OT: best baseball movie ever???

[Idoit Savant]

Bang the Drum Slowly

 

[More Cowbell]

The Natural would be my pick. Eight Men Out hasn't been mentioned yet. Good movie but never been a John Cusack fan.

 

[GetHooked]

The Babe Ruth Story.

 

[Bandit]

Long Gone. Has one of the best characters ever, Cecil "Stud" Cantrell.

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[Hoekem]

Bull Durham

Trouble with the Curve

Field of Dreams

The Natural

Sandlot

For the Love of the Game

No particular order, I liked em all...

 

[MKD]

For the love of the game

 

[bbdude]

How quickly we forget........

 

[markbow]

A buddy of mine and myself got into this convo after talking about the HOF voting (yada, yada, yada)... And I proposed the question...what is the best baseball movie? Y'all's thoughts? There are some common sense choices...but I am going with The Sandlot...yes the Sandlot...over The Natural, over Field of Dreams, over Major League

1. Angels in the Outfield (1951)

2. The Natural

3. Bull Durham

4. It Happens Every Spring (1947)

 

[Fatherof5]

For Love of The Game

Major League

The Natural and Bull Durham are great movies, but completely average leading ladies (Close and Sarandon) really hurt those two for me.

 

[Lukus Alderman]

For Love of The Game Major League

The Natural and Bull Durham are great movies, but completely average leading ladies (Close and Sarandon) really hurt those two for me.

- Never saw For Love of the Game (BTW, shouldn't it be For THE Love of the Game?).

- Major League was great.

- Loved The Natural...and I have to disagree on your take of Close. I thought she was very pretty and fit perfectly as the sort of anti-Kim Basinger.

- Hated, Hated, HATED Bull Durham. Crappy storyline with quite possibly the ugliest lead character ever in the history of all movies. Sarandonwrap ruined it.

 

[Hoekem]

- Never saw For Love of the Game (BTW, shouldn't it be For THE Love of the Game?).- Major League was great.

- Loved The Natural...and I have to disagree on your take of Close. I thought she was very pretty and fit perfectly as the sort of anti-Kim Basinger.

- Hated, Hated, HATED Bull Durham. Crappy storyline with quite possibly the ugliest lead character ever in the history of all movies. Sarandonwrap ruined it.

You gotta admit, SE has the biggest eyes of any human I have ever seen...

 

[Fatherof5]

- Never saw For Love of the Game (BTW, shouldn't it be For THE Love of the Game?).- Major League was great.

- Loved The Natural...and I have to disagree on your take of Close. I thought she was very pretty and fit perfectly as the sort of anti-Kim Basinger.

- Hated, Hated, HATED Bull Durham. Crappy storyline with quite possibly the ugliest lead character ever in the history of all movies. Sarandonwrap ruined it.

- Great movie with a leading lady that was smoking hot ( yes )

- Agree-so much so that I started to pass on my love for that movie to my son, but had to stop a few minutes in. My love for that movie had overridden my recall of just how inappropriate for a young one it is.

- respectfully disagree. Have always found Glenn Close remarkably average in appearance and in my day Robert Redford was biggest male sex symbol. He deserved better.

- loved story line of aging minor leaguer trying to hold on vs unappreciative insane young talent. Just hated all the crap with Sarandon.

 

[JMagana]

- Never saw For Love of the Game (BTW, shouldn't it be For THE Love of the Game?).- Major League was great.

- Loved The Natural...and I have to disagree on your take of Close. I thought she was very pretty and fit perfectly as the sort of anti-Kim Basinger.

- Hated, Hated, HATED Bull Durham. Crappy storyline with quite possibly the ugliest lead character ever in the history of all movies. Sarandonwrap ruined it.

Forgot about For the love of the game... Great movie! Watch with tour woman she will like too.

 

[aowells]

32 posts and no love for Fever Pitch???

 

[rabastad]

Moneyball

 

[bigbird]

If you build it they will come

 

[Hiwood]

1. the Natural

2. For the Love of the Game

3. *61

4. Bang the Drum Slowly

5. Major League

 

[Lukus Alderman]

1. the Natural
2. For the Love of the Game

3. *61

4. Bang the Drum Slowly

5. Major League

Good call on "*61"! Loved that one. Barry Pepper killed it.

 

[The Tres Leches]

Bull Durham

Field of Dreams

Major League

Eight Men Out

 

[Sangre Naranjada]

Gotta go with Field of Dreams myself.