The Baseball Movie Rabbit Hole

[strangulation! 1,716]

the naked gun

[kingkoopa6 8,363]

Million Dollar Arm

 

just wanted to add it to list...

[South Austin 52,515]

4 minutes ago, strangulation! said:

the naked gun

Hey Look! It's Enrico Pallazzo!

[Underdog 28,708]

3 hours ago, bluto said:

Rotten tomatoes has a few listed I've never heard of in their top 25... top 5

1 bull durham

2 moneyball

3 life/times hank Greenberg 

4 bad news bears

5 pride of yankees

ones I've never heard of- sugar, fear strikes out, off the black, game 6

Been meaning to watch Sugar, about a Minor Leaguer IIRC. 

FSO is about Jimmy Piersall, i believe. 

The others I’ve not heard about. 

Good call on Everybody Wants Some, watched it earlier this year for the first time. 

[RPM 26,322]

The Great American Pastime. Tom Ewell is a busy lawyer that gets suckered into coaching a Little League team. 

 

[Underdog 28,708]

Isn’t there a Keanu movie where he coaches LL? 

[RPM 26,322]

1 minute ago, Underdog said:

Isn’t there a Keanu movie where he coaches LL? 

Hardball

[Underdog 28,708]

2 hours ago, NOMAAA said:

bad news bears 2 was pretty solid as well.

“ Let them play!” 

And then there was this...

[Biff Tannen 45,691]

5 hours ago, Bender Bending Rodriguez said:

The actual baseball ability by the actors is legit. Really good movie that pulls off a ludicrous premise with some good storylines and acting. 

Yep.  Cameos by Griffey and Randy Johnson.  Didn't like how they made Griffey act like an asshole, but I guess he was technically the "villain".

[Biff Tannen 45,691]

Oh, and the scene in Little Big League where Bowers figures out the math question about painting the house?  I actually used that formula on a math test because of that movie.  Yeah, I'm not good at math.

[tantric superman 4,667]

Only baseball flick in my top 200 is probably Eight Men Out.

It's almost like the baseball love that people have makes their movies too precious and treacle-y.

Enjoyed parts of League of Their Own and the Natural with the family, but other than that.

Moneyball was really good, because money ball made baseball a science and business and didn't preach about how fucking beautiful it is.

(I've got no stereo-vision and thus little depth perception -- so I was terrible at baseball as a kid.  So there is some bias there.)

 

Other than a few funny scenes ("That's not a gun, that's your finger in your jacket"), Field of Dreams is the worst example of this.  Horrific stuff.

[tantric superman 4,667]

Offf.  Forgot Bad News Bears.  Good stuff.

[BERT 4,372]

7 hours ago, Underdog said:

 

FSO is about Jimmy Piersall, i believe. 

Yes it is. His dad literally drove him nuts

[workswithseed 2,112]

What's the movie where a Mexican littleb league wants to play in the states, it had Cheech as a priest.

[RPM 26,322]

On 12/21/2018 at 1:25 PM, strangulation! said:

the naked gun

My Blue Heaven

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10 minutes ago, workswithseed said:

What's the movie where a Mexican littleb league wants to play in the states, it had Cheech as a priest.

[bmbmd 1,027]

27 minutes ago, RPM said:

My Blue Heaven

Nice stretch. 

[RPM 26,322]

2 minutes ago, bmbmd said:

Nice stretch. 

fugetaboutit

[NOMAAA 1,696]

Finally saw everybody wants some. Solid movie. 

[kingkoopa6 8,363]

No love for 42 or The Fan?

Edited December 25, 2018 by kingkoopa6

[Fudge Nuggets 19,196]

On 12/19/2018 at 10:45 PM, Mez2 said:

All we got on this team are a buncha Jews, spics, niggers, pansies, and a booger-eatin' moron

and now a girl.

[ernest_t_bass 1,196]

How about Eastbound and Down?

[NorthLoop 14,214]

For the Love of the Game is a solid baseball movie. 

Trouble with the Curve is absolute dogshit and anyone who knows anything about baseball can point out it's actual baseball issues. Like how they're scouting a fat kid as a "5 tool player" 

[Girdwood 118]

Don't forget this steaming pile of shit.

[RoundRobin 828]

Not a lot of baseball but what about Night Game?

[tantric superman 4,667]

On 12/24/2018 at 6:01 PM, workswithseed said:

What's the movie where a Mexican littleb league wants to play in the states, it had Cheech as a priest.

[Underdog 28,708]

On 12/25/2018 at 11:27 PM, NorthLoop said:

For the Love of the Game is a solid baseball movie. 

Really liked the book, have only watch bits and pieces of the movie.  Does KP drop a “don’t ever stop fucking me!” In it? 

[South Austin 52,515]

15 minutes ago, Underdog said:

Really liked the book, have only watch bits and pieces of the movie.  Does KP drop a “don’t ever stop fucking me!” In it? 

That's Jerry McGuire.

For The Love Of The Game is one of those movies that is honestly cheesy as shit, but for some reason I fell for it. 

[Underdog 28,708]

C’mon, SA.  

[Blanton 170]

On 12/19/2018 at 2:56 AM, BoomMF said:

Was that because The Natural and Field of Dreams go without saying?

 

 

61* is underrated af.

 

 

 

61* is awesome and I hadn’t seen it until this year. I guess it flew under the radar being an HBO original movie?