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Homeboy (1988)
This movie should be among the great boxing flicky in the history of cinema, wait, among great movies period.
This ain't Rocky, this is far more realistic as a movie, it takes place in the blood, sweat and tears and dirt and snot and slime of the 80's boxing ''local'' boxing scene. When people didn't had cellphone to get entertained and boxing was popular and some kind of a local entertainement. Wow, seriously, I watched the wrestler many times and never heard of this movie, the washed-up boxer Micky Rourke plays is as lovable as the washed-up wrestler we saw in the 2008 movie. Homeboy is the same kind of movie but different and the only thing they have in common beside having Mr. Rour key as their star is that their main characters hold on to their passion/job cause they don'the know anything else and it'seems the only thing they are good at. Even if their health is at risk. If you like fallen heroes, you'll fall in love with that movie, the cinematography is great, the music enhance the mood of the scenes (Clapton guitar work) and its something only Mickey Rourke can do as well as this. The only bad thing I noticed was the sound of the boxing gloves hitting was kind of weird, it's really important thing, especially in boxing flick, that you need to feel those punches via the sound effects they make. Watch that movie, you'll be disappointed.
Goalie (2019)
The ironman's journey.
Wow, this is a really good biopic. Better than the one on Gordie Howe or the one on Don Cherry. I'm talking about those because it's hockey but it's also better than the Ty Cobbs movie and a lot of those. It's darker than the usual stuff but but it shows a lot about human nature of pressure by others and the pressure to provide a family. That movie also shows how it was hard to be an athlete back in the days, you were threated like a dog. Paid a merely just enough to makes ens meets.