The Natural, Money Ball, Field of Dreams, The Sandlot, Major League, and For Love of the Game are the best baseball movies ever made. The greatest sports movie IMO us Rocky followed by Rudy and any of the top 3 baseball movies I named in any order.
Brimley was awesome, but I've always admired Richard Farnsworth as the understated sidekick who clearly and quietly understands and supports his manager, and who quietly advises his boss as needed. The following scene, where Red awkwardly tries to make conversation over a get-to-know-you dinner with Hobbs was also awesome. Both men played their roles to perfection.
He's great. His is so much a great supporting role that if you don't look right at him, he is just part of the mosaic. If you watch this scene a couple of times, you can see that his character has heard this rant a hundred times, and you're right there with him, and he's trying to get Pop to do something to get him and the team out of that rut.
I love it when Pop rants and rants, and finally he says that his mom died, and Farnsworth just says, “tough.” So many ways to take that one word the way he says it. You don’t know if he’s being sarcastic or supportive or just giving an “uh-huh” kind of response. One of my favorite lines in the movie.
@@deliaguzman1138 It's great because it captures the relationship between the men. The mildly sarcastic "Tough" is Red's "uh huh" or "I hear you" to a dear friend who's griping to let off steam in a bad moment, the minimum noise to make to show you're "engaged" in what is more of a frustrated rant than a real conversation. The bored way he says "Tough" also shows he's heard this precise rant probably dozens of times before during bad days with a last place team. There's so much going on, and it's both a well-written as well as a well-acted scene.
Point of view is an amazing thing. From Hobbs’ POV, the one we are meant to relate to, you have the story of a man finally living his dream after 20 years of being sidetracked. From Pop’s, it’s an angel from heaven, sent at his hour of need to justify and save his entire life’s work. Both make for an amazing story!
Now that you mention it --- he's got a LOT of good scenes spanning 3 decades or more. Off the top of my head: THE CHINA SYNDROME, THE THING, ABSENCE OF MALICE, COCOON, THE NATURAL, THE FIRM. Eat your oatmeal, beeeeeotches.
One of the best sports movies ever made. Excellent cast by Redford, Duvall, McGavin. Levinson never directed better, Caleb Deschanel gorgeous photography. They changed the ending, but they had to. This might be Redford's finest performance.
Wilford Brimley stole this movie. A brilliant combination of irascible, angry, and cantankerous. But the way he goes from disliking Roy from the beginning to warming up to him to flat out admiring him is one of the best story arcs in the movie. Pop Fisher is ranting at the beginning of this scene about how "I shoulda been a farmer" not realising that the guy who just walked into the dugout with a trombone case is the epitome of the midwestern farm boy.
The same happened with James Earl Jones, delivering the greatest baseball speech in movie history as Terrence Mann in Field Of Dreams, although Jones isn't a baseball fan. He also played Leon Carter, based on Josh Gibson, in The Bingo Long Travelling All Stars And Motor Kings ! and was excellent at it.
My daughter graduated from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Unbeknownst to me, found out that Robert Redford played baseball for them and may have even been on a scholarship there. There's no CGI in play when it comes to him connecting with a ball ( however the distance may come into question). Great movie.
I remember finding an early Twilight Zone episode, where Robert Redford shows up at the door of an old woman in an apartment. She discerns that he's probably death who's come to claim her--you know, to die. He has to put on a good showing, to convince her it will be alright afterwards. He was so young in that part. But, even so he was very convincing If that could have been done any better, by anyone else, I don't know how. I seem to remember that I read an article in a popular magazine somewhere. It could have been Time, or Newsweek. No matter. It said women liked him because of good looks. And, men liked him because in spite of the looks, he wasn't threatening to them. I have to agree with all of that. He was believable in his roles. And, men didn't seem to mind going to Robert Redford movies with their wives. Every time I see a movie these days, I think about the fact that we're mortal, and our days are numbered. I wish Redford had made more movies. I consider him to be irreplaceable.
This is just a GREAT movie in every way!!! In my to 25 All Time! (BTW - do not read the book - EVER! You know how everyone always says, "the book was better!" this is THE exception to that rule! )
They could make a great movie out of the book the way it is written, but not with St Bob. The book is very good, it is a tale of a fall from grace and corruption with some redemption but at the end Roy strikes out.
Brimley is only 2 years older than Redford….I remember the exact theater where I saw this movie. It was a rainy day and I skipped a class in college to see it.
Hinkle did in fact “come on” and batted .426 the rest of the way to lead the NL with 126 RBI’s and vault the Knights from 8th to 7th. Let’s get serious: the Angels couldn’t get to .500 with Trout and Ohtani. If one great player was all it took to make a team great, Indian Bob Johnson would’ve participated in several World Series.
@Venturakid Gene is such a good actor. They really should have gotten Robert Redford or Al Pacino.But Hackman just nails his part here in Hoosiers. Great baseball movie. I heard The Natural is a great movie about basketball.
The judge signed his own death warrant with that contract. You knew he also thought that scout had lost his mind, and he couldn’t wait to sign another bum for this team.
I've always taken that to be "Hebrew, " a nod to Bernard Malumud being Jewish. The line is not in the book however, nor is the Hollywood ending for that matter, though one can argue that Hobbs striking out in the novel and being forced out of baseball is a happy ending, because his doctor had told him he would die if he kept playing, and thus would not be able to raise his son.
Bull duram is overrated. For the love of the game is kinda weird Moneyball still too new. Major league #3. Bob ucher is hilarious. The natural # 2 Feild of dreams #1 Kevin Costner makes my list only once.
Field of Dreams is not a baseball movie. Bull Durham is a movie about the love of the game, and for that reason alone, it is probably the best of them all.
While field of dreams is a superior film in many regards, this is the better “baseball” film. This film is the legend, the dream, the magic of baseball. This is the embodiment of why baseball is what it is. It’s the myth, baseball’s odyssey.
You forgot The Sandlot. From 1984-1993 was a sick baseball run.. The Natural, Bull Durham, Eight Men Out, Field of Dreams, Major League, The Sandlot. Even had movies like Rookie of the Year, Little Big League, and Angels in the Outfield. Not to mention Naked Gun had a big baseball component.
Looks like the stands at an Oakland A's game. Liberal politicians ruined the City of Oakland and cheap owners ruined the baseball team. No sane person wants to go to Oakland to watch a bad team play in an 3rd World city....
47 year old actor pretends to play 19 year old pitcher who strikes out another 47 year old actor pretending to be a 35 year old best player in baseball. Then the 19 (but really 47 ) year old gets seduced by an older woman, who is actually ten years younger than the not really 19 year old. Worst casting in a sports movie ever.
You need to overlook the Hobbes pitching sequence, but get real, Redford playing a 37 year old was hardly a stretch, especially in the period where people looked older at much younger ages.
This is easily one of the most overrated movies in the history of cinema. It’s slow paced. The dramatic parts are so fake that it’s absolutely ridiculous.
My dears, what’s your favourite baseball movie?
Moneyball
This one - "The Natural," the only one that gets the mythology of the game, which is what it's all about.
While I have always enjoyed The Natural, my favorite is Bull Durham. It's even funnier than Wilford Brimley talking about farming.
Loved a league of their own!!!
Bad News Bears
The best baseball movie ever made. It has sports, a little fantasy, and a love story all mixed into one movie. An absolute masterpiece.
So does Major League.
@@dovbarleib3256 So does Field of Dreams
@@brucebrown3837 So does Angels in the Outfield.
The Natural, Money Ball, Field of Dreams, The Sandlot, Major League, and For Love of the Game are the best baseball movies ever made. The greatest sports movie IMO us Rocky followed by Rudy and any of the top 3 baseball movies I named in any order.
Three tremendous actors in this movie, Brimley, Redford and Farnsworth.
Such a graceful, elegant film. 'History' filmed like history, the glow of memory cast over it. Nearly perfect...
Fantastic acting.. just a simple monologue!!!!!!! Rare sight in today's movies
Brimley was awesome, but I've always admired Richard Farnsworth as the understated sidekick who clearly and quietly understands and supports his manager, and who quietly advises his boss as needed. The following scene, where Red awkwardly tries to make conversation over a get-to-know-you dinner with Hobbs was also awesome. Both men played their roles to perfection.
He's great. His is so much a great supporting role that if you don't look right at him, he is just part of the mosaic. If you watch this scene a couple of times, you can see that his character has heard this rant a hundred times, and you're right there with him, and he's trying to get Pop to do something to get him and the team out of that rut.
I love it when Pop rants and rants, and finally he says that his mom died, and Farnsworth just says, “tough.” So many ways to take that one word the way he says it. You don’t know if he’s being sarcastic or supportive or just giving an “uh-huh” kind of response. One of my favorite lines in the movie.
@@deliaguzman1138 It's great because it captures the relationship between the men. The mildly sarcastic "Tough" is Red's "uh huh" or "I hear you" to a dear friend who's griping to let off steam in a bad moment, the minimum noise to make to show you're "engaged" in what is more of a frustrated rant than a real conversation. The bored way he says "Tough" also shows he's heard this precise rant probably dozens of times before during bad days with a last place team. There's so much going on, and it's both a well-written as well as a well-acted scene.
Yeah, Perfect acting by both. Bench coach and crazy old manager.
Couldn't agree more. Farnsworth plays it perfectly.
Richard Farnsworth (Red) was such an awesome character actor. I loved the guy in The Natural & even more in Misery (1990).
One of if not the best baseball movie ever made:) The ending scene still makes my neck hair stand up!!!
Point of view is an amazing thing. From Hobbs’ POV, the one we are meant to relate to, you have the story of a man finally living his dream after 20 years of being sidetracked. From Pop’s, it’s an angel from heaven, sent at his hour of need to justify and save his entire life’s work. Both make for an amazing story!
Wilford Brimley's best scene, bar none, in any movie he ever did. He just knocked the cover off of the ball.
Now that you mention it --- he's got a LOT of good scenes spanning 3 decades or more. Off the top of my head: THE CHINA SYNDROME, THE THING, ABSENCE OF MALICE, COCOON, THE NATURAL, THE FIRM.
Eat your oatmeal, beeeeeotches.
He was awfully good in "Absence of Malice" too! (Despite his limited role.)
He was really good in “The Electric Horseman” and “The China Syndrome” as well.
One of the best sports movies ever made. Excellent cast by Redford, Duvall, McGavin. Levinson never directed better, Caleb Deschanel gorgeous photography. They changed the ending, but they had to. This might be Redford's finest performance.
That was cinematic brilliance. Willard Brimley love that guy
Wilford Brimley stole this movie. A brilliant combination of irascible, angry, and cantankerous. But the way he goes from disliking Roy from the beginning to warming up to him to flat out admiring him is one of the best story arcs in the movie. Pop Fisher is ranting at the beginning of this scene about how "I shoulda been a farmer" not realising that the guy who just walked into the dugout with a trombone case is the epitome of the midwestern farm boy.
Farnsworth in "The Straight Story" was amazing. If you've never seen that movie, put it on your bucket list.
You got it.
One of the greatest sports movies ever made and this is coming from a guy that doesn’t even like baseball.
The same happened with James Earl Jones, delivering the greatest baseball speech in movie history as Terrence Mann in Field Of Dreams, although Jones isn't a baseball fan. He also played Leon Carter, based on Josh Gibson, in The Bingo Long Travelling All Stars And Motor Kings ! and was excellent at it.
One of the best films ever made
The best baseball movie ever made. The ending is the best kind of movie magic.
O brilliant, semi mythical, sports movie.
One of my favourites.
My daughter graduated from the University of Colorado in Boulder. Unbeknownst to me, found out that Robert Redford played baseball for them and may have even been on a scholarship there. There's no CGI in play when it comes to him connecting with a ball ( however the distance may come into question). Great movie.
Perfectly cast, wonderful film
Wilford Brimley delivering such lines that he often outshines our hero. Batting practice?
Probably the best baseball movie I have ever seen and I play cricket
A lot of hitting for sixes to coin a phrase.
@@Snoopydad No never hit a six in my playing days I was just there to make up the numbers
I loved Reds character and performance in Misery.
Outstanding scene! One of the best of all sports movies.
With this film, all the planets of the universe aligned perfectly ❤❤
TRULY the BEST baseball movie EVER MADE!👏👏👏👏👏
Field of Dreams, just as good, if not a little better, because of the tearful ending. "DAD, DO YOU WANNA HAVE A CATCH??"
It's never just another title. It's memories immortalized.
Magic
Best damn hitter i ever seen.
Peace ✌️ 2024
I remember finding an early Twilight Zone episode, where Robert Redford shows up at the door of an old woman in an apartment.
She discerns that he's probably death who's come to claim her--you know, to die.
He has to put on a good showing, to convince her it will be alright afterwards.
He was so young in that part. But, even so he was very convincing
If that could have been done any better, by anyone else, I don't know how.
I seem to remember that I read an article in a popular magazine somewhere. It could have been Time, or Newsweek.
No matter.
It said women liked him because of good looks. And, men liked him because in spite of the looks, he wasn't threatening to them.
I have to agree with all of that. He was believable in his roles. And, men didn't seem to mind going to Robert Redford movies with their wives.
Every time I see a movie these days, I think about the fact that we're mortal, and our days are numbered.
I wish Redford had made more movies. I consider him to be irreplaceable.
Do you know the Creator of the universe?
Fun fact: Wilfred Brimley was 1 year and 11 months older than Robert Redford.
Can't beetus
It’s a fact…but not fun.
The Natural, The Rookie, Field of Dreams.
Redford is just so cool looking.
This movie is great . Try watching 42 also . Both are awesome
This is just a GREAT movie in every way!!! In my to 25 All Time! (BTW - do not read the book - EVER! You know how everyone always says, "the book was better!" this is THE exception to that rule! )
The book had a darker ending, definitely not Hollywood. Is that what you are worried about.
@@tatata1543 Beyond depressing ending.
They could make a great movie out of the book the way it is written, but not with St Bob. The book is very good, it is a tale of a fall from grace and corruption with some redemption but at the end Roy strikes out.
The fact that wilford brimley and robert redford are only 2 years apart baffles me...
My favorite baseball movie is the 1951 film Angels in The Outfield .
Brimley is only 2 years older than Redford….I remember the exact theater where I saw this movie. It was a rainy day and I skipped a class in college to see it.
amazing movie
Man do the White Sox need this guy right about now!
Hinkle did in fact “come on” and batted .426 the rest of the way to lead the NL with 126 RBI’s and vault the Knights from 8th to 7th.
Let’s get serious: the Angels couldn’t get to .500 with Trout and Ohtani. If one great player was all it took to make a team great, Indian Bob Johnson would’ve participated in several World Series.
Just love Gene Hackman playing Roy Hobbs
@Venturakid Gene is such a good actor. They really should have gotten Robert Redford or Al Pacino.But Hackman just nails his part here in Hoosiers. Great baseball movie. I heard The Natural is a great movie about basketball.
Redford is on steroids
The salvation army band 😭😭😭
This is my favorite baseball movie. Then I like The pride of the Yankees.
Brimley was only 49 at this time... he looks 69.
"He used to play in high school. 😄 That's nice."
The judge signed his own death warrant with that contract. You knew he also thought that scout had lost his mind, and he couldn’t wait to sign another bum for this team.
I liked the manager in Major League better. He knew a good team when he saw it.
Good filmmaking Bob 😅
did he say hebrew oilers semi pro? or is it hebo?
@Venturakid thanks you must have better ears or headphones than me
I've always taken that to be "Hebrew, " a nod to Bernard Malumud being Jewish. The line is not in the book however, nor is the Hollywood ending for that matter, though one can argue that Hobbs striking out in the novel and being forced out of baseball is a happy ending, because his doctor had told him he would die if he kept playing, and thus would not be able to raise his son.
make this whole movie free! Its old.
No way, you guys are all wrong. The Sandlot is the GOAT. The beast still gives me nightmares.
Phil Mankowski was on the Knights.
classic
Bang the drum slowly...
Liked the movie a lot better than the book.
I went to schooling kilby see what yall going through
Opens seeing Hobbs wanting to be a farmer and seeing him the last time wanting the same.
Well we sure need somebody.
In the book Roy was 35. Here he is 45. No way, José.
This is a very good movie, but RUDY is better, makes me cry everytime!
I'm not understanding the comparison.
@@meanmachine6281 I am talking about sport movies, The Natural is baseball and Rudy is football!
How the hell is Wilford Brimley in his 40's here? He looks like an old man
He was born old. One of those guys. Plus his generation went through tough times that ages someone through and through.
Robert Redford is such a stiff actor brimly and farnsworth are awesome
Diabeetus
What ever happened to GOOD movies?
Rude coach, and get some fresh water!
Cedars
Scott Carson wouldn't just sign anybody
Fellah, you don't start playin ball at your age, ya retire. Just what are you gettin at quaker oats??????
I enjoyed the movie, buy not the story is not based in reality. JMO
Bull duram is overrated.
For the love of the game is kinda weird
Moneyball still too new.
Major league #3. Bob ucher is hilarious.
The natural # 2
Feild of dreams #1
Kevin Costner makes my list only once.
Twice
Field of Dreams is not a baseball movie. Bull Durham is a movie about the love of the game, and for that reason alone, it is probably the best of them all.
While field of dreams is a superior film in many regards, this is the better “baseball” film. This film is the legend, the dream, the magic of baseball. This is the embodiment of why baseball is what it is. It’s the myth, baseball’s odyssey.
I can’t say I disagree with anything you just said. “Kinda weird” is exactly how I describe For Love of the Game.
You forgot The Sandlot. From 1984-1993 was a sick baseball run.. The Natural, Bull Durham, Eight Men Out, Field of Dreams, Major League, The Sandlot. Even had movies like Rookie of the Year, Little Big League, and Angels in the Outfield. Not to mention Naked Gun had a big baseball component.
NY team, no NY accents.
Mustache or no mustache?
How many fans are there? Ridiculous.
Looks like the stands at an Oakland A's game. Liberal politicians ruined the City of Oakland and cheap owners ruined the baseball team. No sane person wants to go to Oakland to watch a bad team play in an 3rd World city....
About as many as the White Sox are drawing lately...
Hobbs was on steroids
47 year old actor pretends to play 19 year old pitcher who strikes out another 47 year old actor pretending to be a 35 year old best player in baseball. Then the 19 (but really 47 ) year old gets seduced by an older woman, who is actually ten years younger than the not really 19 year old. Worst casting in a sports movie ever.
You need to overlook the Hobbes pitching sequence, but get real, Redford playing a 37 year old was hardly a stretch, especially in the period where people looked older at much younger ages.
That was the beginning of the end for Redford.
DIABEETUS.
Most ridiculous baseball movie of all time.
This is easily one of the most overrated movies in the history of cinema. It’s slow paced. The dramatic parts are so fake that it’s absolutely ridiculous.