Field Of Dreams | | Cast : | Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta, James Earl Jones | | Director : | Phil Alden Robinson | | Studio : | Universal Studios | | Format : | Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby, Widescreen | | Released Date : | April 21, 1989 | | DVD Released Date : | September 02, 2003 | | Language : | English (Dubbed), Spanish (Subtitled), Spanish (Dubbed), English (Original Language), French (Original Language) | | Audience Rating : | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) | | | BUY THIS DVD FROM AMAZON |
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| Rating |  | | Date | July 03, 2005 | | Summary | Don't Have to be a lover of baseball to love this film | Content
 | Having said this (my title) I am a lover of this wonderful sport, and think that this here is the greatest sports movie ever made, with Hoosier's a close second.
We all get to a point in our lives when we feel the magic and wonder in this world is gone. The adventure we felt, growing up.. when everything was so much simpler and purer. There's something inside each and every one of us that long's for a simpler way of life, and yearns to break out of the rut we find ourselves in, working day to day, same thing over and over again.
This wonderful movie is based on the incredibly well written novel by WP Kinsella, Shoeless Joe. For anyone who hasn't read this and loves this movie, don't delay. Back to the movie, there are so many reasons to love this movie. Ray Kinsella, the farmer in the corn field who hears the voice, "If you build it, he will come," is your average, ordinary, every day joe. And his life is turned completely upside down by this incredible vision he has one day in his corn field. The "he" of the earlier statement, is at first percieved to be the great Shoeless Joe Jackson. Joe Jackson was a member of the infamous Black Sox team of 1919, who were accused of throwing the World Series, and were banned for life from the game of baseball. Ray believes that by building this field, he, and the other members of the Sox will be able to come back and play baseball again. To "write an old wrong," as Ray states.
Ray sets out on an incredible journey, going all over the country to interpret this revelation. The way the story is shot, with Ray going between reality, and dream like moments is incredible. You can't help but get goosebumps when he meets up with Moonlight Graham in Minnesota.
At the end of this movie, Ray ultimately realizes that the field wasn't built for Shoeless Joe to play ball again, but rather for him to share that moment with his father that he never did, a simple game of catch. It's a beautiful story that can have even the most seasoned movie goer in tears at the end.
This movie is so wonderfully produced, and is one of my 10 favorite movies of all time. I watch it every year, come baseball season, and at least a couple times later in the year too. We all need this movie, and the ideals it promotes. There is a simpler way of life, and we'd all be better trying to obtain it!
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| Rating | | | Date | June 03, 2005 | | Summary | Greatest Film in Human History | Content
| You may not feel it as you read this review. You may not believe it when you hear someone tell this story. But watch this film. All of it, beginning to end. This is the greatest film ever made.
Not for special effects. Not for production values. Heart. Imagination. Emotions stirred that transcend this world. If you've seen Field of Dreams, you know exactly what I'm talking about.
This is the greatest motion picture of all time. It won't be recognized as such. And that doesn't matter.
Do one thing. Show this to your grandchildren. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 25, 2005 | | Summary | For Idealists Only.. | Content
| A truly magical movie that moved me unlike most movies. Of course, there are moments where we need to suspend logic, but isn't that what movies are about? I was amazed by some of the negative criticism of this film. I was equally amazed at people who read too much into it. It was like taking a Robert Frost poem and reading it as one would a poem by T.S. Eliot. The brutal realists will hate this movie, but those with even half a heart will be moved. There is not one false note in the entire film. Even the phrase " If you Build It He Will Come" has become a catch phrase of an entire generation. Yes, I admire this film greatly & I happily dismiss anyone who does not. |
| Rating | | | Date | May 01, 2005 | | Summary | It is not necessary about baseball | Content
| First of all, I knew nothing about baseball when I watched this movie. I still don't. I saw this movie with a friend before I went to college. We both were very moved by it.
Yes, the heros are just too darn lovable it's seems fake. And I know the plot makes no sense and yet it touches people's basic emotions. Yes, I felt for it. Why? I do know one thing. It's that not many of us have the luxury to live their dreams. "Moonlight" graham, the perfect example, gave up his dream for a something that's far better. He has no regret in his life but the dream that he gave up never dies. I was so moved when he walked away once again from his dream for one last time.
I absolutely love the title. There aren't no perfect movie...let me be frank, but, this is a great human movie.
Watch it and try to remember what dreams that you once had. |
| Rating | | | Date | April 15, 2005 | | Summary | Costner's Finest Moment | Content
| Kevin Costner is as perplexing as a Rubik's Cube (at least it was tough for me to figure out.!).
Here's a guy who starred in perhaps two of the worst films ever - "Waterworld" and "The Postman" and yet was single handedly responsible for the epic masterpiece "Dances With Wolves".
And, of course, this beautiful film - "Field of Dreams".
I'm not going to provide a recap / synopsis of the plot - that's been done very, very well by many of the reviewers here.
I guess it was inevitable that I would feel a connection with this movie. As a guy who grew up living in southern California, I fell in love with baseball at a very early age. In fact, as a youngster / teenager, it's all I can remember doing when I wasn't in school. I guess I was a decent player because I was scouted by the Cincinnati Reds and offered a minor league contract.
I was also a teenager who had a very difficult and, at times. estranged relationship with his father - which is the "sub plot" at the heart of this magical story. And in view of the fact that my dad passed away about a year ago, needless to say, the ending depiciting the meeting of Kevin and his dad can certainly trigger alot of emotions in me.
When you really think about it, this movie could have failed so easily. For example, it could have tried to "explain" the magic of the cornfield - or Costner "going back in time" and meeting Moonlight Graham, superbly played by Burt Lancaster. And if it had tried, it could / would have lost all credibility. Because there is no "rational" explanation for the events depicted in this film.
Instead it didn't even try - the events just happened and if you didn't "feel" the magic because you were too busy trying to understand the logic of it, you would be the poorer for it.
As a Red Sox fan, I also loved the fact that Costner had to seek out James Earl Jones in Boston and actually attend a game at fabled Fenway Park. Could you possibly imagine these two characters attending a game together at some modern behemouth stadium and buying into the notion that something " supernatural" was happening. Personally, it wouldn't have had nearly the same impact.
Let me make another recommendation - consider purchasing the soundtrack to this film as well. The music provides a perfect backdrop to the wonderful feeling conjured up by this movie, especially the long last song which is played as Kevin and his dad meet again.
At a time when movies rely so heavily on special effects in order to mask the fact that there is no plot. Or that studios just keep on pumping out horrid sequels in a blatant cash grab. Or studios are so devoid of original ideas that they have to make films of tired old television series i.e Charlie's Angels / Mod Squad / Starsky and Hutch - it's an absolute pleasure to watch a movie that's so original and so fresh that it's like nothing you've ever seen before..!!
Or are likely to see again.
This is a very, very special movie and if Costner was to spend the next 30 years making turkeys like the Postman, at least we would always be grateful to him for this gem.
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