Comments on: Weekly Opinion Poll: Underdog

By: Nat

Nat — Mon, 25 Jul 2005 17:01:56 +0000

At first it was a toss up between Breaking Away or My Bodyguard. But then I thought.. no, for me it will always be Meatballs. Where have you gone Chris Makepeace?
This is the year Fink beats The Stomach.

By: hooizz

hooizz — Sun, 24 Jul 2005 18:17:40 +0000

c’mon people! swingers has GOTta be the all time underdog movie… for two reasons.
1) mikey is the ultimate underdog until he starts to show off his twirley whirley on heather graham. and who the HELL wouldnt want to root for him and her hooking up.
2) life imitates art imitates life. the movie swingers was an underdog in itself!!! it was never supposed to be made, AND when it was, it was made on a shoestring budget. AND it was a hit!
baby, you’re money and you dont even know it. ha!
cheers
hooizz

By: brando

brando — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 19:48:47 +0000

well, admittedly i don’t watch a lot of movies, but i’ll toss ‘Three O’Clock High’ into the write-in column.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 18:03:17 +0000

If you throw Cheesy in with Underdog, I have to vote for Karate Kid.

By: pete

pete — Fri, 22 Jul 2005 07:51:42 +0000

Breaking Away

By: Steve

Steve — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 22:50:55 +0000

The Usual Suspects

By: nicole

nicole — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 17:38:24 +0000

Charlie Bucket in the original movie was kind of gooberish looking. But the new Charlie Bucket is so cute he made me sick. So I root for the new Charlie Bucket.
Although…Rudy was pretty rootable, as well.

By: Tim V

Tim V — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 06:18:00 +0000

From imdb.com
“Stopping briefly in a small Texas town, an itinerant race car driver finds that his stock car, on a trailer behind his motor home, has just been quickly and expertly stripped. He chases down the miscreants, who turn out to be six orphan children. He has no recourse to the law, for the corrupt local sheriff takes most of the proceeds of their thievery in exchange for not putting them in an orphanage. They are charming rogues who are in turn charmed by him. Disliking their arrangement with the sheriff, they stow away with him, and he finds himself becoming a reluctant stepfather. Thanks to their enthusiasm and incredible mechanical know-how, he begins to make a name for himself on the racing circuit. But the sheriff doesn’t take kindly to losing his extra income…”
Such is the tale of Brewster Baker, as portrayed by Mr. Kenny Rogers. SIX PACK is the greatest underdog film of all time…the underdog of the genre itself.

By: teahouseblossom

teahouseblossom — Thu, 21 Jul 2005 05:45:52 +0000

You do realize, of course, that when we were kids we thought Roald Dahl was all cool because all of his books were about underdogs, i.e., poor kids who triumphed over the establishment, but when we grew up and read more of his stuff we realized that he was a total Socialist? Just funny…now that I know that, everything he wrote makes so much more sense to me.