Well we're nearing close to
Father's Day everybody, and luck would have it this pick is defiantly one of
the many movies me and my father would watch 24/7, and I'm sure a lot of other
Dads could point at this movie and say "nothing on but Major League is? Hell,
yeah I'm watching this", I think in all honesty any Baseball fan would
watch Major League from start to finish. Surprising history my first
introduction to Major League wasn't really the original film itself it was
actually the sequel that came with it and at the time I in a bizarre sense
thought was a good baseball movie moreover my parents let us because what I
didn't realize that this was more of a kids movie than the original film. So,
luckily in a small trip me and my brother looked around a Best Buy and I
finally found the original Major League film, bought it and finally watched it
and all I can tell you is that I would prefer the 1989 Major League over its
two sequels anytime anywhere. And I'm confident this would be one of the many
films me and my Dad would enjoy.
The new owner of the
Cleveland Indians, former showgirl Rachel Phelps (Margaret Whitton), has a
sweetheart deal to move the team to Miami. But to break the lease with the city
of Cleveland, ticket sales must plummet. So, Phelps hires the most incompetent
players available, including a near-blind pitcher Rick Vaughn (Charlie Sheen)
and injury-prone catcher Jake Taylor (Tom Berenger). But her villainous tactics
accidently foster a can-do team spirit, turning the Indians into potential
winners.
I'm not going to say a
whole lot about what really makes this film amazing because I believe we can
all agree on that everyone knows how great this film is moreover there's really
not much to say the film David S. Ward speaks for itself. In fact, David S.
Ward is a lifelong Indian’s fan himself who never seen his favorite team win
anything during his time so what any other baseball would do the man created
one of the greatest baseball story ideas ever developed. To give more Baseball
fact that would survey inspiration behind Major League was that the Indians
ballclub hadn't won a pennant since 1954, furthermore through the course of the
clubs existence they never had a winning season since that time and to give a
great example Sports Illustrated even predicted that the Indians would win the
World Series in 1987, unfortunately they lost 100 games during that season so,
thanks to Sports Illustrated in jinxing that whole season. But what really
makes this film more of a center piece for pop culture and the future of
Cleveland sports was that former general manager John Hart to the job just
right when the film came out into theaters moreover saw the film and just had a
"oh no" thought to himself about how that would be what he would have
to endure. So, if this film ever had anything that helped mankind in producing
it would most certainly be producing one of the best 90's Indians that we
baseball fans all come to know and love. To be honest what makes this film
great is that if you ever have cable or live streaming and see Major League in
that specific channel I would think anyone would just automatically watch it no
matter what part of the film they missed, moreover this film still to this day
holds the test of time mainly because you can compare this movie to any of your
favorite teams and just think of how this reminds you of the way your sports
team is playing, hell I'm typing this review right how watching how bad my
Cardinals are playing against the Atlanta Braves and yes I can put my foot down
and say that Carlos Martinez is the real life Wild Thing. Lastly this film
alone will always be one of the greatest baseball or sports films in general
for its great one liners plus the outstanding performance of well everyone in
general but really if I had to name one actor who I don't know if the film
would of worked without him/her it would most certainly be real life MLB
broadcaster Bob Uecker who does a tremendous job playing Harry Doyle whose bit
of an alcoholic whose burnt out on the Indians Ball club that he just makes
these great lines that I couldn't see anyone doing a better job than Bob Uecker
did, though I would think Harry Caray would be a good one but I don't think he
would of pull off the performance Uecker delivered, and what's great is that
Ward actually gave Uecker all of the freedom in the world to bring Doyle to
life so that's a great example of trusting both your actor as well as your
director. So, if you have a Dad who loves that game of baseball ask him if he
wants to sit down and watch Major League and see what reaction you can get out
of him because if I had the free time in the world I would most certainly ask
my father if he'd like to watch one of the greatest Baseball films ever
made.
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