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TerribleT
03-08-2008, 07:58 AM
In honor of the beginning of the new season, it's nearly time for my annual viewing of Bull Durham, which, IMO is about the best baseball flick ever made. I'll give a huge hat tip to Field of Dreams, Major League, and The Natural. So, which baseball movie is your favorite? Which characters are your favorite? Let's talk about baseball movies....

Still Servant
03-08-2008, 08:54 AM
I love all the ones you mentioned. If I had to choose one I would go with Field Of Dreams. There's just something I love about that movie. When I watch it I know it's the start of a new season.

I also love A League of Their Own. Hanks in that movie is just priceless. Also, Rosie O' Donell and Madonna impressed me as well.

I also have to mention The Sandlot. Growing up, I just loved that movie.

Still Servant
03-08-2008, 08:56 AM
OH!!

I have to add one more. Nobody ever talks about it, and I even forgot to mention it in my first post, just proving how underrated it really is.

Bang the Drum Slowly is a great movie (great book too). One of my favorite Al Pacino performances.

fernandito
03-08-2008, 08:59 AM
"THE GREAT BAM-BI-NO."
"Oh, the Great Bambino? I thought you said the great...bambi"
"That wimpy dear??!?"

Rjeso
03-08-2008, 09:47 AM
The Sandlot is AWESOME.

For-Ev-Ver.

I love all baseball movies - all those mentioned, plus The Pride of the Yankees, Ty Cobb, Babe, 61*... yay for baseball. :D

Still Servant
03-08-2008, 02:10 PM
Wow, as a Yanks fan, I could get my pinstripes revoked for forgetting Pride Of The Yankees.

obscurejude
03-08-2008, 03:56 PM
The sandlot was cool as hell. The "forever" sequence was a riot to me when I was a kid. I think the movie captures a lot of that "America's favorite pastime" sentiment. Perhaps a little romanticized, it still makes me wish I lived back then.

Bethany
03-08-2008, 08:00 PM
bull durham.

crash's speech to annie is one of the all time best quotes ever.

Mattrick
03-08-2008, 08:09 PM
Bull Durham
A League of Their Own
For Love of the Game
Major League
Field of Dreams


- Costner sure love shis baseball flicks

jayson
03-09-2008, 04:24 AM
so it falls to me name "Eight Men Out" the story of the 1919 Chicago "Black Sox" who were accused of throwing the world series because they were in cahoots with gamblers. this is a phenomenal baseball film. also, the film "Long Gone" with william petersen and virginia madsen, is another excellent baseball film.

Mattrick
03-09-2008, 05:10 AM
I actually read about Eight Men Out not long ago and it sounded worth a watch.

Don't think anyone has mentioned The Fan with Robert DeNiro and Blade.

For Kids movies I recall enjoying Little Big League and Rookie of the Year which were both well done, family baseball movies. As kids me and my friends just made fun of Angels in the Outfiend and would watch it numerous times to make fun of it, especially Glover's character of George Knox...this movie had Tony Danza! TONY DANZA!!!


LOL, what about some of the BAAAADDDDD baseball movies? Mr. Baseball? Mr. 3000?

TerribleT
03-09-2008, 05:22 AM
I also really loved the original Bad News Bears.

jayson
03-09-2008, 05:25 AM
I also really loved the original Bad News Bears.

another good one

fernandito
03-09-2008, 05:42 AM
What about Angels in the Outfield?

I know some of you did that angel-arm flapping thing after having seen that movie! :lol:

Rjeso
03-09-2008, 10:03 AM
Helllll no! I hate that movie. Sorry, Feev.


Rookie of the Year and it's ilk are also pretty bad, but Little Big League is fun because it's about the Twins and was filmed in the Metrodome.

fernandito
03-09-2008, 10:35 AM
What if it was Twins in the Outfield?


:cowboy:

RUBE
03-09-2008, 12:21 PM
What if it was Twins in the Outfield?


:cowboy:

Would they use the twins from those beer commercials? If so, then I would watch that movie.:cool:

(My old college roommate claimed that those beer commercial twins went to his high school in Illinois and that he knew them from when they were to young to be "hot." We told him he was full of shit.)

Telynn
03-09-2008, 07:48 PM
I also really loved the original Bad News Bears.

Agreed. I just saw the remake the other day. Pales in comparasion to the orginal. Thorton can't hold a candle to Matthau in that role. And Tatum O'Neal was a MUCH better Amanda.

Lance
03-09-2008, 08:46 PM
LOL, what about some of the BAAAADDDDD baseball movies? Mr. Baseball? Mr. 3000?

The Scout. Horrible.

I liked Eight Men Out because it showed how Joe Jackson got majorly shafted.

Part of Cobb was filmed near my hometown. He came from Royston, Georgia which is two towns over from where I grew up. The city limits sign says "Birthplace of Ty Cobb"

I also loved Major League. Wesley Snipes kicked ass in that one. I remember watching it not long ago and listening to Pedro's voice. It was very familiar and then it came to me: He was the same guy who played President Palmer in 24.

But my all time favorite is Bull Durham. No contest. Susan Surandon was the very essence of the "hot older woman". And it brings you back to a time when Kevin Costner didn't suck.

obscurejude
03-09-2008, 09:26 PM
But my all time favorite is Bull Durham. No contest. Susan Surandon was the very essence of the "hot older woman". And it brings you back to a time when Kevin Costner didn't suck.[/QUOTE]

Kevin Costner is my dad.

Lance
03-09-2008, 10:01 PM
But my all time favorite is Bull Durham. No contest. Susan Surandon was the very essence of the "hot older woman". And it brings you back to a time when Kevin Costner didn't suck.

Kevin Costner is my dad.[/QUOTE]

Well where the hell were you when he came up and said "Son, I'm going to star in a movie called The Postman. Here's the script. Tell me what you think"?

obscurejude
03-09-2008, 10:34 PM
The script was outstanding.

Lance
03-09-2008, 10:54 PM
The script was outstanding.

And you didn't hear "Newman"!! in the back of your head? The whole movie was like his wet dream. :P

obscurejude
03-09-2008, 11:01 PM
That explains why some of the pages were a bit sticky :)

Mattrick
03-09-2008, 11:10 PM
LOL, what about some of the BAAAADDDDD baseball movies? Mr. Baseball? Mr. 3000?

The Scout. Horrible.

I liked Eight Men Out because it showed how Joe Jackson got majorly shafted.

Part of Cobb was filmed near my hometown. He came from Royston, Georgia which is two towns over from where I grew up. The city limits sign says "Birthplace of Ty Cobb"

I also loved Major League. Wesley Snipes kicked ass in that one. I remember watching it not long ago and listening to Pedro's voice. It was very familiar and then it came to me: He was the same guy who played President Palmer in 24.

But my all time favorite is Bull Durham. No contest. Susan Surandon was the very essence of the "hot older woman". And it brings you back to a time when Kevin Costner didn't suck.

Yeah, Cerano was Dennis Haybsert.

Also, Susan Surandon = eck imo

LOL, the scout - talk about a movie that was Les Miserables.

Erin
03-09-2008, 11:17 PM
Hey I liked Rookie of the Year when I was a kid.

"Funky butt-lovin'!!!!....Did he just say Funky butt-lovin'?!@


Heh. But anyways, the Sandlot is a million times better..for all the reasons mentioned here.

John Blaze
03-09-2008, 11:28 PM
how about 61*?

i like that one.

Lance
03-10-2008, 12:10 AM
[QUOTE=Mattrick;124334Also, Susan Surandon = eck imo
[/QUOTE]

I'll let that one slide due to your youth. But let me tell ya, Bull Durham Susan Surandon did great and terrible things to a young man going into puberty in the late 80's/early 90's.

Nerak
03-10-2008, 05:37 AM
Ohhh

I love For the Love of the Game and 61* two great base ball movies!!

And I love Kevin Costner anyway!!!!!

Storyslinger
03-10-2008, 05:37 AM
Sandlot

TerribleT
03-10-2008, 11:22 AM
so it falls to me name "Eight Men Out" the story of the 1919 Chicago "Black Sox" who were accused of throwing the world series because they were in cahoots with gamblers.

I watched this in your honor yesterday. I was looking through the on-demand movies and I noticed it was among them. I haven't seen it in a long time, so I thought wtf!!!!

Susan Sarandon is, and always was a skank. She played the part well, but I've never thought of her as a particularly attractive woman. Kevin Costner was incredible as Crash, and his speech is excellent.


as a reminder....


"Well, I believe in the soul... the cock...the pussy... the small of a woman's back... the hangin' curveball... high fiber... good scotch... that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent overrated crap... I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe there ought to be a Constitutional amendment outlawing Astroturf and the designated hitter. I believe in the sweet spot, soft core pornography, opening your presents Christmas morning rather than Christmas Eve, and I believe in long, slow, deep, soft, wet kisses that last three days. Goodnight." ~ Crash Davis

jayson
03-10-2008, 11:25 AM
and you agree it's a great baseball movie?

jayson
03-10-2008, 11:27 AM
there's one scene in Bull Durham I cannot stand. on the bus, when costner takes the guitar from tim robbins, he tells his little story and keeps looking like he's gonna play something but he never strums as much as a single cord or note. now, i know ebby's version of "try a little tenderness" was brutal, but you don't ever take an instrument from someone unless you intend to play it yourself. that scene pisses me off and i'd have kicked crash's ass, story about the majors or not.

TerribleT
03-10-2008, 11:36 AM
and you agree it's a great baseball movie?

Oh definitely!!!!

jayson
03-10-2008, 11:38 AM
some of the casting i could have done without [charlie sheen and db sweeney for example] but then again, they also cast michael rooker and david straithairn so it balances out. i just love the story itself bc of it's mythology in baseball.

Iwritecode
03-10-2008, 12:03 PM
I guess my all-time favorite movie is Major League. Soo many great quotes from that movie.

After that it kinda gets all jumbled up as I love pretty much any move about baseball. In no particular order:

A League of Their Own. (Born and raised in Rockford. Sadly, the field the Rockford Peaches played in is long gone.)
Eight Men Out (Love/hate relationship with this movie as I'm a Sox fan.)
Field Of Dreams
The Rookie <----I'm suprised nobody mentioned this yet.
Little Big League
The Sandlot
The Bad News Bears (The original)

TerribleT
03-10-2008, 12:08 PM
The Rookie <----I'm suprised nobody mentioned this yet.

Is that the one with Dennis Quaid?

Iwritecode
03-10-2008, 12:09 PM
I also loved Major League. Wesley Snipes kicked ass in that one. I remember watching it not long ago and listening to Pedro's voice. It was very familiar and then it came to me: He was the same guy who played President Palmer in 24.

He does car insurance commercials too.

Lance
03-10-2008, 10:29 PM
I also loved Major League. Wesley Snipes kicked ass in that one. I remember watching it not long ago and listening to Pedro's voice. It was very familiar and then it came to me: He was the same guy who played President Palmer in 24.

He does car insurance commercials too.

*Minor spoiler alert*




That's because they killed him in 24. But that's a bitching out for another thread. <_<

John Blaze
03-10-2008, 10:37 PM
he's on NCIS, isn't he?

Iwritecode
03-12-2008, 01:23 PM
The Rookie <----I'm suprised nobody mentioned this yet.

Is that the one with Dennis Quaid?

Yes. Based on a true story.

TerribleT
03-12-2008, 01:33 PM
The Rookie <----I'm suprised nobody mentioned this yet.

Is that the one with Dennis Quaid?

Yes. Based on a true story.

Yeah!!! That was a good moive too.