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🗓️ 28 March 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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“The Natural” belongs in any debate over the best sports movie ever. It has Robert Redford in his prime, a stunning Kim Basinger, huffy Wilford Brimley, sly Robert Duvall, powerful Glenn Close, and even a young Michael Madsen. They’re all delivering top-notch performances on a picture-perfect backdrop that feels really real for an ‘80s movie.
Shat The Movies listener Vince commissioned this baseball classic just as hosts Dick Ebert and Drew Zakmin are gearing up for Opening Day. It’s full of iconic scenes that bring us all back to our playing days, when we imagined each of us could swing his own Wonderboy bat and be the greatest that ever played the game.
Everything ages, and “The Natural” aged surprisingly well, but not everything was a home run. Redford is 46 and playing a 19-year-old. His character, Roy Hobbs, seems to leave a trail of death wherever he goes. And the final inning is cornier than a Nebraska farm.
In this episode, you’ll also hear our list of the worst sports-movie actors of all time, find out how a young Big D would get pumped up for high school games, and learn why your mom got a care package from Derek Jeter.
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0:00.0 | I just want to point out that I learned tonight that Bernie Mac was in a movie called Mr |
0:06.4 | 3,000 where he was playing baseball and then also Kevin Koster with Superman's dad |
0:11.0 | and got sucked in a tornado? |
0:13.0 | Yes. |
0:14.0 | Where the fuck have I been? |
0:15.0 | Remember when we first met John McLean? |
0:18.0 | Our God picked him up from the plane |
0:20.0 | and took him down the Nacome tower at the Christmas party and the terrorists |
0:26.7 | were over zealous but it was sweet when they killed Ellis and with a little help from Alan John McLean kick down Welcome back to Shatt the movies, the podcast we asked, were the movies we love |
0:39.4 | when we were growing up really that good. Have you caught yourself thinking why don't they make movies |
0:43.7 | like they used to? Can you still remember spending your Friday night searching |
0:46.8 | for the perfect movie rental at Blockbuster video? Do you know what Blockbuster |
0:50.2 | video is? If you answered yes, then this is the podcast for you I'm your |
0:54.6 | host Gene Lyons alongside me are my two co-host big D Dick Ebert good evening and |
0:59.7 | our special return guest Drew from the One Headlight Podcast. |
1:04.0 | God I love baseball. |
1:06.0 | And together we're going to take a look back in time and decide if our favorite film still hold up. |
1:11.0 | Each week the audience selects from six movie choices and we break out |
1:14.6 | the race car VHS taper winder and watch the movie that tallied the highest number of |
1:18.8 | votes. At the end of the podcast, Big D Drew and I will provide the audience with a number of wipes each |
1:24.2 | movie would take to get off a respective bums so find a comfortable spot on the |
1:28.1 | sofa and accompany us for a journey through our vast VHS movie collection. |
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