I always joke with H that he's taking a Tom Hanks style piss whenever he pees in the morning. Man goes on forever.
And I saw this movie on TCM (I think?) when they were doing a pop up video thing with facts about the movie. It was awesome. Did you know that Jon Lovitz yelling "Will you shut up?!" was ad libbed because the cow legit wouldn't shut up? Lol.
That's my favorite line in the whole movie! I don't know why.
I'm surprised that there are people who didn't think Dottie threw the game. Maybe it was meant to be interpreted differently. But I doubt it since Dottie wouldn't have dropped the ball by accident. Even the way Jimmy looks at her, he knew she threw the game.
This reminds me of the argument I had with a friend like 3 years ago regarding the movie The Sixth Sense. I said something about how the joke was on the audience and the kid knew the whole time that Bruce Willis was dead. She insisted the kid didn't know Bruce Willis was the dead the whole time. What? He sees dead people!
I was in the movie it was filmed in my home town. Also my cousin was Stilwell.
That's so cool. You also just reminded how sad I was when they see Stilwell as an adult at the Hall of Fame gathering, and he tells them that his mom passed a couple years back.
Not only is this movie a classic, but it's pretty much the only movie where Madonna gave a decent acting performance.
I thought she was EXCELLENT in Evita, but I always attribute that to no speaking lines, just singing.
In her other films, she doesn't really emote with her voice, and that's always killed it for me. But singing is her bread and butter, so Evita worked well for her.
Post by themoneytree on Mar 20, 2015 14:13:59 GMT -5
God I love this movie. It's permanently on my DVR for easy access. Lol.
I love all the funny moments but there are a couple of moments which just kill me.
The scene where the woman is looking at the boards and can't read and one of the team gets up to help her find her name. Then the scene where one of the team gets the telegram from the war office. OMG. So poignant.
I'll CP what I said over there since they actually stayed on topic in a post for once:
"if she dropped it on purpose - which she did not do - way to fucking ruin the entire movie by showing that the feels of your kid sister outranks all the hard work and sacrifice your team made. way to show that women are too emotionally fragile and will let down entire teams and months of hard work just so they can hug a family member a little tighter.
fuck that"
if she dropped it on purpose, then that really does ruin the whole movie for me, which sucks. fuck her sister's feelings.*
*said as an only child.
This is one of my favorite movies, and I never even considered that she did it on purpose. I thought she lost her edge when she left, and when she dropped the ball she knew it was time to move on. What kind of person would purposely betray her entire team, knowing how much it meant to all of them?! So that Kit could feel better? No. I refuse to believe that.
I think I read somewhere that Alice's post-slide bruise was real.
Owwwwwie!
I was obsessed with this movie as a kid (still am, let's face it) and watched anything I could find on it. Right around when it was released on video I saw a behind the scenes, making of type show. That bruise was 100% real.
I thought she dropped it. I'm the younger sibling. Bro outshined me ins sports (baseball in fact) but I did well in school so it kind of evened out. We were in the same grade even though we were 15 months apart and we were kind of raised as twins.
Post by marshmallowmars on Mar 20, 2015 15:28:35 GMT -5
My roommates and I dressed up as the Peaches and Jimmy Dugan for Halloween 10+ years ago. Best costume ever. We just made them ourselves using peach dye for the clothes, long red socks, and made the patches on the uniforms and hats with felt/sharpies.
I just can't reconcile it coming down to her making an honest error in the game just because maybe she was out of practice after being away from the team (Which, I might add, she had already quit so she could go settle down with Bob).
When she's 80-something years old at the reunion, she still manages to do her famous barehanded catch. That's not a woman who "got rusty" after just a few short weeks off the field. Sorry, not buying it.
Post by snipsnsnails on Mar 20, 2015 15:42:15 GMT -5
Wahh? There's nothing gingerly happening in that clip. Look at her grimace before she gets charged. She's ready to take the hit and not let go. I still think she meant to hold onto it.