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I
don't like sports, however that's not to say I have anything against
sports movies- so long as they do something more inventive than spunk out
the usual shit about being an underdog. Despite the obvious appeal of
watching Stallone get his face punched in, I'm not a huge fan of Rocky however I'm certainly willing to turn my back on anybody that doesn't love Raging Bull. Of
all the sports to have films about them, it seems like boxing is the
most popular which I suppose is simply due to the dramatic ways in which
people can get their mush fucked up. I thankfully haven't been exposed
to that much crap but I did see Goal a little while ago and obviously hated it. Like
football itself, I guess I just found it hard to feel much tension over
some smug little shits ability to use his over-valued trotters to nudge a
ball into a net. Obviously that's not a blanket rule and I'd always
have an open mind but the general thing seems to be that sports films
are better when they're about the player and not the game. With this in
mind and considering what I said before, I'm surprised there hasn't been
more films about racing cars. Are they even called 'racing cars'? Because
when I read that back just then, it sounded like it was written by a
child with learning difficulties... Fuck it- they're cars and they race
so I'm not wrong to say it. Anyway, I'm surprised there haven't been more
films about racing cars because they can have the same guff around them
in terms of story but it's broken up by some high speed chases. I
wouldn't ever watch F1 by choice but in terms of movies, I can't see
anything unappealing about interesting characters being blasted around a
track in a fuck off car that's using a rocket as a butt plug.