Honus Wagner Movie

Crash Course · 03-14-2004, 11:38 PM

We talked about this last summer: http://www.netshrine.com/vbulletin2/...ad.php?t=10964

Here's more - - http://www.tnt.tv/Movies/WinningSeason/0,17579,,00.html

I think it will air in about 2 or 3 weeks. Will you watch it?

Ytown Tribe fan · 03-15-2004, 07:14 AM

You bet. If there's even twenty minutes worth of quality baseball in it, it will be two hours well spent.

I can live through a sappy, contrived love story. Anyway, it'll have to be better than "Cobb".

pwdennis · 03-15-2004, 07:18 AM

I'll watch, but my expectations of TNT movies is pretty low

Skip · 03-15-2004, 07:18 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Crash Course

Will you watch it?

Yup Yes Uh-huh

Craig S. · 03-15-2004, 07:22 AM

What makes me want to watch it? The fact that it's about baseball.

What makes me not want to watch it? It stars Matthew Modine and Kristin Davis!

So I'm kind of on the fence here - maybe I'll record it, then read the reviews you guys post before I make a decision.

KCBOOMER · 03-15-2004, 09:23 AM

I'll certainly watch it, but not with high hopes. This has all the ear marks of the Doris Day, Ronald Reagan movie about Grover Cleveland Alexander.

TimmyB · 03-15-2004, 10:16 AM

I can't say I found the write-up particularly inspiring. Still... one can hope.

Crash Course · 03-30-2004, 01:05 PM

Bump/reminder - it's on Sunday

http://pm.gazette.com/fullstory.php?id=2259

RascalJones · 03-30-2004, 04:10 PM

I think it looks like it'll be pretty good. I'm anxious to see it since I don't know much about Honus Wagner other than Wayne Gretzky paid a ton of cash for his playing card.

sweaver · 04-02-2004, 11:28 AM

The movie is a fantasy, about a kid that finds the T-206 Honus card from 1909, attempts to take it, and is magically transported back to 1909 and meets Wagner. I don't think Modine looks much like the man himself, but oh well.

Don't expect it to be about baseball, if you watch it.

nyy26wc · 04-02-2004, 12:25 PM

This movie is supposed to be based on a book by Dan Gutman. Gutman's an author whose target age is elementary school.

Crash Course · 04-02-2004, 01:24 PM

Bad news for me - I liked his book "Baseball Babylon."

Craig S. · 04-02-2004, 01:49 PM

So it must be based on "Honus and me: a baseball card adventure." Gutman has a bunch of the "Baseball Card Adventure" books, including Jackie Robinson, Cal Ripken, Babe Ruth and Joe Jackson. Kids like them quite a bit, at least from what I've seen here.

I wasn't planning on watching, but this pretty much solidifies it.

nyy26wc · 04-02-2004, 05:10 PM

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Originally Posted by Crash Course

Bad news for me - I liked his book "Baseball Babylon."

That one was one of his few adult books. But, the one the movie is based is on is characterized by Amazon's reviews as grades 4-6.

Crash Course · 04-04-2004, 10:39 PM

Terrible, terrible, movie.
Low budget production. Weak, at best, acting.
After 33 minutes, I saw enough. For me to turn off a movie with even a hint of baseball in it (I watched "Three Wishes" yesterday just to see the LL scenes again) you know the movie is bad.

I would have turned it off at 8:33 - 'cept I had another 27 minutes to kill until something else was on.

Gosh, why did they make this movie? What a waste of resources. If you missed it, you didn't really miss anything.

03-14-2004, 11:38 PM	#1
Crash Course NetShrine Creator & Curator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: NetShrine WHQ Posts: 10,070	Honus Wagner Movie We talked about this last summer: http://www.netshrine.com/vbulletin2/...ad.php?t=10964 Here's more - - http://www.tnt.tv/Movies/WinningSeason/0,17579,,00.html I think it will air in about 2 or 3 weeks. Will you watch it? __________________ Steve, Forum Admin Hit Grass, Win Salad Man, this is baseball. You gotta stop thinking. Just have fun. - Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez, in The Sandlot I've been going to games since August 8, 1973....and on August 22, 2004, finally, a foul ball came my way. I had to reach for it, and it deflected off the tip of my right index finger. Shoot, if I was only 4 inches taller! Have you read The Baseball Same Game?

03-15-2004, 07:18 AM	#3
pwdennis NetShrine All-Century Team Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Winter Springs, FL Posts: 2,503	I'll watch, but my expectations of TNT movies is pretty low __________________ "I would submit that if the world survives for a million years, perhaps its finest hour may be that in the last half of the 20th century, when the power to blow up the world rested in the hands of a few men in two very unsophisticated and suspicious countries, we didn't do it, and one American, Richard Nixon, moved the cold war away from permanent confrontation toward victory. How could any wrong that he did compare with that?" - John Sears

03-15-2004, 09:23 AM	#6
KCBOOMER NetShrine All-Century Team Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Home of the T-Bones Posts: 11,116	I'll certainly watch it, but not with high hopes. This has all the ear marks of the Doris Day, Ronald Reagan movie about Grover Cleveland Alexander. __________________ KCBOOMER *Buck O'Neil: The Monarch of Baseball*

03-30-2004, 01:05 PM	#8
Crash Course NetShrine Creator & Curator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: NetShrine WHQ Posts: 10,070	Bump/reminder - it's on Sunday http://pm.gazette.com/fullstory.php?id=2259 __________________ Steve, Forum Admin Hit Grass, Win Salad Man, this is baseball. You gotta stop thinking. Just have fun. - Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez, in The Sandlot I've been going to games since August 8, 1973....and on August 22, 2004, finally, a foul ball came my way. I had to reach for it, and it deflected off the tip of my right index finger. Shoot, if I was only 4 inches taller! Have you read The Baseball Same Game?

03-30-2004, 04:10 PM	#9
RascalJones NetShrine All-Century Team Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: Columbus, Ohio Posts: 1,862	I think it looks like it'll be pretty good. I'm anxious to see it since I don't know much about Honus Wagner other than Wayne Gretzky paid a ton of cash for his playing card. __________________ "Baseball is dull only to dull minds." -- Red Barber, announcer "The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud." -- Bob Uecker

03-15-2004, 07:14 AM	#2
Ytown Tribe fan Guest Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Scrappers territory Posts: 2,515	You bet. If there's even twenty minutes worth of quality baseball in it, it will be two hours well spent. I can live through a sappy, contrived love story. Anyway, it'll have to be better than "Cobb".

03-15-2004, 07:22 AM	#5
Craig S. Guest Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 6,330	What makes me want to watch it? The fact that it's about baseball. What makes me not want to watch it? It stars Matthew Modine and Kristin Davis! So I'm kind of on the fence here - maybe I'll record it, then read the reviews you guys post before I make a decision.

03-15-2004, 10:16 AM	#7
TimmyB NetShrine's Magic 8-Ball Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Where the cops speak slow and the air is nice Posts: 2,591	I can't say I found the write-up particularly inspiring. Still... one can hope.

04-02-2004, 11:28 AM	#10
sweaver Netshrine Cleanup Hitter Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: The Mountain State Posts: 8,883	The movie is a fantasy, about a kid that finds the T-206 Honus card from 1909, attempts to take it, and is magically transported back to 1909 and meets Wagner. I don't think Modine looks much like the man himself, but oh well. Don't expect it to be about baseball, if you watch it.

04-02-2004, 12:25 PM	#11
nyy26wc NetShrine All-Century Team Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: NJ Posts: 14,584	This movie is supposed to be based on a book by Dan Gutman. Gutman's an author whose target age is elementary school. __________________ Lee Creator, Complete Baseball Encyclopedia. It's powerful, yet extremely easy to use. Features extensive sorting and stat display options. The CBE has many features that are not available in online and printed sources. Has 2006 stats and daily update service for 2007.

04-02-2004, 01:24 PM	#12
Crash Course NetShrine Creator & Curator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: NetShrine WHQ Posts: 10,070	Bad news for me - I liked his book "Baseball Babylon." __________________ Steve, Forum Admin Hit Grass, Win Salad Man, this is baseball. You gotta stop thinking. Just have fun. - Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez, in The Sandlot I've been going to games since August 8, 1973....and on August 22, 2004, finally, a foul ball came my way. I had to reach for it, and it deflected off the tip of my right index finger. Shoot, if I was only 4 inches taller! Have you read The Baseball Same Game?

04-02-2004, 01:49 PM	#13
Craig S. Guest Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ohio Posts: 6,330	So it must be based on "Honus and me: a baseball card adventure." Gutman has a bunch of the "Baseball Card Adventure" books, including Jackie Robinson, Cal Ripken, Babe Ruth and Joe Jackson. Kids like them quite a bit, at least from what I've seen here. I wasn't planning on watching, but this pretty much solidifies it.

04-04-2004, 10:39 PM	#15
Crash Course NetShrine Creator & Curator Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: NetShrine WHQ Posts: 10,070	Terrible, terrible, movie. Low budget production. Weak, at best, acting. After 33 minutes, I saw enough. For me to turn off a movie with even a hint of baseball in it (I watched "Three Wishes" yesterday just to see the LL scenes again) you know the movie is bad. I would have turned it off at 8:33 - 'cept I had another 27 minutes to kill until something else was on. Gosh, why did they make this movie? What a waste of resources. If you missed it, you didn't really miss anything. __________________ Steve, Forum Admin Hit Grass, Win Salad Man, this is baseball. You gotta stop thinking. Just have fun. - Benny "The Jet" Rodriguez, in The Sandlot I've been going to games since August 8, 1973....and on August 22, 2004, finally, a foul ball came my way. I had to reach for it, and it deflected off the tip of my right index finger. Shoot, if I was only 4 inches taller! Have you read The Baseball Same Game?

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