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Summary: Excellent moviemaking
Review: This one is a classic! =) I started to watch it, thinking it would be stupid, but I was wrong. It's an outstanding movie. When Ray Kinsella starts hearing voices, he disregards them for a while, but they become impossible to ignore. He builds a beautiful baseball field in accordance with the wills of the "voices," and things really start heating up when famous, deceased baseball players from the past like "Shoeless" Joe Jackson come to play on the field. The discovery of a famous, yet secluded author and an elderly doctor who never got anywhere in baseball heightens suspense and excitement in the movie. You don't want to miss this one--it's great. =) Amy Madigan does well in her role as Ray's supportive wife, and Gaby Hoffmann is adorable as little Karen, the daughter of Ray and Amy who is a faithful believer of everything that happens as soon as Ray starts hearing the voices. It is actually her faith that may help some other headstrong characters to believe! =) What can I say? It's an awesome movie and you gotta see it!!!! It really is just as good as all the critics have said.
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Summary: touching, well acted and produced, a little sappy
Review: I like this movie, but I reserve 5 stars for things like "Citizen Kane", and I don't feel that this movie is quite of classic stature. I find it touching, but a little too earnest and simple-minded to be a real classic. The plot has been explained repeatedly in other reviews, so I won't bother with that. And I find no fault with the performances of any of the stars of the movie -- Kostner, et al, do excellent work. My complaint is that the movie doesn't convey the "magic of baseball" -- it rather assumes that you understand (and feel) that, and proceeds from there. (At least it doesn't just milk that magic the way "The Natural" did -- that was a beautiful movie, but a total mess otherwise.) Perhaps you had to play baseball as a kid to have this sort of nostalgic feel for the game (for me it's tied up with memories of magic hour at the end of long summer afternoons and trying to play one more inning before nightfall), and while I think that the movie uses those feelings honestly and fairly, it doesn't (to me) seem to be able to recreate (or even explain) them to someone that doesn't feel this way about baseball. It's a very pretty movie, and it does a great job of giving the authentic feel of an idealized midwestern summer. I'd give it 4.5 stars if I could vote that here.
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Summary: Incredibly DUMB!!!!
Review: Allright I've read almost every review about this movie, and I must say I'm certainly surprised about how many good reviews it got. I practically fell asleep during this movie, thats how dumb and boring it was! This is one of those movies you watch that starts out slow, but like a fool you just keep watching hoping it will get better. Well I must say it did not get better it only got worse. The reason I even gave it two stars is because it had Kevin Costner in it. If your looking for a good movie you can look elsewhere. It was certainly a waste of my time. Of course thats my opinion. Like I said there were alot of people that gave this movie 5 stars.
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Summary: didn't really do it for me
Review: This movie tends to win raves from men, so this is primarily addressed to females who are interested: It's an entertaing flick, but you may be disappointed, cause it's not all that. I just didn't feel touched by the whole father/son thing, and the movie just felt overly sentimental. I give it three stars because it's not a bad movie, just one I didn't relate to. I say see One True Thing instead.
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Summary: A Great Film that Changed my Career...Sort of.
Review: Having just seen John Cusack in Say Anything a week before and followed up with Field of Dreams I just had stop selling stereo and work in movies. I said a little prayer and out of the blue two days later I got a call to work on Total Recall. I know its sounds as improbable as following a vision to build a baseball field in your cornfield but its true. But my little life is beside the point. This is a terrific film with sentiment and warmth on par with the great classics of Frank Capra. This film washes its themes of baseball and following your dreams with unabashed romance that makes you want to believe in the impossible for a couple swell hours. As much as I would like to wax nostalgic over the joys of watching Field of Dreams, I have a more important message to relay. Universal has been holding a lot of its great and not-so-great titles hostage for unreasonably high prices out of step with the rest of the marketplace for too long and its time to call them to the carpet for it. Field of Dreams is one of the worst inflation examples for a modern film as the DVD was released back in 1998. But the saddest thing is older classics and non-classics are difficult to collect. Because given the choice between buying three new films with great sound and in depth features from other studios vs. buying two older Universal titles for the same cash outlay, as much as I would like to own films like Bride of Frankenstein I tend to go for quantity and value. As one fan of Field of Dreams the message I would like to whisper in the ear of Universal DVD sales execs is "If you lower them, we will buy."
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Summary: Possibly the best. . .
Review: . . .baseball movie of all time. I saw this movie in the theatres back when it was first released (and nominated for the Academy Award). I now own it (and have for years) and re-watch it periodically. The movie succeeds on a number of levels. First, it shows great love and respect for the game of baseball -- the National Pastime. (Yes, I enjoy other sports as well -- but there is something very nearly religious about baseball -- and this shines through in the movie). Second, the cast is wonderful. This is possibly Costner's best role -- certainly his best baseball role. Amy Madigan was perfect in this picture as well, as was James Earl Jones (always a treat) and Burt Lancaster. Even Timothy Busfield (whom many of us loved to hate in "Thirtysomething")is wonderfully despicible. And Shoeless Joe could not have been depicted better. Third, the movie demonstrates what many of us truly believe in our hearts: Fairy tales are real, and dreams do, indeed, sometimes come true. Can a true lover of baseball get through this movie without emotion? Doubtful.
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Summary: Magical
Review: I am not a huge Kevin Costner fan, but this movie goes way beyond the actors. As a avid baseball fan, this movie stirs the imagination! What baseball fan doesn't dream of being Ray and have this miracle happen to them? I can't say enough about how special this movie is, it's about baseball, family, love, trust and most importantly - the love of the greatest game and it's heros! A must see!
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Summary: If you build it, etc.
Review: This classic movie is of course adapted from W.P. Kinsella's baseball novel Shoeless Joe. And it features Kevin Costner in one of his best (if not best) roles as Ray Kinsella, a struggling Iowa farmer. He hears a voice one night in the corn fields telling him to build a baseball field. Several days later, he hears the voice again and as he looks over to the field, he sees a vision of the ball field and Shoeless Joe Jackson staring back at him. He realizes he needs to build that field, so that Joe and many other old-time players can have the chance to again play the game they love. So in spite of the odds against him and everyone (except his wife played by Amy Madigan) thinking him nuts to build it, he does it anyway. He then discovers he must travel to Boston to meet reclusive 60s writer Terry Mann (James Earl Jones) and then to Minnesota to meet "Moonlight" Graham (Burt Lancaster in his last role before his death), who gave up his baseball career to become a doctor. The one thing that ties them all together is the opportunity to have that second chance to play again, and for Terry Mann to finally realize his own dreams, and for Kinsella to make amends with his dad, who he never forgave for having Shoeless Joe as his hero.... This is a movie about following your dream, in spite of how crazy and seemingly insurmountable they may be to pull off and a movie about getting that second chance to do what you previously loved or always wanted to do. It's one that makes me cry every time I watch it.
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Summary: "Is this heaven?"
Review: I think it is. When a movie come showing us the simple and in the same time fascinating side of the life, living in harmony with the nature, playing sports with family and friends, without all that complicated and grotesque felling of trying to be so profounde and in the same time scarying people so many movies did. The only thing I'm sure this is a innocent movie. People are humans, they work, they smile and they cry, and they could be happy in the most coomns moments of their life, that's all this movie is about. In the metter fact, the story is so simple, it make you think what's this movie is trying to tell you, and doing only this, you already knew this movie isn't here for money, it's here to be a truly masterpiece without trying to be for itself. Thinking of this, the answer about "is this heaven?" is, yes, it is. Heaven pure and clear. Looking into the movie in the other side, you find a wonderful soundtrack that help you fell more grateful with the movie in the most touching moments, like in the end, in particullar. Good actors and a beautiful landscape that make you wish you were there, in the middle of all that magic. The movie have great morals that goes along with the story, and right after seeing it, when the credits come, you only fell how simple was this movie and how honest and brilliant it was too.
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Summary: Field of Dreams is a fantastic movie.
Review: Just a note to those of you like myself who have seen the movie hundreds of times...look who the credits list for "the voice"... it makes a movie that I thought couldn't get any better...do just that. One of the greatest movies of all time.
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