OT: best baseball movie ever???

[utparothed]

Long Gone. Has one of the best characters ever, Cecil "Stud" Cantrell.
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Great movie!! Too bad HBO's shelved it without sending out to DVD. Teller is hilarious!

 

[Firehorn]

The Natural (who cares if Glenn Close is pretty or not, the story was amazing. I still get chills when I hear the music associated with a Roy Hobbs home run. Also tons of symbolism with light/dark, good/evil themes.

Bad News Bears for comedy. I was about the age of those players when it came out. Walter Matthau was awesome.

 

[Conch Horn]

Long Gone. Has one of the best characters ever, Cecil "Stud" Cantrell.
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Absolutely. Glad someone else is a fan of the Tampico Stogies!

 

[Etex Horn]

- 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.

It's "For Love...", not "For The Love..." http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0126916

 

[UTPhil2006]

Field of Dreams and it's not even close.

 

[UTPhil2006]

And agreed. It won't ever win awards, be heralded as a mainstream baseball movie but Barry Pepper did a hell of a job in 61*. One of my favorites.

 

[BullSprig@Work]

in no particular order...

61*

Bull Durham

Eight Men Out

 

[JerrySandusky'sCellmate]

Who cares if Sarandon or Close are hot? Go look at porn if you are looking for hot women. I liked both of those movies.

Dazed and Confused could be a baseball movie.

 

[JitterFields]

Bang the Drum Slowly

+1

 

[dragworm]

The Natural (who cares if Glenn Close is pretty or not, the story was amazing. I still get chills when I hear the music associated with a Roy Hobbs home run. Also tons of symbolism with light/dark, good/evil themes.Bad News Bears for comedy. I was about the age of those players when it came out. Walter Matthau was awesome.

The Natural is a very well made movie. Great soundtrack, great sets and costumes from that era, lots of attention to detail, plus a great story that happens to be set in baseball. All of the little things in that movie add up to make it the best baseball movie to me.

 

[dragworm]

Another damned good movie that had a heavy influence of baseball was A Soldiers Story.

 

[Juan]

If you judge this by how many times you have watched the film, then for me it is between --

(1) Moneyball; and

(2) Badnews Bears

I think I may have watched Moneyball 10X and read the book twice.

And I dont know how many times I watched the various Bears movies.

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[Rick Casares]

I didn't see the classic oldie "Damned Yankees" listed. Great Movie!