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Oscar tie-breaker poll for Best Baseball Movie

ElemenopeoElemenopeo Posts: 2,577 ✭✭
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OK. This may be overkill, but for the sake of closure...

The poll on the Best Baseball Movie of All-Time resulted in a statistical dead heat between "The Natural" and "Field of Dreams". Several other great baseball movies on and off the ballot received votes, but these were the two clear front-runners. So, here's a second poll to serve as a tie-breaker.

Even if you don't think either is the best ever, which do you think is the better baseball movie...

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  • fandangofandango Posts: 2,622 ✭
    the field of dream is a good movie, but its a snoozer most of the way....

    the natural gives you a great lead-in to one of the greatest sport images of all time...."the exploding lights above, as Redford Rounds the Diamond in the most Glorious Homerun Trot Ever"........


    That scene clinches it for me............
  • DarinDarin Posts: 7,325 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I had to go with The Natural between those two.

    Field of dreams is just a little too silly. Building a field so ghosts have somewhere to play baseball? Why don't they go haunt some building like a normal ghost.

  • BobaFett72BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
    I loved the Natural, but it wasnt faithful to the ending of the book.

    "The Natural was adapted into a film starring Robert Redford as Roy Hobbs in 1984. The movie is not considered to be faithful to the book, since important details are changed, particularly the film's upbeat ending, which differs significantly from the novel's ending. While Malamud wrote a dark satire of a fallen hero, the film version took a traditional "Hollywood" approach."

    from Wikipedia

  • cravetoppscravetopps Posts: 1,134
    the randy newman score and the spectacular home run trot at the end, give the edge to The Natural. But, who didn't get goose bumps thinking about Shoeless Joe taking the field (of dreams)?? I ave watched both movies at least a dozen times.
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  • CDsNutsCDsNuts Posts: 10,092 ✭
    Name one movie without a Randy Newman score.

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  • jamesgotpoormanjamesgotpoorman Posts: 1,682
    image Both great summer night movies...
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  • cravetoppscravetopps Posts: 1,134
    "Name one movie without a Randy Newman score."

    I guess that reinforces why it got my vote, Lee. image

    But since you asked, "Gladiator".
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  • ElemenopeoElemenopeo Posts: 2,577 ✭✭

    Mercy bump.

  • VolverVolver Posts: 753
    Seeing as how my kids (boy 10, girl 9 and boy 7) will watch this everytime it is on tv and they actually ask to watch the DVD, my vote is for Field of Dreams.

    Just the meaning behind what baseball can do for someone and it's beliefs is powerful.

    What a great movie...I find the Natural slow and hard to watch over and over
  • GriffinsGriffins Posts: 6,076 ✭✭✭
    I'm with Boba. The Natural was the first movie I saw that I'd read the book first- and it wasn't anywhere near as good as the book.
    Great lighting and propping though.

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  • MikeyLikesItMikeyLikesIt Posts: 501
    Wow, looks like it's a dead heat. I gotta go with Field of Dreams if for nothing else than this quote:

    "Ray, people will come Ray. They'll come to Iowa for reasons they can't even fathom. They'll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they're doing it. They'll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won't mind if you look around, you'll say. It's only $20 per person. They'll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they'll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They'll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they'll watch the game and it'll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they'll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it's a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh... people will come Ray. People will most definitely come."

  • baseballfanaticbaseballfanatic Posts: 2,415 ✭✭
    I prefer my corn on the cob with butter rather than in a field with Joe Jackson and Mel Ott. Burt Lancaster as Moonlight Graham stole the spotlight of the movie. Though the movie was a poor adaptation of the book, gotta go with The Natural....
  • SeraphSeraph Posts: 124


    << <i>the natural gives you a great lead-in to one of the greatest sport images of all time...."the exploding lights above, as Redford Rounds the Diamond in the most Glorious Homerun Trot Ever"........

    << <i>

    That has got to be one of the most recognizable scenes in movie history.
  • PuertoRicanFogBankPuertoRicanFogBank Posts: 200
    The Natural is more of a "baseball" movie.

    In my very humble opinion.

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  • Brian48Brian48 Posts: 2,624 ✭✭✭
    OK, I admit it. The final scene of Field of Dreams brought a tear to my eye. So I'm a wuss. image

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  • ElemenopeoElemenopeo Posts: 2,577 ✭✭
    Well, at the moment "The Natural" leads "Field of Dreams" by one vote. I'll give this one last bump and give the Oscar to whichever is leading when I wake up in the morning and flip on my computer -- and be done with it already.

  • ElemenopeoElemenopeo Posts: 2,577 ✭✭

    A hopeless tie, it seems. 28-28 at the deadline this morning.

    Costner and Redford will have to share the Oscar.

    Thanks to all who participated.
  • onlyanumberonlyanumber Posts: 2,433
    Interesting that support for these movies was evenly divided. I know I voted for Field of Dreams, but only because the movie I really liked wasn't there.
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  • cravetoppscravetopps Posts: 1,134
    I taped both movies on my dvr and watched the final scene in The Natural last night as well as the FOD's scene where Costner is playing catch with his father. Great stuff, Elemenopeo. Thanks for the post.
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  • Stone193Stone193 Posts: 24,438 ✭✭✭✭✭
    I pick Redford...

    "Naturally..."

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  • BobaFett72BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
    i gotta say that the better ending is Field of Dreams ; playing catch with dad. I really miss doing that... He passed away in 2003 after battling Alzheimers for 11 years. My glove hand would sting from his hard throws (he was one hell of a good infielder/shorstop when he was younger) Mind you, my dad was 57 when I was born! So when I was in little league and pony league he was a Senior citizen, he still put the other dads to shame with his athletic ability. He was still kicking my ass playing basketball when i was in H.S.

    To me field of dreams better reflects my memories of baseball with my dad. The Natural was "the perfect Hollywood ending"
  • BunkerBunker Posts: 3,926 ✭
    Makes me want to watch both of them again. It has been awhile maybe this weekend.
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  • helionauthelionaut Posts: 1,555 ✭✭
    I'd say The Natural if I had to choose between the two, but whoever the original voters were must never have seen Bad News Bears (the real one). There isn't even any actual baseball in FoD, beyond one at-bat late in the movie.
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  • Brian48Brian48 Posts: 2,624 ✭✭✭
    I actually saw all of the movies listed in the original thread, including the original BNB (and the crappy sequels too). I own most of the DVDs in that other thread too. There are a few oddball ones that didn't come up though, like the musical "Damn Yankees" and "Fear Strikes Out: the Jimmy Piersall story".

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  • cravetoppscravetopps Posts: 1,134
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  • pandrewspandrews Posts: 7,598 ✭✭✭
    tough decision.. i voted for field of dreams..
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  • BobaFett72BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
    thanks for the link over on ESPN. lots of great moments.

    the baseball scenes in Naked Gun were awesome.

    I loved Frank Drebin calling the game, pretty hysterical!
  • Alfonz24Alfonz24 Posts: 3,114 ✭✭✭✭✭
    Both are good, but I voted Field of Dreams. Anything with James Earl Jones voice is great.

    Plus, i grew up in NW Illinois and I was driving to an audit in Iowa when they were filming the scene at the end of the movie with all the cars.
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  • jmbkb4jmbkb4 Posts: 2,963


    << <i>

    To me field of dreams better reflects my memories of baseball with my dad. The Natural was "the perfect Hollywood ending" >>



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  • jmbkb4jmbkb4 Posts: 2,963


    << <i>tough decision.. i voted for field of dreams.. >>



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    BTTT
  • BobaFett72BobaFett72 Posts: 7,304
    ....and down the stretch they come!

    when does the poll officially close?
  • ElemenopeoElemenopeo Posts: 2,577 ✭✭


    << <i>....and down the stretch they come!

    when does the poll officially close? >>


    The poll "officially" closed yesterday. (See my earlier posts.) But voting can continue indefinitely, really.
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