Our final batch of first rounders has been decided. Here goes! Rudy, perhaps the greatest underdog movie ever, smashed Rodney Dangerfield, who never got no respect, and Jonathan Brandeis of Ladybugs. Rudy, the great underdog, will take on perhaps the greatest front runner of all time, Steve Prefontaine, from Without Limits in the next round. That’s the Billy Crudup version, with an excellent Donald Sutherland as the creator of Nike. Not the garbage Jared Leto version. Without Limits swept the leg, then crane kicked The Karate Kid. Sorry Daniel-san. Seabiscuit ran over Facing the Giant. 4 seed Breaking Away defeated the only “Mocu-mentary” on the list – 7 Days in Hell. 7 Days in Hell was BA-NA-NAS. There is a digital recreation of a prison orgy that you cannot un-see. Breaking Away movies on, and Jackie Earl Haley gets his second movie in the top 32. Chariots of Fire, with...
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