

Nick Danger

You grasp it about here, you make a bridge about here, and you sight down the cue. When you aren't at the table, you unconsciously carry the cue in a way that doesn't put other people at risk.

When extras in the background are tossing a football back and forth, they hold and throw the ball in the generally accepted style. The crowd wrangler wouldn't use someone who has a great body but who doesn't look right when they throw the ball. They do it all the time when it comes to pool.

Of course the reason for the pool table scene is for the camera to ogle the hot chick bending over the table, followed by the hero beating up the 6'7" bearded dude.

JeffTheAlpaca

Maybe it deserves a separate thread but what happened to sports movies?

Hollywood does not make them anymore. Are people cynical of seeing feel good stories or you can't do something new with the genre?

JeffTheAlpaca

LOL I think it was a Bruckheimer production.

GoldenJCJ

They still pop up from time to time. I think sports movies have slowly moved away from “movies about sports” to “movies about something else with sports as a backdrop”. Instead of something like Bull Durham or Major League which focused primarily on that particular sport, we get movies like the Trouble with the Curve or Moneyball which are about something completely different with the sport itself coming in second.

It feels like straight up “sports movies” have just become too cliched. Underdog stories, rag tag group of misfit stories have been done to death. Baseball movies seem to work best cinematically, I think they’ve just run out of original ideas. Lately it feels like Hollywood has moved away from the big sports and has been focusing more on smaller sports like track or MMA.

Paff

Hell, sometimes even the MAIN characters don't throw the football properly.

JeffTheAlpaca

The only major one that comes to mind is 42 which came out back in 2013.

I think maybe you can't sell an American sports movie overseas.

Maybe sports docs are more popular


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