the one thing that drives me crazy is the sloppy camera work in the baseball scenes. The camera is way too tight for us to actually see what's going on and seems to be screaming LOOK! BASEBALL instead of just letting us see how baseball is really played. Does that make sense to anyone? Remember the Titans drove me crazy in this aspect as well.
shareYeah man I hear ya and it would've been nice to see good camera work especially when the high school team was playing, but me and my dad watched that movie not too long ago and he was driven crazy when the catcher for the Owls, (the high school team), had a girls catcher's glove. My dad gets pissed cus when true baseball players see that kinda mess ups in movies it lowers the respect for it. But dont get me wrong still in my top-three best baseball movies.
shareThe movie wasn't made so you could learn baseball, though. It was made for a story, and their highest priority wasn't that you could see everything that was happening in the baseball games. Same with Titans. They had something to the movies besides baseball/football. Therefore, the games weren't their top concern when they went to film it.
sharei hated the camera work to it sucked
shareWho's to say it wasn't suppose to be a girls glove. The story takes place in a little town in Texas. In the movie they mention they might be shutting down the baseball program. Makes me think they didn't have that much money to begin with. So maybe that was the only catchers glove they could afford to get.
shareExactly!
shareman seeing that catcher with a soft ball mitt drives me crazy every time i see it...but it is still a good baseball movie
shareActually I thought the editing for the baseball scenes was very well done. They surely had miles of footage, and the way they cut between players was very smooth and followed perfectly what was going on. There had to be hundreds of shots put together in these scenes. Hundreds.
And like another poster said, it wasn't about the ball game. It was about the characters. The director concentrated on their faces and body movements. Even the people in the stands. You could almost tell what they were thinking and feeling in every second.
They saved the "long shots" for the end when he made the Big League.
I think that was a point too.
And like another poster said, it wasn't about the ball game. It was about the characters.