Top 10 Baseball Flicks

1) A League of Their Own -- 1) I'm a girl and 2) they filmed it in Evansville where my parents used to live and I've been in all the stadiums featured in the flick

2) Bull Durham

3) Eight Men Out

4) Field of Dreams

5) The Sandlot

6) Bad News Bears

Every other baseball flick I've seen has been like Angels in the Outfield and sucked.

 

I have a hard time thinking Animal House gets made without the success of Bad News Bears.

And I always thought Talent for the Game with Edward James Olmos as a scout was pretty good.

 

1) Field of Dreams
2) League of Their Own
3) The Sandlot
4) The Natural
5) 61
6) Bingo Long's Traveling All-Stars
7) Bull Durham
8) Bang the Drum Slowly
9) Major League
10) Eight Men Out

 

I know it's futile, but I have to renew my objections to that ghastly POS known as Field Of Dreams.

 

My dad, who spent part of his early adulthood in Big Lake, didn't recognize it in "The Rookie."

That's because they filmed the Big Lake scenes in Thorndale, Texas.

 

1. Bull Durham
2. Major League
3. Pride of the Yankees
4. The Natural
5. League of Their Own
6. Eight Men Out
7. Bad News Bears
8. The Sandlot
9. The Rookie
10. Rookie of the Year

EDIT: I forgot Field of Dreams. I'd put it at No. 6 and move the others down.

 

"I'll try get a contract out of our cheap-skate owners - Asshole and Asshole Jr."

"Son, listen to the words from the master. Women only get pregnant when they want to. It's a goddamn trap."

Awesome, awesome movie.

 

Why? What exactly did you not like?

 

1. Eight Men Out
2. Field of Dreams
3. Major League

and then everything else.

 

My objections to FOD are both aesthetic and political. First of all, it's a ghastly tear-jerking Daddy movie and Amy Harris's hippie farm-wife is enough to turn me into Jonah Goldberg. Costner seems stoned most of the time. The only moment in the movie that I actually enjoy is when James Earl Jones tells the lady at the Moorhead paper, "You're a good writer" and she says, "So are you," and pats him on the arm.
The other problems? God, where do I start? The whole premise of the damn movie is that baseball is a mystical presence in our lives, connecting the generations even after death. As such, would it have been too much trouble for the baseball-loving people who made this film to have Shoeless Joe Jackson, the central figure to the whole plot, bat from the correct side of the plate?!!!! And having a black actor deliver a paean to the days of segregated baseball to an entirely segregated audience -- no room for Josh and Satch and Double Duty and Buck O'Neil out there in the cornfield, boys? -- revolts me more every time I see it.
This movie should die, horribly, choking on its own self-love.