Boxing in the movies

[holmcall]

Anyone ever see 'The power of one'??Think it came out in the late 80's and was set South Africa,Australia??Short on details but that is one that stuck with.

Oldie 'Requiem for a heavyweight' was an absolute classic and must see.'Play it to the bone' was far fetched but had a awesome fight finale

South Africa. A good one. My favorites were The Harder The Fall. The Set-up, and Raging Bull

[ukansodoff]

I just love Rocky. Not 2,3,4,5 or the new 1 (tho i kinda liked it) Just the 1st, love it to bits.

and though im a bit shamed to admit it i liked the one in 1930's South Africa about the white and black boxers who work together and have a fight. Bad description really but maybe its for the best so you dont know what im on about.

[JazMerkin]

Generally not into boxing films, as I find myself getting frustrated by the lack of realism in the fighting. There's way too many big power punches and hooks, apparently in movie boxing, NOBODY jabs. Cinderella Man particularly pissed me off with this, as well as its disgusting portrayal of Max Baer.

Even some of the Rocky films pissed me off like this (such as in Rocky III where he punches the guy off his feet like 2 feet into the air). In fact the Rocky films wind me up partly because Stallone is quite clearly never a Heavyweight, at least not one who could be successful, purely because of his size. In fact most of the guys in the films look like blown up MWs or LHWs.

All of that said, I absolutely love Ali, one of my favourite films. They have realistic boxing (which they apparently choreographed to his fights) and the performances all round fantastic, particularly Will Smith actually making me forget he's bloody Will Smith & thinking "that's Ali". It's also well-directed, fairly objective and & has a fantastic score. I actually have yet to see Raging Bull, which is apparently really good.

Otherwise I've seen a fair few, which by and large are all very disappointing. Also too many films about boxers whose lives don't really warrant a movie (see the Rocky Marciano film & probably the upcoming Micky Ward film). Ironic when you consider how many great characters & stories there are in boxing, but a lot of the best will never get made.

[Chris24-7]

Hve to echo a couple of posts above, Ali was a great film & actually realstic coempared to Rocky (Balboa) at the least

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