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re: The Sandlot has a 65% on rotten tomatoes
Posted on 6/9/24 at 10:11 am to Globetrotter747
Posted on 6/9/24 at 10:11 am to Globetrotter747
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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.
Doesn’t the movie start with Smalls saying it was his summer between 5th and 6th grade? He’s likely 10 years old
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Posted on 6/9/24 at 11:38 am to CocomoLSU
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You sound like an absolutely miserable piece of shite blast at parties.
You sound like a snowflake getting so mad and personal about someone criticizing your precious childhood movie.
Posted on 6/9/24 at 12:28 pm to JumpingTheShark
First dance at my wedding with my wife was to this magic moment.
If I had tigerdroppings at the time, I would have started a thread about the pool scene and this movie during the dance.
If I had tigerdroppings at the time, I would have started a thread about the pool scene and this movie during the dance.
Posted on 6/9/24 at 1:53 pm to Jay Are
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No one was fricking bought off in 2019 to give the sandlot a negative review. That's idiotic. Was disney paying critics to give an out-of-nowhere negative review to their own decades old film?
My point is - good reviews can (and are) bought and paid for. RT has not done anything to try to regulate their critics or top critics, so it is as ignorable as any a-hole opinion on the internet.
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Then you should also ignore the audience score.
There used to be some value in a large aggregate, but you're right - people are sheep.
Bottom line - you can, to a degree, invest some trust in objective critics with whom you often agree. That's it. The rest is bullshite opinion that might be worth less than nothing.
Posted on 6/9/24 at 2:08 pm to Ace Midnight
There is a significant difference in the opinions of people who are paid to provide that opnion and fans who paid to consume the product.
They shouldn’t be remotely compared equally.
They shouldn’t be remotely compared equally.
Posted on 6/9/24 at 3:14 pm to JumpingTheShark
Love this movie. Where is it streaming? I may watch this with my 6 year old tonight. Think a 6 year old would like it? It’s been a while since I’ve seen it.
Posted on 6/9/24 at 3:53 pm to WeagleEagle
It's a great movie but leaves me melancholy for the good old carefree days of my youth. 
I was a child of the 70s and teenager of the 80s and damn if this movie didn't nail so much of my childhood.
I was a child of the 70s and teenager of the 80s and damn if this movie didn't nail so much of my childhood.
Posted on 6/9/24 at 6:36 pm to Globetrotter747
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You sound like a snowflake getting so mad and personal about someone criticizing your precious childhood movie.
Snowflake?
Whatever you say, dude. I don’t give a shite if you like Sandlot or not.
But your criticisms don’t even make much sense. But hey, hate it all you want. I can sit back and laugh at you all day. 
Posted on 6/9/24 at 7:08 pm to JumpingTheShark
Sandlot is pure Americana. You’re surprised 35% of critics (losers) hate it?
Posted on 6/10/24 at 5:07 am to Liberator
Also going by timeline alone if this movie were made today it would take place in the year the Sandlot came out 
Posted on 6/10/24 at 6:14 am to CocomoLSU
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I don’t give a shite if you like Sandlot or not.
If that were true, you would have just ignored me.
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But your criticisms don’t even make much sense.
I am put off by movies that are supposed to be somewhat grounded in reality (for a movie) going too far.
The ball retrieval scenes with the dog are boring and silly with all the contraptions, and the outcome for everyone and everything is way too feel good and unrealistic. I would have liked it better if they had just retrieved the ball, stepdad simply forgave the kid (instead of the black Ruth Ruth and an invaluable ball), and they all grew up to live normal lives and just returned to the sandlot as adults to throw a ball around for old times sake (instead of MLB futures and marrying the girl 10x out of the boy’s league).
Most movies have happy endings, but man, I think it was a little overdone.
This post was edited on 6/10/24 at 6:15 am
Posted on 6/10/24 at 8:14 am to GalacticaCannon
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Shut the frick up you deranged limp wrist.
They do say this even though I grew up with black movie and tv stars, best athletes like mj are black, etc…
They made a mermaid black because representation matters.
The guy you responded to just held up a mirror and you didn’t like what you saw.
This post was edited on 6/10/24 at 8:15 am
Posted on 6/10/24 at 8:19 am to Globetrotter747
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The ball retrieval scenes with the dog are boring and silly with all the contraptions, and the outcome for everyone and everything is way too feel good and unrealistic. I would have liked it better if they had just retrieved the ball, stepdad simply forgave the kid (instead of the black Ruth Ruth and an invaluable ball), and they all grew up to live normal lives and just returned to the sandlot as adults to throw a ball around for old times sake (instead of MLB futures and marrying the girl 10x out of the boy’s league). Most movies have happy endings, but man, I think it was a little overdone.
It’s a kids movie.
Do you hate home alone? Radio flyer?
Let me guess, you don’t watch any superhero movies.
This post was edited on 6/10/24 at 8:21 am
Posted on 6/10/24 at 8:20 am to Globetrotter747
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I would have liked it better if they had just retrieved the ball, stepdad simply forgave the kid (instead of the black Ruth Ruth and an invaluable ball), and they all grew up to live normal lives and just returned to the sandlot as adults to throw a ball around for old times sake (instead of MLB futures and marrying the girl 10x out of the boy’s league).
you must have had the most boring childhood in the history of America.
did you and your friends never have any adventures that seemed massive and amazing at the time but when you look back on them now, they weren't all that? And y'all probably overdid things and went about it the hard way?
that was the ball retrieval scenes.
Posted on 6/10/24 at 8:23 am to Globetrotter747
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If that were true, you would have just ignored me.
True. Sorry for discussing a movie in a thread about said movie on a message board. That’s on me, I guess.
You didn’t like the movie and thought it was stupid and how it ended was dumb because they didn’t “live normal lives” and go play catch at the sandlot as adults, and you also weirdly hate the JEJ character. I think we got it. I’ll be sure to ignore your movie watching advice from here forward (as I assume you will mine as well).
Posted on 6/10/24 at 8:26 am to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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People who dislike it are miserable assholes.
Posted on 6/10/24 at 8:30 am to Globetrotter747
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I am put off by movies that are supposed to be somewhat grounded in reality (for a movie) going too far.
Sorry your childhood sucked, L7 wheenie
Posted on 6/10/24 at 10:06 am to JumpingTheShark
Yea it's always had a lot rating for some reason. I can't really think of a single reason why this movie shouldn't have a 90%+ score and a perfect example of why Rotten Tomatoes is a awful place to look for movie ratings.
My favorite sports movie ever and just one of my favorite movies in general. Had this on repeat as a kid and to this day can watch it anytime (even though it's been a while). My childhood was The Sandlot so it's got some sentimental value for sure. We even had a random empty field in the middle of the neighborhood that we played football or baseball in every day after school.
Wendy Peffercorn
My favorite sports movie ever and just one of my favorite movies in general. Had this on repeat as a kid and to this day can watch it anytime (even though it's been a while). My childhood was The Sandlot so it's got some sentimental value for sure. We even had a random empty field in the middle of the neighborhood that we played football or baseball in every day after school.
Wendy Peffercorn
Posted on 6/10/24 at 10:06 am to Globetrotter747
Movies are supposed to be entertaining, not realistic. Them just knocking on the door and the stepdad forgiving him would make the movie last half an hour and be boring as shite. Why would we make a movie about a group of kids that just have normal lives like everyone else, instead of having these exaggerated lives?
It's like complaining about a protagonist being just the right person at the right time being too convenient. Well yeah, if it wasn't the right person and the right time than we would not have a movie. I don't want to watch the Hobbit go about his normal day. I want to watch the day he goes on his grand adventure.
It's like complaining about a protagonist being just the right person at the right time being too convenient. Well yeah, if it wasn't the right person and the right time than we would not have a movie. I don't want to watch the Hobbit go about his normal day. I want to watch the day he goes on his grand adventure.
Posted on 6/10/24 at 10:29 am to Darth_Vader
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Probably leftists upset that none of the kids are homos or cross-dressers. Because “rEpReSenTaTiOn mAtTeRs”.
I mean most of the reviews are old, people have been idiots forever.
Don't know why but I decided to read one of the newer reviews that gave a negative score. It's some old dude that just decides to review a kids movie from the 90's in 2023. Why has this dude never watched this movie before?
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“This is a fraudulent baseball film that’s more cartoonish than real.”
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In one gross-out scene, which is supposed to be funny, the kids chew tobacco and take the rough whirlybird ride in the amusement park and become nauseous.
Poor guy had to watch kids throw up. So gross. When I was in middle school my brother told me if I caught 5 fastballs in a row from him he'd give me some dip. I did. And proceeded to puke my guys out 10 minutes after dipping. I mean this type of stuff actually happened.
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It has James Earl Jones, the Black actor, play Scotty’s neighbor, a now blind former teammate of Babe Ruth. Problem is baseball wasn’t integrated until 1947 and the Babe couldn’t have been his teammate then because he was dead.
Love how he refers to him as "the black actor" like he's the only black guy in the movie yet early in the review he says...
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The nine players are a ragtag cross-section of American diversity. They include a mouthy black kid (Brandon Adams), a chubby redheaded kid (Patrick Renna), a nerd (Grant Gelt), the nervy bespectacled (Chauncey Leopardi) and the Puerto Rican team leader Benny (Mike Vitar).
It's got diversity but he's still not happy and comes off as a racist honestly.
Man I hate people.
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