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.

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[pompe.livejournal.com]

Miracle is a bit too sentimental for me.

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.