Sports Movies, I Love them TOO Much
The PX finally had the new edition of Bad News Bears in stock yesterday, and I promptly picked it up. I could not wait for work to end so that I could get back to the room and watch it. It was a riot, and I enjoyed it immensely. Does anybody play a better loser character than Billy Bob Thornton. I didn't think that anyone could top Walter Matthau's Buttermaker, but BBT did it and then some.
The number one aspect about the new edition that I like is that it really shows the melting pot that the US has become, but how everybody is truly an American. What's more American than playing little league baseball. There were a couple of Mexicans, an Armenian, and even a kid in a wheelchair. They had rich kids, poor kids, and of course, my favorite, the fat kid.
Maybe since I was the fat kid playing catcher, I always appreciate their characters so much more. There was the fat kid playing catcher in The Sandlot, and the fat kid in this movie as well. I can never remember their names, except that they are the fat kid catchers, that have the best home run trot in baseball. What seperated this fat kid from all other fat kid characters is how he was an angry fat kid. He wasn't the loveable belly like jelly kid. He said things that normally us full figured ones only think. Every big boned person out there must love this guy.
After watching it, it got me to thinking. We are in the midst of the best sports movie decade in the history of sports movies. The 80's gave us Caddyshack, the 90's gave us Blue Chips, but there are a lot more misses than hits in the decades that I've been around. Just this year alone we've had Fever Pitch, Cinderella Man, The Greatest Game Ever Played, and Bad News Bears. In past years there have been quality movies like Driven, Miracle, Coach Carter, and For Love of the Game. Hopefully it only gets better from here.
While I know I promised picks for today, I'm really thinking that I should sit on my laurels with my perfect 5 and 0 record. So those of you in Vegas that were eagerly awaiting my picks: Sorry.
OUT.
The number one aspect about the new edition that I like is that it really shows the melting pot that the US has become, but how everybody is truly an American. What's more American than playing little league baseball. There were a couple of Mexicans, an Armenian, and even a kid in a wheelchair. They had rich kids, poor kids, and of course, my favorite, the fat kid.
Maybe since I was the fat kid playing catcher, I always appreciate their characters so much more. There was the fat kid playing catcher in The Sandlot, and the fat kid in this movie as well. I can never remember their names, except that they are the fat kid catchers, that have the best home run trot in baseball. What seperated this fat kid from all other fat kid characters is how he was an angry fat kid. He wasn't the loveable belly like jelly kid. He said things that normally us full figured ones only think. Every big boned person out there must love this guy.
After watching it, it got me to thinking. We are in the midst of the best sports movie decade in the history of sports movies. The 80's gave us Caddyshack, the 90's gave us Blue Chips, but there are a lot more misses than hits in the decades that I've been around. Just this year alone we've had Fever Pitch, Cinderella Man, The Greatest Game Ever Played, and Bad News Bears. In past years there have been quality movies like Driven, Miracle, Coach Carter, and For Love of the Game. Hopefully it only gets better from here.
While I know I promised picks for today, I'm really thinking that I should sit on my laurels with my perfect 5 and 0 record. So those of you in Vegas that were eagerly awaiting my picks: Sorry.
OUT.
posted by SPC Deal at 4:12 AM
2 Comments:
im done with the BS read the e-mail
*done* matt
well what to say besides that she is a total ferak and likes to be one
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