Features of Popular Sport Movies

Abstract

The aim of our study is to try to reveal the general features of popular sports movies. The research was prepared with the qualitative method and designed in the descriptive survey model. In this context, all sports movies in the IMDb database were scanned and 307 popular movies were included in the study. The data obtained through the SPSS 25.0 program were analyzed. According to the research findings; It is seen that American cinema leads popular sports movies (71.7%). It has been determined that sports is an important content in British cinema (8.5%) and Indian cinema. Boxing (11.7%), American football (11.1%), baseball (9.8%), racing sports (7.8%), basketball (7.2%), football (6.8%), and combat sports (6.2%) are other sports branches that are frequently featured in the films that are the subject of the research. The main theme that stands out in the movies is drama (65.80%). It was found that the other mostly covered themes were comedy (41.69%) and biography (22.80%). It is observed that popular sports movies make a great profit (69.34%). The arithmetic mean of the scores of the movies from the audience was found to be 6.75 out of 10. The metascore arithmetic mean is 48.57 out of 100. It has been concluded that popular sports films, which are one of the important contents for world cinema, have been appreciated by the audience in general, but cannot show the same success in the critics of cinema professionals.