So, the sports blogs are all putting together lists of movies about their chosen sport. Baseball, of course, has a rich tradition of movies. I ll group these into the ones I ve seen and the ones I haven t.
This will help you know when I m speaking from experience and when I m just making stuff up. ;-)
Beyond that, however, this is a fantastic movie. The writing is brilliant, as is the chemistry between Sarandon and Kevin Costner. Also, unlike many baseball movies, this one actually feels like baseball.
Although baseball plays a prominent role, I don t consider Field of Dreams a baseball movie. It s more a life movie with baseball in it, and a very good one at that.
I guess there were a lot of baseball movies in the late- 80s. This one is an over-the-top comedy with a ridiculous plot and exploitation of classic baseball cliches. Tom Berenger and Rene Russo are the Sarandon/Costner of this movie; the chemistry isn t the same, but then again, neither is the movie.
James Gammon is great as the manager of a beaten-down team, Corbin Bernsen will make you loathe his character, and even Charlie Sheen is tolerable.
Yes, I had a crush on Tatum O Neal back in the day. Hey, I was a kid. Cut a guy some slack, would you?
Anyway, this one is just wacky good fun.
As with Field of Dreams, I didn t see this one until many years after its release. Debate rages on just how accurate this portrayal is, but the movie plays well enough.
Tom Hanks is great his character utters the now-famous line, There s no crying in baseball. Some of the performances (Lori Petty, in particular) are very good, although I should warn you that Madonna, Rosie O Donnell, and Jon Lovitz are all in the film, so the potential to be annoyed at some point definitely exists. That said, this tells a story that needed to be told, about the of the 40s.
If you can get past some of the aforementioned performers, this is a solid movie.
I ve heard the movie is quite good, although I never could bring myself to watch it because I understand the movie s ending is radically different from the book s. Maybe someday I ll get over that.
This is the true story of , who quit his job as a high-school baseball coach in his mid- 30s to pursue a big-league career. Remarkably, he actually made it to the major leagues. Well, the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
Close enough.
[Update: I ve added a poll to the sidebar; feel free to cast you vote over there as well as leave comments below.
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