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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. 

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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".

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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.

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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.

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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? 

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