December 21, 2024:
2016 Topps Archives Bull Durham #BD-NL Nuke LaLoosh
Bull Durham is not on my list of favorite baseball movies. Sorry.
It's probably a matter of not seeing it early enough in life. This doesn't mean it's not a good movie, it just doesn't hold a place in my heart.
That place is reserved for Field of Dreams. That's a film I know forwards and backwards, and the sentiment gets me every time.
My other confession?
I don't think Major League is that great, either.
Bob Uecker!
County Stadium!
I don't know, it just never really clicked for me. I know it's a classic, and if you like it, I can understand why. It's not you, it's not the movie, it's me.
I've never seen The Sandlot.
At the time, that was a movie for little kids. Once I saw Goodfellas, there was no turning back.
The Bad News Bears is great.
Am I redeeming myself?
While I've got your attention, can I recommend Bang the Drum Slowly and Fear Strikes Out?
I own both movies, great character studies made by Paramount. See them if you haven't yet.
And how about For Love of the Game? Just an awful title (the phrase is botched), but a good film. A guy is having an existential crisis while pitching a perfect game? Until they make a prestige Dock Ellis biopic, this is what we have to live with.
Go ahead, call me a monster.
I'll have my feet up watching Tom Selleck in Mr. Baseball.
Bull Durham is overrated.
ReplyDeleteField of Dreams is worse.
Major League is a classic.
Haven't seen The Sandlot or Bad News Bears.
Haven't seen either of those silent era movies you like.
Hard pass on For Love of the Game. I don't need to see it to know it's just as corny as Field of Dreams.
Haven't seen Mr. Baseball.
I feel you about Bull Durham. I tried to sit through it once in my ‘20’s and couldn’t connect with it. Plus the name ‘Nuke LaLoosh’ just sounds made up. Sandlot is overrated. Major League is classic, as is Field of Dreams. Field of Dreams really went from boring to great for me when I grew up some and had a kid. For the love of the Game is ok, but hard to follow for me with all of the flashbacks. Never seen Mr. Baseball, Bang the Drum, or Fear Strikes Out.
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