no one else seen Sugar?
― Dr Morbius, Saturday, 11 April 2009 13:59 (fifteen years ago) link
Seeing it tonight.
― Alex in SF, Saturday, 11 April 2009 14:36 (fifteen years ago) link
what'd u think?
― Dr Morbius, Thursday, 16 April 2009 17:21 (fifteen years ago) link
It was sold out! I'm seeing it Saturday night now!
― Alex in SF, Thursday, 16 April 2009 19:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Okay I saw it. It was great.
― Alex in SF, Sunday, 19 April 2009 04:45 (fifteen years ago) link
loved his awkward deal w/ the blond Iowa girl
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 19 April 2009 07:06 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah that was great. Actually the whole family interaction was pretty awesome. Also liked the direction the last 45 minutes goes a lot.
Do you know what minor league ballpark they were playing in (with the bridge in the background)?
― Alex in SF, Sunday, 19 April 2009 15:36 (fifteen years ago) link
Davenport IA, the franchise is Quad Cities (Cardinals affiliate).
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090330&content_id=546891&vkey=news_milb&fext=.jsp
― Dr Morbius, Sunday, 19 April 2009 15:46 (fifteen years ago) link
Super pretty.
I do wonder if it's really true that a Single A team with a strong Dominican pipeline wouldn't have a real translator for the players.
― Alex in SF, Sunday, 19 April 2009 16:18 (fifteen years ago) link
just saw a pretty good doc feature on Luis Tiant that ESPN will air this summer.
― Dr Morbius, Friday, 24 April 2009 20:11 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51E9KJQSS0L._SS500_.jpg
― Dr. Phil, Friday, 24 April 2009 23:48 (fifteen years ago) link
Liked the Tiant doc on ESPN after the game, as noted above
― Indiana Morbs and the Curse of the Ivy League Chorister (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 11 August 2009 02:32 (fifteen years ago) link
saw this the other night:
http://jewsandbaseball.com/
Follows the Ken Burns style, and Hank Greenberg has his own doc, but told me some things I didn't know (Rod Carew did NOT convert; Elliott Maddox did), and the coup is that Koufax sat for an interview. Marvin Miller says he looked around at the plaintiff table at the Curt Flood case and realized everybody was black or Jewish.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 14 November 2010 18:40 (thirteen years ago) link
morbs i bet you love billy crystal joint "61*"
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 05:53 (thirteen years ago) link
Thomas Jane kills it as Mantle in 61! Ol' tommy jane, yessir~
Sugar is really, really good. Also Mr. Baseball is kinda cool
― Megatherium americanum (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 06:01 (thirteen years ago) link
61 was really corny but i was like "wow how did they get roger maris to come back from dead, become young again and play himself tbh"
― 867-5309 (abdul) (roxymuzak), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 06:39 (thirteen years ago) link
at least that cornpone phony-baloney The Pride of the Yankees had the real Ruth, albeit not whoring or winning a trophy in a farting contest.
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 15:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Hah, I forgot Ruth was in PotY. I loved that movie when I was a kid! The speech at the end ;_;
― Megatherium americanum (Princess TamTam), Tuesday, 23 November 2010 17:14 (thirteen years ago) link
so Alex Gibney has made a documentary about Steve Bartman and other sports scapegoats:
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=13428741
― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Friday, 22 April 2011 18:19 (thirteen years ago) link
Don DeLillo wrote a baseball movie?? The things one learns on ILX.
I'd like to see Rhubarb, with Ray Milland.
http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/111/MPW-55717
How the heck did he make that movie AFTER The Lost Weekend?
― Virginia Plain, Friday, 22 April 2011 18:35 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.emovieposter.com/images/books/sports/53.jpg
― your generation appalls me (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 23 April 2011 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link
It is apparent that we need to arrange a Ray Milland baseball movie night.
― Virginia Plain, Saturday, 23 April 2011 14:31 (thirteen years ago) link
"Field of Erroneous Scorekeeping, more like."
http://flipflopflyball.tumblr.com/post/8740392528/field-of-dreams-opened-in-cinemas-on-april-21
― A Chuck Person's Guide to Mark Aguirre (Andy K), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 18:29 (thirteen years ago) link
Cint Eastwood to play a scout SLOWLY GOING BLIND!
http://www.cinemablend.com/new/Matthew-Lillard-Joining-Clint-Eastwood-Trouble-With-Curve-28893.html
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 27 January 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
the BP staff gives some dubious recognition to baseball films like Bad Lieutenant and The Fan (SPOILER!):
http://www.baseballprospectus.com/article.php?articleid=15939
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 1 February 2012 19:01 (twelve years ago) link
next year's Robinson pic 42... look who's playing Branch Rickey
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0453562/combined
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 1 July 2012 06:37 (twelve years ago) link
I guess that means Spike Lee's long-rumored Jackie film has been abandoned?
― clemenza, Sunday, 1 July 2012 13:25 (twelve years ago) link
afaik it was when Denzel got too old
― Pangborn to be Wilde (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 7 July 2012 18:01 (twelve years ago) link
Doesn't really look like an actual baseball movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdJPvXLemVs
Laughed at all the non-joke content.
― Andy K, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:44 (twelve years ago) link
"We need to appeal to white men over the age of 80 and Justin Timberlake fans."
― Andy K, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
"You don't know anything about the game--a computer can't tell if a kid's got instincts."
Somebody didn't like Moneyball.
― clemenza, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
someone actually wrote the line 'it's feng schmay, dont u know anything'
― johnny crunch, Friday, 10 August 2012 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
Really liked Knuckleball. (The directors were supposed to be there but cancelled.) Minor quibbles: maybe a little more history on the pitch, Wilhelm especially, and the music's lousy. Larger quibble: I don't think it gets as deep into the psychology of throwing the pitch as Bouton did in Ball Four. Where it's great: "the fraternity." It's another one of those documentaries where I think, "What an obvious film to make--how did it take this long?" There's like seven living knuckleballers of any stature, and they interview them all. And most of them are friends--more than friends. The scene where Wakefield, Dickey, Hough, and Niekro all go golfing is pretty much the best thing I've seen this year. Dickey is such a likeable guy--I feel silly for having ignored his story till the big streak earlier this season, but I'll be rooting for him to win the Cy. Wakefield is much quieter, and it's genuinely moving when he gets his 200th.
― clemenza, Thursday, 30 August 2012 01:21 (twelve years ago) link
Salon review of Knuckleball:
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/14/pick_of_the_week_baseballs_secret_zen_fraternity/
Again: excellent.
― clemenza, Friday, 14 September 2012 05:41 (twelve years ago) link
my review:
http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/knuckleball/6522
I'd seen it in June, so I was remembering bits this time just before they played out, like the Texas contract withdrawal with Dickey. You can't write stuff like that.
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
That Eastwood/Timberlake movie looks dire.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:45 (twelve years ago) link
belongs to Amy Adams, apparently
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
"looks dire" and "belongs to Amy Adams" are one and the same to me
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
Nice review, Morbius. I think we basically saw the same thing, I just loved the secret-society angle more than you, and wasn't especially bothered by the first half-hour. Agree that the music was awful. I can't think of another baseball film that's much like it.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:00 (twelve years ago) link
"the secret-society angle" is about 15 mins of the film tho. And they keep going back to that one awful Boston sports guy.
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:08 (twelve years ago) link
I didn't time it or anything, but it sure felt like more than 15 minutes--in any event, it sent me home inexplicably happy, and pushed aside everything else about the movie. Niekro's story about has dad was priceless.
― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 September 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
Huh, if Eastwood had directed Curve, it would've been worse, but it would've been better, y'know?
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 02:43 (twelve years ago) link
It's a "baseball movie," of course it's crap.
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 06:17 (twelve years ago) link
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Tuesday, September 18, 2012 2:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
what the christ
― Hungry4Ass, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 06:42 (twelve years ago) link
She's given a good movie performance precisely once: The Fighter. Presumably David O. castigated it out of her.
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 12:32 (twelve years ago) link
LOLed pretty hard when Amy Adams was on ESPN promoing. Had seen the trailer twice and a number of ads and had thought it was Pam from The Office finally getting her first star turn. Had no idea.
― sanskrit, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 13:33 (twelve years ago) link
what I hate about this thread resurfacing
― kizz my hairy irish azz (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:22 (twelve years ago) link
She's great in Catch Me If You Can!
― Hungry4Ass, Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:25 (twelve years ago) link
xp unbookmarked
― Ham Lushbaugh (Eric H.), Wednesday, 19 September 2012 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hww-Xxbud0
― Hungry4Ass, Friday, 21 September 2012 18:50 (twelve years ago) link