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Seven Sports Movies So Bad They Make You Want to Watch Glitter on Repeat

Thursday, December 04 2008

When it comes to bad movies it doesn’t get much worse than Mariah Carey in Glitter.  We normally love sports movies, but these duds make us want to smack ourselves in the face to try to wake up from the nightmares that are these cinematic disasters.  So here you have it: a list of sports movies so horrendous that they have us reaching not for the remote, but for ear plugs and blindfolds.

Caddyshack 2 (1988)

The original Caddyshack?  Genius.  The sequel?  Not so much.  Looking back, taking away Rodney Dangerfield, Bill Murray, and Chevy Chase may not have been such a great idea.  Who did they give us in return?  Dan Aykroyd,  Jackie Mason, and Robert Stack.  It may have been number 2 but it was half as good as the original, if we’re being nice.

 

The Fan (1996)

Plodding, clumsy, and totally implausible movie featuring Robert Dinero as a psycho fan (clever movie title, huh?) who gets crazy-obsessed with his favorite baseball player (Wesley Snipes) to the point of pulling a knife on one of Snipes’ teammates and kidnapping Snipes son in a woefully misguided effort to help Snipes succeed on the diamond.  Started out creepy, then turned generic stalker flick with a cool soundtrack.

 

Rollerball (2001)

Really?  The producers of this film REALLY thought they could replace James Caan with Chris Klein in the remake of this movie?  Caan carries himself as gritty, strong, and mysterious.  Chris Klein carries eyeliner and bottle of spritzer.

 

Juwanna Mann (2002)

Male pro basketball player gets kicked out of league.  Male pro basketball player decides to masquerade as a woman in order to join a female pro basketball league.  Hilarity does NOT ensue.  This film is a major “drag”.

 

Rocky V (1990)

This movie should not have been made.  Period.  Can we just erase this off the books and count the more recent Rocky Balboa as Rocky V?  Please??

 

Any Given Sunday (1999)

Perhaps Any Given Sunday should additionally get the award for Most Overhyped Sports Movie Ever.  Everyone wanted this movie to be great.  No one thought it was.  Not a good disconnect for a movie to have.  The football scenes are unrealistic and are staged and lit more like a bad music video than a football game.

 

Air Bud – all of them (1997-2003)

OK so we cheated here to include a franchise, but we think it’s more than deserving.  This preposterous collection of children’s movies featuring a golden retriever that plays basketball, football, baseball, volleyball, and soccer includes such movie titles as “World Pup” and “Seventh Inning Fetch”.  Gag me.  Children everywhere will forever be disappointed in their dog’s ability to simply bark and sleep.  Nice work, Disney.

Comments

Bryan Ford said on 1.08.2009 at 12:22 PM

haha. Nice work guys!


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