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Sep. 2nd, 2007 08:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gridloreThe Natural has one of the cheesiest, most predictable, Hollywood, endings in the history of film. It uses every cliche, every camera trick, every sound trick.
It is pure Hollywood schmaltz.
And I tear up every time.
Second best baseball movie ever made.
For 25 penguin points, guess my favorite baseball movie of all time.
It is pure Hollywood schmaltz.
And I tear up every time.
Second best baseball movie ever made.
For 25 penguin points, guess my favorite baseball movie of all time.
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Date: 3 Sep 2007 03:22 (UTC)I guess "Major League".
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Date: 3 Sep 2007 05:31 (UTC)Also, the movie's ending is completely antithetical to that of the original novel.
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Date: 3 Sep 2007 05:37 (UTC)-kat
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Date: 3 Sep 2007 17:47 (UTC)The way they showed professional baseball players' lives back in the teens.
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Date: 3 Sep 2007 17:00 (UTC)"...Eleven seconds, you've got ten seconds, the countdown going on right now! Morrow, up to Silk...five seconds left in the game...Do you believe in miracles? YES!!!"
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Date: 3 Sep 2007 17:40 (UTC)That's the worst thing with sports movies IMO, they take something entertaining and to a certain degree emotional and frequently without any sort of necessary self-irony pumps it so full of hot air and sackarine goo one wonders what the bloody directors would do with a movie actually about something truly serious, like war, AIDS or an average car crash.
I mean, I had the misfortune of being stupid enough to watch "61*" yesterday. I couldn't watch it all the time, but basically Billy Crystal takes a movie which would have been a good observation of the crazy obsessions and behaviour within sports and instead drench it in Emotional Moments, horrible orchestrals and a hyper-sentimental ending.
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Date: 4 Sep 2007 00:06 (UTC)No penguin points for me!!!