The AB's were poisoned deliberately in the hotel. Only they were affected out of all the guests.

I was too young to know anything about that RWC, but I've always thought that they just got on the chop in their hotel room and used that as an excuse. Wasn't it…

Over-the-top over-acting histrionics from Al Pacino. Over-hyped coke-induced movie histrionics from Oliver Stone. More swaggering machismo than the first Predator movie. More homoerotic subtext than Top Gun. More training montages than Rocky 4. More everything, all the time.

Just…

Go back and look at the All Blacks in 2007. Not unbeatable at all, especially when remembering we played South Africa "B".

It's a pretty well accepted fact that in the lead up to the final a betting syndicate and SA rugby officials conspired to diminish the ABs chance of winning.

I must have missed the news. All I've ever read and heard is a lot of rumour and innuendo.

Sean…

The AB's were poisoned deliberately in the hotel. Only they were affected out of all the guests.

Members of the Togo soccer…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A_X1DYvl9k

No reliable evidence of a conspiracy has ever been uncovered.

Are you kidding me? It's a pretty well accepted fact that in the lead up to the final a betting syndicate and SA rugby officials conspired to diminish the ABs chance of winning. Not only through 'Suzie' but a raft…

The fact that the '95 AB's were poisoned was almost as bad as Wayne Barnes blatant bias and cheating last time around. WTF are they going to do this time?

This nation needs to get over the fact that it's not always someone else's fault when we lose a game.…

Mandela rallies South Africa’s underdog rugby team as they make an unlikely run to the 1995 World Cup Championship match.

My memory may be faulty, but were they REALLY that much of an underdog? I can't find the pre-tournament bookie odds for…

My favourite is Breaking Away. Even the series (made about 10 years later) wasn't as bad as you'd expect.

Never saw the series, but I won a free pass to the film when it first came out, and was blown away by it.

Bad news about Reuben Kruger. His try shouldn't have been denied, but then that was never a forward pass to Lomu ....

No. It wasn't. And I can't help thinking what might have happened if he had not been halted by the whistle.

My favourite is Breaking Away.

"Refund? REFUND?"

(That will never not be funny to me.)

Except that I saw the film with the Wellington Richter City roller girls and there was much derision afterwards of the skill of certain actors and depictions of the sport.

Stupid film-makers, making roller derby look all fun and cool and stuff.

We watched American Flyers...

Is that the one with Kevin Costner? If so, I remember thinking it was very cool at the time

@Kyle: what about The Miracle? or…

Did they scale all the players down to match the diminutive Damon?

From the shorts I have seen the impacts on the rugby field don't look hard enough.

And what is with Morgan's teeth!?

I was bummed enough…

The Flying Scotsman is a goody

Worth watching. And one of the advantages of having track cycling as the sport is that in several disciplines, there is no other team. Obree specialised in the hour record, so they have to get the drama out of watching him ride around the…

In the many masterfully shot martial arts scenes Eastwood is clearly paying homage to the Hong Kong film directors who influenced his work in films such as Unforgiven and The Bridges of Madison County.

I loved the Mighty Ducks movies.

But then again, the first one came out when I was 4.

Yeah. Try watching them again now. Painful.

I was at Linford Christie stadium to watch the '95 RWC final. It was an incredible atmosphere. We were so bummed when we lost. God it was depressing, we were all…

So, right on the brink of the Chandrasekar_limit eh

Damn; I was hoping that was going to be about spin-bowling with polio.

Generally speaking, the best sporting movies are the ones which keep the match re-enactments to a minimum.

For some reason, my favourite sporting movies (ice hockey ones tend to be pretty average, except for Mystery, Alaska, and that's not really about ice hockey), are American football ones: __Friday Night Lights,…

In Invictus the conflict between blacks and whites is the antagonist. And that's where the problem starts.

I thought the only conflict was between Morgan Freeman's super-dense black male gravitas and the rest of the cast struggling not to be crushed by it's awesome gravitational force.

If you were wondering the film does seem to allude to that rumour. In one scene Mandela converses with his officials about coming up with a way to for them to beat the All Blacks off the field and put them off their game.

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The depictions of the games are terrible. And, like all sports movies, the night games are lit like stadium flood lighting was never invented. And if you watch carefully the referee only…

There's something about the game they just can't capture.

Filmsite must have Union fans for editors

At least according to filmsite.org:

Sports should play a predominant role in a 'true' sports film, although there have been some that stretch the definition of sport, such as films about:

bob-sledding (i.e., Cool Runnings (1993))
bowling…