VEB Film Club: Angels in the Outfield – Which Version Hits a Home Run for Your Heart?
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Alright let’s get the cat of the bag: this movie doesn’t understand baseball at all. This movie got bad reviews because the baseball scenes SUCK. I don’t mind that you can see the angels – found that a weird complaint whenever I came across people talking about the old movie – they would have shown the angels in 1951 if the technology was there. 100 percent. That movie was not ambiguous about the fact that the angels were real, so you can’t really play the pretend “because it didn’t show the angels, it’s a more plausible movie.”
However, the remake does make the angel interventions way less believable. Everyone would believe there were angels impacting the game with how insanely impossible some of the baseball scenes are. They have a centerfielder literally floating to make a diving catch and a guy completely shatters his bat and hits a long homer. I’m guessing the writers or director were not aware at how unlikely a homer would be with a shattered bat.
Then perhaps my biggest baseball-specific grievance, the great decision to pinch hit Adrien Brody for the team’s best hitter. Brody is a utility infielder with a terrible bat. There are three outs to work with in the 9th. Why in god’s name does this movie act like he had to pinch hit for Mitchell? Does the angel benefit somehow not apply if he’s not making a completely illogical move? And then the pitching team commits 10+ errors on one play, but the ball moves on its own and like seriously everyone would believe in a higher power helping the Angels at this point.
And then Tony Danza is a washed up pitcher who the announcer claims hasn’t pitched in this decade, which would be five seasons. Joseph-Gordon Levitt sees an angel by him, says he has to start him, and Danny Glover rightfully points out that he’s not on the active roster. And then the movie ignores this – the game is clearly starting in 10 minutes – and he’s somehow allowed to pitch. Oh yeah and the movie is clearly unaware of what rehab is, because he just pitches in his first live competition against real batters in I guess five years, and yeah I know the angels help him out, but could this movie at least pretend to know anything about baseball.
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