Cathardincu Surprisingly incoherent and boring

VividSimon Simply Perfect

Odelecol Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Justina The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

cinephile-27690 I am on a goal to see every movie in the book 1001 Movies You Must See before You Die. This is in there, so I got my hands on a VHS and saw it. It was so good that I put it in my top 10, which impressed my Grandma since I was weaning out of mostly watching Veggie Tales and other cartoons. After seeing numerous more movies, it was ranked in the 30s. I re-watched it last night and returned to my top 10. This movie is so magical and makes you believe anything could happen. As Roger Ebert put it: "It's a religious picture-but the religion is baseball." Ebert later called it the 7th best movie of 1989. Unfortunately, Siskel did not see that and gave it thumbs down! This movie leaves you with a great fuzzy feeling few movies can give you. If you watch it, the feeling will come!

generationofswine I loved this movie when I was a kid. It came out when I was 9 and like so many other Kevin Costner movies, it became one of my all time favorites.I can still remember seeing it in the theater.It's right up there with "Bull Durham," only it seems like it's on the far opposite of the coin. "Bull Durham" took baseball and more specifically baseball fans and poked fun at us. It teased us for loving the game the same way that older sibling or favorite uncle that you looked up to teased you about your own eccentricities. Never in a mean or hostile way, but in a familial closeness."Field of Dreams" takes the opposite stance. Instead of lovingly mocking us for loving baseball, it tells the audience why fans can make the sport an obsession.It illustrates how it brings families together. How a simple game of catch creates a father and son bond. It shows its audience how the game transcends generations and, in a way, shows people why freaks like me rent apartments across the street from softball diamonds, just so, when the weather's warm, we can walk across the street and watch a game...or, when we are stuck inside working, we can crack open a window and listen to the familiar and comforting sounds.Even if you don't play there is something almost...I don't know--would angelic be strong enough?--magical? wonderful? there is something to that sound a bad makes when it hits a ball. Especially when it's followed by yells and cheers.It's something that you don't get when you go to Wrigley Field or when you watch the game on television. But you play a game, you go to the cages, you start hitting up your local high school games and you get to hear that clink, the cheers, that rush of excitement that makes you stand up in your seat and start yelling too."Field of Dreams" explains all of that, right down to the few stolen hours between twilight and darkness children get to enjoy when they sneak to the backyard after dinner and play catch until they can't see the ball any more.And right there, to go along with it, the movie is about magic too.It's almost as good as the game itself.

davekeanu I remember watching this in my RE class I found it rather interesting the plot is a bit of mistry of first on wanting to know what is going to happen. The character's are wonderful and I think it's great that we get a mistry film. That we do find out in the film that on what the guy was saying to the farmer make the field and he will come meaning that the farmer's father was going to return to play cricket on the farmer's field and being reunited with him. But I think the learning message in this film is that dreams can come true. overall this movie is very good in my book 8/10

higherall7 What would you do if you heard a voice say to you, "If you build it, he will come.."?This wonderful baseball fable posits exactly that type of inquiry into the difference between Faith and Logic. It explores at some length what people will do when they have that moment when 'something told me to-' in their lives. This usually happens to everyone, when they either regret or marvel at the consequences of following or not following that inner voice that comes to them out of nowhere. Ray Kinsella has a series of these experiences and finds that listening to his own special voice leads him to a Field of Dreams.Enjoyed this movie for its simplicity. Also, for the fact that it does not depend on hyper-violence or explosions or expressions of scatology to carry the narrative or appeal grossly to the sensations of the viewing audience. The concept is really an interesting and entertaining one. I have already mentioned the interface between Faith and Logic, but there is also an interesting melding between what some would call the fantasies of the Imagination and Reality.Kevin Costner is near perfect as the every man Ray Kinsella. James Earl Jones as the reclusive writer Terrance Mann has most of the best lines, and Ray Liotta is perfectly believable as the phantom Shoeless Joe Jackson; who brings the rest of his cohorts to a cornfield in Iowa. Burt Lancaster brings a rugged albeit crusty earthiness to this tale of Baseball in the Corn as Doctor Archibald 'Moonlight' Graham, who confidently strides between the living and the dead with much the same swagger as he showed in JIM THORPE: ALL American. Sometimes you can fault him for using his hands too much, but this is moot point. Amy Madigan and Gaby Hoffman are also charming and admirable as the feisty wife and winsome daughter who steadfastly stand by Ray in his quest to understand the meaning of his dream.This is one of those movies that I felt was perfect for spawning sequels. I would have loved to have seen Terrance Man come back with players from the Negro Leagues to really give the Black Sox Eight a run for their money. Eventually, it would have been great for Ray to encounter a Latino version of Terrance Mann, and to find players like Roberto Clemente and others holding their hands over their hearts for the playing of the National Anthem in his corn field.One can only hope that day will come in this Field of Dreams.