Rant/Rave: Baseball Movies

[JL21]

And then there's baseball documentaries. I love baseball documentaries. The PBS American Experience about Roberto Clementé, the Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, there's an HBO one about the Brooklyn Dodgers... that's great stuff.

[omaha_red]

And then there's baseball documentaries. I love baseball documentaries. The PBS American Experience about Roberto Clementé, the Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, there's an HBO one about the Brooklyn Dodgers... that's great stuff.

those are so fake

[JL21]

And then there's baseball documentaries. I love baseball documentaries. The PBS American Experience about Roberto Clementé, the Life and Times of Hank Greenberg, there's an HBO one about the Brooklyn Dodgers... that's great stuff.

those are so fake

The only problem with them is that Billy Crystal appears in just about every one.

[Radbird]

I'll rave about them all pretty much. OK, Pride of the Yankees (with Gary Cooper) and The Babe Ruth Story (with William Bendix) are hard to watch, I'll grant you that. But I like most everything else I've seen relating to baseball - from oldies like It Happens Every Spring and The Stratton Story to The Sandlot and Rookie of the Year. And yes, I like The Natural and Field of Dreams.

The Sandlot was on last night. What a great flick.

[JL21]

I'll rave about them all pretty much. OK, Pride of the Yankees (with Gary Cooper) and The Babe Ruth Story (with William Bendix) are hard to watch, I'll grant you that. But I like most everything else I've seen relating to baseball - from oldies like It Happens Every Spring and The Stratton Story to The Sandlot and Rookie of the Year. And yes, I like The Natural and Field of Dreams.

The Sandlot was on last night. What a great flick.

The Stratton Story is what prompted this thread. I was debating whether or not to get it but was afraid it'd be one of those hokey Capra-esque things.

[letsgocards89]

I really disliked 61*. It seemed like it should have been named 70* as it seemed to have a lot more in common with McGwire's chase and the circumstances surrounding it. JMHO

[JL21]

I really disliked 61*. It seemed like it should have been named 70* as it seemed to have a lot more in common with McGwire's chase and the circumstances surrounding it. JMHO

I liked that part because I hate the Yankees and like the Cardinals.*


*actually, especially now with all of the McGwire testimonial wackiness, I hate that even something like 61* has been tainted. I guess the asterisk was more apt than Crystal knew when he made it.

[jimedmondsfan]

Wait, how can you like Batman but not James Bond... THEY'RE THE SAME GUY!!!

I realize it looks hypocritical on the surface but it goes back to the reality/non-reality thing. They're both obviously fiction, but Batman is a comic book thing. Pure fantasy and that's established right from the beginning. Bond is framed in some place where they want you to think that this is what really happens in the spy world. Not cool, IMO.

I am sorry, but any movie that names a character [expletive] Galore is obviously NOT trying to make you believe it really happens in ANY world.

[Tambourine Man]

I bet our resident fancy-ass movie boy hasn't seen this...It's a movie about a guy who can't fathom China having nukes, and then he shoots himself in the head in the most predictable manner. (Yeah, Seventh Seal is in my car)

[JL21]

Cobb is great.

So is Winter Light, butthole.