Field of Dreams (2 Viewers)

[mattgdg]

When Ray says, "Dad, you wanna play catch?", he sounds like you'd expect a young boy to say it.

He actually says "Dad, you wanna have a catch?" which makes about as much sense as screaming "Touchdown!" when Moonlight Graham heimlichs the little girl. This movie eventually led to the MLB strike of 1994.

 

[Optimus Prime]

He actually says "Dad, you wanna have a catch?" which makes about as much sense as screaming "Touchdown!" when Moonlight Graham heimlichs the little girl. This movie eventually led to the MLB strike of 1994.

I thought the “wanna have a catch” was oddly phrased but I assumed it was a regional thing

 

[Dan in Lafayette]

Maybe he can explain why Dances with Wolves was better than Goodfellas and Ordinary People was superior to Raging Bull.

And how Shakespeare in Love was better than The Shawshank Redemption.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

And how Shakespeare in Love was better than The Shawshank Redemption.

too difficult to compare them, but Shakespeare in Love is a fantastic movie

 

[DaveXA]

And how Shakespeare in Love was better than The Shawshank Redemption.

I've seen both. Shawshank by a mile. Shakespeare is a good movie though.

 

[Dan in Lafayette]

I just saw this movie for the first time a couple years ago.

I liked it

If I had seen it when it came out or was a baseball fan I probably would have liked it more, but I enjoyed the movie

This guy just seems like a hater
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“If you build it, he will come.”

Puh-lease.

Thirty years after the release of “Field of Dreams,” it’s time for a major reassessment.

Sorry, all you folks who view baseball — and this movie — as some sort of timeless metaphor for connecting to your past and understanding what America is really all about.

In reality, it’s just another terrible film.

If you can somehow get past all the factual errors and horrible casting — Ray “Goodfellas” Liotta as Shoeless Joe Jackson? — you realize this is nothing more than an epic helping of corniness, passed off as some of ethereal fantasy that gets to the deeper meaning of life, which apparently is nothing more than the chance to play one more game of catch with your athletically challenged dad.

Like so many people, I remember gushing over “Field of Dreams” after it was released on April 21, 1989, but that was also a time when I still clung to the schmaltzy belief — pushed by folks such as George Will and Bob Costas — that baseball was more than a sport. It was the national pastime, a slow-moving game that somehow managed to epitomize all that is great about our country on a patch of grass and dirt marked by 90-foot paths.......................

Column: In retrospect, 'Field of Dreams' is a terrible film

"If you build it, he will come." Puh-lease. Thirty years after the release of "Field of Dreams," it's time for a major reassessment.

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Not your post, Optimus, but the article. Does he think it was a supposed to be a documentary?

 

[Zack Lee]

In the Book, the author that they seek out is JD Salinger but when they made the movie they switched it to Mr. Mann (James Earl Jones) Anyway, even if you didn't know that but know anything about Salinger you would get who the character was suppose to be. I just watched an HBO doc on Salinger two nights ago. I had no idea that not one, but three, famous shooters had used Catcher in the Rye at least as partial motive (if you would call it that) Salinger was one interesting cat to say the least. I also didn't know that he had about 60 pages on him when he stormed the beaches in France during WW2. Very good doc.

 

[Madmarsha]

He actually says "Dad, you wanna have a catch?" which makes about as much sense as screaming "Touchdown!"

How does saying, Wanna have a catch, not make sense?

 

[antipop]

I thought the movie was corny when i was 12. I was way ahead of this guy.

 

[Optimus Prime]

“Field of Dreams” was voted the greatest sports movie of all time in a recent survey of Times readers. It was released 30 years ago, and director Phil Alden Robinson talked to Yahoo this month about some secrets you may not know about the film.

For one, who was the voice — the person who spoke the lines “If you build it, he will come,” “Ease his pain” and “Go the distance”? Some people think it’s Ed Harris; some think it’s the star of the movie, Kevin Costner; and some think it is another of the movie’s stars, Ray Liotta. Robinson says he has yet to hear the right name guessed.

“I did record the voice as a scratch track,” Robinson says. “When you go into the editing room, you have to have something to cut to, so I recorded the voice as well as Kevin’s opening narration. When the picture was locked, we re-recorded all of that voiceover with people who could really do it. What’s funny is that a few people who thought they knew have revealed it and gotten it wrong. I’ll read people saying, ‘Well I happen to know that it’s so-and-so,’ and I’m like, ‘Oh no, it’s not!’ We’ll let that remain a secret. It’s a great mystery, and I like that.”

And how about that scene at the end, the one that shows the headlights of hundreds of cars headed to the baseball field. CGI? Some other sort of Hollywood trickery? No, they used actual cars.

“We had a production assistant drive that route from the [nearby] town of Dyersville to the field, measure it and then divide it by the average length of a car with a little space in between. He came back with 2,500, so we said to the Dubuque [Iowa] county Chamber of Commerce, ‘You’ve got to give us 2,500 cars and drivers.’ ”

So, 2,500 cars and their drivers lined the road while Robinson and J. David Jones, who did aerial photography for films such as “Apocalypse Now,” “Speed” and “Twister,” flew in a helicopter to shoot the scene.

“On the first take, the cars had gotten a little tight together,” Robinson said. “So we did a second take where the light was beautiful, but we realized the cars didn’t look like cars anymore; we got to an altitude where it just looked like we had strung lights on the highway.”

Finally, Robinson asked the car drivers to alternate their low-and-high beams, which helped simulate motion on camera………

Morning Briefing: Who was the voice in ‘Field of Dreams’?

“Field of Dreams” was voted the greatest sports movie of all time in a recent survey of Times readers.

www.latimes.com

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

“Field of Dreams” was voted the greatest sports movie of all time in a recent survey of Times readers. It was released 30 years ago, and director Phil Alden Robinson talked to Yahoo this month about some secrets you may not know about the film.

For one, who was the voice — the person who spoke the lines “If you build it, he will come,” “Ease his pain” and “Go the distance”? Some people think it’s Ed Harris; some think it’s the star of the movie, Kevin Costner; and some think it is another of the movie’s stars, Ray Liotta. Robinson says he has yet to hear the right name guessed.

“I did record the voice as a scratch track,” Robinson says. “When you go into the editing room, you have to have something to cut to, so I recorded the voice as well as Kevin’s opening narration. When the picture was locked, we re-recorded all of that voiceover with people who could really do it. What’s funny is that a few people who thought they knew have revealed it and gotten it wrong. I’ll read people saying, ‘Well I happen to know that it’s so-and-so,’ and I’m like, ‘Oh no, it’s not!’ We’ll let that remain a secret. It’s a great mystery, and I like that.”

And how about that scene at the end, the one that shows the headlights of hundreds of cars headed to the baseball field. CGI? Some other sort of Hollywood trickery? No, they used actual cars.

“We had a production assistant drive that route from the [nearby] town of Dyersville to the field, measure it and then divide it by the average length of a car with a little space in between. He came back with 2,500, so we said to the Dubuque [Iowa] county Chamber of Commerce, ‘You’ve got to give us 2,500 cars and drivers.’ ”

So, 2,500 cars and their drivers lined the road while Robinson and J. David Jones, who did aerial photography for films such as “Apocalypse Now,” “Speed” and “Twister,” flew in a helicopter to shoot the scene.

“On the first take, the cars had gotten a little tight together,” Robinson said. “So we did a second take where the light was beautiful, but we realized the cars didn’t look like cars anymore; we got to an altitude where it just looked like we had strung lights on the highway.”

Finally, Robinson asked the car drivers to alternate their low-and-high beams, which helped simulate motion on camera………

Morning Briefing: Who was the voice in ‘Field of Dreams’?

“Field of Dreams” was voted the greatest sports movie of all time in a recent survey of Times readers.

www.latimes.com

K, I don’t know if I can go that far
I think ‘greatest sports movie’ must have the actual athletic competition as part of the narrative drive
Hoosiers, Raging Bull, Bull Durham, Friday Night Lights, heck even White Men Can’t Jump, have athletics as a core narrative element

FoD is more like Brian’s Song or Band the Drum Slowly- the sport is a backdrop but not plot

 

[Mr. Blue Sky]

I think ‘greatest sports movie’ must have the actual athletic competition as part of the narrative drive
Hoosiers, Raging Bull, Bull Durham, Friday Night Lights, heck even White Men Can’t Jump, have athletics as a core narrative element

Rudy .

Sports films dont get better than Rudy…. I cant even think about the last 20 min of Rudy without getting a little verklempt…. You guys, HE ACTUALLY GOT TO PLAY IN THE GAME ….


Also Jerry Maguire.. some might say it’s a romantic comedy.. i think it’s a comedy/drama with huge sports elements within it .