I always enjoy watching people experience this for the first time. They think they're getting a baseball movie but instead they get a modern-day fairy tale.
'Moonlight' Graham: "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, "Well, there'll be other days." I didn't realize that that was the only day."
Me too. The tears start coming on for me then, especially when Shoeless Joe yells "Hey Rookie, you were good." That's when it starts for me and then when Ray says "Hey dad, you wanna have a catch?" That part wrecks me
There's a bit of a baseball pun in this. When Archie Graham finally does get his chance, he does fly out, but a runner tags up and scores. The score keeper would record that as a sacrifice. Like Archie's sacrifice of his career to become a Dr.
As many times as I've seen this flick, it never ceases to amaze me how damned *important* James Earl Jones is to it. Oh, AND Burt Lancaster. Just brilliant, both of 'em.
Yes Sir! Iconic. This movie, for me, gives him so much space to be an amazing actor. Voice, Face and Body. As a true thespian, a performer, an actor of actors.
Not sure if you are aware but the town folk talking to Ray about Doc Graham were not actors. They were real Chisholm residents telling true stories about Doc.
Phil Alden Robinson, who wrote the screenplay and directed, was persuaded by a female movie executive to read the book from which this was taken, but when she said it was about a farmer who heard voices and built a baseball field he initially declined but when she gently insisted he took the book home and only later when he read it all the way through he then thought, I have to make a movie of this. Ironic, as believing in yourself, your dreams, your ideas and then acting them out in the face of a world that doesn't believe is sort of one of the things its about. Robinson didn't believe at first then believed in the heart of the story and made it for everyone else to believe in. When the late Ray Liotta says to Burt Lancaster You were good, it was more than just a line in the movie it was to Burt as an actor and his career. For me its an all time great movie, up there with the best.
Well said. And I love the thought of Ray saying that to Burt but it having a truer, real-world meaning. "You were good." Simple, honest, and so much respect.
One of the few movies that is WAY better than the book. I think Doc is the real hero, he gives up his dream to play baseball (twice) and the result both times is that Doc saves people lives. Both giving up and following our dreams, is an interesting juxtaposition.
THE Last few minutes are more of a summary of events that occur over a few weeks. Terry returns, writes the book, which becomes a hit and brings the pople out.
I saw an interview with Kevin Costner. This film was made before CGI existed, so the studio put out a request to the local population to be a part of the film, by driving to the location to be part of the stream of cars at the ending.
I love how this movie doesn't explain itself - the voice, the cornfield, what are the mechanics of these spirit-ball players being able to come and play baseball before random crowds that are just going to... show up?? We don't need to know any of those things. Like Ray, we just need to accept what is in front of us, and in the end, all the pieces together show that the goal was a relationship, and no satisfied curiosity. This movie has guts. As a kid I loved it because it mystified me. As an adult, I love it because it inspires me.
Say it again for the people in the back! "As a kid I loved it because it mystified me. As an adult, I love it because it inspires me." Beautifully said. I love how it does that as well. @RaymondJohnson described it as a Fairy Tale/Fantasy. And I totally agree. This movie could have been in like 5 genres if on the shelves at a blockbuster.
To this day they’ve never revealed who did “the Voice”. Some people think it might have been Kevin Costner or Ray Liotta although I’ve also heard that it might have been Ed Harris because he was married to Amy Madigan (and still is).
Timothy Busfield was petrified to walk in front of a fastball pitch, rightfully so. So instead of rehearsals, he did the next best thing; he walked across the field with his eyes closed.
I can not imagine the anxiety of doing this for multiple rehearsals or takes. But it is such a fun shot/scene I am so glad they have it. It really sells that he doesn't see them. Nowadays they would have probably done with SFX, maybe, but the practicality makes it that much more fun to witness. Thanks for the "inside baseball" comment!
The score! And the recurring sound/musical motif. So awesome. All great soundtracks and compositions do this, but they are subtle enough to build on the imagery but big enough to be noticed, even if only subconsciously. This composition just soars, I enjoyed it so much I added tracks to a spotify playlist.
_Field of Dreams_ is the greatest 'magical realism' movie ever made. Phil Alden Robinson is a great writer. Strange that he has worked on so few movies. He worked on, _Sinatra_ for Scorsese, a film we will never see, sadly.
In 2021, on the anniversary of the movie premiere, Kevin Costner returned to Iowa with MLB, built a major league field on this same farm. He entered the field from the corn field. Made an awesome speech and they played a major league game, NY Yankees vs the Chicago White Sox. Great game. This is my favorite sports movie and my favorite actor. He did another called For the Love of the Game. Also a golf movie, Tin Cup. And of course, Bull Durham. If you search, you can find video of the FOD anniversary ceremony, game and interviews, here on RUclips. Great reaction. I don’t think men handle the emotion of the movie well. It stirs up personal memories for each individual. When shown in movie theaters in 1989, they didn’t turn the light up at the end of the movie so the guys weren’t seen crying.
Field of Dreams was all about second chances. Everyone got their chance to do something again that they regretted once in their life, including Ray playing catch with his father. Shoeless Joe Jackson got to play again. Terrance Mann got to find peace and write again (yes he was probably already dead the whole time - lol). Moonlight Graham got to bat and wink at a major league pitcher. My favorite all time movie. I cry at the end every time!
Great reaction guys! I'm late to your channel, but better late than never. I've loved this movie from it's first release in '89, and have watched it, probably annually since. Never fails to make me tear up. I have a great relationship with my father, but the movie makes me reflect on how involved he was in my life (and how much I will miss it when that's gone). I love the 'magic' of it, and that baseball is really not the main theme - it's the underlying thread to it all, but not the focus. The acting (Costner, Madigan, Hoffman (Karen), Liotta, and especially Jones & Lancaster) ALL are stellar! The music is beautiful. Plot, dialogue, mystique - it's all there - perfect family fare! Glad it was a home run for you both. Cheers!!
The scene with Ray playing catch with John, right before that, the sky is blue and early afternoon, but when they are just about to depart the sky is golden, almost like the gold background of an icon painting. So many beautiful photogenic scenes in this movie, and the dialogue - especially Doc’s and Terrance Mann’s are poetic. The music is perfect too. This is an underrated film, deserves way more acclaim.
There's a movie, "Eight Men Out," that examines the Black Sox World Series scandal. It tells most of the story why Joe Jackson and seven of his White/Black Sox teammates were banned from major league baseball for life.
I own this movie but haven't watched in awhile, cause my Dad was diagnosed with cancer and given 12-18 months but died 4 days later, so - you know. Anyways I own it & cry watching it, almost every man cries watching it, because of the unspoken undertones that we all know really thick even tho we never admit it. My Dad loved golf & baseball, I spent lots of afternoons watching Dad play baseball on our hometown 's city field, and the undertones are really deep here actually.
I actually had a unit on this movie in one of my film classes. I had already seen it, but the professor (a doctor of film actually, so that was neat) used it as, honestly, just a clinic in filmmaking. The examples of simple editing tricks (Ray starts the movie standing tall amidst the corn, then seems to be dwarfed by it after first hearing the voice), you mentioned the shots that are done at magic hour, the effectiveness of the pacing and rhythm of the storytelling, etc. Even things that are usually movie no-no’s are done well. The audience needs to know who Shoeless Joe is, and his significance, so Ray does a verbal exposition dump, but they disguise it by having it be an explanation to his daughter, and they do it economically by having it occur as a series of stories he tells throughout the construction of the field, where he also sneaks in the visualization of his destroying his crop, complete with townspeople watching, to illustrate to the audience how absolutely reckless the decision is. it’s an all-around well-made film. Also, the school-board meeting seemed so crazy to me when I was younger. It turns out that it’s basically a documentary.
This film is pure joy. I teared up watching it with you and I've probably seen it a dozen times. One of the things that particularly moves me is the score by James Horner. Some have criticized it as minimalist but I think it compliments the style of the film perfectly. Much of it was performed by Horner in post and wasn't written down. When it came time to publish the score a transcriber had to be hired so that sheet music could actually exist. A perfect coda to this magical film.
Everything about this film is so great. The story, the characters, and the dialogue, are all so perfect. It gets better when you watch it again. Not to mention you have Burt Lancaster and James Earl Jones, and all they bring with them in the same film.
Love this movie. Went to the site in 92 and got to have a catch with my dad on the field. The farm you can see in the distance throughout the movie was owned by my dads cousin during filming and it’s still in the family
Burt Lancaster was my favorite actor when I was growing up. The Swimmer is one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. He died on my 50th birthday, and I always thought it meant something. This movie had two of the best voices ever, Burt and Darth Vador.
Loved watching this reaction. Guys, it’s really okay to be emotional at the end. I’ve seen this movie at least 50 times and I weep at the end every time. Thanks for sharing your reaction!
Amy Madigan was great in this. She and the daughter, Gaby Hoffman both also appeared in 'Uncle Buck' with John Candy and Macaulay Culkin which also came out in 1989.
Burt fu**** Lancaster... mic drop. Yeah, lots to unfold in this gem that's for sure. It's got moments and moments of heart galore, so much so I rarely think of it as a 'sports' flick. Loved this watchalong with you both. I know this is a hard act to follow (for sure), but as far as sports flicks go, I'd love to see ya do Costner's Tin Cup at some point :D
I agree, I don't know if I would describe it as a sports movie. It's like a Fantasy Romantic Dramedy about growing up with regrets and having an eminence love for baseball. So much heart. Thanks, glad you enjoyed the watchalong. We will end up doing Tin Cup for sure because that was heavily recommended. I feel like we could do another sports madness in the future and just do sub-genre, golf movies! That could be fun!
@@MajorProgress Yeah, the baseball diamond is just the conduit for all this stuff to play out. Kinda like Fabulous Baker Brothers is not really a piano movie, lol. Same as Moneyball. I'm no sports fan, at all, but I honestly can't tell you how many times I've watched that 'more-than-the-sum-of-its-parts' movie. I'm glad you might fit Tin Cup in at some point. And if I may (though I'm still reeling from you checking out some of my fave picks like Layer Cake, Lock Stock etc.) if you happen to go down some other genre and can fit any of these in, that would be quite phenomenal... The Commitments Local Hero Copland Gosford Park Fabulous Baker Brothers Remains of the Day Stranger Than Fiction Cinema Paradiso (not the director's cut) Wag the Dog Sleepers (1996) 84 Charring Cross
such a rare movie!!!!! when people say " they don't make movies like this anymore", for this movie I CAN BELIEVE THAT SAYING!!!! NO CGI, NO GREEN SCREEN!!!! NO NONSENSICAL OVER THE TOP ACTION, just an amazing script, great writing, golden casting!!!!!!!! and most of all NO POLITICAL AGENDA OR WOKE IDEOLOGIES BEING PUSHED just a great story with great character development and arc, and the very rare ending payoff!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY REALLY DONT MAKE MOVIES LIKE THIS ANYMORE!!!
Field of Dreams and Bill Durham are in my top sports movies. The Replacements, Remember the Titans, Rudy, Miracle, Hoosiers, Sandlot, A League of Their Own…. But a sleeper movie that doesn’t get enough credit -a western, not a sports movie, is Silverado!
Yeah they both are stellar. I was hoping we'd get to The Replacements (maybe in the future when we come back to sports). Remember The Titans is what we end the genre/series with, I'm excited, it's one of my favorite sports movies. Rudy and Hoosiers we watch. Rudy is up. Hoosiers will be second to last. Sandlot I think we have both seen but I honestly don't remember the movie too well, but maybe in the future. A League of Their Own I believe we both have seen. Seriously such an all-star cast and an awesome movie. Silverado...? Not familiar, but it's now on the list.
Both Richard and I talked after about having lost our fathers and how this movie reminded us of our personal father/son dynamic. What it meant to not have had a moment with them, a "Lets have a catch moment." This part of the movie and the lines said hit so hard. Definitely made me emotional during and even after, it sat with me a while. I have a yearly watch list. This is going on it.
As a kid/young man the only three movies that made me cry every viewing were The Land Before Time, My Girl and E.T. Then around the age of 28, something switched and movies I went back and rewatched, I guess I reached a new emotional maturity, or unlocked something. Because now there are so many moments in movies that can get me to tear up if they hit right. This one is on another level though. Just hit the heart so hard.
@@MajorProgress end scene in Dead Poets Society, It's not your fault scene in Good Will Hunting...... Any meanless slow-motion charge to death, any father and son thing. Other than that I'm dead inside
@@spencerarnold669 Dead Poets Society, hell yes. When I first saw it, no tears, but later Good Will Hunting hit me with a few scenes. The Park bench scene, when he breaks down and fights with Skyler, the "Not Your fault" scene and Ben's monologue "The Best Part of My Day".
Deeper than people know on the surface. When shoeless joe says “ no Ray, it was you’ denotes that his power and love made this happen. Also the end credits list the voice as, him self.
A truly GREAT film. I cry every time. Not even American, nor was I fan of baseball before this (we play cricket - a game with similar tradition). The feelings this film envokes about baseball is similar to the first few chapters of Don DeLillo's novel 'Underworld'. Those chapters some of the best modern writing I've experienced. Nice reaction btw.
I've watched many reactions to this movie. This is the first time I've seen anyone remark on the song playing in the background during the feed store scene ("Crazy" - Patsy Cline 1961). But then, being involved in filmmaking you have an advantage.
Part of the weird temporal mechanics is also that none of the other players can leave the field. Keep in mind they were all in the same boat as Graham They were all brought back to their prime so they could enjoy the field. They probably could step off the field, but if they did, they'd revert back to the age at which they died.
This is one of the only films that makes me a blubbering mess. I don't cry over movies but this film does it. I was a baseball fanatic growing up. All i did was play, think and dream about baseball. I've always been a die hard Reds fan and my dad use to take me to Reds games a lot as a kid. My father, who raised me alone and i was very close with him. One of my earliest memories is my father teaching me baseball in the backyard and playing catch with me. This film hit close with me for reasons like that. One day you will play catch with your father for the last time and neither of you will realize it at the time. What would we do to have one last time to do that? I haven't watched this movie since my dad passed in 2022, not quite sure im ready. Field of Dreams is such a great film.
@@MajorProgress You ever see/remember Air America with Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr ? Art LaFleur was in that too. I remember liking that movie but haven’t seen it anywhere like cable or anything since video stores died.
Alright time for some Waylon recommendations. Sports movie I gotta go with The Replacements. Keanu Reeves, Jon Favereau, and the great Gene Hackman. Okay Western time- I think I will go with The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. For some reason this movie has really been sticking out for me recently. It isn’t the ambiguous morals of the spaghetti western but it is beautifully shot and might be John Wayne’s best western. I feel this deserves a mention just for being a classic. StageCoach(1939) really cool movie and worth a watch. One more? Alright one more. Django(1966) by Sergio Corbucci. A spaghetti western based on Fistful of Dollars and you can see the influence it had on the film. And I would say like Fistful it really is kind of guerrilla. Not as smooth as Leone and even more violent. I was actually kind of disappointed in this film as I think people over hyped it and when I finally watched it I was sort of let down. Now there are a couple things I like about it more than the Dollars movies but they aren’t big things. Alright I will stop there. Love you guys though and you always have insightful reactions.
I've never been to Wisconsin and I think it is all dairy farms. But having dairy farmers in the family, I know if you have cows you have to grow corn. A certain strain of corn called "cow corn" 🌽 to feed cows not people. It's cheaper than buying all the feed.
ARTICALE 41 SECTION 41.2 - and/or/also While watching; A Land Before Time (when the mom Long Neck protects the tiny dino clan from Big Tooth), or All Dogs Go To Heaven (the "Goodbye" scene). All Big Tears Every time. Real Talk, that "I Love You" in All Dogs, kills me every time!
I always enjoy watching people experience this for the first time. They think they're getting a baseball movie but instead they get a modern-day fairy tale.
And then tear up at the end
Completely agree. If there’s a movie to pull tears out of a man this is it.
'Moonlight' Graham: "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then I thought, "Well, there'll be other days." I didn't realize that that was the only day."
You only hear voices in cornfields because its full of ears.
"Hey dad ... wanna have a catch?" Seen that clip a thousand times and it still hits hard.
I always lose it when Moonlight steps off the field. Great performance by Burt Lancaster.
I was done! DONE!!!
Me too. The tears start coming on for me then, especially when Shoeless Joe yells "Hey Rookie, you were good." That's when it starts for me and then when Ray says "Hey dad, you wanna have a catch?" That part wrecks me
There's a bit of a baseball pun in this. When Archie Graham finally does get his chance, he does fly out, but a runner tags up and scores. The score keeper would record that as a sacrifice. Like Archie's sacrifice of his career to become a Dr.
Great reaction to an absolutely great movie.
Thank you...thank you...😌
Who's peeling onions in here?
I'm not crying! You're crying!
You're not crying, you smiling with tears. Happy... happy, painfully heartwarming tears.
People think it's a baseball movie, but it's really a movie about regret.
About regret and growing old with that regret.
As many times as I've seen this flick, it never ceases to amaze me how damned *important* James Earl Jones is to it. Oh, AND Burt Lancaster. Just brilliant, both of 'em.
Yes Sir! Iconic. This movie, for me, gives him so much space to be an amazing actor. Voice, Face and Body. As a true thespian, a performer, an actor of actors.
Not sure if you are aware but the town folk talking to Ray about Doc Graham were not actors. They were real Chisholm residents telling true stories about Doc.
What a wonderful reaction to this movie!! Best I’ve seen!
So underrated and so perfect…
Phil Alden Robinson, who wrote the screenplay and directed, was persuaded by a female movie executive to read the book from which this was taken, but when she said it was about a farmer who heard voices and built a baseball field he initially declined but when she gently insisted he took the book home and only later when he read it all the way through he then thought, I have to make a movie of this. Ironic, as believing in yourself, your dreams, your ideas and then acting them out in the face of a world that doesn't believe is sort of one of the things its about. Robinson didn't believe at first then believed in the heart of the story and made it for everyone else to believe in. When the late Ray Liotta says to Burt Lancaster You were good, it was more than just a line in the movie it was to Burt as an actor and his career. For me its an all time great movie, up there with the best.
Well said. And I love the thought of Ray saying that to Burt but it having a truer, real-world meaning. "You were good." Simple, honest, and so much respect.
Burt was a legendary actor... much underrated.
One of the few movies that is WAY better than the book. I think Doc is the real hero, he gives up his dream to play baseball (twice) and the result both times is that Doc saves people lives. Both giving up and following our dreams, is an interesting juxtaposition.
"Dog and a beer..."
THE Last few minutes are more of a summary of events that occur over a few weeks. Terry returns, writes the book, which becomes a hit and brings the pople out.
I saw an interview with Kevin Costner. This film was made before CGI existed, so the studio put out a request to the local population to be a part of the film, by driving to the location to be part of the stream of cars at the ending.
Dust getting in my eyes
I’ve always said women cry at the end of The Titanic and men cry at the end of Field of Dreams
Great reaction from both of you❤🎉
I love how this movie doesn't explain itself - the voice, the cornfield, what are the mechanics of these spirit-ball players being able to come and play baseball before random crowds that are just going to... show up?? We don't need to know any of those things. Like Ray, we just need to accept what is in front of us, and in the end, all the pieces together show that the goal was a relationship, and no satisfied curiosity. This movie has guts. As a kid I loved it because it mystified me. As an adult, I love it because it inspires me.
Say it again for the people in the back! "As a kid I loved it because it mystified me. As an adult, I love it because it inspires me." Beautifully said.
I love how it does that as well. @RaymondJohnson described it as a Fairy Tale/Fantasy. And I totally agree. This movie could have been in like 5 genres if on the shelves at a blockbuster.
To this day they’ve never revealed who did “the Voice”. Some people think it might have been Kevin Costner or Ray Liotta although I’ve also heard that it might have been Ed Harris because he was married to Amy Madigan (and still is).
Timothy Busfield was petrified to walk in front of a fastball pitch, rightfully so. So instead of rehearsals, he did the next best thing; he walked across the field with his eyes closed.
I can not imagine the anxiety of doing this for multiple rehearsals or takes. But it is such a fun shot/scene I am so glad they have it. It really sells that he doesn't see them. Nowadays they would have probably done with SFX, maybe, but the practicality makes it that much more fun to witness.
Thanks for the "inside baseball" comment!
One of the finest screenplays.
A classic James Horner score definitely takes this movie to the next level...as you folks noted multiple times.💯
The score! And the recurring sound/musical motif. So awesome. All great soundtracks and compositions do this, but they are subtle enough to build on the imagery but big enough to be noticed, even if only subconsciously. This composition just soars, I enjoyed it so much I added tracks to a spotify playlist.
It’s my favorite score. I know it’s not the best, but it’s definitely my favorite.
_Field of Dreams_ is the greatest 'magical realism' movie ever made. Phil Alden Robinson is a great writer. Strange that he has worked on so few movies. He worked on, _Sinatra_ for Scorsese, a film we will never see, sadly.
"Magical Realism", I love that, man these comments got some gems as far as quotable!
In 2021, on the anniversary of the movie premiere, Kevin Costner returned to Iowa with MLB, built a major league field on this same farm. He entered the field from the corn field. Made an awesome speech and they played a major league game, NY Yankees vs the Chicago White Sox. Great game. This is my favorite sports movie and my favorite actor. He did another called For the Love of the Game. Also a golf movie, Tin Cup. And of course, Bull Durham. If you search, you can find video of the FOD anniversary ceremony, game and interviews, here on RUclips. Great reaction. I don’t think men handle the emotion of the movie well. It stirs up personal memories for each individual. When shown in movie theaters in 1989, they didn’t turn the light up at the end of the movie so the guys weren’t seen crying.
I lost my dad to cancer a few yrs ago. I cry everytime during the end scence. What an amazng movie.
This is an amazing place to visit! Take the house tour, play catch, walk through the corn!
Field of Dreams was all about second chances. Everyone got their chance to do something again that they regretted once in their life, including Ray playing catch with his father. Shoeless Joe Jackson got to play again. Terrance Mann got to find peace and write again (yes he was probably already dead the whole time - lol). Moonlight Graham got to bat and wink at a major league pitcher. My favorite all time movie. I cry at the end every time!
Really enjoyed your reaction.
Great reaction guys! I'm late to your channel, but better late than never. I've loved this movie from it's first release in '89, and have watched it, probably annually since. Never fails to make me tear up. I have a great relationship with my father, but the movie makes me reflect on how involved he was in my life (and how much I will miss it when that's gone).
I love the 'magic' of it, and that baseball is really not the main theme - it's the underlying thread to it all, but not the focus.
The acting (Costner, Madigan, Hoffman (Karen), Liotta, and especially Jones & Lancaster) ALL are stellar! The music is beautiful. Plot, dialogue, mystique - it's all there - perfect family fare! Glad it was a home run for you both. Cheers!!
Great reaction and after thoughts. I’ve seen this movie maybe 50 times and I’m loving watching people see it for the first time.
It's not the flashiest sequence, but the editing on that game of catch is an understated masterpice.
Something like that should be understated
The scene with Ray playing catch with John, right before that, the sky is blue and early afternoon, but when they are just about to depart the sky is golden, almost like the gold background of an icon painting. So many beautiful photogenic scenes in this movie, and the dialogue - especially Doc’s and Terrance Mann’s are poetic. The music is perfect too. This is an underrated film, deserves way more acclaim.
I live in the UK and this is the film that got me to get into baseball. Did you know they recreated this game a few years back for tv?
MLB had an actual game there, I think they do it every year now. They built a second field on the site
There's a movie, "Eight Men Out," that examines the Black Sox World Series scandal. It tells most of the story why Joe Jackson and seven of his White/Black Sox teammates were banned from major league baseball for life.
I own this movie but haven't watched in awhile, cause my Dad was diagnosed with cancer and given 12-18 months but died 4 days later, so - you know. Anyways I own it & cry watching it, almost every man cries watching it, because of the unspoken undertones that we all know really thick even tho we never admit it. My Dad loved golf & baseball, I spent lots of afternoons watching Dad play baseball on our hometown 's city field, and the undertones are really deep here actually.
I really REALLY miss my Dad.
I actually had a unit on this movie in one of my film classes. I had already seen it, but the professor (a doctor of film actually, so that was neat) used it as, honestly, just a clinic in filmmaking. The examples of simple editing tricks (Ray starts the movie standing tall amidst the corn, then seems to be dwarfed by it after first hearing the voice), you mentioned the shots that are done at magic hour, the effectiveness of the pacing and rhythm of the storytelling, etc. Even things that are usually movie no-no’s are done well. The audience needs to know who Shoeless Joe is, and his significance, so Ray does a verbal exposition dump, but they disguise it by having it be an explanation to his daughter, and they do it economically by having it occur as a series of stories he tells throughout the construction of the field, where he also sneaks in the visualization of his destroying his crop, complete with townspeople watching, to illustrate to the audience how absolutely reckless the decision is.
it’s an all-around well-made film.
Also, the school-board meeting seemed so crazy to me when I was younger. It turns out that it’s basically a documentary.
Great reaction guys, very well edited
This film is pure joy. I teared up watching it with you and I've probably seen it a dozen times. One of the things that particularly moves me is the score by James Horner. Some have criticized it as minimalist but I think it compliments the style of the film perfectly. Much of it was performed by Horner in post and wasn't written down. When it came time to publish the score a transcriber had to be hired so that sheet music could actually exist. A perfect coda to this magical film.
Everything about this film is so great. The story, the characters, and the dialogue, are all so perfect. It gets better when you watch it again. Not to mention you have Burt Lancaster and James Earl Jones, and all they bring with them in the same film.
Love this movie. Went to the site in 92 and got to have a catch with my dad on the field. The farm you can see in the distance throughout the movie was owned by my dads cousin during filming and it’s still in the family
It is play catch, not have a catch. Have you ever heard anybody say that except in this movie?
2 Must see baseball tearjerkers 1. "Amazing Grace and Chuck" with Jaime Lee Curtis 2. "Pride of The Yankees" the Story of Lou Gehrig.
Burt Lancaster was my favorite actor when I was growing up. The Swimmer is one of the greatest movies I have ever seen. He died on my 50th birthday, and I always thought it meant something. This movie had two of the best voices ever, Burt and Darth Vador.
Loved watching this reaction. Guys, it’s really okay to be emotional at the end. I’ve seen this movie at least 50 times and I weep at the end every time. Thanks for sharing your reaction!
Amy Madigan was great in this. She and the daughter, Gaby Hoffman both also appeared in 'Uncle Buck' with John Candy and Macaulay Culkin which also came out in 1989.
Both were amazing!
One of the few movies that will make grown men cry
Bert Lancaster as Doc. Graham was epic. This was his last role before he died. He was a great actor and this performance was perfect.
Burt fu**** Lancaster... mic drop. Yeah, lots to unfold in this gem that's for sure. It's got moments and moments of heart galore, so much so I rarely think of it as a 'sports' flick. Loved this watchalong with you both. I know this is a hard act to follow (for sure), but as far as sports flicks go, I'd love to see ya do Costner's Tin Cup at some point :D
I agree, I don't know if I would describe it as a sports movie. It's like a Fantasy Romantic Dramedy about growing up with regrets and having an eminence love for baseball. So much heart. Thanks, glad you enjoyed the watchalong. We will end up doing Tin Cup for sure because that was heavily recommended. I feel like we could do another sports madness in the future and just do sub-genre, golf movies! That could be fun!
@@MajorProgress Yeah, the baseball diamond is just the conduit for all this stuff to play out. Kinda like Fabulous Baker Brothers is not really a piano movie, lol. Same as Moneyball. I'm no sports fan, at all, but I honestly can't tell you how many times I've watched that 'more-than-the-sum-of-its-parts' movie.
I'm glad you might fit Tin Cup in at some point. And if I may (though I'm still reeling from you checking out some of my fave picks like Layer Cake, Lock Stock etc.) if you happen to go down some other genre and can fit any of these in, that would be quite phenomenal...
The Commitments
Local Hero
Copland
Gosford Park
Fabulous Baker Brothers
Remains of the Day
Stranger Than Fiction
Cinema Paradiso (not the director's cut)
Wag the Dog
Sleepers (1996)
84 Charring Cross
he had just two scenes, and he stole the movie
such a rare movie!!!!! when people say " they don't make movies like this anymore", for this movie I CAN BELIEVE THAT SAYING!!!! NO CGI, NO GREEN SCREEN!!!! NO NONSENSICAL OVER THE TOP ACTION, just an amazing script, great writing, golden casting!!!!!!!! and most of all NO POLITICAL AGENDA OR WOKE IDEOLOGIES BEING PUSHED just a great story with great character development and arc, and the very rare ending payoff!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEY REALLY DONT MAKE MOVIES LIKE THIS ANYMORE!!!
Field of Dreams and Bill Durham are in my top sports movies. The Replacements, Remember the Titans, Rudy, Miracle, Hoosiers, Sandlot, A League of Their Own….
But a sleeper movie that doesn’t get enough credit -a western, not a sports movie, is Silverado!
Yeah they both are stellar. I was hoping we'd get to The Replacements (maybe in the future when we come back to sports). Remember The Titans is what we end the genre/series with, I'm excited, it's one of my favorite sports movies. Rudy and Hoosiers we watch. Rudy is up. Hoosiers will be second to last. Sandlot I think we have both seen but I honestly don't remember the movie too well, but maybe in the future. A League of Their Own I believe we both have seen. Seriously such an all-star cast and an awesome movie. Silverado...? Not familiar, but it's now on the list.
@@MajorProgress you’ll be shocked at the cast in Silverado!
Cry every time. Lost my Dad as well, and this movie reminds me of him. If you haven't already check out The Natural.
Both Richard and I talked after about having lost our fathers and how this movie reminded us of our personal father/son dynamic. What it meant to not have had a moment with them, a "Lets have a catch moment." This part of the movie and the lines said hit so hard. Definitely made me emotional during and even after, it sat with me a while. I have a yearly watch list. This is going on it.
Really beautiful reaction guys, thanks for sharing. Next category should be films that make grown men cry
As a kid/young man the only three movies that made me cry every viewing were The Land Before Time, My Girl and E.T. Then around the age of 28, something switched and movies I went back and rewatched, I guess I reached a new emotional maturity, or unlocked something. Because now there are so many moments in movies that can get me to tear up if they hit right. This one is on another level though. Just hit the heart so hard.
@@MajorProgress end scene in Dead Poets Society, It's not your fault scene in Good Will Hunting...... Any meanless slow-motion charge to death, any father and son thing. Other than that I'm dead inside
@@spencerarnold669 Dead Poets Society, hell yes. When I first saw it, no tears, but later Good Will Hunting hit me with a few scenes. The Park bench scene, when he breaks down and fights with Skyler, the "Not Your fault" scene and Ben's monologue "The Best Part of My Day".
Brian's Song would be on that list!
Beautiful, magical. A cool British film for you with Burt Lancaster called Local Hero.
Added to the list! Thank you.
Great heartfelt reaction, guys !!
Vin Scully of the Dodgers does a nice version of the speech about baseball.
If you gotta hear again--do that one.
L8
Deeper than people know on the surface. When shoeless joe says “ no Ray, it was you’ denotes that his power and love made this happen. Also the end credits list the voice as, him self.
Liked and subscribed. Loved your reactions ❤🎉
Thank you.
One of my favorite movies.
Now one of mine as well.
My favourite movie since I was 10, I know nothing about baseball but I don’t think it matters , thank you for reacting
Glad to hear that
Now one of my favorites! Thank you for commenting and sharing!
Love the fact you left in the edit you picking your nose and eating it. Classy.
A truly GREAT film. I cry every time. Not even American, nor was I fan of baseball before this (we play cricket - a game with similar tradition).
The feelings this film envokes about baseball is similar to the first few chapters of Don DeLillo's novel 'Underworld'. Those chapters some of the best modern writing I've experienced. Nice reaction btw.
A wonderful reaction video! So glad you enjoyed it.
I look forward to when I play catch with my dad again.
I’d like to play golf again w mine
I wanna run the 100m dash with him... and beat him. Just once.
That's such a great film that I love so much. "You NAZI cow" haha
I thought you guys would appreciate that the final shot with all the cars was practical.
Just a beautiful movie
There should be a "Kleenex box rating" for certain movies.
Hell yes! "This episode is sponsored by Kleenex. Because we're about to shed all the tears!"
I've watched many reactions to this movie. This is the first time I've seen anyone remark on the song playing in the background during the feed store scene ("Crazy" - Patsy Cline 1961). But then, being involved in filmmaking you have an advantage.
Crazy was written by Willie Nelson!
Part of the weird temporal mechanics is also that none of the other players can leave the field. Keep in mind they were all in the same boat as Graham They were all brought back to their prime so they could enjoy the field. They probably could step off the field, but if they did, they'd revert back to the age at which they died.
This is one of the only films that makes me a blubbering mess. I don't cry over movies but this film does it. I was a baseball fanatic growing up. All i did was play, think and dream about baseball. I've always been a die hard Reds fan and my dad use to take me to Reds games a lot as a kid. My father, who raised me alone and i was very close with him. One of my earliest memories is my father teaching me baseball in the backyard and playing catch with me. This film hit close with me for reasons like that. One day you will play catch with your father for the last time and neither of you will realize it at the time. What would we do to have one last time to do that? I haven't watched this movie since my dad passed in 2022, not quite sure im ready. Field of Dreams is such a great film.
@22:06 That guy is Art LaFleur, played Babe Ruth in Sandlot. Was in a bunch of big stuff. Lots of character characters. Died recently.
Yeah, he and a few others are character actors I recognize from so many films.
@@MajorProgress You ever see/remember Air America with Mel Gibson and Robert Downey Jr ? Art LaFleur was in that too. I remember liking that movie but haven’t seen it anywhere like cable or anything since video stores died.
As great as all the actors are, Burt Lancaster shows what a real movie star is all about. He owns the screen every second he’s on it.
Thanks for the video. I enjoyed it.
This was a beautiful movie. This movie, Schindler’s List and Shawshank are in a league by themselves!
Dr. Graham got his wish, for his "at bat" , but he
was needed to save Karen's life as well.😢 Is that
a double-header
or what.
A+++
Great movie ❤🎉
under rated sound track
Great job!
I once refused to play catch with dad. He was sad, and died 2 years ago. Let me go play catch with dad 😢
you should react to the movie 8 men out the story of that story of the 8 men kicked out of baseball for life
Alright time for some Waylon recommendations.
Sports movie I gotta go with The Replacements. Keanu Reeves, Jon Favereau, and the great Gene Hackman.
Okay Western time- I think I will go with The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. For some reason this movie has really been sticking out for me recently. It isn’t the ambiguous morals of the spaghetti western but it is beautifully shot and might be John Wayne’s best western.
I feel this deserves a mention just for being a classic. StageCoach(1939) really cool movie and worth a watch.
One more?
Alright one more. Django(1966) by Sergio Corbucci. A spaghetti western based on Fistful of Dollars and you can see the influence it had on the film. And I would say like Fistful it really is kind of guerrilla. Not as smooth as Leone and even more violent. I was actually kind of disappointed in this film as I think people over hyped it and when I finally watched it I was sort of let down. Now there are a couple things I like about it more than the Dollars movies but they aren’t big things.
Alright I will stop there. Love you guys though and you always have insightful reactions.
A fun sports movie...Tin Cup
Little big league as well.
Don't be ashamed, guys. In theater release, pretty much every show let out with a stream of crying dudes.
I've never been to Wisconsin and I think it is all dairy farms. But having dairy farmers in the family, I know if you have cows you have to grow corn. A certain strain of corn called "cow corn" 🌽 to feed cows not people. It's cheaper than buying all the feed.
Yep!
27:20 BRO CODE, ARTICLE 41:
"A Bro never cries."
(EXCEPTIONS: Watching Field of Dreams, E.T., or a sports legend retire.*")
ARTICALE 41 SECTION 41.2 - and/or/also While watching; A Land Before Time (when the mom Long Neck protects the tiny dino clan from Big Tooth), or All Dogs Go To Heaven (the "Goodbye" scene). All Big Tears Every time. Real Talk, that "I Love You" in All Dogs, kills me every time!
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''Hey dad? You wanna have a catch?''...
C"mon... Women have their films where they cry. We have ours.
Film makers who have never seen Field of Dreams? Ok
I think this movie emotionally hits men a little harder than it does females. As a man, I hate that :)
Why I’m sure there are films that go the other way
check out paper lion from the 60s the best ending for a sports flick.