From the moment Moonlight steps off the field, the tears start for me. To give up your dreams in the service of others is so noble. Burt Lancaster shows what a true movie star is. Every moment on screen, I am riveted.
YES. So many people list "Wanna have a catch?" as their tearjerker (and it is). But Ray's "oh my god you can't go back," has always been the waterworks for me.
nonsense. yes, its a very mild spoiler, but sometimes the alternative to a spoiler is worse. the person in question thought, it will mean x% more to her on father's day, and y% more spoiled from knowing that, so its a net gain to tell her. you "no spoiler's at any time, in any way" people are infuriating, and absolutely illogical.
@@dustywaynemusic6297 you havent found anything. personally, i'd be happy to get a reaction channell to take a suggestion at all. the last thing i would do is tell them when to watch it, or what to save it for. there are movies nobody reacts to like "chuck", "3 days of the condor", "american beauty", "seabiscuit" etc. and i try to suggest those, but i dont suggest this film, let alone tell people to save it. it any event, you are neither amusing nor clever. are you sufficiently juvenile to need 5 laughing facesfor a 5 word comment? for the record i find the whole "spoiler" subject to have gone way too far, leaving no room to discuss movies because anything you say can be called a spoiler at this point. i believe its childish. we used to have movie reviewers who could give you enough information to interest you without destroying the movie. now we have spoiler nazis ready to get pissy with anyone who tries to make a helpful comment. perhaps you should look into "helpful" comments, rather than trying to amuse yourself with accusations followed by emojis.
Yes! You nailed it! I heard one of the producers talk about it once. In the book, it was actually J.D. Salinger, but when he heard they were going to make a movie, he threatened to sue if they used his name or likeness. So, they had to come up with the fictional character of Terence Mann, and if they hadn't, we wouldn't have had James Earl Jones, and they wouldn't have had an excuse to write that monolouge that he gives.
I have never made it through this movie without Tearing up. I also lost my Dad when I was young (he was only 52). There always things left unsaid and undone. This was Legendary Actor Burt Lancaster's final film and he did a remarkable job. As Dr, Graham he showed how 1 inning of Baseball could change a life. He won a Best Actor Oscar for "The Birdman of Alcatraz".
Exactly! After my father passed, I was looking through some boxes and came across items I bought, but was saving them for his birthday, or Christmas. He never got them, and that was when his absense was finally felt!
I love that Moonlight Graham was a real person, and his story is real. He got one at bat in a major league game, and then he was a children's doctor for 50 years. What a legend.
@@RhetoricalThrill The stories of Dr. Graham shown in Field Of Dreams are reportedly true. Aside from saying he died in 1972 when the real Archibald Graham died in 1965, no one has disputed the depiction of Dr. Graham in this movie. In 1989 when the movie came out, the (barely?) fictionalized Archibald Graham had been dead for 17 years. When the book Shoeless Joe was published in 1982, the real Archibald Graham had been dead for 17 years. That's probably why he dies in '72 in the movie. This is the first time I've noticed this.
In the NOVEL, the Terence Mann character was ACTUALLY J.D. Salinger, but Salinger would not allow his name tp be used in the movie, so they created a new character.
@@Nitedawg1 as a matt0er of fact, J. D. Salinger DID name a character John Kinsella in one of his early short stories, which is one of the reasons the novel's author, W.P. Kinsella wrote "Shoeless Joe" and named the main character Kinsella in the first place. It was his father's name, just like in the movie.
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!
This is a wonderful, touching movie for most people. But for middle aged guys who wish they hadn't missed opportunities with their fathers, it's devastating. Some of the most outwardly tough-seeming guys you'll meet break down sobbing at the end of this one. Such a good movie.
The "Field of Dreams" field is within rock-throwing distance of where my maternal grandmother's paternal line settled when they arrived from Germany in the mid-1800's. Last summer, I was in the area and visited all my ancestors in the area, and had to stop in to the obvious tourist trap. That's exactly what it is, but it is a good sentiment. ❤ They are building a larger stadium now and hope to host at least one MLB game a year there. But really, there isn't much there other than a nice field to have a catch on.
I live in Iowa, but I've not been to the Field of Dreams field. The funny thing is that the baseball field in real life is partially divided by two different properties owned by two different people, and for a time they both competed with each other for the tourism dollars, despite one of properties only having a small portion of left field on its land. A couple of other things. The Chicago Cubs Triple A baseball club the Iowa Cubs is in Iowa, and they usually have fireworks show after the games around the 4th of July. Before the show starts, they show a part of this movie on the video scoreboard screen. "Hey, is this heaven?" "No, it's Iowa." Then the fireworks start. MLB actually have had a couple of games in Iowa in a cornfield near the Field of Dreams field (the regular field isn't big enough for an MLB game.) The first year they had it they had a really cool opening to the game. ua-cam.com/video/Ug4bsd4LqqM/v-deo.html That first MLB game ended with a game winning homerun.
"If you build it, they will come." This movie is a timeless reminder to chase your dreams, even if they seem impossible. It's a beautiful story about second chances, family, and the power of believing. #FieldOfDreams
"I'm not married to the biggest horse's ass in three counties." Every time I hear this, I want Annie to reply "No, but your husband is!" After all the times I've seen this, I still tear up when Ray meets his father. If you really want to understand the role baseball played in shaping American culture in the 20th century, you should check out Ken Burns' great nine-part Baseball documentary. It's a must-watch for any fan and, for the baseball novice, a good introduction to the game, and how it came to be known as "America's pastime".
For more context about "shoeless Joe" and the black Sox..I highly recommend "Eight Men Out". Not even a sports guy but I love those true story type of films.
@Rhetorical A terrific film which hits harder for any man who lost their father, terrific cast all doing amazing jobs. I think this was the legend B Lancaster final film (Doc)
When I was younger I was a problem child that gave my parents a hard time. No drinking or drugs,but I was as big an ass you can be at a young age. The last conversation I had with my dad was an argument. I told him," Do me a favor and just die." He did that two weeks later. The thing is I knew when I said it it hurt him,but never said I was sorry for saying it. At the funeral several people told me that he didn't understand why I hated him so much. The thing is I didn't.
It's funny how out of all the parts of this movie that hit me hardest is the conversation The have in the van when James Earl Jones asks what the terrible thing he said was and why. He could have been talking to me.
I live in Iowa about 40 minutes from the field. I have taken each of my 5 boys to the field to "have a catch". It's free to go out on the field. Been there many times. The new MLB stadium was build north west of the original field a few hundred yards away. The property is now owned by inverstors. I haven't been there since the investors took over. In the auditorium, where they are discussing Terrence Mann, My high school's placard is in the background. I believe this was actually filmed in Dubuque, IA where their high schools were in the same league as the one I graduated from.
I love watching your reactions. You are definitely one of the most genuine people with a genuine reaction that I see on UA-cam. You seem to have a good heart and a good spirit. Definitely a keeper. With your husband probably knows. You have a good day
Wow, you clocked the Salinger connection quickly. Good reaction and summary. Some people think Mann is or will be dead and some think he'll come back and write again. I'm in the later camp. It's the answer to his musing "I know what everybody's purpose is here, except mine".
The one inaccuracy was when Annie made mention of how much 'less acreage' they have due to the field. A baseball field (just between the foul lines) with 340 foot left and right field fences and 400 feet to center takes approximately 2.2 acres. Even with a yield of 200 bushels per acre, and as high as $5 per bushel, would only provide about $2200 of income.
I don’t know much about farming really, but I though the same. But I guess if they were far in debt already, who knows? Her brother was sure ready to swoop in like a vulture though 😡
not just moonlight graham, but 100% of the baseball people in this film are real, including their stories. like "ty cobb wanted to come but none of us could stand him when we were alive". few could stand him when they were alive. joe jackson hit left-handed, which is the only detail they changed for the film (because ray liotta hits right-handed). the most beautiful unscripted moment occurred after costner says "see if you can hit my curve". the script called for a homerun to be hit, but the unplanned shot back at the pitcher, and the way costner dodged it, staying in character and saying "yeah, you can hit the curveball" was too good so it was left in. the movie "8 men out" is the mostly-true telling of the 1919 white sox, with joe jackson and the others portrayed here. highly recommended.
For me, watching baseball is about as exciting as watching the outfield grow. And that's if it's Astroturf. But this movie really clued me in to the passion that people have for this game and how deeply connected they are with people who feel the same way. Right up to the point where they find out that they back the "wrong" team. As far as the filmmaking, it's brilliant. Every actor played their part perfectly. Every evening shot of that field might as well have been a painting. Right down to the last shot, created with real cars on a real road; done by working out how many cars would be needed and how far apart they would need to be, then finding those cars. No effort was spared. Now, it would just be CGI.
Agreed, it’s beautiful! I read about the way they made it look like the traffic was moving by having the people go from high beam to low beam, so simple, so effective. You’re right, now they’d just “do it in post” and not give a care. It’s funny, baseball is a sport I don’t enjoy watching at all. But I love baseball movies 😂
When you said Poindexter, did you know Timothy Bussfield played Poindexter in revenge of the nerds??? Because if not, that's some crazy serendipity!! 😂😊
I don’t believe in many things but I do believe this movie helped get me through my dad’s death. My dad was a huge baseball fan, and he taught me a lot of valuable lessons. I didn’t always agree with my dad, we had our arguments. This movie reminds me of my dad. Thank you so very much for your reaction! I will say the audio was good, just on the quiet side. Again the reaction and commentary was fantastic!!!
Yeah, I’m still feeling it all out, but you’ve helped a lot! I tried clearing the cache before exporting and I think that may have made a difference with the popping.
Great Reation...... The Wife (Amy Madigan) and the Daughter (Gabby Hoffman) also worked together in "Uncle Buck" which was released 3 months later..... Burt Lancaster is Great in this Role...... His last Role...... The movie with Jimmy Stewart that the Daughter was watching that got Turned off was the 1950 "Harvey," A Great Movie to Watch/React..... This BallField is still there.... They Created another Field Close by that they have played a couple Major League Baseball Games, and the Teams come to the field through the corfield in the Outfield.... Kevin Costner has done 5 Baseball Related Movies.... "Bull Durham" Which BoB Hope addressed it as "A movie about America's Favorite Past-Time, With a little Baseball Thrown in," "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....
I kind of think Mann is dead throughout the whole movie and Ray comes see him at his apartment after he has already passed. His body probably in a park or someplace. The hint is the son looking for him because he hadnt picked up his phone in like a week or something and his apartment was a mess, which was obviously out of character for him. ... He was only gone for a day with Ray.
Terrence Mann (I believe) is fictional replacement of J D Sallinger, author of "Catcher in the rye". In "Field..'" novel he's a charcter. Edit: 11:24 aha!
@@zvimur I couldn't really say since I've never read it myself. I know *of* it and some of the discussion around it but never had to read it for school, and it never interested me enough to seek it out.
Terrance Mann is a fictional character. Dr. Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham was a real person. He only got one at bat his one game in the Majors - and this movie finally gives him his due. The people they interview in town actually knew the man. Casting an elderly Burt Lancaster as Doc Graham was a stroke of genius. It's mind-blowing this didn't win one Academy Award.
1 appearance in the outfield in his only major league game. not 1 at-bat. ( 0 at-bats). in fact thats the entire point. "i'd have liked to have gotten to bat in the major's i never got that chance"
Then why not help them with their mortgage? Why is the only option something that will net him a bunch of money in the process? I could be completely misinterpreting it, certainly, bit he really seemed predatory to me.
This and "For the love of the game" are his 2 best baseball films, my opinion... I know most would say "Bull Durham '.. I do absolutely love his other collaboration with Ron Shelton, "Tin Cup".
Another beautiful, and funny, movie which came out the same year is by Steven Spielberg called "Always." Starring: Richard Dreyfuss Holly Hunter John Goodman and Audrey Hepburn! A great heart-warming story. And, only a handful of reviewers on youtube! Definitely one to watch, if not post a review as well. Another nice review. Thanks!
11:23 - Nailed it. Terrence Mann is an homage to JD Salinger. 17:41 - Do you know how many people don't get that the hitchhiker is Doc? ANNIE IS THE BEST!! I love Amy Madigan.
Great commentary after the film. Much more substantive than what I’ve heard from other reactors. I was impressed with how well you understood and perceived the themes of this story and were able to extemporaneously articulate your thoughts. I may have to watch some more of your reactions… 🤓
Was the "Poindexter" comment just a fact or just a coincidence?? The brother in law did actually play Arnold "Poindexter" in 'Revenge of the Nerds'. Lol... Several actors show up in another of the director's films, the excellent, "Sneakers".. she of the big ass (Lee Garlington), the brother in law (Timothy Busfield) and James Earl Jones... Also just learned this myself "the voice" is actor Ed Harris (The Abyss, The Rock).
Ahaha, nah, I knew who it was 😂 I think I said Revenge of the Nerds at one point but I cut it out. That’s all I knew him from up to this point, and I definitely like Poindexter more, he plays a mean electric violin.
@@RhetoricalThrill lol.. That he does .I was a bit too young but he was the lead in a series called Thirty something... In the late 80s..I really did like him in his recurring role on "The West Wing" as a reporter though.. he also worked with creator Aaron Sorkin again on "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip".
good stuff all around. minor pt - a football / baseball field is fairly close to one acre in size ( about 1 1/4 acre - regardless shape ). So IF the farm is say 200 working acres the field isn't a huge deal. now add in the lights , work involved etc.....
i believe graham dies the same night he spoke to ray, he said he couldnt sleep, which was rare for him, so when they picked him up he ws like joe jackson
@@RhetoricalThrillI can understand the struggle. Look at the bright side, during the holidays you can start singing "Come all yeah faithful.." at the top of your lungs with a great big belated smile. After all, Christmas only comes once a year.
An absolute gem of a movie. I'd suggest for a future watch 'Breaking Away' from 1979. Few reactors have watched it but I'm quite certain all will like it a lot.
I've got to defend Mark, because his role was important in this too. Mark, like the rest of Annie's family, had pretty much lost the ability to hope and dream. Those were drowned in the pressures of the real world, and so they couldn't see the players because they had lost their hopes and dreams. Mark does love his sister. If he was as much of a dick as you (and others, it's not just you) claim, he'd have let his partners foreclose and take the farm after Ray and Annie refused his first offer. His partners obviously had no sh!ts to give. They just wanted the land. But he kept trying to buy the place from them instead of just taking it, even to the point of finagling a deal with his partners to let his sister and her family keep the house and live in it and just sell the land. He was frustrated and upset that day at the field, and when Ray reached out and yanked at Karin, pulling her out of Mark's grasp and causing her to fall (and the fall itself was 100% on Ray, even though Mark never ever should have handled her roughly, so equal blame for the entire situation), Mark was shocked into immobility, and all he could do was hope, hope, that his niece was okay. Hope returned, and with it his ability to see what the others did. And once he saw he was completely on team Ray. You gotta keep the farm, Ray. You gotta keep the farm. Mark's lesson is perhaps the most important one of all: that we can all discover how to hope, how to dream again. No matter how life has beaten us down, we can still dream and work to try to reach our dreams. Terry found what his purpose was in the events when Joe invited him to come out. He had said before that he understood everyone's purpose but his own. He was being summoned to go and see, and then return, and then write a book that would give other lost people the ability to hope and dream again. His purpose was to help teach people to dream once again. And I love that, as he steps into the corn and begins to vanish, we hear his laugh go up in pitch, like he was once again that kid who dreamed of playing at Ebbets Field. 🙂 Yeah, his dad knew. But he wanted to see what his son would do. This movie brought tears to my eyes as a relatively callous teen when it came out. Even more so as an old guy who lost his father two years, two months, and ten days ago, but who's counting? Dwier Brown, the actor who played John Kinsella, wrote a book called "If You Build It..." which is an excellent book about the movie, Brown's conversations with fans who were touched by the movie, and the way it changed Brown's relationship with his own father. Absolutely recommended. Possibly with tissues. 😀
Thank you for the thoughtful comment! It’s a lot to think about, and Mark absolutely has a role to play in this metaphor, I do agree. To me it seemed obvious that Mark was going to profit financially from the sale of the farm, which made him seem callous and cold. I of course could be misinterpreting it. But whatever his motivations, he struck me as very condescending, which was likely the point. I’m glad you added your thoughts, it’s a beautiful movie with lots to talk about 😊
@@RhetoricalThrill You are right in that Mark's potential profit was a motivation and it did make him seem callous and cold, but at the same time he was also shown as trying to be a decent brother by trying to get Ray and Annie to take a deal that would get them paid for their property instead of just swooping in robber baron style and just taking it with foreclosure, which they could have legally done, and Ray and Annie getting nothing in exchange. Consider this: Mark and his partners had already bought the note from the bank, spending money to do that. Now Mark was trying to get the partnership to spend more money on top of that to get the property and, in his last offer, effectively giving away the most immediately saleable portion of the property, the house, to them to get them to sell the acreage. Mark was hardcore into the business side of the transaction, but at the same time his partners were probably going to make him take anything he gave to Ray and Annie out of his portion of the potential profits. While the time and legal costs of the eviction and possession of the property would be a concern, it overall would be less than Mark was offering to pay and what Ray and Annie would have been allowed to keep in Mark's final deal. Mark was set up to be, not a villain, but an example of how many of us allow the harshness of the real world to limit or even eliminate our dreams. But, once he saw the truth he redeemed himself by becoming a wholesale believer in their dreams. Perhaps my viewpoint is somewhat influenced by the fact that, for a while in my life, the harsh realities of the real world had killed my ability to hope and dream, and losing that made me a much less happy person, so I can appreciate Mark's situation better. Hard to say. I know when I was younger and still had dreams I felt a lot more harshly about Mark too. 😛
if a disembodied voice told me to build something and then ghost can visit me...i don't know if I'm doing that. I mean maybe "if you build a stage you'll get visits from like robin williams, bowie, freddie mercury" then maybe i'm swinging by home depot
You should watch Kevin Costner introduce the 2022 Field of Dreams Classic between the White Sox and the Yankees. Now that you have seen the movie, it will move you.
Thank you for this beautiful reaction to one of my favorite movies! Definitely not my last! On a practical note I always thought the plot was a little weak on the whole bank thing. The corn yield wouldn't be effected that much (less than 5 acres for a ball field), but we are suspending disbelief aren't we?? Lol
It's a fairy tale, anything and everything can happen, you just have to watch it and go with the flow. If you want to be real, how could anyone afford to build a baseball field, and the lights, and then pay for the lights electricity, it would cost millions of dollars. It's a wonderful film, l cry every time, what l would do to see my father again, give up years of my own life ❤
People really don't give Mark a break and just go "I hate you, you suck." If you look at the events of the movie from his POV, he's 100% the sensible one who's trying to help Ray and his family. Literally to the point of just ignoring what he's saying so that they can continue to dislike him, even though if you think about it for 2 seconds he's trying to do the right thing. "I'm offering you a way to keep your home because I love my sister!" "NO YOU DON'T!" Don't take it personally, but that kind of reaction just seems so immature. It might just be a movie reaction, but it's symptomatic of how people fail to communicate and understand each other in real life. People will just completely ignore or twist the words of those that they already dislike, simply so they don't have to actually consider what they're saying. It's not just this reaction either, it's a common response in most reaction videos to this movie. Part of this is also probably just because so many movies have primed people to dislike the "evil businessman" type character, but it's also fundamentally misunderstanding (or purposefully ignoring) what Mark even is. Actually pay attention to what he's saying, think from his POV and you really can't dislike him. To him his sister, husband, and niece have gone insane and are spiralling towards bankruptcy and losing their home while talking about invisible baseball games, while refusing every attempt of his to help. When Mark says "when the bank opens in the morning, they'll foreclose" it's not a threat, it's a warning to Ray of what'll happen if he doesn't accept Mark's help. So he's going buy the land, rather than letting the bank foreclose on Ray, so that he can let Ray and his family stay in their house (rent free!) and all he needs Ray to do is sign. He's not the greedy developer trying to bulldoze the youth center to build a mall. The message of the scene with Ray, Terrence, and Mark is not "say no to the greedy developer," it's "don't allow the responsibilities of life to kill your dreams." Mark isn't evil, but he is the guy that thinks you should just get a sensible job at the factory instead of trying to become a rock star, that's what he represents. Let's be real in almost any other scenario, Mark is basically a savior, swooping in to save his sister's family from homelessness. Also people act like he threw Karen from the bleachers on purpose, which is again an example of assigning malice to his actions because they already dislike him. Sure, he grabbed her, but then Ray tried to grab her too and it just seemed like he lost his balance for a bit causing her to fall off by accident. Also insulting him by calling him a ginger is a bit odd, considering Ray's wife is also a ginger...
Everyone’s experiences color their reactions to such things. I understand how you see it, but I see a guy who is being extremely pushy and meddling in the finances and lives of other adults where he has no business. And pressuring them to take a deal where he stands to profit. If most people see him that way, maybe that’s the way he’s intended to be seen…
@@RhetoricalThrill He has no business trying to stop his sister and niece from losing their home because his brother-in-law has gone, in any reasonable view, insane? Of course he and his partners would stand to profit, how else would he get them on board to put up the money to buy the land in the first place so that he can let Ray and his family have a place to stay? His business partners aren't going to do it out of the goodness of their hearts. The difference is that if the bank forecloses, than Ray's left with nothing whatsoever, while Mark'll let them live in their house FOR FREE. This is after months of watching Ray lose money and spiralling into financial insolvency so he could watch what are, in Mark's view, completely imaginary games on the baseball field. Of course he's being pushy, Ray's land is literally less than a day away from being foreclosed on by the bank and he's trying to avoid that by convincing Ray to sell the land to him instead so that at least their family can still have a home to live in. Yes, he forced them in that position but it was in order to force Ray's hand since if he doesn't then he (correctly) believes that Ray will simply wait until he loses everything. Sure everything works out because people came, but let's just imagine that Karen and Terrence were dead wrong and nobody comes. Ray's broke and is barrelling towards foreclosure. You're telling me if you saw your family member running at full speed into what seemed to be a guaranteed disaster, you wouldn't be a bit pushy trying to stop them, or frustrated if they kept saying no? He already tried convincing Ray to get rid of the field and grow crops again, so then he switched to drastic measures. He's pressuring them to take the deal in the same way you'd take away your Grandma's credit card so she doesn't send thousands of dollars to a "Nigerian prince." People see him as this greedy villain because they're literally not listening to him, denying anything positive about him even when he explicitly says so (like the fact that he's doing all this because he loves his sister), and failing to see anything from his perspective. He's being judged simply for not having the same info as the other characters (unable to see the players) and acting accordingly. It'd be one thing if he knew about everything that was happening, but just didn't care because the land was valuable, then he'd fit the role of a villain. However he literally has no idea what Ray and the others are experiencing, and as soon as he does he changes his mind about the field.
I wondered that too, but then the jerk brother in law can see him even before he sees the light, which makes me think Terrence is still alive at that point.
I think Mark should mind his own business, frankly. Offering to buy them out is one thing but when they say no, you respect it and let them handle the fallout. He pushed so hard because HE would benefit from it financially. He’s slimy.
I've seen this movie 10000 times and the whole movie brings me to tears not just the end cause I know what it's like to love the sport and play most of my life and to now miss it so much
Absolutely..baseball is the greatest sport ever invented. We are beyond passionate for it. i can tell you the career avg of Buster Posey and a dozen other players.. No other sport has fans that memorize stats like baseball fans. A baseball game is like a brick building. Every pitch is a building block towards completing the final project which remains unknown until complete.
i never cared much about the game itself, or any other sport.. but baseball does remind me of the old times, and my grandpa for sure, and thats whats cool about what terrance says about it.. it does kind of stand for the good ol times, a lot more than any other sport.. it was known as americas pasttime
@RhetoricalThrill I shouldn't have used "we" without stating the people I was referring to. That's my bad. I meant my few high school friends who played some with me. One is a baseball card dealer, the other a diehard White Sox fan and the other a Cubs fan (yes they still get along lol). I played into college but cracked a vertebrae and was done. But I coached some after. There was no everybody gets a trophy bullsh1t..if you sucked, you needed to work harder. To me there is no greater position than Catcher. I still can predict major league pitchers' next pitches at about a 90% rate based on all the variables preceding that pitch. It never goes away. My dad taught me at 6 to play catch. I even had a beer drinking little league coach who handed out beers to us who dared drink it..I did..crappy Falstaff. Lol. Great movie and reaction!
I gotta defend Mark a little. Yes, he comes off an an arrogant A-hole...But his bank was going to foreclose on the property regardless, as Ray wasn't able to keep up after building the field. First Mark was trying to get them to sell so at least they could land on their feet, and then he was even going to convince his partners to let the family stay in the house, rent free. He was simply trying to keep his sisters family from being homless. Mark couldn't see the magic, so from his perspective all he saw was Ray acting irresponsibly with the farm. However.... the point where he grabs the daughter and drops here is where he definitely deserves an ass kicking.
I thought the bank and his company were two separate things, and he was trying to get Ray to sell to his company so the bank wouldn’t get it. AKA profit for him. He seemed the most unhinged when the topic of how much the land was worth came up. And doing the whole “we don’t have a choice,” like he had any right to be included in the process just got my hackles up. But I could be reading it all wrong, of course, this one is more about everything else happening anyway 💜
@@RhetoricalThrill You could certainly be right, but I have always read it as he wasn't interested in it until it was clear Ray was over his head. In his eyes, Ray and his family are getting the boot no matter what he does. I believe him when he says he can continue to live in the house
The only thing that makes me think he was alive is because other people can see him, including the douchebag brother in law. But in any case I’m glad it’s meant to be open to interpretation and I didn’t miss anything obvious 🤣
Eh, it could be worse, it’s pretty clear his relationship with his father is going to be the heart of the story from the start. I like that I got to tie it in without knowing everything 💜
@@RhetoricalThrill but it did spoil the ending, you knew it was going to be his dad. People should not give that kind of information to a REACTION channel
I didn’t see him as good, but that may be my own interpretation. It seemed clear to me that he was going to profit if he could get the farm and so was far too pushy about it. He would act friendly until he didn’t get his way and then he’d be screaming and out of control, he just seemed two faced to me. I could easily have read it wrong, but that’s why I didn’t like him.
@@RhetoricalThrill Fair enough. Just imagine how you, or I, would respond if you saw your family members watching an empty field and saying there were baseball players. Of course, Mark's role in the movie was to annoy us and he did that quite well. This was my first time watching your channel and I enjoyed your reaction and will definitely watch more.
"Is this heaven?" is his dad asking the question? or was he telling his son the answer to the question he should have been asking himself? You don't need a big life to have a great one.
Love this movie! Visited the site in 92 on a family road trip south and a stop in Iowa for a family reunion. Had a catch with my dad on the field. The farm you can see beyond the cornfield was owned by my dads cousin during filming and it’s still in the family
Thank you for letting me know! I’ve been having trouble with my editing program adding random glitches so I’m trying different things to mitigate it. I’ll make sure to fix it next time!
I Remember My Dad Taking Me To See This Movie When I Was a Kid,My Dad Passed Away Back in 2016, I Thinks Of Him Now, When I Watches This Movie, Thanks For Doing A Reaction To This Great Classic Movie
What a beautiful meditation on fathers, grief, and ultimately faith 💜💜💜 A very Happy Father's Day to all of you dads out there!
From the moment Moonlight steps off the field, the tears start for me. To give up your dreams in the service of others is so noble. Burt Lancaster shows what a true movie star is. Every moment on screen, I am riveted.
I don’t even know Mr. Lancaster but oh my yes, he had a real presence on the screen for sure!
YES. So many people list "Wanna have a catch?" as their tearjerker (and it is). But Ray's "oh my god you can't go back," has always been the waterworks for me.
Happy father's day to all the great dads out there and those no longer with us.
💯
“I’m not gonna bawl” was the best laugh of this reaction. I literally said out loud “Oh sweetie, that’s so cute. We all cry”
Definitely slipped out near the end there 😂
I’m a grown man of 44, and still cry. I’m surprised you didn’t bawl your eyes out
I held it in, last week’s movie really tore me up and I couldn’t handle letting loose again so soon, it takes a lot out of me 💔
@@RhetoricalThrill you should watch the movie again… by yourself.. and just let it out.
This is well known for breaking grown men. It seems to touch that soft spot we bury deep and try to fool ourselves into believing doesn't exist.
Women and foreigners should be barred from seeing ghost movie. They just don't have the capacity to fully understand it
Anyone who said to wait until fathers day to watch this should really acquaint themselves with the idea of "spolier alert"
The person that spoiled it should be made to Walk out into the corn
My thought exactly
nonsense. yes, its a very mild spoiler, but sometimes the alternative to a spoiler is worse. the person in question thought, it will mean x% more to her on father's day, and y% more spoiled from knowing that, so its a net gain to tell her. you "no spoiler's at any time, in any way" people are infuriating, and absolutely illogical.
@@ice-iu3vvfound the person who spoiled it 😂😂😂😂😂
@@dustywaynemusic6297 you havent found anything. personally, i'd be happy to get a reaction channell to take a suggestion at all. the last thing i would do is tell them when to watch it, or what to save it for. there are movies nobody reacts to like "chuck", "3 days of the condor", "american beauty", "seabiscuit" etc. and i try to suggest those, but i dont suggest this film, let alone tell people to save it. it any event, you are neither amusing nor clever. are you sufficiently juvenile to need 5 laughing facesfor a 5 word comment? for the record i find the whole "spoiler" subject to have gone way too far, leaving no room to discuss movies because anything you say can be called a spoiler at this point. i believe its childish. we used to have movie reviewers who could give you enough information to interest you without destroying the movie. now we have spoiler nazis ready to get pissy with anyone who tries to make a helpful comment. perhaps you should look into "helpful" comments, rather than trying to amuse yourself with accusations followed by emojis.
Yes! You nailed it! I heard one of the producers talk about it once. In the book, it was actually J.D. Salinger, but when he heard they were going to make a movie, he threatened to sue if they used his name or likeness. So, they had to come up with the fictional character of Terence Mann, and if they hadn't, we wouldn't have had James Earl Jones, and they wouldn't have had an excuse to write that monolouge that he gives.
RIP to Ray Liotta
He's so poignant as Shoeless Joe, just talking about the game. One of his best performances
It felt very real
I have never made it through this movie without Tearing up. I also lost my Dad when I was young (he was only 52). There always things left unsaid and undone. This was Legendary Actor Burt Lancaster's final film and he did a remarkable job. As Dr, Graham he showed how 1 inning of Baseball could change a life. He won a Best Actor Oscar for "The Birdman of Alcatraz".
A small part that made a huge impact, just like his game 🥹
Exactly! After my father passed, I was looking through some boxes and came across items I bought, but was saving them for his birthday, or Christmas. He never got them, and that was when his absense was finally felt!
BIRDMAN is a masterpiece!
Waterworks watching this movie. Every. Single. Dang. Time. And I do not care; I love this movie.
I love that Moonlight Graham was a real person, and his story is real. He got one at bat in a major league game, and then he was a children's doctor for 50 years. What a legend.
Ohhh that’s great that they put him in this then! If he was even half as good a guy as they showed him to be, he was incredible!
@@RhetoricalThrill The stories of Dr. Graham shown in Field Of Dreams are reportedly true. Aside from saying he died in 1972 when the real Archibald Graham died in 1965, no one has disputed the depiction of Dr. Graham in this movie. In 1989 when the movie came out, the (barely?) fictionalized Archibald Graham had been dead for 17 years. When the book Shoeless Joe was published in 1982, the real Archibald Graham had been dead for 17 years. That's probably why he dies in '72 in the movie. This is the first time I've noticed this.
The people who told Ray about Dr. Graham werenot actors and actually knew him and the stories were real. This movie is fantastic.
1 appearance in the outfield. 0 at-bats (not 1), which is largely the entire point.
i never knew that
I just got home from my father's day plans and immediately watched this reaction. Thanks for another great reaction.
Thanks Cody, and I hope you had a good day!
Very touching movie, still great to watch.
In the NOVEL, the Terence Mann character was ACTUALLY J.D. Salinger, but Salinger would not allow his name tp be used in the movie, so they created a new character.
Yeah, that tracks 😂
As Johnny Carson would say, I did not know that.
@@Nitedawg1 as a matt0er of fact, J. D. Salinger DID name a character John Kinsella in one of his early short stories, which is one of the reasons the novel's author, W.P. Kinsella wrote "Shoeless Joe" and named the main character Kinsella in the first place.
It was his father's name, just like in the movie.
@@Mcvthree3 that is really interesting
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!
This is a wonderful, touching movie for most people. But for middle aged guys who wish they hadn't missed opportunities with their fathers, it's devastating. Some of the most outwardly tough-seeming guys you'll meet break down sobbing at the end of this one. Such a good movie.
The "Field of Dreams" field is within rock-throwing distance of where my maternal grandmother's paternal line settled when they arrived from Germany in the mid-1800's. Last summer, I was in the area and visited all my ancestors in the area, and had to stop in to the obvious tourist trap. That's exactly what it is, but it is a good sentiment. ❤ They are building a larger stadium now and hope to host at least one MLB game a year there. But really, there isn't much there other than a nice field to have a catch on.
I live in Iowa, but I've not been to the Field of Dreams field. The funny thing is that the baseball field in real life is partially divided by two different properties owned by two different people, and for a time they both competed with each other for the tourism dollars, despite one of properties only having a small portion of left field on its land.
A couple of other things. The Chicago Cubs Triple A baseball club the Iowa Cubs is in Iowa, and they usually have fireworks show after the games around the 4th of July. Before the show starts, they show a part of this movie on the video scoreboard screen. "Hey, is this heaven?" "No, it's Iowa." Then the fireworks start.
MLB actually have had a couple of games in Iowa in a cornfield near the Field of Dreams field (the regular field isn't big enough for an MLB game.) The first year they had it they had a really cool opening to the game.
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That first MLB game ended with a game winning homerun.
That’s so cool that it’s still there and they do all that stuff with it 💜
"It's hard not to be romantic about baseball" another great baseball movie "Moneyball"
"Thought you were reading the rules of the hotel" had me laughing for a solid 5 min, lol! Great stuff!
I swear, that’s where my head was, but “midnight abortions” made me go, “wait, what?” 🤣
Funny you should mention Salinger. That's the writer whose pain needed to be eased in the book that this movie was taken from.
Whenever I feel down, I watch this movie. It's such a tearjerker, but sooooo heartwarming.
Yup. This one's a tearjerker. I'd give anything to play catch with my dad one more time.
I bet lots of people feel that way about it. And for people who still have their dad in their life it’s a good reminder to appreciate it.
"If you build it, they will come." This movie is a timeless reminder to chase your dreams, even if they seem impossible. It's a beautiful story about second chances, family, and the power of believing. #FieldOfDreams
"I'm not married to the biggest horse's ass in three counties." Every time I hear this, I want Annie to reply "No, but your husband is!"
After all the times I've seen this, I still tear up when Ray meets his father.
If you really want to understand the role baseball played in shaping American culture in the 20th century, you should check out Ken Burns' great nine-part Baseball documentary. It's a must-watch for any fan and, for the baseball novice, a good introduction to the game, and how it came to be known as "America's pastime".
I’m glad that scene was only to show Ray that he needed to find Terence Mann, because I’d had enough of her 😆
For more context about "shoeless Joe" and the black Sox..I highly recommend "Eight Men Out". Not even a sports guy but I love those true story type of films.
I’ve seen that recommended a few times, might have to get to it soon!
I've loved this movie for over 40 years, and the book even longer. Your reaction was a delight. Thank you
Thank you right back! I’m glad you enjoyed it 😊
@Rhetorical A terrific film which hits harder for any man who lost their father, terrific cast all doing amazing jobs. I think this was the legend B Lancaster final film (Doc)
22:12 - I like how Doc Graham drops his leather baseball mitt, steps across the line, and it turns into a leather doctor's bag.
Haven't seen this one since my dad was alive, who passed away in 1993. So, this will be a trip down memmory lane
When I was younger I was a problem child that gave my parents a hard time. No drinking or drugs,but I was as big an ass you can be at a young age. The last conversation I had with my dad was an argument. I told him," Do me a favor and just die." He did that two weeks later. The thing is I knew when I said it it hurt him,but never said I was sorry for saying it. At the funeral several people told me that he didn't understand why I hated him so much. The thing is I didn't.
The parent-child relationship is complex for many reasons. I’m sorry things happened the way they did, and for how it must have affected you 💜
It's funny how out of all the parts of this movie that hit me hardest is the conversation The have in the van when James Earl Jones asks what the terrible thing he said was and why. He could have been talking to me.
I live in Iowa about 40 minutes from the field. I have taken each of my 5 boys to the field to "have a catch". It's free to go out on the field. Been there many times. The new MLB stadium was build north west of the original field a few hundred yards away. The property is now owned by inverstors. I haven't been there since the investors took over. In the auditorium, where they are discussing Terrence Mann, My high school's placard is in the background. I believe this was actually filmed in Dubuque, IA where their high schools were in the same league as the one I graduated from.
I love watching your reactions. You are definitely one of the most genuine people with a genuine reaction that I see on UA-cam. You seem to have a good heart and a good spirit. Definitely a keeper. With your husband probably knows. You have a good day
That means so much, honestly! I have such fun doing this and people enjoying what I do makes it even better 💜
Wow, you clocked the Salinger connection quickly. Good reaction and summary.
Some people think Mann is or will be dead and some think he'll come back and write again. I'm in the later camp. It's the answer to his musing "I know what everybody's purpose is here, except mine".
Anything can happen!
The one inaccuracy was when Annie made mention of how much 'less acreage' they have due to the field. A baseball field (just between the foul lines) with 340 foot left and right field fences and 400 feet to center takes approximately 2.2 acres. Even with a yield of 200 bushels per acre, and as high as $5 per bushel, would only provide about $2200 of income.
I don’t know much about farming really, but I though the same. But I guess if they were far in debt already, who knows? Her brother was sure ready to swoop in like a vulture though 😡
not just moonlight graham, but 100% of the baseball people in this film are real, including their stories. like "ty cobb wanted to come but none of us could stand him when we were alive". few could stand him when they were alive. joe jackson hit left-handed, which is the only detail they changed for the film (because ray liotta hits right-handed). the most beautiful unscripted moment occurred after costner says "see if you can hit my curve". the script called for a homerun to be hit, but the unplanned shot back at the pitcher, and the way costner dodged it, staying in character and saying "yeah, you can hit the curveball" was too good so it was left in. the movie "8 men out" is the mostly-true telling of the 1919 white sox, with joe jackson and the others portrayed here. highly recommended.
For me, watching baseball is about as exciting as watching the outfield grow. And that's if it's Astroturf. But this movie really clued me in to the passion that people have for this game and how deeply connected they are with people who feel the same way. Right up to the point where they find out that they back the "wrong" team.
As far as the filmmaking, it's brilliant. Every actor played their part perfectly. Every evening shot of that field might as well have been a painting. Right down to the last shot, created with real cars on a real road; done by working out how many cars would be needed and how far apart they would need to be, then finding those cars. No effort was spared. Now, it would just be CGI.
Agreed, it’s beautiful! I read about the way they made it look like the traffic was moving by having the people go from high beam to low beam, so simple, so effective. You’re right, now they’d just “do it in post” and not give a care.
It’s funny, baseball is a sport I don’t enjoy watching at all. But I love baseball movies 😂
When you said Poindexter, did you know Timothy Bussfield played Poindexter in revenge of the nerds??? Because if not, that's some crazy serendipity!! 😂😊
😂 no, I did know. I ended up losing the part where I mentioned ROTN. That would have been funny if I didn’t know though!
I don’t believe in many things but I do believe this movie helped get me through my dad’s death. My dad was a huge baseball fan, and he taught me a lot of valuable lessons. I didn’t always agree with my dad, we had our arguments. This movie reminds me of my dad. Thank you so very much for your reaction!
I will say the audio was good, just on the quiet side. Again the reaction and commentary was fantastic!!!
Yeah, I’m still feeling it all out, but you’ve helped a lot! I tried clearing the cache before exporting and I think that may have made a difference with the popping.
There’s nothing quiet about the audio.
@@tempsitch5632 - The audio was definitely quieter than usual, even put in headphones to help and it was still quiet.
I don't like baseball.
I never have.
I absolutely love this movie. It's one of my all-time favorites.
I can watch it anytime.
It’s amazingly relatable, I too don’t care much for baseball
Great Reation......
The Wife (Amy Madigan) and the Daughter (Gabby Hoffman) also worked together in "Uncle Buck" which was released 3 months later.....
Burt Lancaster is Great in this Role...... His last Role......
The movie with Jimmy Stewart that the Daughter was watching that got Turned off was the 1950 "Harvey," A Great Movie to Watch/React.....
This BallField is still there.... They Created another Field Close by that they have played a couple Major League Baseball Games, and the Teams come to the field through the corfield in the Outfield....
Kevin Costner has done 5 Baseball Related Movies.... "Bull Durham" Which BoB Hope addressed it as "A movie about America's Favorite Past-Time, With a little Baseball Thrown in," "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....
I need to do a bunch of those! Thanks for visiting 😊
As much as I struggle with my faith. My favorite movies are all heavily based in faith. This being my all-time favorite.
I think if we never struggle with it, do we really have it at all? 💜
The field is real! It’s in Dyersville, Iowa. Visited there and even walked out into the corn a few years back
I kind of think Mann is dead throughout the whole movie and Ray comes see him at his apartment after he has already passed. His body probably in a park or someplace. The hint is the son looking for him because he hadnt picked up his phone in like a week or something and his apartment was a mess, which was obviously out of character for him. ... He was only gone for a day with Ray.
I would agree except people could see him and interact with him, even the brother in law who was a nonbeliever.
@@RhetoricalThrill but the brother in law could see the players..eventually... Mann didnt realize he was dead yet...
I love Amy Madigan. She is a great actress. She did the Stephen King movie The Dark Half.
I later realized I knew her from Uncle Buck but I don’t think I’ve seen anything else with her, she’s great
“We who?! You got a turd in your pocket??” 😂🤣
Nice! Never heard that one before.
Definitely going to be using that one on my kids 😅
Thank you 😉
😂 I love that one. You can substitute any object you like but that’s my personal favorite
Terrence Mann (I believe) is fictional replacement of J D Sallinger, author of "Catcher in the rye". In "Field..'" novel he's a charcter.
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11:24 aha!
Not gonna lie, I’m pretty proud of myself for making that connection 💪🏻 😂
@@RhetoricalThrill Question: I was way too young when read Catcher. Is it a cultural icon? Or an overrated book known mostly for inspiring wackoes?
@@zvimur I couldn't really say since I've never read it myself. I know *of* it and some of the discussion around it but never had to read it for school, and it never interested me enough to seek it out.
Terrance Mann is a fictional character. Dr. Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham was a real person. He only got one at bat his one game in the Majors - and this movie finally gives him his due. The people they interview in town actually knew the man. Casting an elderly Burt Lancaster as Doc Graham was a stroke of genius. It's mind-blowing this didn't win one Academy Award.
If he was even a little bit like he was portrayed, he was a lovely man and this world was made better by him 💜
1 appearance in the outfield in his only major league game. not 1 at-bat. ( 0 at-bats). in fact thats the entire point. "i'd have liked to have gotten to bat in the major's i never got that chance"
Her brother was really trying to save them from eviction, not destroy them.
Then why not help them with their mortgage? Why is the only option something that will net him a bunch of money in the process? I could be completely misinterpreting it, certainly, bit he really seemed predatory to me.
Its okay you are allowed to cry at this movie. We think you are an alien if you don't.
I don’t usually hold back but last week was Train to Busan and I fully lost it so just didn’t want to go through it so soon 🤣
Oh what a great choice for Father's Day! 😁 Hope ever dad is having a great one, and everyone is having a happy Sunday
You too!
One of my favorite Kevin Costner movies. It is also a baseball movie.
This and "For the love of the game" are his 2 best baseball films, my opinion... I know most would say "Bull Durham '.. I do absolutely love his other collaboration with Ron Shelton, "Tin Cup".
@@mcgilj1 - *Tin Cup* is underappreciated.
There's no shortage of baseball movies, but not quite so many about golf.
11:46 To save himself from the flood
Well I meant why him specifically 😂
Another beautiful, and funny, movie which came out the same year is by Steven Spielberg called "Always."
Starring:
Richard Dreyfuss
Holly Hunter
John Goodman
and Audrey Hepburn!
A great heart-warming story. And, only a handful of reviewers on youtube!
Definitely one to watch, if not post a review as well.
Another nice review. Thanks!
11:23 - Nailed it. Terrence Mann is an homage to JD Salinger.
17:41 - Do you know how many people don't get that the hitchhiker is Doc?
ANNIE IS THE BEST!! I love Amy Madigan.
💜
Great commentary after the film. Much more substantive than what I’ve heard from other reactors. I was impressed with how well you understood and perceived the themes of this story and were able to extemporaneously articulate your thoughts. I may have to watch some more of your reactions… 🤓
I hope you find more to like! I’m not always this deep, but the right movies can get me yammering for sure 💜
Was the "Poindexter" comment just a fact or just a coincidence?? The brother in law did actually play Arnold "Poindexter" in 'Revenge of the Nerds'. Lol... Several actors show up in another of the director's films, the excellent, "Sneakers".. she of the big ass (Lee Garlington), the brother in law (Timothy Busfield) and James Earl Jones...
Also just learned this myself "the voice" is actor Ed Harris (The Abyss, The Rock).
Ahaha, nah, I knew who it was 😂 I think I said Revenge of the Nerds at one point but I cut it out. That’s all I knew him from up to this point, and I definitely like Poindexter more, he plays a mean electric violin.
@@RhetoricalThrill lol.. That he does .I was a bit too young but he was the lead in a series called Thirty something... In the late 80s..I really did like him in his recurring role on "The West Wing" as a reporter though.. he also worked with creator Aaron Sorkin again on "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip".
good stuff all around. minor pt - a football / baseball field is fairly close to one acre in size ( about 1 1/4 acre - regardless shape ). So IF the farm is say 200 working acres the field isn't a huge deal. now add in the lights , work involved etc.....
Yeah, I’m not experienced with either running a farm or something like a baseball field so it was surprising how much difference it made!
I cry at the end every god damn time!! Best baseball movie ever and one of my top 5 movies of all time!
It’s somehow both completely about baseball and not at all about baseball, which I think is kind of what baseball is.
Glad that you kept a line in the review that many reactions unfortunately cut out....when Joe says, "No Ray it was you"
i believe graham dies the same night he spoke to ray, he said he couldnt sleep, which was rare for him, so when they picked him up he ws like joe jackson
You should watch John Sayles EIGHT MEN OUT, which is about the Chicago Black Sox scandal!
In the end, after all that build up, everyone came. So much so you could see the coming from the air, at night. Yeah that sounds dirty.
The temptation to make “come” jokes was terrible, you have no idea the stress 😆
@@RhetoricalThrillI can understand the struggle. Look at the bright side, during the holidays you can start singing "Come all yeah faithful.." at the top of your lungs with a great big belated smile. After all, Christmas only comes once a year.
An absolute gem of a movie. I'd suggest for a future watch 'Breaking Away' from 1979. Few reactors have watched it but I'm quite certain all will like it a lot.
I've got to defend Mark, because his role was important in this too.
Mark, like the rest of Annie's family, had pretty much lost the ability to hope and dream. Those were drowned in the pressures of the real world, and so they couldn't see the players because they had lost their hopes and dreams.
Mark does love his sister. If he was as much of a dick as you (and others, it's not just you) claim, he'd have let his partners foreclose and take the farm after Ray and Annie refused his first offer. His partners obviously had no sh!ts to give. They just wanted the land. But he kept trying to buy the place from them instead of just taking it, even to the point of finagling a deal with his partners to let his sister and her family keep the house and live in it and just sell the land.
He was frustrated and upset that day at the field, and when Ray reached out and yanked at Karin, pulling her out of Mark's grasp and causing her to fall (and the fall itself was 100% on Ray, even though Mark never ever should have handled her roughly, so equal blame for the entire situation), Mark was shocked into immobility, and all he could do was hope, hope, that his niece was okay. Hope returned, and with it his ability to see what the others did. And once he saw he was completely on team Ray. You gotta keep the farm, Ray. You gotta keep the farm.
Mark's lesson is perhaps the most important one of all: that we can all discover how to hope, how to dream again. No matter how life has beaten us down, we can still dream and work to try to reach our dreams.
Terry found what his purpose was in the events when Joe invited him to come out. He had said before that he understood everyone's purpose but his own. He was being summoned to go and see, and then return, and then write a book that would give other lost people the ability to hope and dream again. His purpose was to help teach people to dream once again.
And I love that, as he steps into the corn and begins to vanish, we hear his laugh go up in pitch, like he was once again that kid who dreamed of playing at Ebbets Field. 🙂
Yeah, his dad knew. But he wanted to see what his son would do.
This movie brought tears to my eyes as a relatively callous teen when it came out. Even more so as an old guy who lost his father two years, two months, and ten days ago, but who's counting?
Dwier Brown, the actor who played John Kinsella, wrote a book called "If You Build It..." which is an excellent book about the movie, Brown's conversations with fans who were touched by the movie, and the way it changed Brown's relationship with his own father. Absolutely recommended. Possibly with tissues. 😀
Thank you for the thoughtful comment! It’s a lot to think about, and Mark absolutely has a role to play in this metaphor, I do agree. To me it seemed obvious that Mark was going to profit financially from the sale of the farm, which made him seem callous and cold. I of course could be misinterpreting it. But whatever his motivations, he struck me as very condescending, which was likely the point. I’m glad you added your thoughts, it’s a beautiful movie with lots to talk about 😊
@@RhetoricalThrill You are right in that Mark's potential profit was a motivation and it did make him seem callous and cold, but at the same time he was also shown as trying to be a decent brother by trying to get Ray and Annie to take a deal that would get them paid for their property instead of just swooping in robber baron style and just taking it with foreclosure, which they could have legally done, and Ray and Annie getting nothing in exchange.
Consider this: Mark and his partners had already bought the note from the bank, spending money to do that. Now Mark was trying to get the partnership to spend more money on top of that to get the property and, in his last offer, effectively giving away the most immediately saleable portion of the property, the house, to them to get them to sell the acreage. Mark was hardcore into the business side of the transaction, but at the same time his partners were probably going to make him take anything he gave to Ray and Annie out of his portion of the potential profits. While the time and legal costs of the eviction and possession of the property would be a concern, it overall would be less than Mark was offering to pay and what Ray and Annie would have been allowed to keep in Mark's final deal.
Mark was set up to be, not a villain, but an example of how many of us allow the harshness of the real world to limit or even eliminate our dreams. But, once he saw the truth he redeemed himself by becoming a wholesale believer in their dreams.
Perhaps my viewpoint is somewhat influenced by the fact that, for a while in my life, the harsh realities of the real world had killed my ability to hope and dream, and losing that made me a much less happy person, so I can appreciate Mark's situation better. Hard to say. I know when I was younger and still had dreams I felt a lot more harshly about Mark too. 😛
love burt lancaster, he even made atlantic city watchable
Damn 5 minutes in and I think I need to watch this
DO IT
if a disembodied voice told me to build something and then ghost can visit me...i don't know if I'm doing that. I mean maybe "if you build a stage you'll get visits from like robin williams, bowie, freddie mercury" then maybe i'm swinging by home depot
You and me both!
You should watch Kevin Costner introduce the 2022 Field of Dreams Classic between the White Sox and the Yankees. Now that you have seen the movie, it will move you.
Thank you for this beautiful reaction to one of my favorite movies! Definitely not my last!
On a practical note I always thought the plot was a little weak on the whole bank thing. The corn yield wouldn't be effected that much (less than 5 acres for a ball field), but we are suspending disbelief aren't we?? Lol
Too true, sometimes you just gotta let that stuff go by 😊 Thank you so much for being here and watching!
It's a fairy tale, anything and everything can happen, you just have to watch it and go with the flow.
If you want to be real, how could anyone afford to build a baseball field, and the lights, and then pay for the lights electricity, it would cost millions of dollars.
It's a wonderful film, l cry every time, what l would do to see my father again, give up years of my own life ❤
6:14 - I think Shoeless Joe showed up for spring training.
Aha, that must be it!
The ending scene I heard they shut down the whole power grid, to make it with the cars
Whatever they did, it looks fantastic. And the best part is that I know it’s real 💜
People really don't give Mark a break and just go "I hate you, you suck." If you look at the events of the movie from his POV, he's 100% the sensible one who's trying to help Ray and his family. Literally to the point of just ignoring what he's saying so that they can continue to dislike him, even though if you think about it for 2 seconds he's trying to do the right thing.
"I'm offering you a way to keep your home because I love my sister!" "NO YOU DON'T!" Don't take it personally, but that kind of reaction just seems so immature.
It might just be a movie reaction, but it's symptomatic of how people fail to communicate and understand each other in real life. People will just completely ignore or twist the words of those that they already dislike, simply so they don't have to actually consider what they're saying. It's not just this reaction either, it's a common response in most reaction videos to this movie.
Part of this is also probably just because so many movies have primed people to dislike the "evil businessman" type character, but it's also fundamentally misunderstanding (or purposefully ignoring) what Mark even is. Actually pay attention to what he's saying, think from his POV and you really can't dislike him. To him his sister, husband, and niece have gone insane and are spiralling towards bankruptcy and losing their home while talking about invisible baseball games, while refusing every attempt of his to help. When Mark says "when the bank opens in the morning, they'll foreclose" it's not a threat, it's a warning to Ray of what'll happen if he doesn't accept Mark's help. So he's going buy the land, rather than letting the bank foreclose on Ray, so that he can let Ray and his family stay in their house (rent free!) and all he needs Ray to do is sign. He's not the greedy developer trying to bulldoze the youth center to build a mall.
The message of the scene with Ray, Terrence, and Mark is not "say no to the greedy developer," it's "don't allow the responsibilities of life to kill your dreams." Mark isn't evil, but he is the guy that thinks you should just get a sensible job at the factory instead of trying to become a rock star, that's what he represents. Let's be real in almost any other scenario, Mark is basically a savior, swooping in to save his sister's family from homelessness.
Also people act like he threw Karen from the bleachers on purpose, which is again an example of assigning malice to his actions because they already dislike him. Sure, he grabbed her, but then Ray tried to grab her too and it just seemed like he lost his balance for a bit causing her to fall off by accident. Also insulting him by calling him a ginger is a bit odd, considering Ray's wife is also a ginger...
Everyone’s experiences color their reactions to such things. I understand how you see it, but I see a guy who is being extremely pushy and meddling in the finances and lives of other adults where he has no business. And pressuring them to take a deal where he stands to profit. If most people see him that way, maybe that’s the way he’s intended to be seen…
@@RhetoricalThrill He has no business trying to stop his sister and niece from losing their home because his brother-in-law has gone, in any reasonable view, insane? Of course he and his partners would stand to profit, how else would he get them on board to put up the money to buy the land in the first place so that he can let Ray and his family have a place to stay? His business partners aren't going to do it out of the goodness of their hearts. The difference is that if the bank forecloses, than Ray's left with nothing whatsoever, while Mark'll let them live in their house FOR FREE. This is after months of watching Ray lose money and spiralling into financial insolvency so he could watch what are, in Mark's view, completely imaginary games on the baseball field.
Of course he's being pushy, Ray's land is literally less than a day away from being foreclosed on by the bank and he's trying to avoid that by convincing Ray to sell the land to him instead so that at least their family can still have a home to live in. Yes, he forced them in that position but it was in order to force Ray's hand since if he doesn't then he (correctly) believes that Ray will simply wait until he loses everything. Sure everything works out because people came, but let's just imagine that Karen and Terrence were dead wrong and nobody comes. Ray's broke and is barrelling towards foreclosure. You're telling me if you saw your family member running at full speed into what seemed to be a guaranteed disaster, you wouldn't be a bit pushy trying to stop them, or frustrated if they kept saying no? He already tried convincing Ray to get rid of the field and grow crops again, so then he switched to drastic measures. He's pressuring them to take the deal in the same way you'd take away your Grandma's credit card so she doesn't send thousands of dollars to a "Nigerian prince."
People see him as this greedy villain because they're literally not listening to him, denying anything positive about him even when he explicitly says so (like the fact that he's doing all this because he loves his sister), and failing to see anything from his perspective. He's being judged simply for not having the same info as the other characters (unable to see the players) and acting accordingly. It'd be one thing if he knew about everything that was happening, but just didn't care because the land was valuable, then he'd fit the role of a villain. However he literally has no idea what Ray and the others are experiencing, and as soon as he does he changes his mind about the field.
Terrance Mann's father had the police looking for him! Perhaps he was already passed
I wondered that too, but then the jerk brother in law can see him even before he sees the light, which makes me think Terrence is still alive at that point.
@@RhetoricalThrill maybe 🤔
i think he was too obviously, and just because people could see him, doesnt mean he wasnt a ghost
If he was dead they wouldn't be talking about him coming back and writing again.
@@katwithattitude5062 i dont think they know hes dead.. they talk about him like nobody sees him anymore
I don't understand. Do you think Mark should finance the farm with his own money? I'm so confused when people get so mad at him.
I think Mark should mind his own business, frankly. Offering to buy them out is one thing but when they say no, you respect it and let them handle the fallout. He pushed so hard because HE would benefit from it financially. He’s slimy.
Waiting to play catch with my father ;-)
I've seen this movie 10000 times and the whole movie brings me to tears not just the end cause I know what it's like to love the sport and play most of my life and to now miss it so much
He's going to need a biger parking lot.
Absolutely..baseball is the greatest sport ever invented. We are beyond passionate for it. i can tell you the career avg of Buster Posey and a dozen other players.. No other sport has fans that memorize stats like baseball fans. A baseball game is like a brick building. Every pitch is a building block towards completing the final project which remains unknown until complete.
It’s not a passion I share but I absolutely respect it 💜
i never cared much about the game itself, or any other sport.. but baseball does remind me of the old times, and my grandpa for sure, and thats whats cool about what terrance says about it.. it does kind of stand for the good ol times, a lot more than any other sport.. it was known as americas pasttime
@RhetoricalThrill I shouldn't have used "we" without stating the people I was referring to. That's my bad. I meant my few high school friends who played some with me. One is a baseball card dealer, the other a diehard White Sox fan and the other a Cubs fan (yes they still get along lol). I played into college but cracked a vertebrae and was done. But I coached some after. There was no everybody gets a trophy bullsh1t..if you sucked, you needed to work harder. To me there is no greater position than Catcher. I still can predict major league pitchers' next pitches at about a 90% rate based on all the variables preceding that pitch. It never goes away. My dad taught me at 6 to play catch. I even had a beer drinking little league coach who handed out beers to us who dared drink it..I did..crappy Falstaff. Lol.
Great movie and reaction!
yes costner has aged well
I gotta defend Mark a little. Yes, he comes off an an arrogant A-hole...But his bank was going to foreclose on the property regardless, as Ray wasn't able to keep up after building the field. First Mark was trying to get them to sell so at least they could land on their feet, and then he was even going to convince his partners to let the family stay in the house, rent free. He was simply trying to keep his sisters family from being homless. Mark couldn't see the magic, so from his perspective all he saw was Ray acting irresponsibly with the farm.
However.... the point where he grabs the daughter and drops here is where he definitely deserves an ass kicking.
I thought the bank and his company were two separate things, and he was trying to get Ray to sell to his company so the bank wouldn’t get it. AKA profit for him. He seemed the most unhinged when the topic of how much the land was worth came up. And doing the whole “we don’t have a choice,” like he had any right to be included in the process just got my hackles up. But I could be reading it all wrong, of course, this one is more about everything else happening anyway 💜
@@RhetoricalThrill You could certainly be right, but I have always read it as he wasn't interested in it until it was clear Ray was over his head. In his eyes, Ray and his family are getting the boot no matter what he does. I believe him when he says he can continue to live in the house
My theory is that Terrence Mann was dead the whole time. That’s why he was “missing”. And why the ball players invited him into the corn.
The only thing that makes me think he was alive is because other people can see him, including the douchebag brother in law. But in any case I’m glad it’s meant to be open to interpretation and I didn’t miss anything obvious 🤣
@@RhetoricalThrill Yeah, that and the librarian that talked to him.
I agree about her brother, but he didn’t recognize him. But I’m reaching.
That’s just silly.
IF he was dead, how did the kid at the filling station know to tell Ray about "...the only window that doesn't have a chicken in it..."?
@@K9AF He was dead in the apartment.
Actually Father's Day was a spoiler big time! That subscriber should be made to Walk out into the corn!
Eh, it could be worse, it’s pretty clear his relationship with his father is going to be the heart of the story from the start. I like that I got to tie it in without knowing everything 💜
@@RhetoricalThrill but it did spoil the ending, you knew it was going to be his dad. People should not give that kind of information to a REACTION channel
You were a little harsh towards Mark. He was trying to do what he thought was right. He's wrong, but he's not a bad guy.
I didn’t see him as good, but that may be my own interpretation. It seemed clear to me that he was going to profit if he could get the farm and so was far too pushy about it. He would act friendly until he didn’t get his way and then he’d be screaming and out of control, he just seemed two faced to me. I could easily have read it wrong, but that’s why I didn’t like him.
@@RhetoricalThrill Fair enough. Just imagine how you, or I, would respond if you saw your family members watching an empty field and saying there were baseball players. Of course, Mark's role in the movie was to annoy us and he did that quite well. This was my first time watching your channel and I enjoyed your reaction and will definitely watch more.
Love your reaction. Please react on the movie 1984 The Terminator. Thank you.
I would, but I’ve seen it before 😊
you got a like for the " i dont think it's polite to be a raging b", comment. hahahaha
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My field of dreams would be a fields of weed plants lol jk.
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Worst Christmas movie ever. (I'm joking by the way.)
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omg youre funny
Thank you so much for saying so! 😊
@@RhetoricalThrill definitely watching more of your reactions
the movie the babe with john goodman is soo much beter.
This might be the most insane take I've ever heard
Too much talk. No thanks.
The talking is kind of the point of a reaction video 😂 but thank you for checking it out and not being mean 😊
She is the best wife.
If you want to find out more about the 'Black Sox Scandal' mentioned in the opening - 8 Men Out, with John Cusack
Ooh, thank you!
Such a Great and underrated film!!
When Annie looks at him and says " if you really feel you should do it, then you should" makes my eyes sweaty 😢
She’s a gem 💜
"Is this heaven?" is his dad asking the question? or was he telling his son the answer to the question he should have been asking himself? You don't need a big life to have a great one.
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Love this movie! Visited the site in 92 on a family road trip south and a stop in Iowa for a family reunion. Had a catch with my dad on the field. The farm you can see beyond the cornfield was owned by my dads cousin during filming and it’s still in the family
The sound levels are low.
Thank you for letting me know! I’ve been having trouble with my editing program adding random glitches so I’m trying different things to mitigate it. I’ll make sure to fix it next time!
I Remember My Dad Taking Me To See This Movie When I Was a Kid,My Dad Passed Away Back in 2016, I Thinks Of Him Now, When I Watches This Movie, Thanks For Doing A Reaction To This Great Classic Movie
Highly recommend For Love of the Game....another great Costner/baseball movie, usually overlooked and unappreciated but one of my favorites.