Little Big League Vs. Rookie of the Year
This is a topic that has sparked much controversy amongst my friends and I.
Which film is better, Little Big League or Rookie of the Year?
I know that there are other kid baseball films that could be taken into consideration like "The Sandlot" and "Angels in the Outfield", however "Rookie of the Year" and "Little Big League" have basically the same set up, a boy with no father and two friends is given the opportunity to be apart of a Major League baseball team.
My Stance.
I am going to have to go ahead and say that Little Big League is a much better movie. It was over shadowed by the success of "Rookie of the Year" and given no credit.
For starters, Little Big League is actually a very well written movie. For example, the scene right before the Twin's big game against the Mariners where the entire team is trying to figure out a math problem instead of getting ready for the game, hilarious.
Next, there's authenticity. Little Big League is a great Baseball Movie, it features great baseball players like Ivan Rodriguez, Randy Johnson, and Ken Griffey Jr at the peak of his career, great baseball parks, yankee stadium, fenway park, and finally, the choreography, I get chills every time I see the plays they pull of in this movie.
The kid in Little Big League, Luke Edwards, is much better than the kid in Rookie of the Year, Thomas Ian Nicholas. It can be argued that Nicholas is a better actor, however Edwards is much more tolerable. Nicholas was really effin annoying.
To wrap this up I have two words, freeze frame. Both films end with a freeze frame, although Rookie of the Year ends with Nicholas revealing his new world series ring, but the events leading up to it where Nicholas snaps his head up and he has this stupid smile on his face, real lame. Whereas Edwards' hat to the sky freeze frame, still lame, but not so much.
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