"What's the matter with you guys"?"What's the matter with you" !!?--"I'll make it"-gives me goosebumps everytime.My favorite scene of all time from any movie just total magic!!And the final fadeout when it shows the team picture on the gym wall-" I love you guys"just an absolutely amazing moving moment and the best movie of all time in my opinion
Every day, the filmmakers should place flowers at Jerry Goldsmith's grave for what he did for this movie. Film music hasn't been the same without him, the Jimmy Chitwood of film composers.
I love this because Coach Dale's "kamikaze commitment" moment (Michael Arndt ending structure) is to LISTEN to the team's refusal. The whole movie he does not hear or listen to anything they say. This is irreversible change of a hero. And the decisive act in Jimmy's shot. Great writing!
Dennis Hopper was brilliant in this film. He did an absolutely fantastic job of selling the small town nut job that was way too emotionally invested in a sport played by a bunch of young kids.
I was 8 years old When this movie was being filmed my mom remembers reading how we could have been extras but it would have been a long day dressed up in 1950”s clothing even now when I watch this movie I appreciate it more that I wasn’t in this movie because I love basketball so much this is the real story of Indiana basketball I’ve seen it so many times it’s still one of my all time favorite movies ever written. When this covid pandemic is done I plan to go down to see the main gym because I haven’t been to that one yet I’ve been to all the other gym in this movie including Butler university hinkle floor changed after this movie but it’s still great.
Still, probably the best music score to the end of a sports movie. Damn near brings me to tears every time. "Let's win this one for all the small schools."
awesome inspirational film. its my favorite sports movie, but it really is more than a sports movie. it really captures life as it was in a small rural town in america in the 1950's. dennis hopper gave the performance of his life. he should have won the oscar for best supporting actor.
One interesting point about this scene is that when Maris Valainus shot the ball the crowd was told to all react as if the ball went in so they could complete the celebration scene. Maris said he actually made the shot, so he felt good about it. It was a great interview he had with Dan Patrick when Dan was with ESPN Radio.
I consider this to be one of the greatest sports movie moments of all time, but even this film couldn't escape the dreaded 1980s slow motion celebration.
the best sports movie ever made.. everything else after tried capturing the triumph of winning, but failed miserably.. the story, characters, music was a whole package of what movies should be..
Actually a couple years before Hoosiers I was coaching a 6th grade boys team in the final game of the tournament. We were not a great team but there was one thing we were really good at: we had an absolutely killer inbounds play under the offensive basket. Sure enough the clock ran down to :03 seconds left and we had the ball under the basket, down by 1 point. We called time out and I drew out the play on the clipboard and I said, "Look here. We have been practicing and playing every day for five months now, at every single practice we have practiced this play, so we are gonna run it and we are gonna run it right, and we are gonna win this damn game." Bam. Zoom. Basket. We win. PS: the play was a variation of the "picket fence."✊🏽
I invited my 8th grade CYO team over to watch this before the playoffs started. That was a great day. They loved it, especially Jimmy's comeback speech at the town meeting.
More than that David. It's a reflection on the players, the coaches and the game itself. " It's not about who won or lost. It's about the game. " Vince Lombardi.
Top 3 sports movies of all time #1 Rocky 1, #2 Hoosiers, #3 Rudy (almost tied for 2nd) Honorable mention, Vision Quest, The Natural, Breaking Away, North Dallas Forty, One on One, Running Brave, Without Limits
It's a movie about basketball, surely but it's deeper meaning suggests that it is about 2nd chances. All the characters are offered a chance at redemption. None of them are without their own foibles to overcome. The teacher who is too cynical for the town she lives in; the coach who is so controlling that he is offered his chance with 0.19 seconds to let the players draw up the winning play; the alcoholic father who may get dry at last; his son who overcomes his disdain for his alcoholic father.
Yeah I decided to force myself to watch this movie with my Dad too..I figured "Hey I like basketball! What the heck! I'll watch it". And WOW! Incredible movie!! With great music too I might add! A GREAT decision on my part! I'll forever love this movie! Lol
When Butler took the last shot in last year's NCAA's, I said to myself, "Gene Hackman must be in the stands." That was a wild game and so close to this it was unbelievable.
One of the best movies ever. Most think it's a movie about basketball but in reality it's a movie about redemption and second chances. Two of three take advantage. One does not. The coach gets a second chance and so does Jimmy and they use it. However, the reason I love this movie is it shows the reality created by bad choices. Hopper's character missed the greatest moment of his son's life due to his choices. You feel that pain and his sadness, but in the midst is joy. THAT is real life!!
Most of the rural Indiana background movie was shot in New Richmond, Indiana, a little speck on the road about 20 miles south of Lafayette, IN. Several of the "Hickory" players were from the nearby town of Crawfordsville (15 miles south) and had no particular basketball skill. +++ I met Gene and Barbara long enough to get a handshake as they were going to the van that was taking them to Knightstown where the "Hickory" gym was located. +++ I really wanted to be a part of this film but my work schedule didn't provide me the time, and having just started a new job, I didn't have vacation or the pull to get time off. ***** We in this area of WC Indiana are still awfully proud of this movie.
The gentleman calling the game in the movie was the late Hilliard Gates. He was an Indiana High School Basketball Legendary announcer! I love Chick Hern as well, but they really got the right man for this role!
Also, I went to college at Taylor University with the kid that plays the religious dude praying all the time. The announcer you hear is Hilliard Gates who was a legendary basketball announcer in INdiana. As of the 1990's, something like 17 of the largest 20 high school basketball gyms were in Indiana. THe IHSAA ruined high school ball in Indiana when we went to class basketball. THe Term "FINAL FOUR" originated in Indiana to describe the last four teams. THE NCAA copied it from INdiana.
I'm pretty sure Pete Carroll has never seen "Hoosiers." And I bet the crummy slant pass he called is called the "picket fence" in the Seattle playbook.
@TG1212able I agree. One of the things people often don't notice is how the music enhances that final scene. Jerry Goldsmith was one of the best film composers ever, and this final scene shows why.
I still love this movie which I loved as a kid, but my god.... they have improved the "action" in sports movies so much since then. The game play in some of my favorite older movies is not even remotely believable anymore. In fact, its worth a good laugh. lol. Still one of the greats though!
This scene was filmed at Hinkle Fieldhouse at Butler University. I have witnessed several high school semi state games there and it is an incredible place to watch a game. The man that brings Hickory into HInkle when the overhead door is rolled up is Ray Craft who was on the original Milan team. He was my high school principal before he went to IHSAA as an official.
You can still visit the Hickory Huskers home gym in Knightstown In. Stopped by a few years ago and they let you just roam at your own will there..even shoot some baskets..awesome place!
I like how the coach says, get the ball to jimmy and everyone get out of the way. Right after that, the players put their hands together and say "TEAM." LOL
The only thing that would have made this movie EVEN better if at the end some reporter said "Hey Jimmy, you just made the game winning shot! Now, what are you going to do?" "I'm gonna play ball at IU"
But probably Dennis Hopper's best role ever. I just can't get over how good this movie was, and it was done on a ridiculously low budget. I travel to Indiana quite often so I'm very familiar with how this movie came together. I'm still amazed at the star power in it for the budget size.
googlewhackthis Horner came close in Apollo 13. But, you're right. Also, Goldsmith was THE BEST at what happens after the tension: When the ball goes in, @02:02.....perfection. You'll see that same thing in the Rudy theme. And, to a more sublime extent, in the Star Trek: First Contact (Track: First Contact) theme.
But, the real final shot is when a kid is playing alone in the empty gym and the camera slowly pans to an old black and white picture on the wall. We then see that it was all in the distant past as we hear the ghosts from that earlier time, primarily the coach talking to his players, ending with "I love you guys." Very powerful stuff!
@cubuff80, Without a doubt. The best line in one of the best movies... "I'll make it." Under those circumstances, if that's not the epitome of CONFIDENCE then I don't know what is!
@ridleyi Can I ask what you are talking about? I do have a VHS tape of it as well the DVDs, but not sure what you are talking about. Please explain more. Thanks!
In the movie Myra Fleenor asks coach Dale if he's coming back next year. In reality, Coach Marvin Wood of Milan took the coaching job at New Castle, just 15 miles from Muncie... the team Milan actually defeated in the 54 Finals. Wood also coached baseball. It was hard for me to think of Muncie Central (Milan's opponent) as Goliath... I went there as a sophomore the next year. Muncie Central won the state in 1963, 77,78 and 88. 8 state championship banners hang proudly in the rafters of the North Walnut street Fieldnouse...more than any other school in Indiana. Great movie!
+Jim Franks Those were the days, before they broke the schools down into divisions. I lived in Illinois until I left high school (my team was runner up to the state championship in '68) and the states finals weekend was always an event. Then the Chicago schools dominated for several straight years, they divided it up and it never was the same.
indeed. hopper was perfect as shooter and hackman is phenomenal as usual. he seems to do an A+ job of becoming whoever the character is. his believability is as good as they get. breaking away saw the emergence of dennis quaid and daniel stern who were unknowns at the time. not only do i like both but i met john ashton from breaking away (he played mike's brother the cop) at my house. he was also in movies like midnight run and beverly hills cop (he was taggart)
that ending scene with the cornfield, THAT is Indiana basketball. Anybody who's ever driven the length of the state of Indiana knows what I'm talking about
If this music came on while I was dying, I'd stand up and live another 40 years.
"I'll make it." Seriously, what a powerful line. Goosebumps every time!
Same here bro. Loved how Hackman immediately changed the play.
"I'll make it." Jimmy didn't volunteer out of arrogance or self-glorification. Jimmy knew it was his duty and the team quietly demanded it.
Yep- and the movie showed that perfectly. Such an unforgettable movie moment.
Greatest sports movie ever.
+jakethemuss3 Between Hoosiers, the Natural and Rudy, a very difficult decision indeed...
Emanuel Goldstein Hoosiers is the best. All great movies, but Hoosiers stands at the top.
Lmao garbaggggge
jakethemuss3 And notice the message it sends by beating blacks!!!
"What's the matter with you guys"?"What's the matter with you" !!?--"I'll make it"-gives me goosebumps everytime.My favorite scene of all time from any movie just total magic!!And the final fadeout when it shows the team picture on the gym wall-" I love you guys"just an absolutely amazing moving moment and the best movie of all time in my opinion
Whatever your on get me some
Yep
Why do I get tears when Jimmy says "I can make it".......Every good damn time!!!
He doesn't say I can make it, he says I'll make it which is even better
Every day, the filmmakers should place flowers at Jerry Goldsmith's grave for what he did for this movie. Film music hasn't been the same without him, the Jimmy Chitwood of film composers.
0:50 "I'll make it."
Goosebumps. One of the greatest movie lines ever
I love this because Coach Dale's "kamikaze commitment" moment (Michael Arndt ending structure) is to LISTEN to the team's refusal. The whole movie he does not hear or listen to anything they say. This is irreversible change of a hero. And the decisive act in Jimmy's shot. Great writing!
This is what I always take away from this scene as well. They earned his trust, and when they as a team disagreed with their coach, he listened.
One of my favorite movies of all time still is 30 years later
Whomever played Jimmy Chitwood in this EPIC movie, that kid had a picture perfect shot. Pure poetry.
+Doron6669 I know! That kid was a ballplayer. Maris Valenis, something like that.
Never played high school basketball. Was cut from the team all three years he tried out.
@@bauerj3398 I see what you did there
Dennis Hopper was brilliant in this film. He did an absolutely fantastic job of selling the small town nut job that was way too emotionally invested in a sport played by a bunch of young kids.
Harvey Updyke before Harvey Updyke.
One of the Greatest movies in history. Hands down
I could watch this movie over and over such a feel good picture. If youv'e ever played sports you understand
Jimmy Chitwood is the greatest movie basketball player of all time!!
I was 8 years old When this movie was being filmed my mom remembers reading how we could have been extras but it would have been a long day dressed up in 1950”s clothing even now when I watch this movie I appreciate it more that I wasn’t in this movie because I love basketball so much this is the real story of Indiana basketball I’ve seen it so many times it’s still one of my all time favorite movies ever written. When this covid pandemic is done I plan to go down to see the main gym because I haven’t been to that one yet I’ve been to all the other gym in this movie including Butler university hinkle floor changed after this movie but it’s still great.
Still, probably the best music score to the end of a sports movie.
Damn near brings me to tears every time.
"Let's win this one for all the small schools."
My dad and I both love this movie. That means alot.
What's wrong with me? I still tear up at this scene. Greatest sports movie ever imo.
Good God, the music when that shot goes in is legendary.
Greatest sports movie of all time! Just one of so many classic scenes in this movie!
awesome inspirational film. its my favorite sports movie, but it really is more than a sports movie. it really captures life as it was in a small rural town in america in the 1950's. dennis hopper gave the performance of his life. he should have won the oscar for best supporting actor.
One interesting point about this scene is that when Maris Valainus shot the ball the crowd was told to all react as if the ball went in so they could complete the celebration scene. Maris said he actually made the shot, so he felt good about it. It was a great interview he had with Dan Patrick when Dan was with ESPN Radio.
Arguably the greatest sports movie of all time!
I consider this to be one of the greatest sports movie moments of all time, but even this film couldn't escape the dreaded 1980s slow motion celebration.
the best sports movie ever made.. everything else after tried capturing the triumph of winning, but failed miserably.. the story, characters, music was a whole package of what movies should be..
Actually a couple years before Hoosiers I was coaching a 6th grade boys team in the final game of the tournament.
We were not a great team but there was one thing we were really good at: we had an absolutely killer inbounds play under the offensive basket.
Sure enough the clock ran down to :03 seconds left and we had the ball under the basket, down by 1 point.
We called time out and I drew out the play on the clipboard and I said, "Look here. We have been practicing and playing every day for five months now, at every single practice we have practiced this play, so we are gonna run it and we are gonna run it right, and we are gonna win this damn game."
Bam. Zoom. Basket. We win.
PS: the play was a variation of the "picket fence."✊🏽
I invited my 8th grade CYO team over to watch this before the playoffs started. That was a great day. They loved it, especially Jimmy's comeback speech at the town meeting.
This movie is a love letter to Indiana basketball.
More than that David. It's a reflection on the players, the coaches and the game itself. " It's not about who won or lost. It's about the game. " Vince Lombardi.
Hackman looking at Hersey at the end,priceless and brilliant.
Top 3 sports movies of all time
#1 Rocky 1, #2 Hoosiers, #3 Rudy (almost tied for 2nd)
Honorable mention, Vision Quest, The Natural, Breaking Away, North Dallas Forty, One on One, Running Brave, Without Limits
I'm from Indiana I was 8 years old when this movie came out and 3O years later still is my favorite movie of all time.
I hate the sport of basketball but I still love this movie...just tells you how great a movie it is, that it even appeals to the non basketball fan.
It's a movie about basketball, surely but it's deeper meaning suggests that it is about 2nd chances. All the characters are offered a chance at redemption. None of them are without their own foibles to overcome. The teacher who is too cynical for the town she lives in; the coach who is so controlling that he is offered his chance with 0.19 seconds to let the players draw up the winning play; the alcoholic father who may get dry at last; his son who overcomes his disdain for his alcoholic father.
Jimmy Chitwood and coach Norman Dale should be in the hall of fame
Best editing and soundtrack hands down. Top Ten sports movie of all time!
Greatest sports movie of all time! Rudy is pretty damn good too.
this movie drives my wife and daughter crazy cause I watch it whenever it's on TV. Next to "Miracle" the best sports movie ever!!!
Yeah I decided to force myself to watch this movie with my Dad too..I figured "Hey I like basketball! What the heck! I'll watch it". And WOW! Incredible movie!! With great music too I might add! A GREAT decision on my part! I'll forever love this movie! Lol
When Butler took the last shot in last year's NCAA's, I said to myself, "Gene Hackman must be in the stands." That was a wild game and so close to this it was unbelievable.
Love when Jimmy says "I'll make it"
One of the best movies ever. Most think it's a movie about basketball but in reality it's a movie about redemption and second chances. Two of three take advantage. One does not. The coach gets a second chance and so does Jimmy and they use it. However, the reason I love this movie is it shows the reality created by bad choices. Hopper's character missed the greatest moment of his son's life due to his choices. You feel that pain and his sadness, but in the midst is joy. THAT is real life!!
Greatest sports movie of all-time.
Jimmy didn't have a whole lot to say in this film, but like his final shot he always seemed to make it count.
It wouldn't be an eighties movie without slow motion celebration shots.
Most of the rural Indiana background movie was shot in New Richmond, Indiana, a little speck on the road about 20 miles south of Lafayette, IN. Several of the "Hickory" players were from the nearby town of Crawfordsville (15 miles south) and had no particular basketball skill. +++ I met Gene and Barbara long enough to get a handshake as they were going to the van that was taking them to Knightstown where the "Hickory" gym was located. +++ I really wanted to be a part of this film but my work schedule didn't provide me the time, and having just started a new job, I didn't have vacation or the pull to get time off. ***** We in this area of WC Indiana are still awfully proud of this movie.
My opinion this is tge greatest sports movie ever made
this is one of the best sports movies ever!
The gentleman calling the game in the movie was the late Hilliard Gates. He was an Indiana High School Basketball Legendary announcer! I love Chick Hern as well, but they really got the right man for this role!
I needed this today. Thanks for posting!!!!!!!!
Also, I went to college at Taylor University with the kid that plays the religious dude praying all the time. The announcer you hear is Hilliard Gates who was a legendary basketball announcer in INdiana. As of the 1990's, something like 17 of the largest 20 high school basketball gyms were in Indiana. THe IHSAA ruined high school ball in Indiana when we went to class basketball. THe Term "FINAL FOUR" originated in Indiana to describe the last four teams. THE NCAA copied it from INdiana.
I'm pretty sure Pete Carroll has never seen "Hoosiers." And I bet the crummy slant pass he called is called the "picket fence" in the Seattle playbook.
Thumbs up if you were from a small town and ever beat the big boys!
He made it.
One of THE great sports films.
@TG1212able
I agree. One of the things people often don't notice is how the music enhances that final scene. Jerry Goldsmith was one of the best film composers ever, and this final scene shows why.
To everyone who has enjoyed the feeling of this movie, Cheers. And to all who's fathers have died,, Cheers.
Great movie and fantastic ending, but I have to give greatest sports movie of all time to 'the Natural'
An all time movie moment
whats amazing is he made the shot from the exact same shot as the real person for the 1954 milan team
Second best sports movie ever made. Second only to Brians song
It’s 2022. Hoosiers beat Purdue in an absolutely incredible game.
Best damn sports movie ever. End of story.
I still love this movie which I loved as a kid, but my god.... they have improved the "action" in sports movies so much since then. The game play in some of my favorite older movies is not even remotely believable anymore. In fact, its worth a good laugh. lol. Still one of the greats though!
"I'll make it!"
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This scene was filmed at Hinkle Fieldhouse at Butler University. I have witnessed several high school semi state games there and it is an incredible place to watch a game. The man that brings Hickory into HInkle when the overhead door is rolled up is Ray Craft who was on the original Milan team. He was my high school principal before he went to IHSAA as an official.
ah, that Goldsmith score. immensely powerful. great film.
You can still visit the Hickory Huskers home gym in Knightstown In. Stopped by a few years ago and they let you just roam at your own will there..even shoot some baskets..awesome place!
All time great sports movie!!!
I like how the coach says, get the ball to jimmy and everyone get out of the way. Right after that, the players put their hands together and say "TEAM." LOL
What happened to 4 passes? Just kidding - epic moment.
Always gives me chills
NO ONE, in all of film history, has captured a moment like that in sound like Jerry Goldsmith did here. NO ONE.
Best. Movie. Ever. Jimmy says, "I'll make it".
The only thing that would have made this movie EVEN better if at the end some reporter said "Hey Jimmy, you just made the game winning shot! Now, what are you going to do?"
"I'm gonna play ball at IU"
But probably Dennis Hopper's best role ever. I just can't get over how good this movie was, and it was done on a ridiculously low budget. I travel to Indiana quite often so I'm very familiar with how this movie came together. I'm still amazed at the star power in it for the budget size.
@ 2:04 This is one of Jerry Goldsmith's best moments.
One of his many. No one built tension better with music.
Yes I could not agree more!
googlewhackthis Horner came close in Apollo 13. But, you're right. Also, Goldsmith was THE BEST at what happens after the tension: When the ball goes in, @02:02.....perfection. You'll see that same thing in the Rudy theme. And, to a more sublime extent, in the Star Trek: First Contact (Track: First Contact) theme.
But, the real final shot is when a kid is playing alone in the empty gym and the camera slowly pans to an old black and white picture on the wall. We then see that it was all in the distant past as we hear the ghosts from that earlier time, primarily the coach talking to his players, ending with "I love you guys." Very powerful stuff!
I’ll make it.......frickin love that
It doesn't get better than this.
@cubuff80,
Without a doubt. The best line in one of the best movies...
"I'll make it." Under those circumstances, if that's not the epitome of CONFIDENCE then I don't know what is!
breaking away is it's next door neighbor.
Basketball history!
I'm so proud to be a Hoosier! :)
"I'll make it"... Straight out of the John Wayne handbook!..
the hi top converse and those white wool sweat socks are hot looking !!!!!!!!
This is what lynch should have said when Pete Carroll called to pass the ball instead of running it with him.
@ridleyi
Can I ask what you are talking about? I do have a VHS tape of it as well the DVDs, but not sure what you are talking about. Please explain more. Thanks!
That glance Hackman gives. He is the master
Apparently these guys played for like 25 minutes consecutively, that's how they got such tremendous action scenes.
In the movie Myra Fleenor asks coach Dale if he's coming back next year. In reality, Coach Marvin Wood of Milan took the coaching job at New Castle, just 15 miles from Muncie... the team Milan actually defeated in the 54 Finals. Wood also coached baseball. It was hard for me to think of Muncie Central (Milan's opponent) as Goliath... I went there as a sophomore the next year. Muncie Central won the state in 1963, 77,78 and 88. 8 state championship banners hang proudly in the rafters of the North Walnut street Fieldnouse...more than any other school in Indiana. Great movie!
Bobby Plump owns a bar called "Plump's Last Shot".
+Jim Franks Muncie Central still had and enrollment of nearly 2k kids, Milan had like 185. It IS a tell of David vs Goliath.
+Jim Franks Those were the days, before they broke the schools down into divisions. I lived in Illinois until I left high school (my team was runner up to the state championship in '68) and the states finals weekend was always an event. Then the Chicago schools dominated for several straight years, they divided it up and it never was the same.
indeed. hopper was perfect as shooter and hackman is phenomenal as usual. he seems to do an A+ job of becoming whoever the character is. his believability is as good as they get.
breaking away saw the emergence of dennis quaid and daniel stern who were unknowns at the time.
not only do i like both but i met john ashton from breaking away (he played mike's brother the cop) at my house. he was also in movies like midnight run and beverly hills cop (he was taggart)
The Godfather Hoosiers Rudy
Then all the rest
My teams on the floor!
This movie could never be made today, it would be bashed by critics as racism.
0 dislikes thats what I'm talkin about
that ending scene with the cornfield, THAT is Indiana basketball.
Anybody who's ever driven the length of the state of Indiana knows what I'm talking about
Miracle.
The State of Indiana = Basketball
PERIOD.
Great, great, movie !!!