The Natural or Field of Dreams?

[538280]

Which is a better film?

I'll go with Field of Dreams.

[It's Over The Wall!]

Field-O-Dreams

[Gamingboy]

Ahhhh!

Can't Decide!!!!

Head Will Explode!


(boom)

[Baseball Guru]

Field-O-Dreams


Agreed!!!!

[E.Banks#14]

Field Of Dreams.

Why? You ask.

I think The Natural is very cheesy. :)

[Electric City]

Just found this site the other night and love what I see. I have been a baseball fan since I was a kid playing little league ball in the mid-70's.

Field of Dreams was just on the WE channel on the cable tonight. My wife laughs at me everytime when I start to get a little wet in the eyes when Terrance Mann gives his speech about how baseball is the one constant that has marked time. Man, I love that speech. Go the distance.

Anthony

[ADunn44]

Field of Dreams was just on the WE channel on the cable tonight. My wife laughs at me everytime when I start to get a little wet in the eyes when Terrance Mann gives his speech about how baseball is the one constant that has marked time. Man, I love that speech. Go the distance.


that speech is in my sig, ya (starts dancing and making stupid remarks, i invented the question mark)

[KHenry14]

Any guy who says they don't get teary eyed at the last scene in FOD where Ray and his Dad have a catch is flat out lying! Too bad his dad threw like a girl! :crazy

KH14

[nolanryan5714]

The Natural, because it is meant to embody the mystique of the game...and did it quite well, IMO.

[whatswailing]

Definitely Field of Dreams, The Natural was as someone said before, "cheesy". A little too cheesy for my taste.

[SoxSon]

Here's the thing: As a film, it's got to be The Natural. As a story, I'll go with Field of Dreams.

[west coast orange and black]

as far as movies go, i equate "cheesy" with "hollywood story/hollywood ending".
both movies were total hollywood: malamud had hobbs strilking out in his original story, not hitting a homer; dreams has a son be granted his wish of seeing his father again simply eradicating corn and puttin' down sod.

i ain't nowhwere near sayin' that the movies do not affect me -- they do.
but there both pretty cheesy.

(i was given a signed knights jacket from kim bassinger, so i ain't gonna rake it too much)

[CyNotSoYoung]

I liked them both and have seen both twice. I'm sure I will watch them again in the future. Which one I choose to watch will depend on what kind of mood I'm in. Hard to say if one was better than the other. Neither was an all time great, but both are worth watching. Like wine, women, song, and baseball players - there are a lot of good ones that I truly love - but don't ask me to choose one as the best. (well - there is only one woman, but I was speaking fuguratively) ;)

[wamby]

I don't care for either one of them.

[tnkers_2_evrs_2_chnce]

Field of Dreams. The Book was great too!! Shoeless Joe by William Kinsella.

[metfan1969]

Field of dreams, because I have never seen the natural.... not because I dont want to just havent made the time.

[Southlake CubsFan]

field of dreams, i went to that place to it was pretty cool

[william lee]

In my opinion, the BEST baseball movie i have seen in the last 20 odd years has been "The Natural", hands down! Just about everthing in that movie is well produced,well acted and just over all well done."Field of Dreams" is a great BB movie, but in a "Fantasy" way!! Bull Durham is another good one but in a more dirtier way, you know, with Susan Saradam in it and all the sexual references."The Natural" is my pick.

[Coal Cracker]

Field of Dreams is one of my favorite movies of all time. As far as baseball movies go, Bull Durham would be next followed by The Natural,

[Stephen1164]

Field of Dreams, one word "Magic"

[skeletor]

Natural....Roy Hobbs rules..how could anyone not like that monster
homerun blast at wrigley ? or Pop Fisher..'I should have been a farmer'

or the scene when the Knights were floundering, and the 3rd baseman
takes a grounder in his cup...arghhhhhhh...

As for field of dreams..someone called it magic...hmmm, more like
black magic....LOL...All in all, two really great films, you CAN'T go
wrong with either..especially on DVD..with Extras

[64Cards]

I'll take "Bull Durham" or "Major League" over either one of them.

[Bluesteve32]

You know, I like 61* and got the DVD for like 7 bucks.

Of the two, Field of Dreams and The Natrual, I'll have to go with Field of Dreams by a whisker.

Others:

Pride of the Yankees, many scenes were filmed at old LA Wrigley and had some of the payers actually in the film.

Major League.

Naked Gun, the baseball scenes were too funny with Reggie trying to kill the Queen, and Leslie Nielson trying to throw out an umpire.

[lamearm]

1. Eight Men Out

2. The Sandlot

3. The Natural

4. Bang the Drum Slowly

5. Damn Yankees

6. Field of Dreams...Talk about cheesy, I think Kraft produced this. Its pompus posturing and disingenuosness make it all the more insufferable.The picture wheezes along using hackneyed, contrived plot devices that would be laughed out of any freshman scriptwriting class. Most of all, the long-winded and sanctimonious monologus about the majesty of the game, there only to get easy tears from the audience is equally mondane. Love all of Kinsella's works, especially his short stories, but the film does not stand up to the story.

[fenrrris]

Don't want to piss anyone off with my first post, but I have to agree wholeheartedly with lamearm's assessment of Field of Dreams. It seems to me to be a film almost wholly worshipped for its unabashed nostalgia and melodrama. It's the epitome of a poorly made chick flick - but for guys. That is, the plot tosses substance right out the window and relies on over-wrought masculine sentimentalities. I like a movie with some basic male appeal, but Field of Dreams is the weeper you watch with your Pops - only there's no actual drama here about which to cry. Booooring.

On the other hand, The Natural is a pretty interesting and complicated re-working of a medieval quest tale. I took a class in college that covered The Natural and I think it deserves a lot of respect as both a baseball and literary novel.

But, hello everyone!

[RedSoxVT92]

The Natural by a wide margin for me. As I said in the other thread, The Natural is my all-time favorite movie ever. I love the scene when Hobbs hits the homerun into the lights to win the penate and all the other lights explode, and sparks fall by his feet as he rounds the bases. Love everything about the movie.

I like Field of Dreams, but personally I think it gets overated by alot of people.

[5LilPlayers]

Field of Dreams....hands down for this poll.

Too bad his dad threw like a girl! :crazy

Thanks! :D

Wait....

You meant that as a put-down, didn't you??? :grouchy

Though I do agree with what you were implying. It does strike me as odd that out of all the men in the world...heck, even just all the male actors in the world...they couldn't have found ONE who could actually throw?

[The Bambino]

I'll go for the Field of Dreams.

[Captain Cold Nose]

Field of Dreams is the one movie that I felt was better than the book. It's been a long time since I have seen The Natural, so I'll pick FOD.

[CoasttoCoast]

I enjoyed both movies very much but the movie Field of Dreams is very different than the book Shoeless Joe Comes To Iowa......

[hubkittel]

as far as movies, i'll take field of dreams. as far as literature, i'll take the natural. how's that for dodging a question? :laugh

[Erik Bedard]

Field of Dreams, just because it was one of the few movies that surpassed the book, as Captain said. The Natural (the literature version) was better than both FOD's and the movie The Natural. But the movie FOD, was better than Shoeless Joe and The Natural (movie version).

Wow, that confused me just typing it. :crazy

[BelieveForever'03]

Field of Dreams for sure, one of my all-time favorites.

[Green & Gold]

:clapping Both are fantastic films. Last summer I took my father and my son (13) to the FOD movie site. We had the place to ourselfs. Played catch, hit BP, ran the bases and took photos. On the plan ride out we watched the movie, and my dad cried. Then drove to a cubbies game for the weekend. One of the greatest trips of our lives. Go do it!

[moldyoldie]

I enjoy Field of Dreams, sentimentality and all. It's written and plays like an extended Twilight Zone episode; Rod Serling wrote in the same style...and I don't mind the nostalgia, political, and fantasy factors. James Horner's music was perfect as well.

The Natural felt somewhat disjointed; a compelling, but strange adaptation of Malamud's book which simply didn't resonate the way I would have liked.

[hudsonharden]

The novel version of "The Natural" is fantastic, because the ending is completely different than that of the movie. As far as the movies go, Field of Dreams is better.

[The Kid]

Field of Dreams is the best baseball movie ever, IMO.

[StanTheMan]

Another for the Natural... easily. Like FOD too, and have been to the site, but the Natural takes it.

[cubsfan1073]

That's too easy, Field of Dreams is the best baseball movie ever. Bull Durham is close but no cigar. Terrence Mann's speech to Kevin Costner is one of the greatest moments in movie history.

[skeletor]

That's too easy, Field of Dreams is the best baseball movie ever. Bull Durham is close but no cigar. Terrence Mann's speech to Kevin Costner is one of the greatest moments in movie history.

Amen...how true that speech is...as for the films, love'em dearly. but for
different reasons..i guess IF I had to make a choice..it'll be the natural.


two of my fave scenes..were when hobbs snapped outta that slump
in chicago, by driving the ball into that massive clock....

the other is only a scene men could understand...when the Knights were
losing big time...the third sacker takes a hard grounder to the nuts..and
hits the ground...the looks of everyone is so wild...my then wife, can't
exactly understand how painful that is....jeez...ouch....


as for other films...lots of good ones..as well as really BAD ones.