Vote in Movieline's Inaugural Basketball Movie Tournament!
Just because your Final Four bracket is completely destroyed (thanks VCU and Butler!), doesn't mean you can't participate in a bit of bracketed fun. It's still March! There's still time for some madness! In honor of this, Movieline has put together its own tournament... of basketball movies -- and you get to pick the winner.
We've got 16 teams and the seedings are all set -- all you have to do is vote on the winner below. Every day through Thursday, we'll tabulate the results and advance each winning film forward in its particular region -- divided into four sub-genres -- eventually announcing a winner on Friday. Sound fun? It is fun! But, before you vote, let's take a quick look at each individual match-up.
Team Based Region
(1) Hoosiers vs. (4) The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh
The Hickory Huskers are not so much the underdogs any longer, securing a number one seed in the tournament and, what should be, an easy contest against Dr. J's The Fish that Saved Pittsburgh. But, still, Dr. J! And Disco!
Which movie should advance?survey software
(2) Blue Chips vs. (3) Glory Road
How can you possibly vote against a film that features a poster made up primarily of the words, "Nolte" and "Shaq"? Unless, of course, you're one who values true stories about overcoming racial injustice, that is.
Which movie should advance?survey software
Mentors Region
(1) He Got Game vs. (2) Fast Break
"Gabe Kaplan is Having a Ball!" Or so says the poster for Fast Break (my god, what I wouldn't give to live in a time in which Gabe Kaplan is a movie star). Then again, Kaplan hasn't had to play against Denzel Washington and Ray Allen.
Which movie should advance?customer surveys
(2) White Men Can't Jump vs. (3) Coach Carter
Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes as street ball hustlers against Samuel L. Jackson's Coach Carter, who is not a fan of hustlers.
Which movie should advance?online surveys
Family Region
(1) Space Jam vs. (4) Slam Dunk Ernest
Potentially the biggest mismatch in the field. What chance does Ernest P. Worrell have against Michael Jordan, Bugs Bunny, Bill Murray and Newman from Seinfeld? Even if Worrell is (inexplicably) coached by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Which movie should advance?survey software
(2) Like Mike vs. (3) The Harlem Globetrotters on Gilligan's Island
How will the Harlem Globetrotters react to actually being underdogs for the first time in the history of the Harlem Glob
etrotters? Especially underdogs to a film that stars Jonathan Lipnicki. Do not count the Globetrotters out just because they have Alan Hale Jr. on their team.
Which movie should advance?Market Research
Comedy Region
(1) Semi-Pro vs. (4) Rebound
A controversial number one seed (popular opinion would state Teen Wolf should have received this honor), Semi-Pro's comedy team of Will Farrell and (again) Woody Harrelson take on the quite, um, interesting cast of Rebound: Martin Lawrence, Breckin Meyer, Horatio Sanz and Megan Mullally.
Which movie should advance?Market Research
(2) Teen Wolf vs. (3) Juwanna Mann
Scott Howard turns into a werewolf and his heralded as a basketball star. Jamal Jeffries cross-dresses in order to play professionally in a women's basketball league and he is eventually scorned. There seems to be a double standard here.
Which movie should advance?survey software
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Comments
hoop dreams?
We didn't want to include any docs. With Hoop Dreams, that's someone's life on screen. It would have been weird mentioning it in the same sentence as Juwanna Mann.
How did I not know Slam Dunk Ernest existed? Thank you, Movieline.
Air Up There is really getting hosed.
The 6th Man is also another movie that should be in this tournament.