As a sports fanatic, one must really enjoy putting on those jerseys especially of your favourite club, player etc as well the merchandise to go with it.
As a sports fanatic, one must really enjoy putting on those jerseys especially of your favourite club, player etc as well the merchandise to go with it.
On match days, friends gather around and a tub of popcorn and fruit juice to go along with it; you seem to enjoy the match amidst all the fanfare.
But then are days, when there are no matches at all but as you are cozying up the sofa or staying up late at your bed, watching your favourite sports movie on DVD or TV. But what if it turns out to be rubbish and appalling? If Hollywood and Bollywood have made some great films on sports stars or the sport that have went on to be a hit, there have been few which are either trash or just unwatchable.
If you are in the mood to watch a sports movie to fill up the mood, take our cue and please DO NOT watch these 5 movies at all:
Rollerball
This 2002 film was a remake of an original film of the same film but the sole letdown for this ‘remake’ was awful acting and worse scenes. The makers of the film were hoping that by adding some extreme action would turn a fantasy action site into cinematic gold but alas, it couldn’t! There were some scenes in the film that were exciting but nothing really that made us stand up and applause. A big ‘not to have’ for this film.
Apne
This family-drama cum boxing cum romantic film starred our very own Deol family with Katrina Kaif and Shilpa Shetty as the leading ladies. Even though the movie raked in the moolah for the drama part, the sports side was just unbearable. Bobby Deol as a boxer is just not a perfect fit whereas Papa Deol just does NOT fit in.
Jerry Maguire
So if you were misguided that Jerry Maguire was a sports film, well it’s NOT! With no sense at all, even with an A-lister in Tom Cruise starring as a powerful sports agent hoping to maintain a client base of star athletes; Jerry Maguire fails to click. Even though it has a few cameos from real-life athletes, the movie is more of a romantic comedy rather than a sports film. If this movie had a sequel, surely we could have seen Cruise as a multi-faceted agent!
BASEketball
Loosely based on America’s favourite sports, BASEketball is a spoof film based basketball and baseball together. The film revolves around couple of guys’ think of combining two sports and how it would make for a fun backyard game. But some shambolic acting and over-the-top drama, let’s this one make a drubber!
Ta Ra Rum Pum
One out of the YashRaj clan, Ta Ra Rum Pum stars Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukherji in lead roles with the former playing as a NASCAR racer who has to drop due to a terrible accident that hampers his driving career. In steps Rani Mukherji and voila, everything is all brand new. Romance, songs and foreign locales; Ta Ra Rum Pum is a pure mishmash where everything’s gone wrong.
