Hobbs Proves His Worth At Batting Practice | The Natural (Wilford Brimley, Robert Redford)

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  • @MovingPicsOfficial
    @MovingPicsOfficial  5 місяців тому +65

    What’s your favourite sports movie all time?

    • @Nhamp2000
      @Nhamp2000 5 місяців тому +9

      Bull Durham.

    • @ji8044
      @ji8044 5 місяців тому +8

      It has to be Brian's Song.

    • @davidjackson2690
      @davidjackson2690 5 місяців тому +4

      Bang the Drum Slowly.

    • @wshrig
      @wshrig 5 місяців тому +8

      the Replacements

    • @elichilton7031
      @elichilton7031 5 місяців тому +6

      Vision Quest (85')

  • @bigbilltoady412
    @bigbilltoady412 2 місяці тому +244

    Years ago, when my dad was in his late 70's (May God rest his soul) I brought this movie up to my dad's house. I asked him a couple of days later when I visited him again if he watched the movie. He said he did. I asked him if he like it. He said, "it was the best movie I ever saw in my life". I'm not too far from dad's age back then now. Near 72. I miss him almost every day. Dad has been gone now for 10 years.

    • @moonfleet9537
      @moonfleet9537 2 місяці тому +6

      Thanks for sharing

    • @DocPicklez
      @DocPicklez 2 місяці тому +6

      A fathers Greatest Joy if to be given words like those.

    • @JamesCassidy-z3f
      @JamesCassidy-z3f 2 місяці тому +4

      Awesome memories

    • @Hagrid1955
      @Hagrid1955 2 місяці тому +6

      It's refreshing to read heartfelt comments like yours. I'm almost 70 now and I think of my father every day. He taught me how to play baseball in the early 60's. He would have loved this movie as it portrayed the game when he knew it best. Thanks for sharing.

    • @bigbilltoady412
      @bigbilltoady412 2 місяці тому +6

      @@DocPicklez Whether we are 15 or 65 when we lose a parent that we dearly loved it hurts big time and we will always miss them. God Bless you and your loved ones.

  • @gregborneman5523
    @gregborneman5523 5 місяців тому +251

    The dramatic music when Hobbs hits the home run into the lights gets me everytime.

    • @donwilson1307
      @donwilson1307 5 місяців тому +4

      Yep, the Texas Rangers used that theme song after a ranger hit a home run. Gotta love it.

    • @greglee1465
      @greglee1465 5 місяців тому +10

      One of my all time favorite moments in movies. I miss this version of Hollywood.

    • @ppmnox
      @ppmnox 5 місяців тому +5

      we all do, kid. we all do.

    • @jacques42
      @jacques42 5 місяців тому

      This one?
      ua-cam.com/video/i94ldGNNSQ0/v-deo.html

    • @blueknight5754
      @blueknight5754 5 місяців тому +1

      When you read the book you discover a different ending but the producers didn’t want people to complain so they decided to give it a happy ending. 🇺🇸

  • @stevensmith743
    @stevensmith743 5 місяців тому +346

    This film is pure magic from start to finish.

    • @ji8044
      @ji8044 5 місяців тому +2

      In the book, 19 year old Roy Hobbs is seduced by older woman Harriet Bird who then shoots him. In the movie the obviously 47 year old Robert Redford does the scene with the ten years younger Barbara Hershey to comedic effect because he is clearly a sexy, worldly, older man with a younger woman, standing the scene on its head.

    • @Mike__B
      @Mike__B 5 місяців тому +4

      @@ji8044 They didn't quite have the whole de-aging tech down back when they made this movie :)

    • @Aerialistreloaded
      @Aerialistreloaded 5 місяців тому

      Yeah pretty much

    • @robertjutton6079
      @robertjutton6079 5 місяців тому +4

      Liked it better than Field of Dreams

    • @lovedavantlamour301
      @lovedavantlamour301 5 місяців тому +2

      This is the worst baseball movie I’ve ever seen , full of anachronisms and bizarre , unexplainable occurrences to go along with shoddy acting and what I call athletic choreography . I mean the ron leflore biography was 100 thousand times better than this and that was with Mr. Reading Rainbow starring in a network tv production … and if you’re wondering who ron leflore is , you’re only strengthening my point …

  • @thomasmcdaniel6264
    @thomasmcdaniel6264 2 місяці тому +40

    I took my 12-year-old nephew to see this movie when it first came out. I loved baseball and he was playing little league ball at the time. Now he is 52 and in the late stages of ALS😢but... he still loves and remembers that movie❤

    • @bigkk758
      @bigkk758 Місяць тому +3

      This is so sad to be so young

    • @bigbilltoady412
      @bigbilltoady412 Місяць тому +1

      So sorry to hear that. Hope he gets better or at least the symptoms aren't too bad. God Bless you both.

    • @rm91340
      @rm91340 Місяць тому

      Prayers

  • @chrisweidner4768
    @chrisweidner4768 5 місяців тому +146

    I love revisiting scenes from this brilliant film. “Well I sorta got sidetracked.” Hits hard.

    • @LesterMoore
      @LesterMoore 5 місяців тому +1

      Max Mercy said he heard Hobbs was an acrobat in the circus!😄

    • @jaykay6387
      @jaykay6387 5 місяців тому +2

      Story of my life.

    • @johncasamassa462
      @johncasamassa462 5 місяців тому +4

      Don't we all. 😢
      Paul Newman in "The Young Philadelphians" has a great line at the end, "I'm not as good as I hoped I'd be, but I'm not as bad as I thought I was."

    • @bobcole612
      @bobcole612 5 місяців тому +5

      Iris: “I believe we have two lives.”
      Roy: “What do you mean?”
      Iris: “I believe we have two lives. The one we learn with, and the one we have to live after that.”

    • @mdarrenu
      @mdarrenu 4 місяці тому

      @@LesterMoore Mercy is scum but a good illustrator!

  • @Jesters_Thorny_Crown
    @Jesters_Thorny_Crown 4 місяці тому +132

    There aren’t many perfect movies, maybe a few dozen in my opinion, but this is certainly one of them. Perfect script. Perfect casting. Perfect musical scoring. I can’t think of a single thing I’d change about this film. It’s timeless.

    • @doncarlodivargas5497
      @doncarlodivargas5497 4 місяці тому +1

      If we only had understood that game

    • @BlueButtonFly
      @BlueButtonFly 4 місяці тому +2

      This is an insane take lol. The writer of this movie barely knew how baseball worked.

    • @Jesters_Thorny_Crown
      @Jesters_Thorny_Crown 4 місяці тому +5

      @@BlueButtonFly what’s insane is you think this movie should be baseball accurate. If I wanted a perfects baseball game, I’d watch it live on tv. This is a movie. It’s supposed to be exaggerated. It’s also a period piece when times were different. The Sandlot wasn’t baseball accurate, but it’s a timeless classic. A League of Their Own is another one. Moneyball might be more your thing. That’s a Hollywood chop of a movie if ever there was one.

    • @BlueButtonFly
      @BlueButtonFly 4 місяці тому +4

      @@Jesters_Thorny_Crown ok? Nice straw man you built yourself there. I wasn't asserting it wasn't a movie, I was asserting it wasn't a "perfect movie". But I guess if Moneyball exists it's a perfect movie lol?
      Do you even know what you're talking about? This is an average looking, badly written, cliche of a film. You like it because you watched it between the ages of 13 and 15, the same reason anyone likes shitty movies.

    • @Jesters_Thorny_Crown
      @Jesters_Thorny_Crown 4 місяці тому

      @@BlueButtonFly oh shit. It’s the internet police. Why even bother to comment if you are just going to troll? Turd. I bet you wear a red hat and a gold diaper don’t you?
      Did you see the part about opinions? It’s great that you know what a straw man argument is. Maybe actually take a critical thinking course instead of getting your vernacular from Lex “I’m unbiased, I swear” Friedman.

  • @MultiEviscerator
    @MultiEviscerator 2 місяці тому +34

    I never get tired of watching this scene from the movie, or the entire movie for that matter.

    • @bigbilltoady412
      @bigbilltoady412 Місяць тому

      Any movie that Robert Redford is in or directed is going to be a good movie. Starting with "Ordinary People"

  • @dethtongue945
    @dethtongue945 5 місяців тому +102

    One of the greatest movies of all time, and so obscure now. Just magic from start to finish. So pleased to see it pop up randomly in my UA-cam algorithm.

    • @Sugarnaut
      @Sugarnaut 5 місяців тому +2

      Sadly, baseball is obscure now. My Cubs just played the Angels. No Trout. No Ohtani. Even the Cubs beat that lousy team. Nobody knows those other Angel players except their mothers…on payday.

    • @saskk2290
      @saskk2290 4 місяці тому

      "One of the greatest". Haven't heard that before

    • @steveswangler6373
      @steveswangler6373 4 місяці тому +1

      it always blows my mind that when people talk about baseball movies, and especially baseball movies from the 80's, The Natural very rarely comes up, but i cannot think of one baseball movie better

    • @danielbrown3461
      @danielbrown3461 3 місяці тому

      The movie....I spit on your grave is better.

    • @nicholasbrown4109
      @nicholasbrown4109 Місяць тому

      @@steveswangler6373 Bull Durham?

  • @MrDannyArroyo
    @MrDannyArroyo 4 місяці тому +18

    One of the few times a movie exceeds the book by a million percent. One of the great sports films ever.

  • @timhanna4700
    @timhanna4700 4 місяці тому +10

    One of the many movies I saw with my father who's now gone. Still one of my favorites. It brings back many memories and the ending is just epic.

  • @74bshs
    @74bshs Місяць тому +3

    Best second of this clip was 2:35, of Bobby, the bat boy, the smile on his face. Just wonderful.

  • @TheSaturnV
    @TheSaturnV 5 місяців тому +43

    Every single reaction from these characters watching him hit is absolutely perfect. The wink to the batboy is icing.

    • @Stevesautopartsify
      @Stevesautopartsify 5 місяців тому +1

      I love the whisle on the first HR!

    • @TheSaturnV
      @TheSaturnV 4 місяці тому

      @@Stevesautopartsify Yeah, all the background extras really added to the scene. It’s funny, nobody acted all surprised or made a big fuss. They were just kind of like, “Huh…..”

    • @Gameburn7-ii7mh
      @Gameburn7-ii7mh 4 місяці тому

      Directing and Acting: perfectly in synch.

  • @DeMan59
    @DeMan59 Місяць тому +5

    I saw The Natural and Field Of Dreams both for the first time in a double feature at a movie theatre that also served beer and food. It was awesome.

  • @Defossion1
    @Defossion1 5 місяців тому +23

    I absolutely LOVE the sound of a bat hitting a ball. I go to Triple-A games in Tacoma, WA just to hear that sound!

    • @jojo89ofcourse52
      @jojo89ofcourse52 5 місяців тому

      That sound feels even better going through the hands ;)

    • @Defossion1
      @Defossion1 5 місяців тому +1

      @@jojo89ofcourse52 I'll have to take your word for it. I was a career .211 hitter through high school with no power!

    • @jimmymckay73
      @jimmymckay73 4 місяці тому +1

      The Rainers.

    • @thomast8539
      @thomast8539 3 місяці тому

      i went to one minor league game once, in Louisville. I tried to keep an open mind, but it was just so different from a major league park and the game lacked that spark. I know those fellas were trying to get somewhere and deserved better from me as a baseball fan, but it just wasn't connecting with me.

    • @soaringvulture
      @soaringvulture 6 днів тому +1

      The sound of a wooden bat hitting a ball. Seldom heard these days. Mostly you hear tin cans rattling.

  • @toesuf94
    @toesuf94 5 місяців тому +62

    Beautifully shot film with a great story. Love this film.

    •  День тому

      No doubt... the lighting and color contrasts are impeccable.

  • @rhyshilders
    @rhyshilders 5 місяців тому +73

    I could watch this film 3 times in a day. Perfection.

    • @ji8044
      @ji8044 5 місяців тому +1

      He was way too old for the part and looked like anything but a "natural" as a baseball player.
      It was terrible casting.

    • @rhyshilders
      @rhyshilders 5 місяців тому +3

      @@ji8044 you’re kidding yourself. He was perfectly cast. Brilliantly acted, you can believe him in the role. Yes he was mid to late 40s, but that was the point, he was sign sight unseen on the basis that he was beat up and old for a baseball player.

    • @ji8044
      @ji8044 5 місяців тому

      @@rhyshilders Nope, in the book he's 35, but Redford was a ludicrous 47 years old. Plus Redford was a tennis player who never spent a single day on the diamond in his life. They had to cast very old looking actors around him, like Wilford Brimley and Richard Farnworth in an effort to make him look younger by comparison.

    • @civlyzed
      @civlyzed 5 місяців тому +2

      @@ji8044 And yet millions of us love it. To each his own. Cheers and Happy Independence Day!

    • @rhyshilders
      @rhyshilders 5 місяців тому +2

      @@ji8044 nah again I disagree. Couldn’t care less what was in the book. Hobbs is a person who is beaten down from life’s trials, of an age he shouldn’t be playing baseball, and Robert Redford played it perfectly.
      You are entitled to not like it, but it’s a beloved movie classic for a reason, and a big chunk of that is people loving Redford in the role.

  • @TandemKnights
    @TandemKnights 5 місяців тому +42

    One of the greatest movies of all time, sport-related or otherwise.

  • @carlrosendorf5210
    @carlrosendorf5210 4 місяці тому +16

    Tears when watch with my son.
    Best damn hitter i ever seen.
    Peace ✌️ 2024

  • @davidmushinski8196
    @davidmushinski8196 5 місяців тому +93

    One of the best baseball movies ever

    • @ppmnox
      @ppmnox 5 місяців тому +8

      "one of the best movies ever."
      fixed it for ya.

  • @blartuc2769
    @blartuc2769 5 місяців тому +57

    I like that scene where Hobbs comes in from the outfield and throws a pitch

  • @ManiacRacing
    @ManiacRacing 5 місяців тому +81

    There is a reason Redford is a legend. Movies like this showcase that reason!

    • @TheSaturnV
      @TheSaturnV 5 місяців тому +2

      I loved him in Waldo Pepper, 3 Days of the Condor and Sneakers.

    • @mdarrenu
      @mdarrenu 5 місяців тому +1

      This was a perfect role for him and he was great - I believe he was 44 years at the time.

    • @csviolin0516
      @csviolin0516 3 місяці тому

      Robert Redford is one of the greatest actors & directors of all time. His movies are works of art on every level: acting, cinematography, musical score, everything.

    • @dougkauble4707
      @dougkauble4707 2 місяці тому

      Jeremiah Johnson my all time fav

  • @timrico1377
    @timrico1377 5 місяців тому +5

    A classic,instant stop down. As soon as I see it on the menu,I STOP AND WATCH

  • @kevinbuja8105
    @kevinbuja8105 5 місяців тому +23

    I think Caleb Deschanel should have won an Oscar for his cinematography of this film. I remember watching a video of the making of this film, and Mr. Deschanel waited for quite some time for the right light for that shot of Glenn Close in that hat.
    He also, nearly choked to death Mr. Redford and Ms. Hershey when they were filming in the dining car.

  • @kylehubbs651
    @kylehubbs651 5 місяців тому +46

    "Well you're better than anyone I ever had. And you're the best GD hitter I ever saw.......suit up."

  • @yeltsin6817
    @yeltsin6817 5 місяців тому +44

    On of the best movies ever

  • @jintsfan
    @jintsfan 5 місяців тому +26

    Love this film.
    Absolutely love it.
    Redford’s dress sense, leather jacket, shirt, tie and fedora are the dog’s bollocks.

  • @EugeneONeill-pf5bj
    @EugeneONeill-pf5bj 5 місяців тому +21

    Even though director Barry Levinson changed the outcome of Bernard Malamud’s novel, the film is the best baseball movie of all time. Perfectly cast and beautifully filmed, it captures the innocence of baseball in America, the relentlessness of greed, and restless spirit of the underdog.

    • @ji8044
      @ji8044 5 місяців тому +1

      You couldn't find a less athletic and less age appropriate group of actors if you tried.

    • @thomast8539
      @thomast8539 3 місяці тому

      I too enjoy this film, but my fave baseball movie is Bull Durham.

    • @truthseeker3063
      @truthseeker3063 2 місяці тому

      Well said!

  • @TandemKnights
    @TandemKnights 5 місяців тому +52

    This movie is deep, it's working on multiple levels, lots of symbolism. The whole movie has Greek/Arthurian symbology. The name of the team is the Knights, the bat represents Excalibur, the Judge likes the dark (Hades), the journalist Max Mercy represents Vulcan as he is able to make and break men. Hobbs' whole journey to get back to baseball is like the Odyssey, Iris Gaines is like the Lady in the Water and the woman on the train/Memo Paris are like the Sirens, keeping him from his true destiny, retuning home (baseball/greatness). The gambler, Gus Sands, is Psychlops, in fact, in one scene he covers an eye as he tries to guess how much money is in Hobbs' pocket. Pop Fischer is the Fischer King, both the protector and embodiment of the game of baseball. This true masterpiece is filled with great feats by Roy Hobbs, mythical accomplishments: knocking the cover off a baseball, making a bat from a tree struck by lightning, hitting four homers in one game, hitting a ball through the clock and, of course, the finale where he creates an early light show by crushing a ball into the stadium lights....one of the greatest moments in cinema.

    • @brianhammerstein
      @brianhammerstein 4 місяці тому +4

      thank you for this.

    • @TandemKnights
      @TandemKnights 4 місяці тому +3

      @@brianhammerstein My pleasure, sir.

    • @edchapman5801
      @edchapman5801 3 місяці тому +3

      Seldom does a comment on UA-cam leave me in awe, and actually, I can't think of anything that approaches this. Impressive to the max - I've read it 3 times already and it gets better and better. Well done is all I can think of, but my vocabulary is quite limited.

    • @davidharden6826
      @davidharden6826 3 місяці тому +1

      Much the same as "Oh Brother where art Thou?".

    • @maxsteele4555
      @maxsteele4555 Місяць тому +2

      Great analysis.

  • @REB4444
    @REB4444 5 місяців тому +12

    I forget how much I LOVE baseball until I see these highlights and it reminds me why it's special.

  • @jamesart9
    @jamesart9 5 місяців тому +19

    A vastly underrated movie that is uplifting to the soul and spirit.

  • @wvu05
    @wvu05 5 місяців тому +255

    It's still shocking to me that Robert Redford was only two years younger than Wilford Brimley.

    • @don0612
      @don0612 5 місяців тому +59

      Diabetus

    • @LesterMoore
      @LesterMoore 5 місяців тому +5

      ​@@don0612And wine, booze, women and song?🤔

    • @deepee1452
      @deepee1452 5 місяців тому +13

      Wow
      “The diabetus”

    • @ksrmk
      @ksrmk 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@@don0612😂

    • @bgmcc907
      @bgmcc907 5 місяців тому +1

      The Face.

  • @jacktheripoff1888
    @jacktheripoff1888 5 місяців тому +120

    Buffalo's War Memorial Stadium. They were lucky to still have it to film this. From the right angles and close-ups it could have passed for the Polo Grounds. By the way how many others noticed how horrid that water is coming out of the drinking fountain?

    • @BudSchnelker
      @BudSchnelker 5 місяців тому +16

      Come on man, that's Lake Erie water! I live down in Dunkirk and I drink that stuff every day. It's good for you, puts hair on your chest.

    • @privateer0561
      @privateer0561 5 місяців тому +5

      Every drinking fountain which looks like that has horrid water.

    • @jmad627
      @jmad627 5 місяців тому +6

      @@BudSchnelkerwhat’s could be wrong sharing a little iron, zinc and other heavy metals amongst friends, I say.

    • @lukedavis4441
      @lukedavis4441 5 місяців тому +9

      The manager literally brings up how bad the water is earlier in the movie when the team is losing but because he is only focused on Hobbs hitting batting practice he drinks it without noticing or complaint.

    • @adamwiech4874
      @adamwiech4874 5 місяців тому +1

      I grew up in lasalle near love canal and im fine ,, I can remember them hiring extras to fill the stadium , my cousins were in it.

  • @truthseeker3063
    @truthseeker3063 2 місяці тому +1

    Shattering the tower clock face at Wrigley Field gives me the goosebumps every single time! Watching him strike out "The Whammer" at the county fair is priceless.

    • @jason60chev
      @jason60chev 2 місяці тому

      You can almost hear the vendor, in the stands, hollering, "Oh $hit!"

  • @justinbryson352
    @justinbryson352 3 місяці тому +1

    This was one of my favorite movies as a kid. Loved it so much. Still do. Have not seen it in a long time though. Love Robert Redford so much.

  • @petermcclenaghan5735
    @petermcclenaghan5735 5 місяців тому +1

    I really like that people are just discovering this brilliant movie -enjoy - it is a classic Redford and Brimley are superb

  • @scottward7813
    @scottward7813 5 місяців тому +39

    "Hobbs!" Then "Roy!" Love that

    • @prism8289
      @prism8289 5 місяців тому +4

      Better yet, calling him kid.

    • @shanekilpatrick3378
      @shanekilpatrick3378 5 місяців тому +2

      Yeah 👍🏻 😊

    • @chrisbernardo5500
      @chrisbernardo5500 2 місяці тому +2

      Great insight. He barked "Hobbs" like he was a nothing, then tried again with respectful first name "Roy." He went from whatever old man to hold up buddy.

  • @ontheroad5317
    @ontheroad5317 5 місяців тому +9

    This simply a great story with great actors, great cinematography, great direction. It’s amazing that you don’t need CGI to make a great film.

  • @montestamper2291
    @montestamper2291 2 місяці тому +2

    This movie is special on so many levels. Thank God for heroes.

  • @cdub4693
    @cdub4693 Місяць тому +6

    The greatest baseball movie ever made.

  • @willyb507
    @willyb507 3 місяці тому +4

    Only thing i really like about baseball is the sweet sound of the the wood hitting the ball right in the sweet spot😊

  • @68CDVille
    @68CDVille 5 місяців тому +41

    Brimley was born looking like that, perpetually 60ish.
    As a teenager, he was beloved by his friends for buying them beer.
    🍺🍻

    • @jamesfields2916
      @jamesfields2916 5 місяців тому +1

      In Cocoon he was years younger than everyone else in the retirement home. He was 23 and 26 years younger than Hume Cronyn and Don Ameche. He was 9 years younger than Maureen Stapleton and 25 years younger than Jessica Tandy.

    • @jasonfitzpatrick2197
      @jasonfitzpatrick2197 5 місяців тому +1

      Yeah, this was his first movie, only 23 years old.

    • @thomast8539
      @thomast8539 3 місяці тому

      Folks need to see him with Jack Lemmon in The China Syndrome. Great stuff, but sobering.

  • @rizon72
    @rizon72 5 місяців тому +74

    I never noticed the color of the water when he gets a drink until now.

    • @Rosarymeds
      @Rosarymeds 5 місяців тому +7

      I guess they didn't care about rusty lead pipes back then

    • @jayhouston7054
      @jayhouston7054 5 місяців тому +19

      If I recall Pops complains about how bad the water is and usually spits it out, but is so shocked that Roy can hit that good doesn't even notice it that time.

    • @jeepliving1
      @jeepliving1 5 місяців тому +7

      @@jayhouston7054 "Wouldn't you think that I could get a fresh drink of water after all the years I spent in this game? Red, did you talk to that bastard partner of mine about the drinking fountain?"

    • @ssmith7074
      @ssmith7074 5 місяців тому +8

      @@Rosarymeds I'm not sure how you expect lead pipes to develop rust.

    • @Gumshoe88
      @Gumshoe88 5 місяців тому +4

      @@jayhouston7054notice he never takes his focus off hobbs

  • @JohnDoe-qu7gm
    @JohnDoe-qu7gm 5 місяців тому +10

    One of my favorite scenes in movie history

  • @perceptionmatters7082
    @perceptionmatters7082 5 місяців тому +19

    I love this scene so much.
    He asks Hobbs everything as a viewer we would want him too. Explaining the bats history makes it real, not imaginary. It was built when he was a kid and he built it out of a tree struck by lightning. No fancy flashbacks, no call of bs from the coach. Just simple storytelling within a story.

    • @billlozier5551
      @billlozier5551 5 місяців тому +1

      I'm probably the only guy who will say Redford is my favorite actor and he's good here. However I was disappointed in the film. I wanted a real baseball movie like Bull Durham, not a unexplainable story and far-fetch heroics. It was rather silly.

    • @perceptionmatters7082
      @perceptionmatters7082 5 місяців тому

      @@billlozier5551 Story was explained rather well I thought. Each their own.

    • @billlozier5551
      @billlozier5551 5 місяців тому

      @@perceptionmatters7082 yes, so explain to me where Redford was all those years in between?
      There was no reveal. He's answer was " does it matter"? Yeah, it sorta DOES! That's what a story is all about. The journey not the destination. Jmo but a rather silly answer. You must be an easy person to please. Good for you.

    • @perceptionmatters7082
      @perceptionmatters7082 5 місяців тому +1

      @@billlozier5551 He was nearly killed by a psycho fan. The injury prevented him from playing. The same injury shows at the end once his dream is complete.
      Also you taking this very personally.
      Everything ok ?

    • @billlozier5551
      @billlozier5551 5 місяців тому

      @@perceptionmatters7082 🤣🤣🤣🤣 thanks for your concern. I'm fine. I just LIVE baseball and the movie was weak in my opinion which is the true opinion or not understanding me. 🤣🤣🤣

  • @Bohdisattva3.7
    @Bohdisattva3.7 3 місяці тому +1

    So many great baseball movies. This one will always be top two. 💪🏼

  • @akd052774
    @akd052774 4 місяці тому

    What a wonderful acting.. old timers whenever they wanted to give you a compliment always be reserved.. like "not too bad". Such minor details as coach was so captivated by Roy he hasn't noticed the water from the fountain was just as bad as the other day, yet he didn't spit it out

  • @kilroy2573
    @kilroy2573 Місяць тому

    One of my all time favourite movies. I feel it is underappreciated as a lot of people I know have never heard of it.

  • @graniteman62
    @graniteman62 5 місяців тому +25

    Great movie with an old type story, no fancy crap etc, just straight forward from beginning to end

    • @stevejanowiak1982
      @stevejanowiak1982 5 місяців тому

      “Fancy crap!” 😂 Love it. And I agree w you 100%!

  • @mikebolt3753
    @mikebolt3753 5 місяців тому +52

    At start of BP he was called ‘grandpa.’ By the end he was called ‘kid.’

    • @marcd1981
      @marcd1981 5 місяців тому +5

      Two different people used those terms. The player called him grandpa because he was older then all of the players, the batting coach called him kid because he was older than Hobbs.

    • @willshad
      @willshad 4 місяці тому

      Hobbs was supposed to be 35 in the movie, so it's kind of weird for anyone to be calling him 'grandpa'.

    • @AbeVicious
      @AbeVicious 2 місяці тому

      ​@@willshad35 in sports is a grandpa lol

  • @jimeditorial
    @jimeditorial 4 місяці тому +4

    Richard Farnsworth and Wilford Brimley....two greats

  • @TheRealTDBourne
    @TheRealTDBourne 17 днів тому

    Lot of iconic moments, but I'm always touched when he says, "I have been. Every day."

  • @DavidJones-ye2if
    @DavidJones-ye2if 15 днів тому +3

    Wilford Brimley was only 2 years older than Robert Redford, yet looked old enough to be his father.

  • @graytonw5238
    @graytonw5238 Місяць тому +1

    Pop deliberately kept Hobbs on the bench because he resented having Hobbs shoved on him by the team's manager and because Hobbs was the only one who didn't put up with that endless motivational speaking crap, but at 0:37, even without seeing Pop's face in the scene, you could tell he probably felt a twinge of guilt listening to Hobbs' frustration. That's when he realized he should have given Hobbs a chance at least, and decided to give it to him. A major turning point in the movie.

  • @07maitai
    @07maitai 5 місяців тому +6

    This movie and The Legend of Bagger Vance are all timers.

    • @csviolin0516
      @csviolin0516 3 місяці тому

      Agreed. Robert Redford’s movies are pure works of art on every level.

  • @4Truth05
    @4Truth05 5 місяців тому +27

    Not only is Robert Redford’s Roy Hobbs batting left handed and wearing No. 9, his swing is identical to one of the all time greatest hitters Ted Williams.

    • @ji8044
      @ji8044 5 місяців тому +3

      LMFAO,.
      He was 47 years old, and the only sport he had ever played in his life was tennis. It was just absurd.

    • @waynenoll1967
      @waynenoll1967 5 місяців тому +4

      And Redford was about as unathletic as anyone. His skinny legs give away any chance to look like a power hitter, where most of the energy comes from the hips and legs. And before anyone mentions Ruth , he had a big fat ass on top of his skinny legs. All in all it was a good movie though.

    • @robertaustin2355
      @robertaustin2355 5 місяців тому +7

      It’s real good balanced swing. It’s bat speed that determines power

    • @raymondcwhite8552
      @raymondcwhite8552 5 місяців тому +1

      By cinema hitters standards definitely an above average swing. Tom Selleck may have had the best. Costner and Redford I would say are neck and neck.
      If a Willie Mays movie comes out they need to find an actor who can carry the Say Hey Kid, God rest him.

    • @thewolfdoctor761
      @thewolfdoctor761 5 місяців тому +4

      @@ji8044 Go away troll. Redford played baseball at Van Nuys High School (where future L.A. Dodgers hurler Don Drysdale was on the team) and was good enough to win an athletic scholarship to the University of Colorado to play baseball, but flunked out due to partying and a drinking problem. When Drysdale was interviewed and asked about Redford, he said that Redford was a good ballplayer. Redford was a fine hitter and during rehearsals of The Natural he hit a few pitches into the upper right field deck of War Memorial Stadium.

  • @TheGent2
    @TheGent2 5 місяців тому +7

    Don Drysdale (LA Dodgers) said that Robert might have been able to play in the big leagues. They were teammates at Van Nuys High School in So Cal. Robert (or Bobby) played second base.

    • @therealbs2000
      @therealbs2000 5 місяців тому

      Amazing, he played the pivot as a left handed thrower? Or did he just learn to throw lefty for the movie? Either way i would be amazed!!!

    • @ji8044
      @ji8044 5 місяців тому +1

      No he never said any such thing. Redford was a tennis player. LOL

    • @asmukler
      @asmukler 5 місяців тому

      Yeah I read about that recently. It's kind of unclear how much Robert Redford actually played but Don Drysdale did like him.

    • @GSMSfromFV
      @GSMSfromFV 3 місяці тому

      @@ji8044 - Per the historical newspaper research I did on Redford during his high school days, he was indeed, a tennis player. The school year book had him on the tennis team. Could not find him on the baseball team.

  • @richjasso
    @richjasso 5 місяців тому +17

    Best baseball movie ever .

    • @mjcruiser4238
      @mjcruiser4238 5 місяців тому +2

      Kinda a toss up with Field of Dreams and Bull Durham

    • @WilliamLevin916
      @WilliamLevin916 5 місяців тому +1

      @@mjcruiser4238 Don't forget For The Love Of The Game

    • @mjcruiser4238
      @mjcruiser4238 5 місяців тому

      Not for me

    • @mjcruiser4238
      @mjcruiser4238 5 місяців тому +1

      Actually there is another on on my list “Bang the Drum Slowly”

    • @nicholasmuro1742
      @nicholasmuro1742 5 місяців тому

      Bad News Bears and The Sandlot

  • @O.J._is_Guilty
    @O.J._is_Guilty 5 місяців тому +15

    2:30Was that water coming from the fountain brown?😂

    • @phoenixtypewriter2136
      @phoenixtypewriter2136 5 місяців тому

      Looked like it was !

    • @74bshs
      @74bshs 5 місяців тому +1

      I noticed that, too!

    • @charlesmiller6281
      @charlesmiller6281 5 місяців тому +3

      In an earlier scene the brown water sets him off on a rant. This is meant to show he's so captivated by Hobbs hitting he doesn't even notice.

    • @PantsofVance
      @PantsofVance 5 місяців тому +1

      Judge says he's workin on it

    • @Au60schild
      @Au60schild 5 місяців тому +1

      ​@@charlesmiller6281Bingo!

  • @nathanmoore1893
    @nathanmoore1893 5 місяців тому

    Amazing movie, seen it so many times and just love it. Incredible.

  • @mattmurphy8288
    @mattmurphy8288 5 місяців тому +1

    My Mom was an extra in this film.... I watched the AA Buffalo Bisons play many a game in the Rockpile.... Great movie in a relic of stadium that is gone today....

  • @nicklangmusic
    @nicklangmusic 5 місяців тому +2

    Man, I talk about my favorite Baseball movies, but I’ve legit never seen this whole movie. May have to queue it up in the near future, see if my list needs updating!

    • @joelcampbell7100
      @joelcampbell7100 5 місяців тому

      Your list will absolutely need updating !! 👍🏻

  • @redtesta
    @redtesta 3 місяці тому

    a time when they made amazing movies. One of my favorite movies of time and being and ex pro ball player, its really special.

  • @donkeytime1704
    @donkeytime1704 5 місяців тому +2

    I love that scene when the third baseman wasn't paying attention and gets squared off in the nuts... I crack up every time during that scene... Losing is a disease... Lol 😝

  • @cblanton42
    @cblanton42 5 місяців тому +1

    Great movie, one of my favorites! I can't think of a better baseball movie.

    • @ji8044
      @ji8044 5 місяців тому

      Eight Men Out, by john Sayles is 1000% better.

    • @cblanton42
      @cblanton42 5 місяців тому

      @@ji8044 I fell asleep twice watching that movie. Opinions are like assholes, everyone has one.😂

  • @Lola_Santoro
    @Lola_Santoro 5 місяців тому

    Now I have to watch this movie again tonight. Such a great movie!

  • @johngulino2651
    @johngulino2651 3 місяці тому +1

    The young actor who played the Bat Boy is one of the stars in the film. And it's interesting to see how he interacts with the Roy Hobbs character.

    • @artsteadman2230
      @artsteadman2230 3 місяці тому

      Good script eh?

    • @centralpete6044
      @centralpete6044 2 місяці тому

      The scene when Roy breaks his “Wonderboy” bat and Bobby (I think that was his name) picks it up and shows it to him makes me weepy. Roy confidently tells Bobby to pick out a winner to replace it and Bobby brings out his own homemade bat for Roy to use, which Roy accepts. The juxtaposition of the sadness of losing your bat that was like Samsons hair and then the young kid wanting to help his hero is so powerful. Thank you for acknowledging this kids important contribution to this fine film.

  • @vonbek778
    @vonbek778 5 місяців тому +67

    Wilfred Brimley was 25 when they filmed this.

    • @calcio23
      @calcio23 5 місяців тому +2

      🤣

    • @chrissullivan9143
      @chrissullivan9143 5 місяців тому +5

      I have to assume you were intending to make some kind of joke because clearly he wasn't 25! And btw his name was Wilford!!!........

    • @chozen1956
      @chozen1956 5 місяців тому +1

      Lol

    • @TheSaturnV
      @TheSaturnV 5 місяців тому +7

      It was before his diabeetus.

    • @johnthekiwi1601
      @johnthekiwi1601 5 місяців тому +8

      That's nothing. Max Von Sydow was 80 years old at birth and stayed that way for 91 years.

  • @standepain
    @standepain Місяць тому

    2:28 Great call back to the scene where Pop meets Hobbs. That scene the water was so bad Pop spits it out the second he taste it but here you see the water is brown and Pop is mesmerized by Hobbs talent that he doesn't even notice how awful the water is.

  • @jml-rj5re
    @jml-rj5re 2 місяці тому +1

    The brown water gets me every time! lol

  • @GNXXRAY
    @GNXXRAY 5 місяців тому +14

    My favorite sports movie ever

  • @markrome-h7v
    @markrome-h7v Місяць тому +1

    The year Babe Ruth retired he came to Buffalo to put on an exhibition (1936). My grandfather watched as he hit a number of pitches over the roof and out of the stadium at the old war memorial. No one had ever hit one out of the park there before or after Ruth. Not even Roy Hobbs. They demolished it not long after this movie.

  • @Davidsisson-tb7wg
    @Davidsisson-tb7wg Місяць тому +1

    Just my opinion. This is the best baseball movie out there

  • @williamworrell178
    @williamworrell178 5 місяців тому +1

    I did not appreciate the supporting cast when this was released, it so much talent.

  • @Paul-lm5gv
    @Paul-lm5gv 5 місяців тому +21

    Brimley was great in that role!

    • @danielfinn9460
      @danielfinn9460 5 місяців тому

      Pop: "When I was young, Red, my mother urged me to get out of this game. When I was a kid, she pleaded with me. And I meant to, y'know, but she died."
      Red: "Tough."
      Pop: "I should'a got outa' this game, and I should'a been a *farmer* . I love chickens, and ducks, and pigs. Kinda' fond of nanny-goats, I am. Aw, C'mon Fowler, throw *STRIKES* !"
      Red: "Fowler's killin' worms, Pop."

  • @scottsmith4612
    @scottsmith4612 5 місяців тому +2

    Note Richard Farnsworth in this movie. Great actor. If you've never seen "The Straight Story" you absolutely should. Farnsworth gave us the performance of his lifetime. Sadly, he left us not long afterward.

  • @cwpo1973
    @cwpo1973 5 місяців тому

    One of my favorite moments in this scene: Pop Fischer is so astounded by Hobbs' hitting that he takes a sip out of the infamous broken/polluted drinking fountain and doesn't even think to gripe (again) about how it hasn't been fixed.

  • @TheSuperParatrooper
    @TheSuperParatrooper 5 місяців тому +2

    It is so interesting that if you listen you can hear a radial aircraft engine in the background right as Hobbs was about to enter the batting cage. This would have been period for this time in history.

  • @unclerat2131
    @unclerat2131 4 місяці тому

    "Hobbs! Roy! Come here!" A good writer shows how you can change the entire dynamics between two strong characters as simply as that.

  • @jatco84
    @jatco84 3 місяці тому

    Great flick.. Could watch that anytime...!!

  • @Szederp
    @Szederp 4 місяці тому

    Pop, Red and Billy Boy.....how could you not be in love? Can never get tired of this scene. Then Pop drinks from the garbage fountain......does not even realize anymore. Just perfect scenes in this movie. They don't have to look perfect...they are ACTORS not models like most Hollywood pictures use today. Look at Wilfrord Brimley or for that matter Richard Farnsworth....dang.

  • @countalucard4226
    @countalucard4226 Місяць тому +2

    The one, the only, Robert Redford. The last great real movie star still alive.

    • @rah2287
      @rah2287 Місяць тому

      Tom Cruise says hold my beer.

  • @BrianBoese-im8jm
    @BrianBoese-im8jm 22 дні тому +1

    A hundred thousand swings later. You have to love to hit a baseball ⚾️

  • @finleyfendt3750
    @finleyfendt3750 9 днів тому +1

    Good movie. 👍👍👍

  • @sneakyquick
    @sneakyquick 4 місяці тому

    It would be awesome for every man once in their life to be able to hit a baseball the way he did in this scene.

  • @steveswangler6373
    @steveswangler6373 4 місяці тому

    this movie was fantastic, my favorite baseball movie ever and one of my favorite movies of any genre. read the original novel also, a fantastic book

  • @johnd9031
    @johnd9031 3 місяці тому

    I’ve see this great clip a hundred times

  • @eric_schaaf
    @eric_schaaf Місяць тому +1

    Imagine how many other Roy Hobbs are out there that never saw the majors.

  • @mikealdana8012
    @mikealdana8012 5 місяців тому

    This brings back a lot of ⚾️ memories as a kid

  • @dc-wp8oc
    @dc-wp8oc 5 місяців тому

    A trio of the best actors of our time.

  • @duncansamways1363
    @duncansamways1363 2 місяці тому

    This film is pure magic 😊

  • @artescajeda835
    @artescajeda835 5 місяців тому

    How come I can't find his RC? Anywhere.

  • @johnkeros9109
    @johnkeros9109 Місяць тому +1

    Favorite scenes, bar none.

  • @gamera1962
    @gamera1962 5 місяців тому +1

    Might be my favorite baseball movie.

  • @loucontino4804
    @loucontino4804 3 місяці тому

    It's good to see that even in the old days a coach was still able to get a sip of Pepsi from the fountain in the dugout.

  • @phil4986
    @phil4986 Місяць тому

    The end of this movie is simply incredible. But it's like life. You have to get through it, fighting the battles, to understand how wonderful the ending is. Evil must be defeated. Watch the entire movie. A true masterpiece.

  • @finch2213
    @finch2213 2 місяці тому

    Beautiful movie
    Beautiful acting
    Beautiful story
    Hideous swing

  • @shaunjenkinson5089
    @shaunjenkinson5089 2 місяці тому

    Fantastic film

  • @Christian_Prepper
    @Christian_Prepper Місяць тому +1

    2:28 *That water looks nasty brown!*

  • @jeremyraglin8170
    @jeremyraglin8170 5 місяців тому

    This scene is inspiring, dreams have no expiration date.