5/4/25 4:07PM Tigers @ Angels

[Motor City Sonics]

2 hours ago, oblong said:

The backlack against Field of Dreams bugs me.  It's like suddenly they thought they were being clever by pointing out the 'flaws'.  Bashing it became the cool thing to do.  "Hey, look how smart I am!"

 

 

People can ruin any entertaining movie with that nonsense.   Just chill out and enjoy the story (not you, the Realism Police).    Yes, Tim Robbins had a HORRIBLE pitching delivery.   Robbins grew up playing hockey and basketball

[oblong]

I mean... it's a fantasy movie so of course some things aren't going to make sense.

As for Robbins... his quirky delivery added to his overall quirkiness as a pitcher.

 

[gehringer_2]

31 minutes ago, oblong said:

his quirky delivery added to his overall quirkiness as a pitcher.

right - LaLoosh was good in spite of all the reasons he shouldn't have been,

Edited 9 hours ago by gehringer_2

[papalawrence]

I enjoy baseball movies, but Hoosiers is my favorite sports movie

[VegasTiger]

8 hours ago, romad1 said:

Underrated "B" movie about baseball is the HBO movie "Long Gone" with William Pederson, Dermot Mulroney and Virginia Madsen.  Also features Lary Riley who was notable as being the baseball playing murder victim in the film version of "A Soldiers  Story".  It also features William Gibson and Teller (from Penn and Teller) as the owners of the minor league team.

It has substantially a similar plot to "The Natural" combined with "Bull Durham" where you have an aging ball player considering his end-of-career options and a game fixing scheme he needs to play along with.   As usual with baseball movies the light wins out over the darkness, because that's baseball man.

Another point of order. It was Henry Gibson (of Laugh-In fame. I remember the first time I saw Penn and Teller I thought Teller looked like Henry's kid. When I saw this movie I realized I wasn't the only one.

 
 

[IdahoBert]

I don’t know how to quantify baseball movies to discern if one is better than another. Field of Dreams just resonates with me more deeply than others.

I distrust sentimentality because it is so easily exploited by demagogues. But for me Field of Dreams transcends the narrow scar of sentimentality.

For me, it’s a recollection of something sewn into the fabric of my childhood that intersects with something deeper and more vibrant than myself. I like being reacquainted with that spring-like purity as often as I can.

Other films don’t do that for me, and they are no less worthy of enjoyment because of it. Field of Dreams just makes all eight of my cylinders fire in the perfect sequence. To me it’s like Music.

[CMRivdogs]

5 hours ago, oblong said:

The backlack against Field of Dreams bugs me.  It's like suddenly they thought they were being clever by pointing out the 'flaws'.  Bashing it became the cool thing to do.  "Hey, look how smart I am!"

 

 

Hopefully this doesn’t venture to close to the political spectrum but when Field of Dreams first came out a minister friend did a sermon aligning one of the main themes in the movie to the Prodigal Son story.

He was maligned by some members of the congregation for not preaching on the scripture that Sunday 

As an aside, anyone notice that three of the films mentioned starred Kevin Costner?

[Motor City Sonics]

2 hours ago, CMRivdogs said:

Hopefully this doesn’t venture to close to the political spectrum but when Field of Dreams first came out a minister friend did a sermon aligning one of the main themes in the movie to the Prodigal Son story.

He was maligned by some members of the congregation for not preaching on the scripture that Sunday 

As an aside, anyone notice that three of the films mentioned starred Kevin Costner?

Yes.  Bull Durham, For Love Of The Game, Field Of Dreams........and there is one more...........partially filmed in Detroit, with WRIF being part of the story  (okay, the movie is not ABOUT baseball, but Costner plays a retired baseball player in it).   

Edited 4 hours ago by Motor City Sonics

[romad1]

4 hours ago, VegasTiger said:

Another point of order. It was Henry Gibson (of Laugh-In fame. I remember the first time I saw Penn and Teller I thought Teller looked like Henry's kid. When I saw this movie I realized I wasn't the only one.

 
 

Man....its almost as If I had a head injury this morning.

I will also say that if anyone hasn't given love to "9 Men Out"* then you are missing a good baseball yarn.  It stars Cyril Cusak, and Emilio Estevez is in it.

 

 

*i did that deliberately

[CMU97]

58 minutes ago, Motor City Sonics said:

Yes.  Bull Durham, For Love Of The Game, Field Of Dreams........and there is one more...........partially filmed in Detroit, with WRIF being part of the story  (okay, the movie is not ABOUT baseball, but Costner plays a retired baseball player in it).   

The Upside of Anger. Not a bad overall movie, but not much baseball besides Costner trying to hang on to the glory days and stay in the spotlight although no one wants him there anymore.

 

The BEST baseball movie ever is "The Slugger's Wife".  And by best, I mean it is absolutely horrible. Lots of baseball in it, including Mark Fidrych pitching for the Astros. There were probably some other real baseball players in it too. Michael O'Keefe (the star of the movie) does not come as a baseball player. Or a very good actor.

 

Edited because I cannot spell Fidrych.

Edited 3 hours ago by CMU97