Goodness it's been a while. Not much has been going on. I am doing some PR work with a few dental offices in the area and I am getting back into the interning thing with The Regular Guys on Rock 100.5 but other than that its all pretty quiet.
I was waiting for my girlfriend to get out of her boot camp class today and as I waited, I started watching Field of Dreams on my iPhone via Netflix. It occurred to me as I was watching it that I absolutely love this movie.
First and foremost it is about the best sport in the world: baseball. Let's not argue this because it will go nowhere. There are some of you that will tell me that football is better and you are entitled to your opinion; however wrong it may be. I think there are far too many people on a football team. There are like 5 people just on the line for goodness sake. If you took one of those players off on both sides I don't think the game would change much. Now, in baseball, take the center fielder out. The left and the right fielder have that much more space to make up. Short stop as well; if you take him out then the double play would almost be non existent. So please, let's not argue this.
Secondly, it has a nice mix of comedy and drama with a dash of mystery. FoD is a movie you can watch over and over and it is always fun. Another good movie is The Natural but it can drag at times. FoD is usually always moving forward. (The best sports SCENE however does belong to The Natural when Roy smashes the lights with Wonderboy).
Thirdly, the actors play the game like it used to be played and that is not easy to do. The swings, the pitching, even the fielding has changed so much over the years and it can't be easy to emulate.
All in all Field of Dreams is a great story about a guy that shouldn't own a farm but is glad that he does when Shoeless Joe Jackson starts telling him to build things.
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