There wasn’t a college football game that I really wanted to watch this afternoon. I got to looking around and found Field of Dreams on a channel I didn’t know I had, POP. Is it a great movie? Probably not, but I found myself laughing out loud and wiping a tear. You can’t ask for more than that.

I'm not a big fan of team sports, but do enjoy th occasional baseball game. I thought the movie was very good. It was well acted, the plot was interesting, and ended well. That's enough for me. (No muzzle flashes, though . . . .)

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It was a pretty good movie.

Excellent film with some very fine performances from several of the cast.
Interesting to think it lead to a MLB game this past August in a field set up adjacent to where the film was made. (Quite a presentation with the players walking out of the cornfield at the beginning, the old fashioned score board and an exciting game, too, if one was a White Sox fan!)

Have never been a Costner fan but thought the movie was well done

If not a great movie, certainly at the top of the very good list. I give them a lot of credit for making a Hollywood movie that was genuinely different. It was drama, comedy, science fiction, fantasy, history, all of the above. The performances were solid, a star cast, very unique plot story.

Someone asked me what it was about, and I didn't know how to answer. You have to just watch the movie.

Well said.

I really enjoyed that movie. Now I'll have to watch it again.

Love it. I'm a huge baseball fan though so I watch all my favorite baseball movies at least once a year.

Watched FoD after the cornfield game earlier this summer.

Didn’t see it at the theater. I played baseball until I finished high school and was always a fan of the game. However most baseball movies I saw didn’t get it right so I didn’t watch it. Then a year or two later I rented it and watched it by chance on Fathers Day with my dad. It was a good movie and a bit more meaningful seeing it with my dad on Fathers Day. I won’t forget that.

The book was great as was Kinsella’s The Iowa Baseball Confederacy. I thought the movie was well done. It came up shortly after my father passed unexpectedly. What I wouldn’t give to be able to have another catch with him.

The Moonlight Graham arc was the best part.

Great film. It’s been too many years since I’ve watched it. Not a huge Kevin Costner fan, but this film is bigger than him. Really enjoyed Ray Liotta in it.

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Originally posted by P220 Smudge:
Really enjoyed Ray Liotta in it.

Should've gotten a Southern, left-handed hitter to play Shoeless Joe.

But Liotta is just such a striking guy. He plays the part well and I'm sure it's a good thing that he didn't attempt a southern accent. (Joe Jackson was from upstate South Carolina.)

Found out an interesting piece of trivia yesterday. Liotta has never seen the film. He attended the screening with his mother, who was ill. They had to leave before any of it rolled. She died shortly afterward and the film just reminds him of his mother’s death, so he’s never watched it.

They turned shoeless Joe's house into a museum of sorts and it is just up the road from me... but they have moved it to build another high rise condo/apartment complex here. Seems he only played shoeless once...