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re: A League of Their Own (the great debate)
Posted on 5/12/12 at 5:06 am to ChewyDante
Posted on 5/12/12 at 5:06 am to ChewyDante
Seriously...mother of christmas. She dropped it on purpose
Can't believe this gets air time
Can't believe this gets air time
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Posted on 5/12/12 at 6:14 am to ChewyDante
Tom Hanks is great in this movie...
"may our bats be mighty. may our balls...be plentiful. and lord, i'd just like to thank you for that waitress in south bend. you know who she is. she kept calling your name..."
"may our bats be mighty. may our balls...be plentiful. and lord, i'd just like to thank you for that waitress in south bend. you know who she is. she kept calling your name..."
Posted on 5/12/12 at 6:19 am to drake20
"Hard? Of course it's hard. If it was easy everybody would do it. The hard is what makes it great."
that line stuck with me.
that line stuck with me.
Posted on 5/12/12 at 6:23 am to drexyl
great line
Posted on 5/12/12 at 6:44 am to ChewyDante
A little known fact is that the ball was dropped due to Dottie's early onset of Parkinson's. Sad, really.
Posted on 5/12/12 at 7:02 am to ChewyDante
ok. first of all. at the end of the movie they throw the baseball at dottie to see if it's her....wtf? don't chunk a baseball at an old lady.
this is a good movie. Hanks was great.
I think she dropped the ball on purpose, but it's a tough call. As was mentioned at the beginning she tells her grandson to let the younger one shoot. she doesn't say let him win, but letting the younger one have a chance could apply to her home plate incident with kit...Next, after Kit blows the lead, Dottie watches Kit as she cries in the dugout and clearly feels bad about it.
Dottie loves baseball. She cares more about her husband and her sister, however...Also, she maintains the ball in her hand on first contact with the ground. The second time it hits is much less violent and her hand just kind of lays there limp. did she get knocked out? i don't think so. Maybe she didn't intentionally drop it, but she didn't try to hold on too hard, if that makes any sense.
At the end, she says once again to get as they go there separate ways after the game "lay off the high ones" and kit says, "i love the high ones" This kind of confirmed to me that Dottie dropped it on purpose. Kit could have very reasonably expected dottie to go the mound and suggest high fastballs. Dottie also looks extremely happy after she just blew the game and Kit is carried off the field.
Also, Dottie is a baller. she was making behind the back catches and shite...she was too good to frick that up by accident.
Some inconsistencies though are why she would go to the mound in the first place, why she would hit the game winning rbis in the first place, why she would come back to baseball after hanks calls her a quitter and then lose on purpose.
dottie is in a league of her own skill wise. she made the same play holding on to the ball at home plate earlier in the movie...she could have made the play if she had wanted it just a little bit more
...just seem like holes in the movie though. i think there are way more signs that she dropped it on purpose than signs that she didn't.
this is a good movie. Hanks was great.
I think she dropped the ball on purpose, but it's a tough call. As was mentioned at the beginning she tells her grandson to let the younger one shoot. she doesn't say let him win, but letting the younger one have a chance could apply to her home plate incident with kit...Next, after Kit blows the lead, Dottie watches Kit as she cries in the dugout and clearly feels bad about it.
Dottie loves baseball. She cares more about her husband and her sister, however...Also, she maintains the ball in her hand on first contact with the ground. The second time it hits is much less violent and her hand just kind of lays there limp. did she get knocked out? i don't think so. Maybe she didn't intentionally drop it, but she didn't try to hold on too hard, if that makes any sense.
At the end, she says once again to get as they go there separate ways after the game "lay off the high ones" and kit says, "i love the high ones" This kind of confirmed to me that Dottie dropped it on purpose. Kit could have very reasonably expected dottie to go the mound and suggest high fastballs. Dottie also looks extremely happy after she just blew the game and Kit is carried off the field.
Also, Dottie is a baller. she was making behind the back catches and shite...she was too good to frick that up by accident.
Some inconsistencies though are why she would go to the mound in the first place, why she would hit the game winning rbis in the first place, why she would come back to baseball after hanks calls her a quitter and then lose on purpose.
dottie is in a league of her own skill wise. she made the same play holding on to the ball at home plate earlier in the movie...she could have made the play if she had wanted it just a little bit more
...just seem like holes in the movie though. i think there are way more signs that she dropped it on purpose than signs that she didn't.
This post was edited on 5/12/12 at 7:06 am
Posted on 5/12/12 at 8:27 am to ChewyDante
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This post was edited on 5/12/12 at 8:31 am
Posted on 5/12/12 at 8:31 am to bsuhog
kit sucks in this movie...all she does is whine, whine, whine. it pisses me off that dottie dropped the ball.
Posted on 5/12/12 at 10:22 am to drake20
SUCK IT "NOT ON PURPOSE'ers"!!!!!!
Also, inb4 the guy with the "a" name, not sure on the "a" to other character ratio (might be alajones) comes in demanding that his OPINION that she didnt drop it on purpuse is the only reasonable point of view. (come to think I it him and chewy might be the same person)
Also, inb4 the guy with the "a" name, not sure on the "a" to other character ratio (might be alajones) comes in demanding that his OPINION that she didnt drop it on purpuse is the only reasonable point of view. (come to think I it him and chewy might be the same person)
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ok. first of all. at the end of the movie they throw the baseball at dottie to see if it's her....wtf? don't chunk a baseball at an old lady. this is a good movie. Hanks was great. I think she dropped the ball on purpose, but it's a tough call. As was mentioned at the beginning she tells her grandson to let the younger one shoot. she doesn't say let him win, but letting the younger one have a chance could apply to her home plate incident with kit...Next, after Kit blows the lead, Dottie watches Kit as she cries in the dugout and clearly feels bad about it. Dottie loves baseball. She cares more about her husband and her sister, however...Also, she maintains the ball in her hand on first contact with the ground. The second time it hits is much less violent and her hand just kind of lays there limp. did she get knocked out? i don't think so. Maybe she didn't intentionally drop it, but she didn't try to hold on too hard, if that makes any sense. At the end, she says once again to get as they go there separate ways after the game "lay off the high ones" and kit says, "i love the high ones" This kind of confirmed to me that Dottie dropped it on purpose. Kit could have very reasonably expected dottie to go the mound and suggest high fastballs. Dottie also looks extremely happy after she just blew the game and Kit is carried off the field. Also, Dottie is a baller. she was making behind the back catches and shite...she was too good to frick that up by accident. Some inconsistencies though are why she would go to the mound in the first place, why she would hit the game winning rbis in the first place, why she would come back to baseball after hanks calls her a quitter and then lose on purpose. dottie is in a league of her own skill wise. she made the same play holding on to the ball at home plate earlier in the movie...she could have made the play if she had wanted it just a little bit more ...just seem like holes in the movie though. i think there are way more signs that she dropped it on purpose than signs that she didn't.
This post was edited on 5/12/12 at 11:13 am
Posted on 5/12/12 at 10:49 am to ChewyDante
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To all you folks that think she dropped in on purpose, I would tell you to go frick yourselves but your heads are already so far up your own asses that you basically already are. So I'll just say die...
She dropped it on purpose. She knew it was her last game, and Kit had a career ahead of her.
sorry you feel so strongly.
Posted on 5/12/12 at 10:58 am to Napoleon
She dropped it on purpose.
"there's no crying in baseball"
"there's no crying in baseball"
This post was edited on 5/12/12 at 10:59 am
Posted on 5/12/12 at 11:11 am to ChewyDante
On purpose
Posted on 5/12/12 at 11:13 am to Freauxzen
i feel like lots of y'all were not here the last time. i felt like one or 2 vs. 100 on the "dropped it on purpose" clique
Posted on 5/12/12 at 11:17 am to SlowFlowPro
so most were saying she dropped it by accident?
...surprising to me. all the hints in the movie really make it seem like it was intentional imo
...surprising to me. all the hints in the movie really make it seem like it was intentional imo
Posted on 5/12/12 at 11:19 am to drake20
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surprising to me. all the hints in the movie really make it seem like it was intentional imo
that's how i felt. it seemed like that ultimate "i let my little sibling win one" moment that was set up during the movie
Posted on 5/12/12 at 12:34 pm to drake20
I think it was just the squeakest wheels that made it feel like 1 v 100. There were jut a few that couldn't let it go.
Posted on 5/12/12 at 12:58 pm to drake20
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i think there are way more signs that she dropped it on purpose than signs that she didn't.
Avoid the clap.
~ Jimmy Dugan
Posted on 5/12/12 at 12:58 pm to ChewyDante
I will only participate in this long enough to say that no one can post any evidence form the movie that supports she dropped it on purpose.
That is all.
I actually love this movie and would love talking about it without bringing this stupid argument up.
That is all.
I actually love this movie and would love talking about it without bringing this stupid argument up.
This post was edited on 5/12/12 at 1:01 pm
Posted on 5/12/12 at 1:04 pm to alajones
On purpose. Though obviously it was left intentionally ambiguous, so the people saying not on purpose aren't wrong in their interpretation. But I feel like those people probably take a lot of movies at face value and don't really take intuitive leaps that the story doesn't outright say but tries to lead you to.
Posted on 5/12/12 at 1:06 pm to alajones
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I will only participate in this long enough to say that no one can post any evidence form the movie that supports she dropped it on purpose.
ok...this is obvious. that's why it's a debate. the answer is not 100% clear. there isn't evidence from the movie that supports she dropped it on accident.
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I actually love this movie
agreed. great movie.
This post was edited on 5/12/12 at 1:07 pm
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