Vote: Field of Dreams vs The Sandlot

One has James Earl Jones it it and is about a crazy guy who hears voices, and the other one has James Earl Jones in it and is about a dumb kid who loses a baseball. I enjoyed them both. I’m torn.

This is very likely coming down to the very last vote…

This is a MN Twins board, Moonlight Graham is from Chisholm MN and the field is in Iowa…FOD is a celebration of Midwestern baseball and all the is good with this country. IMHO

As a baseball movie that really wasn’t about baseball…. The father son angst, always kinda got to me. I still can’t watch that movie without getting misty eyed….

Ray, people will come Ray. They’ll come to Iowa for reasons they can’t even fathom. They’ll turn up your driveway not knowing for sure why they’re doing it. They’ll arrive at your door as innocent as children, longing for the past. Of course, we won’t mind if you look around, you’ll say. It’s only $20 per person. They’ll pass over the money without even thinking about it: for it is money they have and peace they lack. And they’ll walk out to the bleachers; sit in shirtsleeves on a perfect afternoon. They’ll find they have reserved seats somewhere along one of the baselines, where they sat when they were children and cheered their heroes. And they’ll watch the game and it’ll be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters. The memories will be so thick they’ll have to brush them away from their faces. People will come Ray. The one constant through all the years, Ray, has been baseball. America has rolled by like an army of steamrollers. It has been erased like a blackboard, rebuilt and erased again. But baseball has marked the time. This field, this game: it’s a part of our past, Ray. It reminds of us of all that once was good and it could be again. Oh… people will come Ray. People will most definitely come.

173 votes in, and it’s 87-86…

With The Rookie rounding out the top three. I went Field of Dreams for a variety of reasons, most of which have already been mentioned, but to me it just shows so much of what is great about the game of baseball. It’s just a movie I grew up watching with my dad who was a HUGE influence in my love of baseball. I’m still super sentimental about it. Speaking of which I’m going to have to watch it some time soon I think…

I don’t see how any of the other two could beat one of these movies. Both movies have baseball related themes of extreme meaning and deeply connected to me: the father-son relationship in Field of Dreams, the true reflection of the childhood experience in The Sandlot. Both have strong elements of history and ghosts, both in the game and across the history of our country, and that element of a rich and long past, interwoven with that of America, is a unique quality that baseball alone possesses among the sports.

In the end, I voted for The Sandlot. It is one of my top 2 or 3 favorite movies of all time. More than maybe any other movie, it really reminds you of what it feels like to be a kid, which I think everybody should be able to admit, they don’t really remember much not long after they start to grow up. It’s not another coming of age movie, there are many, many of those, it’s a movie about one summer as a kid, a snapshot of that moment in life. Also, it’s funny as hell and has some of the best performances out of a large group of child actors in the history of film.

Two really, really, really good movies, but I just had to go for The Sandlot, which I think is the best movie on the list, and the best baseball movie of all time.

One of my top 10 movies of any genre.

Yeah. I’m that prick that votes 3rd party in close elections too.

Field of Dreams, The Sandlot and Major League have always been a three way tie for first for me.

Chose Field of Dreams.

Although, is anyone else aware that they made a Sandlot 2? I worked in a daycare for six years, and one side effect of that job is you get to see every terrible kids movie ever made. So they made the Sandlot 2, and it’s the exact same movie except now there are softball-playing girls involved and the Babe Ruth ball turn into a model space shuttle or something like that. The thing is, they use about 15% of the footage from the original film. The erector set scene is pretty much shot for shot. And there’s even an identical dog chase.

So yeah, The Sandlot was so good they had to make it twice. Even if the second one was straight to DVD…

In favor of field of dreams!

Now 315 to 314 for The Sandlot… this is ridiculous… how are we gonna’ really decide?

I voted for The Sandlot, but I watched FoD again last night, and now realize I voted wrong. :\

love both movies, but I saw the Sandlot when I was a kid and I feel that movie influenced me in a lot of ways. My friends and I must have watched it a hundred times when we were young. So many great memories…