Films with questionable messages

[raj]

Just remembered this one while watching the World Series.
It is ok to use supernatural powers to win a game, while the other side is limited to people who have worked hard to develop their skills, not to mention cheating the fans who have paid to watch an honest game.  No, God doesn't want you to use your god-given talents to play the game, He'll just send down His angels.

[Dano]

Not to mention that peoples' relationships can and should hinge on the fortunes of a professional sports team.  You just know that awful marriage will last forever now.
Jeez.

[systemcr4sh]

what was that one movie.. "The Rookie" i think it was called:
the moral is:
Break your arm, it'll get you signed to a major baseball team.

[Fearless Freep]

That was "Rookie Of The Year".  I caught a few scenes from it last week and it was pretty bad.  I think the writer or director or whomever had, at best, seen maybe one baseball movie and *maybe* seen a game on T.V.  It was pretty obvious that they didn't really know anything about baseball, except maybe some social cliches.

[Funk, E.]

It's the Malcome X "by any means necessary message. White man make money off of black man in black man's hood. Black man no like rules. Whilte man tell black man what to do. White man bad. Destroy white man because THE man is gonna come and side w/ white man no matter what happened. Spike Lee's morals are very egocentric. What ever we need to do to push back is okay.

[Neville]

Two films by that jerk named Ron Shelton:

1) "Tin Cup": If you can choose between winning and open golf, getting the woman of your dreams and earning the success that you have been deserving for years, all put together, or behaving childishly and ruining it all, choose the second, the film will pretend you are a winner and the woman will still find you charming, even if you are just an inmature s**thead.

2) "White man can't jump": It is a good day if you have lost all your money and your girlfrienf has abandoned you if you prove that white men can jump.

[frannie]

the only star trek episode i ever watched involved the station crew playing a baseball game.  some good one liners from Wharf (sp?).  "death to the opposition!" instead of "hey batter" and "find him and kill him!" when dealing with a runner that left base before tagging up.

[Fearless Freep]

I missed that one, but I remember his protestation "I  am *not* a Merry Man!" in the Q/Robin Hood epsidode