OK, I'm a wimp

[gridlore]

The 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.

Comments

[grimmwire.livejournal.com]

A League of Her Own? (Certainly my fave. Or maybe Bad News Bears. There's a lot of good ones.)

[netquiddler.livejournal.com]

"Vaughn into the windup and his first offering... JUUUUUUUUUUUUUST a bit outside, he tried the corner and missed..."

I guess "Major League".

[robertprior.livejournal.com]

"It Happens Every Spring"?

[pauldrye.livejournal.com]

Bull Durham. Best-written baseball movie around. Though it wouldn't surprise me very much if you were more a Field of Dreams guy if you like The Natural.

[kitsap_charles]

Please tell me it's not Damn Yankees. Please.

Also, the movie's ending is completely antithetical to that of the original novel.

[katster.livejournal.com]

Well, if Field of Dreams is close, I'm going to go with the other Black Sox movie, Eight Men Out.

-kat

[pompe.livejournal.com]

I'd take "Slapshot" any day...

[benkenobigal.livejournal.com]

I would have guessed Pride of the Yankees...

No penguin points for me!!!