What about sports? I find sports movies incredibly boring, because I'd rather watch the real thing. Hence my hatred for the Rocky movies. The premise comes off as incredibly dumb to me, plus during that decade we saw some of boxing's best. Why would you want to watch fictionalized Rocky fight when Sugar Ray Leonard was tearing things up, Larry Holmes was still doing his thing, Hagler was beasting it, and Tyson was knocking guys silly? Comparing the sports of both decades, the 80s win on basketball and boxing, 2000 wins on football(American football to non U.S. posters) and combat sports. I'm not much into baseball or soccer(football) so I can't speak on that. The Summer Olympics are pretty even. The 80s had Carl Lewis and the 2000s have Michael Phelps. The thing that gives 2000 sports the edge is in the combat department. 80s boxing was much better than today's boxing, but mixed martial arts have had a great rise this decade. PRIDE had a really good run in Japan for alot of this decade, and UFC has steadily risen to something that's becoming quite legendary. Plus boxing still has some great fighters like Mayweather, Pacquio, Chad Dawson, etc. When it comes to the NFL it's not even close. I'm sure some people will think different, and that's cool. But take off the nostalgia glasses, and you'll see that this is the most competitive time in the history of the NFL. The phrase "any given Sunday" takes literal meaning nowadays.
