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Summary: a good film
Review: i thought this film was good.Kevin Costner did a good solid job.it was cool having James Earl Jones in this film.a baseball field and the spirits.good and just in time for the baseball season.
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Summary: Not about baseball, but about its transcendence...
Review: The movie is not so much about baseball, but about its transcendence into something that is more ... something than blankets your life from childhood to old age like an old trusted blanket.The movie is about dreams, it is about lost opportunities, it is about redemption. For those who have had a parent where baseball was a common thread in their relationship, this movie will touch you doubly. For those who know nothing of baseball, they can find find relation in it, simply because it is a metaphor for those threads that bind us to the people we love.
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Summary: The definition of baseball
Review: I think it's great to see so many people writing about how great this film is. Other than Amy Madigan (who plays Ray's wife), the acting is great. One thing I feel compelled to point out though - many people make the mistake of saying this film is not about baseball. True, one need not be a baseball fan to enjoy this film. However, this film is most definitely about baseball because baseball itself is about so much more than just sports. Field of Dreams, simply put, is baseball. It's hard to believe that such a film, a definition about baseball as it were, did not exist until 1989. The poetry and passion of this sport is not easily put into words, or into music, but this film did it. It encapsulates everything baseball has been, is, and will be. It is a testimony to the romance of the game, the impossibility and possibility of the odyssey, the ode to the journey home. Field of Dreams is, in many ways, a brilliant film. Even thick skinned beer sipping "I won't shed a tear while I'm flexing my muscles" baseball fans love this movie. Like Wizard of Oz, this film is essentially a journey of self-discovery. Ray ultimately realizes that "the voice" was his own, yet while on his journey he brings (back) to life so many others' lost dreams. And the dreams are rediscovered and unattainable hopes are reconciled at the greatest of all the world's wonders, the baseball diamond.
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Summary: Great Movie
Review: This is a great baseball fantasy about following your gut feeling, no matter what anyone else tells you. Traditional baseball fans will love it. Much better than those other sports movies full of dumb "jock" humor, phony action sequences & slo-mo.
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Summary: It's gets better every time you watch it.
Review: Every time I watch this movie I always find something new. I could list all the things I found but I'll probably be writing for days. One of the best baseball films of all time. This is probably Costner's best role ever. Liotta is wonderful as Shoeless Joe.
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Summary: A cry for yesterday
Review: This movie should appeal to every baseball purist and nostalgic american out there. It cuts to the core of the american relationship between fathers and sons. It is about simpilar times, and apple pie dreams. For anyone out there whose ever dreamt about a major league at bat, or yearned to act freely upon an emotion, here is your salvation. "Baseball, Ray, Baseball. It reminds us of what was good, and can be again."
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Summary: Truly One of the Best Movies Ever Made
Review: If any one of the many movies Kevin Costner has made established him as a major box office star, it would have to be this one (although Dances With Wolves ranks a very close second). As I've mentioned to many of my friends, when you mix Costner with Iowa and baseball you have a entertainment trifecta (of course I grew up in Iowa so I may be prejudiced). This movie is superb and succeeds on every level. It's a beautiful story of hope and redemption. Costner plays the Iowa farmer portrayed in W. P. Kinsella's novel with just the right amount of wide-eyed wonder mixed with a spirit of adventure. Amy Madigan is also well cast as his wife Annie. I only wish my wife were as indulgent of my crazy ideas. Although I disagree with a previous customer reviewer who thoroughly trashed this picture, I do agree with him that Tim Busfield was irritating (as he is in virtually every movie or TV show in which I've ever seen him). Two or three really great scenes stand out in "Field of Dreams". James Earl Jones' speech about baseball is one of those classic pieces of solliloquy in motion pictures that people will remember 50 years from now, right up there with "here's looking at you, kid" from Casablanca. The scene near the end of the movie where Ray plays catch with his father is enough to bring a tear to the eye of every man, and the wistfulness of a time gone by that Burt Lancaster shows us as "Moonlight Graham" is simply elegant. I often think about what I would personally rate as the top ten movies I've ever seen in my life, and I have to say that the top spot on my list is a tossup between this movie and "Pleasantville". Perhaps I'll watch "Field of Dreams" this weekend and think about it some more.
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Summary: It's not a baseball movie
Review: This is the kind of film that you can point to as an example of good movie-making in that it is relatively simple by production standards of the day, has a good cast, and tells a great story. In my entire life, this is the only movie that ever made me cry, and yes, I will admit that freely. While the movie uses baseball as it's main hook to get you in, the theme is actually on a more human level. Anyone who thinks this movie is sappy or contrived must have issues that need to be worked out. I first saw it because I was a fan of the original book and I am also a big baseball fan, but I realized that the movie's tone was so different from the book (not better, just different)and what the movie is really about is fathers and sons. That's what gets me, each and every time. I usually end up calling my dad after every viewing, just because this movie makes me realize how lucky I was and still am.
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Summary: Why the gush?
Review: "Is this heaven?" "No, it's Iowa." No, it's purgatory, movie-going purgatory. Push the obligatory Norman Rockwellesque buttons, slather on the schmaltz with a trowel, throw in the cute-as-a-button little kid, stir well ... Kevin Costner is wooden, Amy Madigan is brain-dead, Timothy Busfield is at his annoying worst (or is it best?). For a decent baseball flick, how about "Bull Durham" or "The Natural"? As the movie sez "Ease his pain". Yeah. Let the viewer go.
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Summary: One of the Best Movies I've Ever Seen
Review: This is probably my all-time favorite movie; however, people who are not idealistic may not appreciate its message. It's a movie of hope, love, and how dreams do come true. The subtle but wonderful special effects are true genius. I've probably watched this movie at least seven times, and when I get the time, I'll watch it seven more. The combination of James Earl Jones and Kevin Costner is a stroke of casting genius. These wonderful actors play well off each other. It's that rare movie that you can't leave even to get popcorn; however, with a vcr, you don't have to worry about that. I would recommend this to anyone at almost any age. I feel that this movie is in the same league as Gone With the Wind and Ghandi.
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