re: The Sandlot has a 65% on rotten tomatoes

All I know is Michael “Squints” Palladoras kissed a woman. And he kissed her good.

And YeahYeah should shut his mouth cuz he runs like a duck

I’ve never met a man or woman born between 1975-1995 that claimed to not like this movie.

What the frick? It's a perfect movie.

They are killing me smalls. It is a great movie.

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I’m on the older side of this range (1978).

I don’t dislike Sandlot, but I don’t love it either. I am more of a Bad News Bears fan when it comes to youth baseball movies.

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you and I are the same age.
but if the Sandlot kids played The Bad News Bears, the Sandlot would win with a Solid Victory.
In fact, they would beat the crap out of those guys.

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I assumed it would be a bunch of negative reviews from women, but the ones with pictures look like a bunch of 70+ old men. You would figure it would remind them of their childhood.

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Now you understand where the "GET OFF MY LAWN" comes from? Moody ole fuks are never happy

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A couple of things I didn't like about The Sandlot.

1. I think the kids trying to retrieve the ball from the Beast, with its size and ability ridiculously exaggerated at times, and the kids coming up with all sorts of contraptions to retrieve it got a little old.

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Again, this experience is that uniquely as of a kid, whose imagination is super-magnified. Everything seems bigger, badder, and more imposing then. Yes, precisely: Over-Exaggerated.

Instead of a mean monster dog prevented us from retrieving baseballs over the fence, we had a Grumpy Old Man who apparently hated kids.

Ever go back and check out your elementary school or middle school as an adult? (Seemed pretty intimidating...as a kid.)

Sandlot isn't a journal, it's part kid stuff, part fantasy, part parody. A lot of the kid-interaction rang true from memory. Few movies (or TV shows) have ever accomplished this.

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1. I think the kids trying to retrieve the ball from the Beast, with its size and ability ridiculously exaggerated at times, and the kids coming up with all sorts of contraptions to retrieve it got a little old.

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That’s sort of the point though. At first the beast is this gigantic mythical monster. Gradually through the film he gets smaller until the end, when he’s just a normal sized dog. It’s analogous to kids and their stories and how they overexaggerate everything. But the reality is never that grandiose.

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2. The owner of the Beast just happens to have played with Babe Ruth (and apparently would have been better if not for a freak accident) and has a baseball signed by the 1927 Yankees.That's a hell of a coincidence.

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I mean, that’s how movies work. I guess the movie would’ve been more awesome if it was just some normal person who owned a dog?

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3. Their futures got a little crazy. One kid makes the majors and another is the announcer (or whatever) for the team. The goofy kid with the glasses marries Peffercorn and knocks her up something like nine times.

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How is that crazy? They were fairly normal lives, even if a little overachieved. The brothers creating mini malls was sort of out of left field. But Squints marrying Wendy made sense. Yeah Yeah and bungee made sense. Benny being the best one and making it to the pros made at least some sense, and it’s logical that Smalls got into broadcasting because his best friends was a baller. Bertram was the weird one so him getting really into the 60s and disappearing makes sense. Ham was silly with a large personality, so him being a wrestler makes sense. And Denunez was good, but not the best player. So him trying baseball but getting to AA (or was it AAA?) and then coaching his son’s baseball team makes sense.

It’s a movie, I guess they could’ve just said “everyone grew up and loved a normal life” and you’d have preferred that? Come on, son.

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The Jet is three months younger than me and I was a freshman in high school when this movie was released. These kids are all at least middle school age. They are too old to be that scared of a dog.

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Dude, it’s kids being scared of a legend more than an actual dog. That’s the entire point. They even make fun of that at the end when Mertle is like “why didn’t you just knock on the door, I’d have gotten it for you?” and everybody smacks Squints around.

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Yeah, every movie needs a random guy to show up with the very rare thing that you just happen to be looking for.

The ball retrieval and the black Babe Ruth are stupid.

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Ok. You think it’s stupid. Got it.

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Happens every day. The best player out of ten random neighborhood kids often has MLB potential.

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Literally every single MLB player was at one point the best player out of their neighborhood or friend group or Little League team. I mean, I’m not even sure that’s debatable.

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The Bad News Bears (the original) is a hell of a lot better movie and doesn’t rely on all this nonsense.

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Nah. It just relies on the nonsense that a group of kids who literally suck at baseball could almost win the championship. Or that there are definitely kids in that age group that ride around on motorcycles, smoke cigs, and are kickass baseball players. Or that a girl in that age group can pitch like Nolan Ryan and strike out boys her age.

But yeah, totally more realistic.

I won’t shite on BNB because I like that movie too. But Sandlot resonates a lot more with me and takes me back to my childhood, far more than BNB does (I was born in ‘79).

You sound like an absolutely miserable piece of shite blast at parties.