Post by Rey Kahuka on Aug 3, 2021 15:30:14 GMT
Aug 3, 2021 15:08:32 GMT mtbg said:
I have the same 3. Though thought about The Natural or A League of Their Own. Those were 2 hard omissions for me.Scott Bakula-more believable in Major League III or as a old man college QB in Necessary Roughness???
The Natural - I'm sorry but I have to be that guy - the book is just so much better, and the changes the movie made to the ending really undercut the overall message and theme of the story. Normally I'm fine with looking at the book vs. the movie as being two entirely separate entities, but the filmmakers need to at least understand the point of the book that they're making into a film in the first place.
Sorry, high horse rant over.
Regarding Scott Bakula, that's a really tough call. I mean, in Necessary Roughness, he stayed in tip top game shape by throwing a football 10 yards at a scarecrow for 15 years or whatever it was. Sounds legit!
Likewise I'm a big fan of Necessary Roughness. Mostly because I think it's legitimately funny, but it does kind of have a fairy tale ending. The player he finds in the end zone in the final scene is wearing the same number jersey he was throwing at for 20 years. The flashback as he sees him in the end zone; it's so corny but I love it. It's as if everything that happened in his life was leading up to that moment. Like I said, corny but fun.
Many of the best sports movies are fairy tales. The Sandlot, Field of Dreams, Major League, The Replacements (really just a Necessary Roughness knockoff), Tin Cup, the list goes on. Hell, the Rocky films.