The greatest movie of all time turns 20!

[Rowsdower!]

Yeah, The Sandlot is a great film.

Here's a question... why does it seem like there are so many great baseball movies and yet so few great football movies? Maybe football doesn't translate as well to film or something.

 

[Drizzle]

Yeah, The Sandlot is a great film.

Here's a question... why does it seem like there are so many great baseball movies and yet so few great football movies? Maybe football doesn't translate as well to film or something.

Rudy and Remember the Titans are the standouts for me.

 

[Tanin]

Yeah, The Sandlot is a great film.

Here's a question... why does it seem like there are so many great baseball movies and yet so few great football movies? Maybe football doesn't translate as well to film or something.

I loved 'Little Giants'

Haven't seen it since I was a kid though.

 

[Steyin]

My grandmother once took my sister and I to the movies when we were young. We were supposed to see RoTY, but I really wanted to see Meteor Man since I loved super heroes.

We were the only white people in the theater. Boy did my gma love me. Never regretted that choice.

 

[Teelie]

I saw Meteor Man too although I can't remember if it was in the theater or not. I should rewatch it and The Sandlot again soon. As to football movies, I just never really found the appeal. I played Little League and was into baseball and baseball is supposed to be "America's past time" yet American football is arguably bigger, at least now.

 

[Matt]

Ugh, "The Sandlot is better" is such a snobbish response. It is like comparing Apocalypse Now to Snakes on a Plane. One is a serious, semi-artistic film, the other is a popcorn movie.

 

[Matt]

Yeah, The Sandlot is a great film.

Here's a question... why does it seem like there are so many great baseball movies and yet so few great football movies? Maybe football doesn't translate as well to film or something.

Baseball was more popular in the sports movie prime.

 

[Wheels]

I don't even like baseball and Sandlot is still great. I should get around to watching 42. I mean that is about more than just baseball.

 

[Tanin]

I don't like baseball but still love Rookie of the Year and Sandlot. The movies aren't really about the sport, baseball is just a backdrop.

 

[Wheels]

I don't like baseball but still love Rookie of the Year and Sandlot. The movies aren't really about the sport, baseball is just a backdrop.

ROTY is more about fame I guess. No one stands out except Daniel Stern's character. so it doesn't do much for me.

 

[Dr. Evil]

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[Dr. Evil]

Yeah, The Sandlot is a great film.

Here's a question... why does it seem like there are so many great baseball movies and yet so few great football movies? Maybe football doesn't translate as well to film or something.

The thing with baseball movies is that a lot of the time, you see real team. ROTY had the Cubs, Little Big League had the Twins, Angels in the Outfield had the Angels and Major League had the Indians. Plus those movies had appearances from real teams and in the case of Little Big League, real former players. A lot of football movies don't use real teams. The Program, Unnecessary Roughness, The Waterboy, Any Given Sunday, The Replacements, basically dating back to North Dallas Forty, the teams in the movie were made up for the movie. I could only think of a few football movies that have actually used real teams (Rudy, Brian's Song, The Express, Friday Night Lights, Remember the Titans, The Blindside and the upcoming Draft Day with Kevin Costner).

Even more rare is the movie that features actual NFL teams. Unlike with Major League Baseball, the NFL is very protective of their image and of the teams images as well.

 

[Blitzkrieg Bop]

I liked Adam Sandler's The Longest Yard.

 

[Matt]

Adam Sandler plays Neil O'Donnell in that movie.

 

[Sawyer]

Ugh, "The Sandlot is better" is such a snobbish response. It is like comparing Apocalypse Now to Snakes on a Plane. One is a serious, semi-artistic film, the other is a popcorn movie.

 

[Drizzle]

I could only think of a few football movies that have actually used real teams (Rudy, Brian's Song, The Express, Friday Night Lights, Remember the Titans, The Blindside and the upcoming Draft Day with Kevin Costner).

Also Invincible.

 

[Rock Sexton]

Runamucker!

 

[Octoberist]

It was a feel good movie, wasn't it?

 

[Dr. Evil]

This is the movie I am reminded of whenever I saw Thomas Ian Nicholas in the first American Pie movie.

 

[Dr. Evil]

Also, Barry Bonds Pre Roids!

 

[warhorse78]

Reading through this thread, I can't believe there are people that have never watched The Sandlot. I think I catch that movie at least once a year. It's always on TV. And it is a really cute movie! And Denis Leary is in it, and he doesn't play a fowl mouthed bad ass. It's odd to see him play this character, but he's pretty good. And of course, Hercules!

 

[redfirebird2008]

Baseball was more popular in the sports movie prime.

I doubt that. Super Bowl has had much better ratings than the World Series for a long, long time. Baseball has a richer history and thus more interesting stories to tell. Like that Baby Ruth scene in The Sandlot.