7. Goal!
Making any sport work on film is an impossibly tricky business, with football being a particularly hard nut to crack. You can either use real footage, such as the exemplar One Night In Turin or look at the politics around the sport like in Tom Hoopers The Damned United. What I wouldn't recommend is trying to tackle the game head on. But thats exactly what Goal! did. Produced in conjunction with FIFA, the main goal was to give football fans a worthy movie. Sadly, it became nothing than a more a generic underdog story filled with nonsensical developments; for a film aimed directly at those who love football, Goal! didn't seem to know a thing about the fame The real disappointment was the attempts to capture the real excitement of the sport; over shot and frantically edited, it quickly becomes clear to anyone who watches the film you cant turn football into typical blockbuster action. This entry proves a fresh alternative to many of the others due to the different, if equally obsessive fans. The series got two more installments, with the third going straight to DVD; after the disappointment of the first fans had little investment in the series.