Zipped through the the film playing only the best parts, striking out Whammer, batting practice homers, knocking the cover off the ball, the shot that broke the clock and the 4 homer game, etc.
And then the final at bat....I had my closed caption on, and the first pitch was called a strike.....and the radio announcer called it a strike, too....Roy fouled off a pitch, and then missed a pitch for what should have been strike three.....That first pitch called a strike, it is hard to read the lips of the umpire with the mask in front of his face.....but you can clearly hear the radio announcer in the background saying it was a called strike.....I don't recall ever hearing it this way, but the closed caption on Netflix verified it....
good movie nevertheless...
That he did, and the one f*ing time I wrote a book report without reading the book, it bit me in the ass.
Yup, always loved the book as well as the movie. The book ending reminds me of Carlito’s Way...old veteran trying to write a happy ending to his sad story, but a young kid (symbolizing the hero as a kid) gets him in the end.
good movie nevertheless...
Would have been a better movie if a different actor had played Roy Hobbs. Redford looked lame at home plate. Not unlike Cooper playing Gehrig.
One of the things I always loved about Major League is that most of the actors are credible as ballplayers, with the main exception being Corbin Bernsen. Sheen, Snipes, and Haysbert were all very good in that regard, and Berenger wasn't too bad.
Tom Selleck was the best, though. Mr. Baseball isn't a great movie by any means, but I still enjoy it because it does have some laughs and because Selleck looks like a real ballplayer.
Yup, if memory serves that was the swing when Wonder Boy broke in the book