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Summary: My favorite movie of all time
Review: After reading some of the negative reviews of this movie, I just had to comment. I will quote the drummer in my band "If you don't like this movie, You've got a hole in your soul and you don't eat chicken on Sunday! " In other words, you're hard-hearted and anti-American! This movie is most definitely NOT about baseball. It's about coming to terms with your emotions. It's about realizing that life is too short to walk around like a mind-numb robot, with no feelings or passion. Laugh if you want, but I cry at movies. I cannot watch the famous "catch" ending without crying my heart out. I realize that it's just a story. But it touches me on several levels. A "feel-good" movie? Sure, and what the heck is wrong with that? Do I wanna pay to watch something that makes me feel bad? NO. Baseball inacuracies? SO WHAT! That's not the point! The point is: Live life to the fullest, chase after your dream. Just LIVE IT! Remember, life is short.
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Summary: Will make you miss your Daddy, even if you hated him.
Review: I watched this movie while doing a medical study. I was in a room with a about ten guys. It made me laugh to see them all try to hold back there tears at the end. Some buried there face in the table, some made big gulps, a few just got up and left, and one just sat there wiping his eyes. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go tell my Dad I love him.
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Summary: One of Top Movies Ever
Review: This truly is one of the best movies of all time. Why?
Because it brought in a whole new perspective on baseball,
with a lot of care, blended in a story that touches us all---
whether we ever picked up a glove or "had a catch" in our life.
That is the story of a man who drew away from his father, further and further, and never had a chance to reconcile before dad died. In this movie, he gets another chance, and in our lives, each of us, we all get another chance to start again, and remember, and follow our dreams.
My wife Chris and I live in the farthest north city in the U.S. ---Barrow, Alaska, and virtually every summer we travel over 3000 miles to go to Dyersville, Iowa, to the great town it is---and also out to the field. We meet people from all over the world, who keep coming, way after the movie has come and gone. We all talk about baseball, and our dads, and sometimes how great the corn looks all around the outfield.
Give this movie a try, if you've missed it all these years. Relax with some loved ones, and maybe your old baseball or softball glove, and check it out together.
I'll bet you won't be disappointed. In fact, as some reviewers have noted, it may change your life."
Go the distance!!!!!!!!!!
Earl
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Summary: Where's the Yanni Soundtrack?
Review: What a bunch of new age tripe. The most superficial, "feel-good" nonsense I've seen since - well, I can't remember. Added to a terrible script and across the board overacting is one of the worst cinematic depictions of baseball. If Ray Liotta ever played a game of ball in his life, it doesn't show. He couldn't play tee-ball. The rest of the "players" were equally bad. In addition to actors who couldn't make a bad rec softball team, the attention to detail was horrible. Ray Liotta's Joe Jackson "hits" righthanded, while the real Joe hit lefthanded. They mispronounce Eddie Cicotte's name. I could go on, but won't. Simply horrible. You want a great baseball movie, get Bull Durham, The Natural or Eight Men Out. You want a Lifetime TV movie, get this.
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Summary: A baseball film for the ages
Review: Baseball is and always will be the greatest American game, and no film has brought the passion of baseball to light like Field of Dreams. However, this film is more than that: it is a story of ghosts, of fathers and sons, and reconnecting hopes and dreams together. Kevin Costner, is a terrific and wholly believable performance, plays Ray Kinsella, a former hippie and current Iowa farmer, living with his wife, Annie (Amy Madigan) and daughter Karen (Gaby Hoffmann). As he walks through his cornfields one day, he hears a voice that says to him: "If you build it, he will come." Costner interprets this message to mean that he should build a baseball field in the middle of his farm, even though it would mean a terrible financial loss. From there, the story takes twists and turns involving the writer Terrence Mann, the great, but shamed baseball star Shoeless Joe Jackson, and others. Most of all, though, this film is about second chances. Without giving away too much, it should be said that Phil Alden Robinson, who both brilliantly wrote and directed this film, manages to takes the very best emotions from the game and merges them with the importance of family, redemption, and even magic. This is truly a classic film that should stand as among the greatest film of time. Vote: 10
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Summary: Simply the best
Review: Fantasies come and fantasies go in the movie business but this movie will rank forever as one of the best. It is about as understated and sublime as a movie can get. Fine music, great acting, a superb story, and the happiest ending a movie could aspire to make this a must in any collection. If you can, get it in DVD. It is just that much better.
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Summary: Okay, I admit it
Review: I love this movie. I don't really know why. I think it may be my complete fanatical devotion to baseball, particularly to Shoeless Joe. I must say that Ray Liotta does a PHENOMENAL job portraying this character (gotta love those eyes,) but is often overlooked because of bigger names and parts like Kevin Costner and James Earl Jones. Though there are a few historical inaccuracies, I really enjoy this movie. I remember watching it when I was 9 and it first came out. I still love it. I love the book, I love the movie. It's that simple. It's a simple movie with the family values and devotion and then there is all sorts of symbolism and all that good stuff, but it's also just a fun baseball movie. Fans of Shoeless Joe and the 1919 Black Sox scandal will like it too.
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Summary: Touching
Review: This movie is my favorite movie of all time. I cry like a baby (honestly) just THINKING about when Ray says, "Hey, Dad, wanna have a catch?" I have that movie sound clip on my desktop and listen to it at least every day. But it's not just that that makes this movie special. Burt Lancaster's performance is absolutely breathtaking. James Earl Jones as well. To those who call this movie "syrupy" and "overblown" all I can say is that your hearts are black. It's a baseball movie, a father-son movie, a movie about passion and hope, etc. etc. Beautiful in every way.
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Summary: Incredibly Moving
Review: This movie is definitely for guys. But I know a lot of guys who will cry watching this movie including myself. It's such a wonderful film. So much symbolism. I have watched it about 60 times total and still get teary near the end when Ray is having a catch w/ his father. Not too much more I can say about it, but AWESOME!
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Summary: My Favorite All-Time Movie
Review: This is my absolute favorite movie of all time. It is so simple, and at the same time so complex. It is whimsical, funny, emotional and probably the best "feel good about life" movie of the past decade. This is Kevin Costner's best film. He is wonderfully believable as Ray Kinsella. The cinemetography and soundtrack go perfectly together with what the story is trying to accomplish. I feel very strongly about what this movie is trying to say and I will always cherish this film. One of the all-time greats.
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