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Post by NJtoTX on Aug 2, 2021 14:31:34 GMT
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Post by klawrencio79 on Aug 2, 2021 14:37:07 GMT
Bull Durham
Sandlot
Major League.
I see you included Major League II in the poll, however you excluded Major League III: Back to the Minors. Scott Bakula has never been so insulted.
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Post by NJtoTX on Aug 2, 2021 14:38:19 GMT
Bull Durham Sandlot Major League. I see you included Major League II in the poll, however you excluded Major League III: Back to the Minors. Scott Bakula has never been so insulted. I go by a combination of votes and ratings on IMDB. It never came up.
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Post by movielover on Aug 2, 2021 14:40:51 GMT
The Bad News Bears (1976)
Eight Men Out
Major League
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Aug 2, 2021 14:41:58 GMT
The definitive Top 3 Baseball Movie ranking is as follows -
1. The Natural
2. Moneyball
3. Eight Men Out
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Post by weststigersbob on Aug 2, 2021 15:00:27 GMT
3. Moneyball. Somewhat factually based, often heavily dramatised. Take out the whole daughter plot line, and focus on the baseball aspects - it has some very well scripted and very well acted scenes. Hill and Hoffman are fantastic and I think Chris Pratt played his role perfectly - given many actors would overact that part into oblivion.
2. Major League. It has some major flaws (the old guy pitching barely capable of throwing, the crowd scenes) but it also has some classic scenes - especially everyone that involves Charlie Sheen as Ricky Vaughan. The 3rd strike at a Ryanesque 102 clicks is killer.
1. Bull Durham. The perfect mix of on and off field sports, humour and romance. And two of the best character names of all time - Crash Davis and Nuke LaLoosh. Robert Wuhl, Sarandon and Robbins are all terrific - but it’s Costner’s show and only a true fan of the sport could produce a performance like he did.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Aug 2, 2021 15:10:26 GMT
3. Moneyball. Somewhat factually based, often heavily dramatised. Take out the whole daughter plot line, and focus on the baseball aspects - it has some very well scripted and very well acted scenes. Hill and Hoffman are fantastic and I think Chris Pratt played his role perfectly - given many actors would overact that part into oblivion. 2. Major League. It has some major flaws (the old guy pitching barely capable of throwing, the crowd scenes) but it also has some classic scenes - especially everyone that involves Charlie Sheen as Ricky Vaughan. The 3rd strike at a Ryanesque 102 clicks is killer. 1. Bull Durham. The perfect mix of on and off field sports, humour and romance. And two of the best character names of all time - Crash Davis and Nuke LaLoosh. Robert Wuhl, Sarandon and Robbins are all terrific - but it’s Costner’s show and only a true fan of the sport could produce a performance like he did. I love Moneyball as a movie. It's entertaining, Pitt and Hill are both great in it as you said, but it completely ignores the fact that this particular A's team, despite losing Giambi, Damon and Isringhausen, had an MVP of its own in Miguel Tejada, a HR hitting, slick fielding 3B in Eric Chavez, quality lineup cogs in Ray Durham, Jermaine Dye and Mark Ellis, a rotation consisting of Tim Hudson, Barry Zito, Mark Mulder and Corey Lidle and All-Star closer Billy Koch. Not one of those guys is even mentioned in passing once during the movie, instead the movie attributes the team's success to the likes of Scott Hatteberg (a quality addition, for sure, but not the panacea as he is depicted) and Chad Bradford.
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Aug 2, 2021 15:35:01 GMT
Moneyball
Major League
Rookie of the Year
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Post by weststigersbob on Aug 2, 2021 15:39:29 GMT
Cmon Klaw - you start mentioning the likes of Tejada and Koch and the entire plot and focus of the movie dies. Serious sports fans know it’s fiction, and non sports fans wouldn’t know the difference anyway.
Next you’ll be telling me Santa ain’t real !
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Post by klawrencio79 on Aug 2, 2021 15:59:29 GMT
Cmon Klaw - you start mentioning the likes of Tejada and Koch and the entire plot and focus of the movie dies. Serious sports fans know it’s fiction, and non sports fans wouldn’t know the difference anyway. Next you’ll be telling me Santa ain’t real ! Steve Nebraska can't be on the Yankees World Series roster if he wasn't on the team during the year! And why would Ozzie Smith be batting 9th in the Cardinals lineup?!?! You're totally right. That's why I said I love the movie, as a movie. It just irks me that the movie takes that approach. I wonder if the book does the same thing, I haven't read it. I guess it's the same thing when people say they love 12 Angry Men but I become incredulous because that movie bastardizes aspects of the legal system in ways that defy credulity. It's a great movie, but it isn't a documentary.
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Post by NJtoTX on Aug 2, 2021 16:21:01 GMT
OK, what's the vote for "Other"?
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Post by Mulder and Scully on Aug 2, 2021 16:24:01 GMT
OK, what's the vote for "Other"? Rookie of the Year. |
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Aug 2, 2021 16:27:22 GMT
The Natural
Major League
Eight Men Out
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Post by NJtoTX on Aug 2, 2021 16:33:18 GMT
OK, what's the vote for "Other"? Rookie of the Year. Ah, had thought I'd gotten it in.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Aug 2, 2021 16:33:45 GMT
The Natural Major League Eight Men Out You were so close.....
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Post by hehatesshe on Aug 2, 2021 16:39:31 GMT
Moneyball
8 men out
Other (Rookie of the Year)
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Post by Rey Kahuka on Aug 2, 2021 16:42:15 GMT
How about Ferris Bueller's Day Off? He goes to a Cubs game, catches a foul ball and eventually uses it to turn off his stereo in the nick of time.
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Post by TheGoodMan19 on Aug 2, 2021 16:57:03 GMT
Moneyball
A League of Their Own
*61 (I voted for a Yankee movie, time to hang myself!)
Thought about Bull Durham, would have been 4th. Thought about Fever Pitch, but its a love story, set at Fenway. Thought about the Natural, but I prefer the novels ending.
Did not think about Eight Men Out. Fine movie, but the source material is a fairy tale. Two examples. Eddie Cicotte's "bonus". He goes to Comiskey, claiming a bonus for winning 30 games. Commie says "29 is not 30". Cicotte immediately goes to Chick Gandil and puts himself into the fix. Problem, no such thing as performance bonuses in 1919, certainly not one for winning 30 games. Another, the Lefty Williams "threat". A gunman approaches Lefty and says he will shoot his wife if he wins Game 8. Lefty throws grapefruits. Problem, the first mention of this is in EMO. There's prenty about the fix but not one mention of this. Author Elliot Asinof made it up. Sorry, I nerd out over the 1919 WS.
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Post by movielover on Aug 2, 2021 17:00:17 GMT
The Natural Major League Eight Men Out The Natural would’ve been my next choice, if a 4th pick had been allowed.
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Post by hehatesshe on Aug 2, 2021 17:12:24 GMT
How about Ferris Bueller's Day Off? He goes to a Cubs game, catches a foul ball and eventually uses it to turn off his stereo in the nick of time. Not a baseball movie. A Christmas movie, yes. But not a baseball movie. |
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