Above the Rim is one of the most under-appreciated movies of the last 25 years

[Remote]

One of my favorite scenes..
btw Kyles moms was in Beat Street 10 years before ATR so no way she could be 63 now

Avon was running the show even then.

 

[Big Boss]

Classic

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

Hearing this throughtout the movie was

 

[OmegaK2099]

 

[Saysumthinfunnymike]

Finally... they dropped a Rewatchables

‘Above the Rim’ With Bill Simmons, Van Lathan, and Wosny Lambre

The crew breaks down the 1994 sports drama

www.theringer.com

 

[Ol’Otis]

Man, I love this movie.
It never comes on tv though.

RIP Flip

Duane Martin and Leon acting was horrible
Movie was watchable cause of Pac, Mac, Wood and Marlon

 

[KingsOfKings]

 

[darryl]

Having a west coast soundtrack to a new York movie was genius shyt

 

[El Poyo Loco]

Duplicate

 

[El Poyo Loco]

What always kills me is Tommy is so soft spoken until he plays Kyle and then he's Mr Get Loud Get Bad over a game of boomps

Damn shame what happened to Flip

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

My favorite movie of all time.

 

[re'up]

Loved this movie, first saw it as a young kid on TBS/TNT/BET something like that, and watched it many times over the years, it epitomizes the 90's "hood" movie time in all the best ways, excellent direction and script, and casting, costumes, soundtrack, that really captures the moment, because it WAS the moment in the game. Before Pac died, before the Next Friday shift in hood comedies, and the end of that kind of cinema post 2002.

Also, the movie just captures NYC perfectly, in a way that movies don't anymore. Of course the script has holes and cliches, but it's an emotionally resonant gritty movies with a lot of heart and style.

true story is I went to a hood ass middle school, and then a high school that was a little less so, and due to watching Above The Rim and ballin' on the school courts, thought I would go to high school and be a Kyle Watson type star LOL because of where I was coming from

 

[nose hair]

i haven't watched it from start to finish in years, but this was one of my favorite movies years ago

 

[KingsOfKings]