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 Post subject: the natural
PostPosted: Thu Sep 27, 2007 10:58 pm 
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what a great fucking movie.

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havent we done this one a million times pal?

fucking cunt, that Memo.

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i make a thread about this movie on every message board i'm on.

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and every time I tell you how I wrote an 11th grade paper on the natural in relation to King Arthur and Excalibur. I got myslef an A fucking plus. the only one i ever got

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This movie must have been made in Wisconsin because it's got more cheese than our yearly GNP.

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The ending is such a bastardization of the novel's actual ending that I can't stand to watch any of it.

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Simple Torture wrote:
The ending is such a bastardization of the novel's actual ending that I can't stand to watch any of it.


Can you tell me how the novel ends, putting it into a spoiler code to not ruin it for everyone else?

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dirtyfrank0705 wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
The ending is such a bastardization of the novel's actual ending that I can't stand to watch any of it.


Can you tell me how the novel ends, putting it into a spoiler code to not ruin it for everyone else?


Spoiler: show
Hobbs strikes out, Knights lose, he's disgraced. Good Times.

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Simple Torture wrote:
dirtyfrank0705 wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
The ending is such a bastardization of the novel's actual ending that I can't stand to watch any of it.


Can you tell me how the novel ends, putting it into a spoiler code to not ruin it for everyone else?


Spoiler: show
Hobbs strikes out, Knights lose, he's disgraced. Good Times.


its a little more complicated than that :)

this has made me want to read the book again. good

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Koufax wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
dirtyfrank0705 wrote:
Simple Torture wrote:
The ending is such a bastardization of the novel's actual ending that I can't stand to watch any of it.


Can you tell me how the novel ends, putting it into a spoiler code to not ruin it for everyone else?


Spoiler: show
Hobbs strikes out, Knights lose, he's disgraced. Good Times.


its a little more complicated than that :)

this has made me want to read the book again. good


Agreed, it is more complicated.
Spoiler: show
Such as: did Roy throw the game or not? I think a case can be made for both, and you can go into what he consciously and unconsciously chose, yada yada yada. But with the book, at the end you've got a big pile of, "What do we do with this now?" The ambiguity makes it powerful. I'm not a fan of the movie, though I'm sure you can make arguments for its artistic merit. I'll stick with the original, thank you.

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dirtyfrank0705 wrote:
This movie must have been made in Wisconsin because it's got more cheese than our yearly GNP.


actually i believe it was made in buffalo.

read about the book here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Natural

the ending is much different than the movie.

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Pop Fisher: "You know my mama wanted me to be a farmer."
Roy Hobbs: "My dad wanted me to be a baseball player."
Pop Fisher: "Well you're better than any player I ever had. And you the best God damn hitter I ever saw. Suit up."

that line gets me even more than the one that follows it.

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Are we missing baseball season just a bit today, Ceebs?

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This film has an impact on me. I was 17 in the summer of 2003. I was going 1 for 10 in the beginning of the season. Then I popped in the Natural one day. Then the rest of the season I went for something like 18 for 25. Yeah....pick me a winner out bobby
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