@@RhetoricalThrillHe is. He’s one of the funniest people in baseball history, with a special brand of self-deprecation for his own lackluster playing career. He’s almost 90 and still calling Brewers games.
Fun fact: Charlie Sheen was a talented high school pitcher who could throw in the high-80's. His scenes pitching look good because he's about as good of a pitcher as you could find that's also a professional actor.
@@RhetoricalThrill recommend, "The Longest Yard" the original with Burt Reynolds and "Necessary Roughness".. for a more serious true story you can never go wrong with "Rudy" amazing film. Also one that's a bit under seen the Goldie Hawn comedy "Wild Cats". (Currently on MAX).
I'm sure this was otherwise noted but Harry Doyle is played by a real announcer, Bob Uecker for the Milwaukee Brewers. He was allowed to mostly improvise his lines. He was a lackluster catcher throughout his playing career but a helluva announcer. Great baseball voice, up there with the late great Vin Scully.
It was. MLB has turned woke and the game started to not be as fun so I watch once in a while and pass on the baseball games themselves. Cleveland will always be the Indians to me. Their “new name” is a joke.
Another fun fact - there is a deleted scene which actually drastically changes the motivations of the owner. Turns out she was left the team which was almost bankrupt, she hired these players because she knew that while flawed had potential (and thus were cheap) and acted like a B*** to unify them so they would win out of spite.
@@RhetoricalThrill that’s exactly why they cut it. While the fans liked the twist and the ending got good numbers they also saw that the fans saw her as a great villain so they cut the scene and reshot the big game scenes to show she is hating it.
As a clevelander - i miss them playing in municipal stadium. They brought it down to make a new football stadium and baseball stadium. I know it was old - but i miss it. Indians were so bad they gave each student at our school 2 tickets each make the stands look fuller for tv usage. We would run all around that place. Then i would be taken to the top and left there. 50 years later i still have trouble with heights! To us - is still the Indians. Always will be
The movie was actually shot in Milwaukee. Milwaukee's stadium was more pathetic than Cleveland's at the time. And the announcer (bob uecker) still does home games for Milwaukee. And honestly, he barely even had to act. Thats pretty much how he is.
God I love that last game. Anyone who doesn't get fired up by that aerial shot of the packed stadium and the music kicking in needs to be checked for a heartbeat, even if Harry Doyle is spouting as many cringey Indians metaphors as possible (72,000 screaming FEATHER-HEADS? Really??)
Greatest line, or one of, in the movie is when Cerrano gets pissed and says "Fuck you Jobu! I do this myself!" Then rocks a homer off a curve. No one catches that Janitor from Scrubs was not only in The Fugitive, he was also in this one a few times. They should have played that more on Scrubs. 99 is not overly fast anymore. Most Aces (the 1st guy in the pitching rotation of 5) can usually put up 100 consistent.
Those two groundskeepers were the real stars of the movie. OMG, this was so good. Your comments were so funny. Other good baseball comedies to check out: Major League II, Bull Durham, A league of Their Own.
Don't worry, you're not supposed to know what the signs are communicating. You figure it from context after it happens. If the signs were that easy to figure out, they might as well yell "hey, steal second!" because the whole point is that they can "talk" without the other team automatically knowing (though sign stealing is definitely a thing). That being said, I'm not sure how they communicated the game winning play but it was pretty convenient Jake somehow knew he'd be thrown at for sure and so Willie doesn't take off with the pitch that knocks Jake down.
The numbers in the crotch. That's the catcher suggesting pitches. One is typically fastball. Two is curveball, etc. So if you ever see a pitcher shaking his head, that's him disagreeing with the catcher.
The guy who plays Roger Dorn, Corbin Bernsen, is actually a great actor. In the commercial he was just playing an athlete who's a crappy actor. Two shows he is great in are LA Law & Psych.
I'd be like Harry Doyle if I was anyone in this movie. Today's game is sponsored by.... Christ I can't find it! The Hell with it! There was a deleted ending that showed that the owner was acting like that to get them to win. Kind of reverse psychology but it was axed as test screenings said they liked it better her being a witch instead of that
The same actress is also great in "The Secret of my Success" with Michael J. Fox. She also appears in "The Best of Times" a football comedy.. Not great.. But starring Kurt Russell and Robin Williams..
One more recommendation that I think you'd really enjoy. Diggstown. It's kind of a sports movie/comedy/drama. It's not going to win any awards, but I think it's a lot of fun with a good cast. And I don't know if I've ever seen a reaction to it from any channel.
I almost think the sports aspect of Diggstown is a secondary part of the movie, but yes, that's a good one. Great performances and a fun, witty script.
so at 24:45 he is giving signs. that means what pitch to throw. a one is generally their primary pitch so 95% of the time that is a fast ball. 2 or 3 fingers are usually secondary pitches which are offspeed (looks like a fast ball but goes slower) or a breaking ball (moves horizontal with some downward movement. He was basically telling Vaugh to throw it as fast as he can
"At this point, a restraining order..." Though I do not approve of Jake's behavior, I understand why he's obsessed with Lynn. To see just how good Rene Russo's body is - The Thomas Crown Affair remake, with Pierce Brosnan.
I watched this movie on VHS at my brother's insistence: I was researching baseball while knowing nothing about it. When Taylor makes his move with calling the shot, I asked my brother if he could really do that. "Yes," my brother replied with a smile. "But only once."
Wild Thing was one of my heroes as a child. I was a pitcher in Little League. This movie is still hilarious to me. Watch the Sandlot if you have not. Edit: I saw that Lions reference 💙From Detroit
The point of the signals they were giving was that nobody knows what the signals are except the players, coaches and manager. It's basically a secret code they make up that's internal to the team. In this one (obviously) Taylor gets the idea of pointing to the outfield, indicating that he plans on hitting one deep in the outfield (and hopefully getting the infield and outfield players to believe him and pull back) and then bunt, hoping they won't get to the ball before he can get to first base. One thing they did well was they got the baseball (mostly) right. And it didn't hurt having one of the best baseball announcers (who's also been a professional comedian) in the cast. Uecker did a series of comedic commercials back in the 80s for Miller Light, the most famous being when he's talking about all the perks he gets having been a professional ball player, and an usher comes by and tells him he's in the wrong seat. Uecker quips, "I must be in the FRONT row!" but the next time you see him he's in the "nosebleed" seats, way up in the back.
@@RhetoricalThrillonically has a cast member from this film.. Another great film from the same writer/ director of "Tin Cup". "White Men Can't Jump". The one from the 90s not the new one
I also recommend Tin Cup. It's another train wreck you can't look away from that's enormous fun. Mystery, Alaska is an often overlooked sports movie with a lot of heart. And Slap Shot is an all time classic.
@@MrLovegrove "Tin Cup" is just a winner because of the sheer balls and charm of Costner.. Great pairing with Russo. Another great baseball film with Costner "For the Love of the Game" from director Sam Raimi.
Kevin Costner did three classic baseball movies: Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, and For Love of the Game. All highly recommended. If you want something a little different, try Damn Yankees!, which is a musical, also set in Cleveland, as it happens.
Your Lions did good last night! I hope for y'all's sake y'all get one someday soon. As a Vikings fan as a child in the 70s to a Seahawks fan since 1983, I understand your frustration. It took 40 years of fandom to finally cheer a champion! The kicker...I WAS THERE! 😊 Never give up!
I have to say you were cracking me up during the video to where I had to subscribe to your channel! Take care and have a great day and I could only wait to see your other videos
at 5:09 it is not complicated. they increase the spin rate of the baseball, so the ball will move more against the batter. It is why spider tac was banned because it would create insane spin.
THe charecter of the owner was inspired by Georgia Fronteirere who in 1979 after her husband Carl Rosenbloom died inherited the Los Angeles Rams in the NFL.
If you're up for another rather off-beat sports film, check out _A League of Their Own,_ based on the real-life, but short-lived women's national baseball league that played during WW2. Honestly a great film and well worth watching.
I'd like to recommend "The Best of Times" it's a football movie from 1986 and has Kurt Russell and Robin Williams. It's pretty funny and kind of cheesy at times as it shows how one play in a high school football game rules over his life for 13 years and what he tries to do about it. Also, as a few have talked about Wesley Snipes was in a few sports movies during this time. White Men Can't Jump with Woody Harrelson was really good. And he was also in "Wildcats" which is one you'd probably like also from 1986. Goldie Hawn coaches an inner city high school football team. Snipes and Harrelson are both on that team.
A classic sports raunchy comedy along the lines of, Semi Tough, North Dallas 40, Bull Durham, Tin Cup, and the Paul Newman masterclass, written by a woman!😮😮😮 Slapshot! She was also in a hillarious comedy with Michael J fox, Secret of my Success! Bob Euker, RIP. Not only a great baseball announcer, but a great comedian. Also had a very funny TV show!!
I have never really watched sports, I always found it boring. But, I do love sports related movies and this one is one of my absolute favorites! It is one of the funniest sports related movies ever. There were two sequels, but they weren't as good or as funny....unless you get high before watching them.
I haven’t followed baseball in a while so I’m not sure about their modern standing, but back in the 80’s cleaveland was a joke, they were to cleaveland baseball what the leafs are to Toronto hockey. So the idea of cleaveland building a winning team out of spite for the owners was inspired in its time.
Recently saw a clip of the original ending for this movie. Apparently, it originally had a big plot twist. The bitch owner had actually orchestrated the whole thing. She had inherited a broke team and was at risk of losing it, so, she found cheap, flawed players that nobody wanted and specifically recruited her manager to be the guy that could motivate them. She told the manager this before the final game when he came to turn in his resignation before she could fire him. She said, if I really wanted you to lose, I would have gotten rid of the guys that started playing good. They reshot scenes after showing it to a test audience who felt it played out better to have her play a villian the whole way through.
Hey I shave my head in the summer and I will use my hunting knife or even a machette. Great way to test the edge, if I have to switch blades I sharpen them. My bayonette sword I reserve for a watermellon. Late 1800's model made in Germany for Argentina. I collect victorianox pocket knives too. They get used but like wise if they can shave a face they are good to go.
I like that you called out Jake for his stalker behavior. The only part of the movie I didn’t like was his refusal to take no for an answer, and the writer portraying him as being in the right.
Kool Reaction...... Kevn Costner has done 5 Baseball Related Movies.... Funny: "Bull Durham" Which BoB Hope addressed it as "A movie about America's Favorite Past-Time, With a little Baseball Thrown in," Semi-Serious: "For Love of the Game," "Field of Dreams," "The Upside of Anger," "Chasing Dreams" Dennis Quaid Stars in a True Story "The Rookie" Semi-Serious: "A League of their Own" Geens Davis, Madonna, Rosie Odonnel; "Hardball" with Keanu Reeves; "42" Chadwick Boseman.... Other Funny Baseball Movies: "Summer Catch" (2001) Freddie Prinze Jr; "Mr 3000" With Bernie Mac....
if u like sport movies u may like this 2 movies they NOT the classic must see like Rocky 1 , but they are quite good and bring different angle to sport movie: Shaolin Soccer : a Kong Fu football comedy There's Only One Jimmy Grimble: a growing up Drama
@@RhetoricalThrill Whaaaaaaaaaaattttttt?!?! Hope you do eventually. I think both Rocky and Rocky 2 are wonderful movies period. Excellent writing, acting, directing, and more. They aren't even sports movies really. Sports is just a backdrop.
@@MrLovegrove I know, right??? How? I’m actually reluctant to do it for the channel because I know people will give me shit because they don’t believe me.
Oh sure, NOW I'm told to not do what Jake did. Yeeesh. 😋🤣 I need to watch these movies again, I remember enjoying them well especially this one. The second one if i remember was meh on personally. I enjoyed this as ever always bring a great energy. 👍
Pursued maybe, but this came off way more pushy. I think because they couldn’t develop the relationship more, all you see is her saying “no I don’t want this” and him saying “idgaf what you want.”
@@RhetoricalThrill I completely understand. But they're limited by having to shoehorn the scenes into an already short movie. In "real life" this takes place over six or seven months and there was probably a lot more to it. That doesn't change the fact that Jake did some pretty shitty things to her at all though.
Time constraints are a real thing, definitely. I honestly feel like they could have abandoned the romance entirely, I enjoyed the team story much more.
@@RhetoricalThrill that’s fair. Point of the scene being there is no coddling of pro players. No seats with air conditioning. It’s bare bones bus in the sky.
@@RhetoricalThrill The civilian verson of the C47 is the DC 3 made by Douglas. It can carry up to 32 passengers. a "Puddle jumper" is more of a smaller aircraft, as you rightly say. Sorry, just a WWII aircraft nerd. I enjoyed your commentary on the video. None of my comments are meant as negative.
Not a baseball fan. Find it lame. I mean, ya gotta good hittin stick n projectiles flying about 90 miles n hour. How it's not a gladiator sport, no idea. But baseball flicks, I love. Heck, had a cat named Joe I called Jobu when he caused a ruckus. Classic flick, my opinion.
@@RhetoricalThrill Just know that it's widely held as one of the worst Stephen King adaptations to make it onscreen. And ironically, it's the only one to ever be directed by King himself.
Hey now, that Ohio slander will not stand lol Don't compare the rest of Ohio to Cleveland. Also I think that construction guy is the Janitor from Scrubs
The conceit of the owner wanting the team to fail had much in common with "Ted Lasso", have you seen that? (It's awesome!) I have no familiarity with baseball, but I understand it to be a game that thrives on pointless memorisation of arcane statistics, like cricket. (Except not played by anyone else so the USA can call itself World Champions!) My family spent entire summers watching cricket when I was a kid (to my indifference.) But I get the appeal of supporting a sports team (especially for real sports, like rugby!) I liked this movie, and would never have seen it (even the UA-cam edit!) without you. So thank you. I didn't like Tom Berenger's character at all, and did not understand why Renee Russo kept indulging his toxic behaviour. Praying to the Christian god for a sports team's victory (especially in front of non Christian team members) seemed unbelievably petty and rude. Surely any god would be on the other team's side?
I haven't seen Ted Lasso, no. I'm not terribly knowledgeable about baseball either, but funny enough I like several baseball movies. It's very exciting when something happens 😂 I liked Jake very much during the parts that focused on the team. He was a great leader to the guys and I would have preferred more of his arc as a player looking down the barrel of old age vs the romance. I didn't like him AT ALL in that part. The problem was that there wasn't enough time to develop anything with Lynn, we were supposed to take their word for it that they were into each other but we don't see anything growth-wise. They could have dropped the romance plot entirely and I don't think the movie would have suffered for it.
It's not terribly uncommon for US sport players to have prayers before games, probably even less so during the 80s. Doing it while needling Cerrano was definitely douchey, but at least he learned his lesson in the end 😂
I see your a lions fan. At least you have the, Tigers, Pistons and Red Wings. Us Clevelander’s have the Browns, Guardians and Cavaliers. Notice a difference in titles?🤷🏾♂️ It’s all bad in NE Ohio.🤷🏾♂️
The plot gap here is...how the hell did Jake get into her apartment so easy? Did he have a key? Does she not bother to lock the door? He just drives up and wanders into her living room. Seems unsafe if somebody can just let themselves in any old time. I mean, take a shower, go to make some toast and find 11 vagrants and a wino watching your TV?
I think you arent up to date when it comes to "dating" ... because there was one woman who asked to be shown the bank account of the guy she was going out ... on the first date. THIS IS A "TREND". Personally I do prefer your attitude ...
Bob Uecker makes this movie extra special.
He was amazing in this, someone told me that’s basically how he is all the time and I’m in awe
@@RhetoricalThrill He also had a tv show in the late 80's called "Mr Belvidere".
@@RhetoricalThrillHe is. He’s one of the funniest people in baseball history, with a special brand of self-deprecation for his own lackluster playing career. He’s almost 90 and still calling Brewers games.
Fun fact: Charlie Sheen was a talented high school pitcher who could throw in the high-80's. His scenes pitching look good because he's about as good of a pitcher as you could find that's also a professional actor.
I didn’t know that! That’s awesome
Never heard HIGH 80s before.
I do know they said Snipes was such a terrible athlete all they could really show was him running.
@@RonnieGI’ve heard similar things about Snipes in “White Men Can’t Jump”. He couldn’t actually play basketball that well, but he looked the part.
His brother and dad are baseball lovers as well
When football season rolls around, you should watch *The Replacements* with Keanu Reeves, kinda the football equivalent.
Someone else mentioned that, I definitely will get to that one!
@@RhetoricalThrill recommend, "The Longest Yard" the original with Burt Reynolds and "Necessary Roughness".. for a more serious true story you can never go wrong with "Rudy" amazing film. Also one that's a bit under seen the Goldie Hawn comedy "Wild Cats". (Currently on MAX).
@@mcgilj1 Wild Cats is wildly underrated. With a young Woody Harrelson and Wesley Snipes I believe 🤔
@@LordVolkov and Mikelti Williamson... From the director of "Fletch", "The Bad News Bears" and my personal favorite con movie "Diggstown".
@@mcgilj1 - The original *Bad News Bears* from 1976 with Walter Matthau, NOT the remake.
Main takeaway: "She'll put up with some douchebaggery if you're a winner." 😂😂😂
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I'm sure this was otherwise noted but Harry Doyle is played by a real announcer, Bob Uecker for the Milwaukee Brewers. He was allowed to mostly improvise his lines. He was a lackluster catcher throughout his playing career but a helluva announcer. Great baseball voice, up there with the late great Vin Scully.
It has been but I don’t mind 😊 He was so great, wasn’t he?
Plus, Norm Macdonald has a helluva joke about Bob when he was on Letterman. Funny stuff!
I used to watch Major League before the begining of each new season for about 15 years. One of my favs.
That sounds like a fun tradition!
It was. MLB has turned woke and the game started to not be as fun so I watch once in a while and pass on the baseball games themselves. Cleveland will always be the Indians to me. Their “new name” is a joke.
@@BrandonTheAnimeGuy "woke". Just shut up.
Start of every Series that Indians/now Guardians dont make it. So I missed 2 years.
Another fun fact - there is a deleted scene which actually drastically changes the motivations of the owner. Turns out she was left the team which was almost bankrupt, she hired these players because she knew that while flawed had potential (and thus were cheap) and acted like a B*** to unify them so they would win out of spite.
I prefer the ending they went with. She was too good a villain and that would suck the air out of her performance.
@@RhetoricalThrill that’s exactly why they cut it. While the fans liked the twist and the ending got good numbers they also saw that the fans saw her as a great villain so they cut the scene and reshot the big game scenes to show she is hating it.
As a clevelander - i miss them playing in municipal stadium. They brought it down to make a new football stadium and baseball stadium. I know it was old - but i miss it. Indians were so bad they gave each student at our school 2 tickets each make the stands look fuller for tv usage. We would run all around that place. Then i would be taken to the top and left there. 50 years later i still have trouble with heights!
To us - is still the Indians. Always will be
The movie was actually shot in Milwaukee. Milwaukee's stadium was more pathetic than Cleveland's at the time. And the announcer (bob uecker) still does home games for Milwaukee. And honestly, he barely even had to act. Thats pretty much how he is.
I love that character!
First movie to expose the home plate shit talk. "How's your wife and my kids?"
That stuff was great 😂
God I love that last game. Anyone who doesn't get fired up by that aerial shot of the packed stadium and the music kicking in needs to be checked for a heartbeat, even if Harry Doyle is spouting as many cringey Indians metaphors as possible (72,000 screaming FEATHER-HEADS? Really??)
Sports movies are so great for that!
Greatest line, or one of, in the movie is when Cerrano gets pissed and says "Fuck you Jobu! I do this myself!" Then rocks a homer off a curve.
No one catches that Janitor from Scrubs was not only in The Fugitive, he was also in this one a few times. They should have played that more on Scrubs.
99 is not overly fast anymore. Most Aces (the 1st guy in the pitching rotation of 5) can usually put up 100 consistent.
I love that Cerrano forsakes Jobu and it’s Eddie who fully embraces him 😂 And shoot, I didn’t think about the speed of pitching increasing over time 😆
I worked an event on a baseball field and I have to see, it's quite an overwhelming feeling being in the middle of the field.
It looks like it, and he played it really well. You can feel it
Love how the Uber Christian on the plane that teases Cerano is "reading" a Hustler magazine.
Yes! And that he becomes Jobu’s biggest follower later 😂
Those two groundskeepers were the real stars of the movie.
OMG, this was so good. Your comments were so funny.
Other good baseball comedies to check out: Major League II, Bull Durham, A league of Their Own.
The groundskeepers were such a trip! A League of Their Own is soooo good too! Bill Durham I’ll add to the list!
I love watching you so much! We’ll done.
Thanks Gabby! I appreciate all you guys so much!
This lady makes me understand what great reactions are all about. It was a pleasure.
Oh my, that is such a nice thing to say! 🥹 I’m happy to make them and I’m so glad you like them 💜
Don't worry, you're not supposed to know what the signs are communicating. You figure it from context after it happens. If the signs were that easy to figure out, they might as well yell "hey, steal second!" because the whole point is that they can "talk" without the other team automatically knowing (though sign stealing is definitely a thing).
That being said, I'm not sure how they communicated the game winning play but it was pretty convenient Jake somehow knew he'd be thrown at for sure and so Willie doesn't take off with the pitch that knocks Jake down.
😂 movie magic!
The numbers in the crotch. That's the catcher suggesting pitches. One is typically fastball. Two is curveball, etc. So if you ever see a pitcher shaking his head, that's him disagreeing with the catcher.
The guy who plays Roger Dorn, Corbin Bernsen, is actually a great actor. In the commercial he was just playing an athlete who's a crappy actor. Two shows he is great in are LA Law & Psych.
Oh I’m not surprised, it was just funny that the character sucked at it. It was a nice little detail.
I'd be like Harry Doyle if I was anyone in this movie. Today's game is sponsored by.... Christ I can't find it! The Hell with it! There was a deleted ending that showed that the owner was acting like that to get them to win. Kind of reverse psychology but it was axed as test screenings said they liked it better her being a witch instead of that
I agree with the test audience, that ending seems less powerful. Plus she was so good as a cartoon villain!
The same actress is also great in "The Secret of my Success" with Michael J. Fox. She also appears in "The Best of Times" a football comedy.. Not great.. But starring Kurt Russell and Robin Williams..
One more recommendation that I think you'd really enjoy. Diggstown. It's kind of a sports movie/comedy/drama. It's not going to win any awards, but I think it's a lot of fun with a good cast. And I don't know if I've ever seen a reaction to it from any channel.
I almost think the sports aspect of Diggstown is a secondary part of the movie, but yes, that's a good one. Great performances and a fun, witty script.
so at 24:45 he is giving signs. that means what pitch to throw. a one is generally their primary pitch so 95% of the time that is a fast ball. 2 or 3 fingers are usually secondary pitches which are offspeed (looks like a fast ball but goes slower) or a breaking ball (moves horizontal with some downward movement. He was basically telling Vaugh to throw it as fast as he can
I’m just in awe that they can even control it to that degree. I have one pitch - get ball from me to catcher 😂
@@RhetoricalThrill Could you teach me that one? Even when I wear my glasses, I still throw like Vaughn before he got his.
"At this point, a restraining order..."
Though I do not approve of Jake's behavior, I understand why he's obsessed with Lynn.
To see just how good Rene Russo's body is - The Thomas Crown Affair remake, with Pierce Brosnan.
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Just watch her fight scene in "Lethal Weapon 3" she kicks ass in tight jeans and boots and looks amazing doing it.
Part 2 also pretty good!
I watched this movie on VHS at my brother's insistence: I was researching baseball while knowing nothing about it. When Taylor makes his move with calling the shot, I asked my brother if he could really do that. "Yes," my brother replied with a smile. "But only once."
Wild Thing was one of my heroes as a child. I was a pitcher in Little League. This movie is still hilarious to me. Watch the Sandlot if you have not.
Edit: I saw that Lions reference 💙From Detroit
ONE PRIDE 💙
The point of the signals they were giving was that nobody knows what the signals are except the players, coaches and manager. It's basically a secret code they make up that's internal to the team. In this one (obviously) Taylor gets the idea of pointing to the outfield, indicating that he plans on hitting one deep in the outfield (and hopefully getting the infield and outfield players to believe him and pull back) and then bunt, hoping they won't get to the ball before he can get to first base.
One thing they did well was they got the baseball (mostly) right. And it didn't hurt having one of the best baseball announcers (who's also been a professional comedian) in the cast. Uecker did a series of comedic commercials back in the 80s for Miller Light, the most famous being when he's talking about all the perks he gets having been a professional ball player, and an usher comes by and tells him he's in the wrong seat. Uecker quips, "I must be in the FRONT row!" but the next time you see him he's in the "nosebleed" seats, way up in the back.
I _love_ this movie, an all-time favorite… and your reaction is almost up there with it 👍👍
Hey, that’s a high compliment, thank you!
*Tin Cup* with Kevin Costner is another underdog sports movie about golf (that *nobody* reacts to!), and another look at Rene Russo.
Ooh that’s a good one to add
@@RhetoricalThrillonically has a cast member from this film.. Another great film from the same writer/ director of "Tin Cup". "White Men Can't Jump". The one from the 90s not the new one
I also recommend Tin Cup. It's another train wreck you can't look away from that's enormous fun. Mystery, Alaska is an often overlooked sports movie with a lot of heart. And Slap Shot is an all time classic.
@@MrLovegrove "Tin Cup" is just a winner because of the sheer balls and charm of Costner.. Great pairing with Russo. Another great baseball film with Costner "For the Love of the Game" from director Sam Raimi.
if you play, you play any sport it never gets old even if you are a bowler
Kevin Costner did three classic baseball movies: Field of Dreams, Bull Durham, and For Love of the Game. All highly recommended. If you want something a little different, try Damn Yankees!, which is a musical, also set in Cleveland, as it happens.
He also did draft day!
I’m not really a baseball guy, but I really liked these films.
I’m not into baseball myself but my favorite sports movies do seem to be baseball focused 😂
Your Lions did good last night! I hope for y'all's sake y'all get one someday soon. As a Vikings fan as a child in the 70s to a Seahawks fan since 1983, I understand your frustration. It took 40 years of fandom to finally cheer a champion! The kicker...I WAS THERE! 😊
Never give up!
They did, my boys made me proud 🥹 I’m always optimistic but this year I am for real 😂
I have to say you were cracking me up during the video to where I had to subscribe to your channel! Take care and have a great day and I could only wait to see your other videos
Thank you so much! I hope you find more to enjoy and I’m so glad to have you! 😄
@RhetoricalThrill I'm sure I will and I appreciate it
Great way to get warmed up for Opening Day.
As to importance; It's your job. To guys, it means a lot.
This is one of those movies that I've seen once.... probably 20 years ago. But remember so many scenes lol
Thank you for this video. This is one of my favorite comedies.
I can see why! It’s funny but in a really natural way most of the time.
@@RhetoricalThrill Yes exactly. Great video great job
A couple of other fun sports movies are "The Replacements" (football) and The Cutting Edge (figure skating). You might enjoy them.
The Replacements has been suggested a few times, I think that’s going to happen at some point 😊
Any Given Sunday if you want a serious football drama epic.
at 5:09 it is not complicated. they increase the spin rate of the baseball, so the ball will move more against the batter. It is why spider tac was banned because it would create insane spin.
Ahhh, makes sense
THe charecter of the owner was inspired by Georgia Fronteirere who in 1979 after her husband Carl Rosenbloom died inherited the Los Angeles Rams in the NFL.
She’s a great villain, hopefully the inspiration was better 😂
Always enjoyed the announcer in this series.
He was so funny!
Funny the filmmaker wanted him as the announcer not knowing he actually was an announcer for a baseball team. Always thought that was funny.
If you're up for another rather off-beat sports film, check out _A League of Their Own,_ based on the real-life, but short-lived women's national baseball league that played during WW2. Honestly a great film and well worth watching.
It’s a fantastic film! One of my all time favorites 🥰
I'd like to recommend "The Best of Times" it's a football movie from 1986 and has Kurt Russell and Robin Williams. It's pretty funny and kind of cheesy at times as it shows how one play in a high school football game rules over his life for 13 years and what he tries to do about it. Also, as a few have talked about Wesley Snipes was in a few sports movies during this time. White Men Can't Jump with Woody Harrelson was really good. And he was also in "Wildcats" which is one you'd probably like also from 1986. Goldie Hawn coaches an inner city high school football team. Snipes and Harrelson are both on that team.
White Men Can't Jump and Wildcats have been recommended before, but I've not heard of The Best of Times, I'll look into it, thank you!
A classic sports raunchy comedy along the lines of, Semi Tough, North Dallas 40, Bull Durham, Tin Cup, and the Paul Newman masterclass, written by a woman!😮😮😮 Slapshot! She was also in a hillarious comedy with Michael J fox, Secret of my Success! Bob Euker, RIP. Not only a great baseball announcer, but a great comedian. Also had a very funny TV show!!
I have never really watched sports, I always found it boring.
But, I do love sports related movies and this one is one of my absolute favorites!
It is one of the funniest sports related movies ever.
There were two sequels, but they weren't as good or as funny....unless you get high before watching them.
Isn’t that funny? You don’t have to like or even know the sport but sports movies are so good anyway!
Other fun baseball movies you need to check out are Angels in the Outfield and Little Big League
I haven’t followed baseball in a while so I’m not sure about their modern standing, but back in the 80’s cleaveland was a joke, they were to cleaveland baseball what the leafs are to Toronto hockey. So the idea of cleaveland building a winning team out of spite for the owners was inspired in its time.
It’s a great concept!
Recently saw a clip of the original ending for this movie. Apparently, it originally had a big plot twist. The bitch owner had actually orchestrated the whole thing. She had inherited a broke team and was at risk of losing it, so, she found cheap, flawed players that nobody wanted and specifically recruited her manager to be the guy that could motivate them. She told the manager this before the final game when he came to turn in his resignation before she could fire him. She said, if I really wanted you to lose, I would have gotten rid of the guys that started playing good. They reshot scenes after showing it to a test audience who felt it played out better to have her play a villian the whole way through.
I actually agree with the test audience on this one. She was a delicious villain.
I love this movie! Also love Rookie of the year and A League of Their Own! I cant wait to see another sports movie reaction!
I love both of those so much!
Need to watch Major League 2 and Major League Back to the Minors
@ 17:36 "I wonder how many stamps.." I think it depends on how big the panties are and how much they weigh. LOL.
😂
Hey I shave my head in the summer and I will use my hunting knife or even a machette. Great way to test the edge, if I have to switch blades I sharpen them. My bayonette sword I reserve for a watermellon. Late 1800's model made in Germany for Argentina. I collect victorianox pocket knives too. They get used but like wise if they can shave a face they are good to go.
Damn that seems hardcore, at least it looks like it! 💜
25:28 - 25:35
Watched this part while taking a sip of water......
BIG MISTAKE 🤣
😂 sometimes even I don’t know what I’m doing
I like that you called out Jake for his stalker behavior. The only part of the movie I didn’t like was his refusal to take no for an answer, and the writer portraying him as being in the right.
Yeah, I think I’m pretty understanding about how culture changes over time but YIKES ON BIKES 😂
Kool Reaction......
Kevn Costner has done 5 Baseball Related Movies.... Funny: "Bull Durham" Which BoB Hope addressed it as "A movie about America's Favorite Past-Time, With a little Baseball Thrown in," Semi-Serious: "For Love of the Game," "Field of Dreams," "The Upside of Anger," "Chasing Dreams"
Dennis Quaid Stars in a True Story "The Rookie"
Semi-Serious: "A League of their Own" Geens Davis, Madonna, Rosie Odonnel; "Hardball" with Keanu Reeves; "42" Chadwick Boseman....
Other Funny Baseball Movies: "Summer Catch" (2001) Freddie Prinze Jr; "Mr 3000" With Bernie Mac....
That rum would last around two days around me :)
if u like sport movies u may like this 2 movies
they NOT the classic must see like Rocky 1 , but they are quite good and bring different angle to sport movie:
Shaolin Soccer : a Kong Fu football comedy
There's Only One Jimmy Grimble: a growing up Drama
I haven’t even seen Rocky 🙈
@@RhetoricalThrill STRONGLY recommend , both Rocky and First Blood (Rambo 1) both are more Drama then action btw
@@RhetoricalThrill Whaaaaaaaaaaattttttt?!?! Hope you do eventually. I think both Rocky and Rocky 2 are wonderful movies period. Excellent writing, acting, directing, and more. They aren't even sports movies really. Sports is just a backdrop.
@@MrLovegrove I know, right??? How? I’m actually reluctant to do it for the channel because I know people will give me shit because they don’t believe me.
@@RhetoricalThrill then c it for yourself :)
there a reason they considered must c classics :)
7:21 the answer is never gets old
I thought not. It’s quite a sight!
On the bright side, the Lions turned it around this year
YES 🦁 💙🩶
The romance side plot didn't age well, but otherwise this is one of the best baseball movies ever made. Really makes you feel the thrill of the sport.
It really does, I feel like baseball translates really well to film
9:43 to 9:50
That whole sequence is me trying to play any sport 🤣
😂
Oh sure, NOW I'm told to not do what Jake did. Yeeesh. 😋🤣
I need to watch these movies again, I remember enjoying them well especially this one. The second one if i remember was meh on personally. I enjoyed this as ever always bring a great energy. 👍
It’s just an easy movie to enjoy. It’s uncomplicated but not boring, funny but grounded, just fun to watch.
12:38 There was a time when girls liked being pursued, it was romantic.
Pursued maybe, but this came off way more pushy. I think because they couldn’t develop the relationship more, all you see is her saying “no I don’t want this” and him saying “idgaf what you want.”
@@RhetoricalThrill They already had the relationship, he's rekindling.
@@3DJapan but we don’t see it. They’re telling, not showing. Doesn’t work for me.
@@RhetoricalThrill I completely understand. But they're limited by having to shoehorn the scenes into an already short movie. In "real life" this takes place over six or seven months and there was probably a lot more to it. That doesn't change the fact that Jake did some pretty shitty things to her at all though.
Time constraints are a real thing, definitely. I honestly feel like they could have abandoned the romance entirely, I enjoyed the team story much more.
Glad I found your channel 😁
I am too! 💜
One finger means fastball
“Sweet-ass house! But it is in Ohio.”
Fan from Ohio “Hey!”
Ahhh you know I gotta 😂 love from the mitten!
1:04 they have the money 🙂
Always the answer, isn’t it? 😂
Very good reaction, would love to see you react to "Hardball" with Keanu Reeves and a very Young Michael B Jordan.
1:20 nice edit
Thank you! This one ended up a bit choppier than I like, but copyright was very mean to me 😢
Lambda Lambda Lambda ... BOOGER !
NERRRRRRRRRRDS
Love the remake to wild thing awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I loved the use of that song!
In 2023 MLB baseball players minimum pay is $720K
Yep, that’s a “very good salary” I’d say! 😂
Now do A League of Their Own.
I wish I could! I love that one and watch it regularly 🥰
I knew you were cool.
That's not a puddle jumper. That's a C47. It's what our guys jumped out of in 1944.
I just thought it meant “little plane” 😂
@@RhetoricalThrill that’s fair. Point of the scene being there is no coddling of pro players. No seats with air conditioning. It’s bare bones bus in the sky.
@@RhetoricalThrill The civilian verson of the C47 is the DC 3 made by Douglas. It can carry up to 32 passengers. a "Puddle jumper" is more of a smaller aircraft, as you rightly say. Sorry, just a WWII aircraft nerd. I enjoyed your commentary on the video. None of my comments are meant as negative.
I love this movie
That does not surprise me 😂
Not a baseball fan. Find it lame. I mean, ya gotta good hittin stick n projectiles flying about 90 miles n hour. How it's not a gladiator sport, no idea. But baseball flicks, I love. Heck, had a cat named Joe I called Jobu when he caused a ruckus. Classic flick, my opinion.
It’s really exciting…when something actually happens 😂
I like you! Please do one on Maximum Overdrive 🤩
Ooh I should!
@@RhetoricalThrill Just know that it's widely held as one of the worst Stephen King adaptations to make it onscreen. And ironically, it's the only one to ever be directed by King himself.
@@MrLovegrove that’s kind of what intrigues me 😂
@@RhetoricalThrill I rather thought it would. Plus, it has Charlie Sheen's brother. You could start a series of all the Sheen family's movies.
1:21: Ha ha!
😂 😭 🤣
12:01
Very punny! 😁
I aim to please 😂
Hey now, that Ohio slander will not stand lol Don't compare the rest of Ohio to Cleveland. Also I think that construction guy is the Janitor from Scrubs
😂 He is!
"Major League 2" has most of these same actors and continues the story...
I found it kinda cheesy but not in a good way.
Love this movie, but still don´t know the rules properly.😅
That’s the best part of sports movies, they pretty much tell you what you really need 😂
I have that shirt.
Ayo you have good taste!
The conceit of the owner wanting the team to fail had much in common with "Ted Lasso", have you seen that? (It's awesome!)
I have no familiarity with baseball, but I understand it to be a game that thrives on pointless memorisation of arcane statistics, like cricket. (Except not played by anyone else so the USA can call itself World Champions!) My family spent entire summers watching cricket when I was a kid (to my indifference.) But I get the appeal of supporting a sports team (especially for real sports, like rugby!) I liked this movie, and would never have seen it (even the UA-cam edit!) without you. So thank you. I didn't like Tom Berenger's character at all, and did not understand why Renee Russo kept indulging his toxic behaviour. Praying to the Christian god for a sports team's victory (especially in front of non Christian team members) seemed unbelievably petty and rude. Surely any god would be on the other team's side?
I haven't seen Ted Lasso, no. I'm not terribly knowledgeable about baseball either, but funny enough I like several baseball movies. It's very exciting when something happens 😂
I liked Jake very much during the parts that focused on the team. He was a great leader to the guys and I would have preferred more of his arc as a player looking down the barrel of old age vs the romance. I didn't like him AT ALL in that part. The problem was that there wasn't enough time to develop anything with Lynn, we were supposed to take their word for it that they were into each other but we don't see anything growth-wise. They could have dropped the romance plot entirely and I don't think the movie would have suffered for it.
It's not terribly uncommon for US sport players to have prayers before games, probably even less so during the 80s. Doing it while needling Cerrano was definitely douchey, but at least he learned his lesson in the end 😂
FYI Japan also loves baseball.
@@RhetoricalThrilland he sold us all "Allstate". Lol... He's also in the Tom Selleck baseball comedy "Mr. Baseball".
8:17 How is giving his number going to help? Girls don't call.
Comes off better than “I’m not going to leave you alone until you do what I want.”
I see your a lions fan. At least you have the, Tigers, Pistons and Red Wings. Us Clevelander’s have the Browns, Guardians and Cavaliers. Notice a difference in titles?🤷🏾♂️ It’s all bad in NE Ohio.🤷🏾♂️
Of course football is the only sport I really get into, but my thoughts are with you. It has to get better sometime, right? 😆
@@RhetoricalThrill Look into the Cleveland sports curse. The Cavaliers “broke” the curse, but it’s on UA-cam and it’s brutal.
You remind me of -------- V.I. Warshawski - Kathleen Turner......great movie...;check it out
The plot gap here is...how the hell did Jake get into her apartment so easy? Did he have a key? Does she not bother to lock the door? He just drives up and wanders into her living room. Seems unsafe if somebody can just let themselves in any old time. I mean, take a shower, go to make some toast and find 11 vagrants and a wino watching your TV?
Makes you wonder!
I think you didn't pick up on the aspect that the "fiance" was really just a giant a-hole.
I mean, that’s kind of neither here nor there 😂
I think you arent up to date when it comes to "dating" ... because there was one woman who asked to be shown the bank account of the guy she was going out ... on the first date. THIS IS A "TREND".
Personally I do prefer your attitude ...
Ewww, that's awful! I haven't dated in a long time, I doubt I'd enjoy it these days 💜