Rant/Rave: Baseball Movies

[JL21]

Rave: I love baseball movies. I could watch "61*", "Field of Dreams", "Bull Durham", and especially "Eight Men Out" again and again.

Rant: There are too many hokey piece of crap baseball movies that are all about made-up bullshiznoise (see "The Natural", "Bang the Drum Slowly") or they tackle reality in some dumb Capra-esque way that insults the reality of the sitchyation (see "Pride of the Yankees").

[thrill]

RAVE

[Popeye_Card]

[JL21]

RAVE

I hate the unrealistic stuff.... but ones that involve kids get a pass from me. That one, the one where the kid becomes Manager of the Twins, the Sandlot, Bad News Bears... those have their own little category of acceptable unreality.

Major League is my guilty pleasure of baseball movies.

[omaha_red]

RAVE

I hate the unrealistic stuff.... but ones that involve kids get a pass from me. That one, the one where the kid becomes Manager of the Twins, the Sandlot, Bad News Bears... those have their own little category of acceptable unreality.

Major League is my guilty pleasure of baseball movies.

i'll never understand your hatred of made-up baseball movies..

[JL21]

There's way too much cool stuff in the history of baseball to go willy-nilly making crap up. Obviously, some liberties have to be taken to make it more entertaining. But dudes falling out of a cornfield and hitting homeruns off of stadium lights with their sugary-sweet baseball bat named Wondertits or whatever... I'm sorry, that crap doesn't happen.

[phins]

Major League is my guilty pleasure of baseball movies.

Hopefully just the first one, but that movie is great.

The others, not so much...

[omaha_red]

There's way too much cool stuff in the history of baseball to go willy-nilly making crap up. Obviously, some liberties have to be taken to make it more entertaining. But dudes falling out of a cornfield and hitting homeruns off of stadium lights with their sugary-sweet baseball bat named Wondertits or whatever... I'm sorry, that crap doesn't happen.

there's way too much cool stuff in history in general to make up movies..
but they still do it and you love a lot of made up movies..

[TimeForGuinness]

The Natural rules...Duvall is the man!

[JL21]

There's way too much cool stuff in the history of baseball to go willy-nilly making crap up. Obviously, some liberties have to be taken to make it more entertaining. But dudes falling out of a cornfield and hitting homeruns off of stadium lights with their sugary-sweet baseball bat named Wondertits or whatever... I'm sorry, that crap doesn't happen.

there's way too much cool stuff in history in general to make up movies..
but they still do it and you love a lot of made up movies..

It really depends on the genre. If we're talking sci-fi... I mean, "fiction" is in the genre title. So that's cool by me. Same with comic books and fantasy and all of that stuff. If you're framing it in some kind of other world where it couldn't possibly be real, I'll roll with it just fine.

And then there's fiction for the sake of allegory/metaphor (i.e. Seventh Seal). That's a'ight by me, too. But when you ask me to accept something as reality, and it's soooo ridiculously fiction (every single James Bond movie, I'm looking at you), that's where I get annoyed.