BigDMcGee 3,352 Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Yeah, I get what you're saying but I don't really care about how much critics gush about it. A bunch of stoner douchebags gush over The Big Lebowski but it's still my favrotie movie Durham is legitimately funny, it's poignant, it captures the spirit of minor league toiling. The only points you can take from it is what a sissy Tim Robbins throws like Link to post Share on other sites
StormDeal 0 Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 There is a 3rd Kevin Costner baseball movie where he plays an aging Detroit Tigers pitcher. Pretty decent movie but I can not think of the title. OK just looked it up For Love of the Game. Worth seeing. Link to post Share on other sites
Cha! Cha! 628 Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 In the history of the cinema, there has never been a baseball movie ever made that is worse than 'average', demonstrating the the baseball movie sub-genre is a P4P movie great. Â How do you think the boxing movie genre stacks up to baseball movies? Â I think every other sport has mostly bad movies, but boxing has a lot of good ones. Link to post Share on other sites
YonYonson 156 Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 Raging Bull Rocky 4 Rocky 3 Â Â Â Rocky Rocky 2 Link to post Share on other sites
Cha! Cha! 628 Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 When We Were Kings   Although that's a documentary. Do those count for these lists? Link to post Share on other sites
Dubey 1,035 Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 How do you think the boxing movie genre stacks up to baseball movies? Â I think every other sport has mostly bad movies, but boxing has a lot of good ones. Â I think Baseball and Boxing are probably the "easiest" sports to realistically portray on screen. Every boxer has many built in story lines that make them a great fit for the world of film, plus the inherent underdog aspect of most Boxer's careers translates very well to film. Link to post Share on other sites
Dubey 1,035 Posted August 9, 2013 Share Posted August 9, 2013 I would say "sports documentaries" should be a sub category. Link to post Share on other sites
AmScray 355 Posted August 10, 2013 Author Share Posted August 10, 2013 Went out to various pawn shops looking for baseball movie DVDs. Â Wound up getting The Sandlot and A League of their Own for $2 each. Â Burned about $15 in gas and $5 in parking in the process but its the first time I've left the house in about a week, so at least something inspired me to finally take a shower. This chair I've been sitting on is getting so disgusing, I'll probably have to throw it away and make another one. Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,352 Posted August 10, 2013 Share Posted August 10, 2013 Raging Bull Rocky 4 Rocky 3 Â Â Â Rocky Rocky 2 Â The Fighter needs in there. Your boy was quite good in it Link to post Share on other sites
Cha! Cha! 628 Posted August 13, 2013 Share Posted August 13, 2013 1 Link to post Share on other sites
AmScray 355 Posted August 13, 2013 Author Share Posted August 13, 2013 Of course foriegn films do not count, however that clip does nothing to undermine the theory. Link to post Share on other sites
brvheart 1,752 Posted August 14, 2013 Share Posted August 14, 2013 however that clip does nothing to undermine the theory. Â Oh. You might need to watch that again. Link to post Share on other sites
AmScray 355 Posted August 14, 2013 Author Share Posted August 14, 2013 Oh. You might need to watch that again. Â It's an Asian allegory about their perception of Negroes in professional sports. It stands up. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
CobaltBlue 662 Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 The music selection in that trailer is kind of hilarious. Â Does Ken Burns' Baseball count for the list? Â Not that they'd make top 5, but The Scout and The Fan haven't been mentioned. Â Also, Major League 2 is actually one of quite a few films where I've seen the sequel far more times than the first. I'm guessing I've seen it 5 times, whereas I've only seen Major League once. The same goes for Short Circuit 2 (half a dozen times)...Short Circuit once. Weekend at Bernie's 2 (half a dozen times)...never seen Weekend at Bernie's. It's funny because nowadays I basically refuse to watch a sequel without seeing the prior movie(s). Apparently as a kid, I had no qualms. Link to post Share on other sites
NickCave 194 Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 Does Ken Burns' Baseball count for the list? Â Finally. I've been waiting for since the evening of 7 August 2013 for some asshole to suggest Baseball, because, no motherfucker, it quite obviously does NOT count. It's 20 hours long and it aired in like 10 installments on PBS. It's not a film. It's not a movie. Â CONGRATULATIONS YOU KNOW WHO KEN BURNS IS. There's a reason nobody else felt the need to mention it. God dammit I just finished moving and every single time I have to move it is the Holocaust and I want nothing more than to pay it forward by being party to a pogrom right now where all 30 million victims are you. Â 61* was not a generally considered a classically great baseball film, but it is really underrated. Barry Pepper and Tom Jane have chops. If I'm being honest, I really think it makes my top 5 baseball movies list. Not sure what that list is, right now, because my brain is distracted by the image of Cobalt being flayed alive and forced to eat his own skin for food, but I can't think of 5 baseball movies I like better Link to post Share on other sites
CobaltBlue 662 Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 Â "A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images." ? Â I just watched it within the past year...felt like a documentary film series to me. Â I wasn't bragging about knowing who Ken Burns is. I haven't seen his other stuff aside from some clips of Civil War. I will say that I really enjoy things mocking the Ken Burns documentary style...like that South Park episode about Civil War re-enactment or the pillow fight Community episode. Link to post Share on other sites
NickCave 194 Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 Â "A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images." ? Â I just watched it within the past year...felt like a documentary film series to me. Â I wasn't bragging about knowing who Ken Burns is. I haven't seen his other stuff aside from some clips of Civil War. I will say that I really enjoy things mocking the Ken Burns documentary style...like that South Park episode about Civil War re-enactment or the pillow fight Community episode. Â We're going to take a vote. Â Who thinks Cobalt helped himself with this post? Â Who thinks he hurt himself? Â Â (0) (1) Link to post Share on other sites
BigDMcGee 3,352 Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 I am going to have to back Cobalt up here. Not in the sense that it's a movie, because you know, it's not. I wouldn't put any documentary on my list, apples and oranges. BUt I will say that Ken Burns horrible nostalgia mongering is absolutely perfect for the type of memorabilia junkie and historical fetishist that baseball seems to attract ( I'm looking at you here, Scram). Â So, while I watched very little of Burns Baseball and his kind of documentary I find odious, I think it Baseball is perfect for his style of film and I'm certain many baseball fans masturbate to it, so I don't think Colbalt is too far out of line for suggesting it. Link to post Share on other sites
Dubey 1,035 Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 I can safely say that my opinion of Cobalt has not changed as a result of his post that OUTRAGEOUSLY suggested that a Baseball miniseries should be in consideration for an unofficial list of top 5 baseball movies on a poker forum. 2 Link to post Share on other sites
brvheart 1,752 Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 I vote Cobalt  Current tally:  Cobalt (3) Nick (1) Link to post Share on other sites
Iphonenkinder 558 Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 Two suggestions:  Start another account for "Nick Fury." Regulate the PED  For me, Bull Durham is the best baseball movie, Sugar is the best film.  A couple of posts back there was some Rocky talk, but Rocky Balboa was omitted. This is a false construct.  Rocky Rocky Balboa  Rocky 2, then who cares what order Link to post Share on other sites
brvheart 1,752 Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 (4) (1) Link to post Share on other sites
Cha! Cha! 628 Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 I don't really understand brvheart's tally. Â The question was whether Cobalt helped himself with a particular post. Namely the one that stated "'A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images.' ?" Â Which is utterly ridiculous. Nobody actually defines a movie that way. Link to post Share on other sites
brvheart 1,752 Posted August 15, 2013 Share Posted August 15, 2013 (4) (2) Link to post Share on other sites
AmScray 355 Posted August 15, 2013 Author Share Posted August 15, 2013 Are we voting on whether Cobalt helped himself with that post, or whether Ken Burns Baseball counts? Link to post Share on other sites
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