I have seen just about every baseball movie ever made including Ed, reluctantly of course, and in my opinion this is the greatest baseball movie ever made as well as the best acting role of Redford's famed career. Thoughts?
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I think it's up there in the Top 3. For nostalgia reasons and the fact that it's such a great movie -- I'd have to say "A League of Their Own" as my personal favorite baseball movie.
The Pride of the Yankees, The Sandlot, *61, The Rookie and Eight Men Out are up there, too.
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Thats a tough crowd. I got 61*, field of dreams,league of their own,the rookie above it. major league, moneyball, sandlot, the 70's bad news bears, 42 and bull durham below it. Alot of good movies there.
Lawrence of Arbia, he was an English guy who came to fight the Turkish
It's my personal favorite baseball movie, most of the other ones mentioned have their good moments - I do really like a lot of A League of Their Own except for the maudlin sappy last part which didn't seem to fit what preceded it. I was surprised how entertaining Moneyball was for a modern take on the game. Field of Dreams and Pride of the Yankees are up there too. They should edit all the Seinfeld Yankees/Mets segments into a short movie those are pretty priceless lol.
shareWhat about Airbud: Seventh Inning Fetch?
shareI've seen 'Bull Durham', 'A League of their own' and 'Field of Dreams'. I didn't care much for those films (I'm from the UK so don't watch American sports) but I love the nostalgic, mythic feel of 'The Natural'.
shareI love this film but I really wish they'd cast a younger actor and actress for the teenage Redford and Close characters.
Despite the film's brilliance it's really pushing believability... I've no idea why they didn't either. It would only have helped the passage of time.
Superman '78 managed to do it and in a lot of ways, this is almost like a sister movie to that, so I wish they had...