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Summary: This movie deserves better
Review: You already know the movie, or you probably wouldn't be looking here. What you may want to know, however, is that, since I got my Sony KD-34XBR2 HDTV, this is easily the worst looking DVD I have seen. Pray for a new, anamorphic version!
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Summary: The Unpleasantries that Crops Like To Share
Review: This quintessential horror movies of the late 80's/90's pits Kevin Cosner against something we haven't seen the likes of since a certain Stephen King adaptation introduced us to He Who Walks Behind the Rows, a beast that lurks somewhere in the fields and promises strange phenomenon to those who abide by its wishes. We watch this epic struggle unfold as this something speaks through the corn, trying again and again to force Cosner into building something insidiously terrifying-despite the objections of his concerned family -- until, at last, this poor rural farmer succumbs and constructs his unholy shrine to the damned. It is then that the dead begin to walk the earth, invoking fashions that died with them, closing on an ending that recollects many and many a boyhood nightmare.
Its not to be watched alone (or sober).
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Summary: A memorable must see for all.
Review: If you believe the impossible, the incredible can come true.
"If you build it, he will come." Those words have become part of our vocabulary, words of inspiration for each of us to enjoy. Those words inspired Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella though a voice he can't ignore to pursue a dream he can hardly believe. There are lessons to learn. Field of Dreams is an enjoyable and inspiring movie to share with all children. Parents sit with your children and share the magic! It will be a wonderful couple of hours together.
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Summary: tobgan
Review: if you are a baseball fan or not get this movie, if you dont your dumb
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Summary: If you don't cry at the end, then you are no real man.
Review: Everyone thinks this movie is about baseball, but it isn't, not really. It is about much more. It is about fathers and sons, and how baseball, since the early 20th century, is able to tie them together, even when they can't bring themselves to speak to one another. Every time I see this movie, I am reminded of my own relationship with my father, and the ups and downs we have traversed in our relationship. No matter how much we would argue, and antagonize each other, we always had baseball to fall back on as our common denominator. In this movie, Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) is so haunted by the mistakes he made in his relationship with his father, that he manifests The Voice, which tells him to build a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. To show you how bad his relationship with his dad had gotten, Ray tells James Earl Jones's character that he once refused to play a game of catch with him. But by building the field, Ray helps to resurrect Shoeless Joe Jackson, his father's disgraced baseball idol, and maybe make a little bit of ammends. Ray gives Shoeless Joe, and the other "Black Socks" players a chance at redemption by being able to play in this magical field. Through other acts that Ray commits on order from The Voice, he helps others fulfill their baseball tinted dreams. The others being a writer, Terrance Mann (James Earl Jones), who yearns for the days of Ebbets Field and Jackie Robinson, and a country doctor and former minor league baseball player, Moonlight Graham (Burt Lancaster), whose one unfulfilled wish is to bat against a big league pitcher. During the movie, we are led to believe that he commits these acts out of some random nature, the only reason being that The Voice told him to. But in the end of the movie, we, along with Ray, realize that everything he has done is connected, and has a reason. And it all comes back to fathers and sons, and the dreams we share, and our almost spiritual connection through the greatest game ever dreamt by God or man, baseball. If you are a man, and as a boy you ever played catch with your father, then this film should touch you in a very personal way. If you shed no tear at the wonderful ending, then you aren't a real man.
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Summary: The simple things
Review: This is not a complex movie. It does not pretend to be. That is what makes it so special. The story, if you don't know it by now, is about Ray Kinsella, an aging-hippie-turned-Iowa-farmer, coming to terms with middle-age. Fearing stagnation, i.e. turning into his father, he decides to do the ultimate spontaneous act: plowing under his crop to build a boseball field. Though the world of rationality is against him, Ray relies on faith, and not only keeps the field, but improves it with lights and bleachers.The story has a sense of magic realism, manifested by the field itself. The baseball field attracts the spirits of baseball players past. Not heroes mind you, for the first ones to arrive are the infamous (at least to baseball fans) 1919 White Sox, who were branded the Black Sox after throwing the World Series. The field is redemption, a chance for these souls to play the game they lived and loved. It also attracts the players who never made it. James Earl Jones gives a strong performance as the spiritual twin of Ray, or rather what Ray could have been or could become. He plays a 60's radical who has become disillusioned with the world, who suppresses his baseball dreams and chooses stagnation. Ultimately, the film ends on what baseball is. A game of catch in a green field. The movie is timeless because the game is timeless. This film captures the game of baseball, not the sport. It is a simple film with a simple message, which is what makes it good.
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Summary: Incredible Movie, Even Better Extras
Review: I got this DVD a week ago, and I still haven't gotten around to watching the movie yet - that's how good the bonus material is. The Field of Dreams Scrapbook is much more than it sounds - 30-something different chapters, each describing in detail a different part of making the movie. And the feature-length commentary with the director and cinematographer is great - lots of fun insights into how they shot different scenes. And they've even got the entire script to read page-by-page, if you're that much of a fanatic. Can't imagine how they could make this any better.
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Summary: A Great Film
Review: I loved it. I don't generally care for Kevin Costner, but he is actually OK in this one. Like the film. If you love baseball....you'll love this flick.
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Summary: Is this Heaven? Yes, and It's Iowa!!!!
Review: This is one of my absolute favorite movies. And, it showcases Iowa at its finest! I enjoy watching this movie in February, when the ground is white with snow, and spring seems a lifetime away. The lush green cornfields and grasses in this movie remind me of the beauty of Iowa in the spring and summer.
This is the story of Ray Kinsella, a man haunted by the words he never said to his father. On a sunny afternoon, walking through his cornfields, a voice tells him, "If you build it, He will come." These six words lead Ray on a journey of epic proportions, as he seeks to find what he's supposed to build, and for whom he is to build it.
This is not just a story about baseball. It's about dreams coming true, about love, and about hope. There is magic that seems so very real, so real that you wish for it to be true.
And as a proud citizen of the state of Iowa, it is a stunning view of what lush green beauty exists in this wonderful state. Yea, there is a bit of heaven here.
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Summary: One of the Best Films of Our Time
Review: Forget "Dances with Wolves." Kevin Costner outdoes himself as an actor in this superb Capra-esque movie that is filled with magic rarely seen onscreen. Stereotyped as a sports film, "Field of Dreams" is much much more than that. In fact, I'd classify it as a movie about the human spirit, as much about family and faith as it is about baseball, and more than anything, as a metaphoric, lyrical answer to the eternal question we as human beings ask every day - what is life all about? Cinematic fables come in all forms and shapes, from the great "It's a Wonderful Life" to the crowd pleasing "Shawshank Redemption" and the home-as-heaven "ET" and "The Wizard of Oz." "Field of Dreams" challenges one of our cultures' greatest missteps - the emphasis we place on the separation of the sexes...the sad, but true, reality of what is means to be a "man" or a "woman" to be masculine vs feminine. In a culture that holds dear the idea that "real men don't eat quiche," "Field of Dreams" tells us that that perhaps salvation awaits in men eating quiche every so often, and women running companies or even the country as leaders one day. The movie forces is to look at our own mores and values, to suspend for a few hours our earthbound logic, most of which no longer serves us as citizens of a brave new world. In doing so, it also makes us wonder what and who we ourselves would be IF our dreams really did take flight, if we "built it" would they actually come? In my opinion, thi sis a movie that ought to be required viewing in order to graduate high school - in fact, perhaps even sooner - so as to create within future generations not just a sense that hope does exist, but more than that - that it's up to each individual to persue and realize their dreams for the betterment of our common earth. Costner shines, as does Amy Madigan, and especially unforgettably Ray Liotta - one of the best actors out there, and rarely better than he is here. Shoeless Joe Jackson exists in our dreams, but our dreams cannot exist without his real, present existence. This is classic storytelling at its finest hour. And men ... bring a hankerchief, and allow yourselves a tear or two. You'll feel better, more alive than ever before, and you'll quickly realize that life canot be taken for granted. A stunning masterpiece, destined to become one of Hollywood's greatest achievements. SEE IT, think about it, BUILD IT, and guess what - "they will come."
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