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Field of Dreams - grew up in Iowa, and the movie set are still there - same house, same cornfield.  I loved visiting as a kid.  The movie makes me very nostalgic of growing up in my own small Iowa farming community.

The Sandlot - amazing.

Bang the Drum Slowly

 

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Bull Durham

Field of Dreams

For Love of the Game

Major League

The Natural

Not a huge fan of much after that. Maybe I'll come around on The Sandlot if my son ends up liking it. 

3 hours ago, DRJacobs said:

I always felt that Bull Durham was more of a romantic comedy than a baseball movie.

That's one opinion. As a guy right around Crash's age now (probably even a bit older), I'll tell you it's a lot more than just a romantic comedy. Plenty of subjective interpretations to this movie. I'm always surprised at how polarizing it is. I think it's a pretty damn good movie even just at face value. 

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2 minutes ago, DRJacobs said:

Cobb was a great movie. Tommy Lee Jones is a great actor. Brings up the point, if that old racist bat is in the HOF, why isn't Shoeless Joe, Bonds, Clemens, etc. etc.

"Cool Papa Bell was so fast he hit a line drive up the middle and the ball hit himself in the butt sliding into second base."

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Probably won’t surprise anyone that this topic has come up before:

My favorite is The Natural, even though the ending is the opposite of the book.   The cinematography, the lighting, the dialogue — to me it’s just about perfectly made.   I will watch it to the end any time I come across it while channel surfing.  

Bull Durham is terrific, and probably the best role Kevin Costner (who’s not much of an actor IMO) ever had.

The second half of Field of Dreams, starting from when James Earl Jones enters the movie, is great.    The first 45-60 minutes is a bore, and not well acted at all.    

And Major League is fun.  

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1 hour ago, Roll Tide said:

Liked Bull Durham,  For the love of the game, and Sandlot

Field of dreams was overrated imo

Major League, Mr Baseball, Mr 3000,  and original Bad News were funny

 

Good to see The Bad News Bears get a mention.  It's my favorite. It seems to be overlooked in all the "great baseball movies" discussions.  And the Yankees are the bad guys, which is as it should be.

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33 minutes ago, DRJacobs said:

Most don't realize this and this is why the movie was probably much greater than the book. Everyone like a winner and a fairy tale ending.

Well, when you’ve read the book first, the ending really surprises you!

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43 minutes ago, Frobby said:

Well, when you’ve read the book first, the ending really surprises you!

The book SUCKS! It's not just the ending...Cobb is pretty much a hallucinating loser in the book. And the hit-and-run accident? I spent two months at various tropical field stations in Costa Rica in the early '90's when I was a grad student. Costa Rica was very rustic in those days, not the Disney World of tropical vacations like it is now. I was starved for any kind of media. I loved the movie and knew the book was different, but during my last day in Costa Rica I saw the book in a used book store in San Jose and purchased it, even though I knew the outcome was going to be different. Read the book on the flight from San Jose to Miami. I dumped the book in the garbage can as I exited the plane. Hated it.  I did find it interesting that the book basically has the totally opposite spin for Hobbs regarding the line, "It takes more than talent, kid" than the movie did. 

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