The opening 30 minutes is basically a boring mixture of great cinematography, a disembodied voice doing ASMR 30 years before that was a thing and Costner trying to convince every town person and Timothy Busfield that he’s not crazy. Any more Liotta and I’d be arguing the other side.
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Thankfully, Shoeless Joe is in this movie the perfect amount. I can’t watch Liotta’s first scene without hearing the opening narration of “Goodfellas” or picturing Shoeless Joe shiv Billy Batts in the trunk of a car. Much is made of Liotta batting right-handed while Jackson hit left, but the bigger mistake to me was having Henry Hill play a ballplayer from South Carolina. Ray Liotta showing up as Shoeless Joe Jackson doesn’t help matters. But … he’s basically a VORP actor in this one. Costner seems like a nice guy, a great baseball fan and I’m overdue to watch Yellowstone. He plays John Kinsella the same as he does Crash Davis and Robin Hood.
The next movie Kevin Costner carries will be the first. The first half-hour is pretty pedestrian, and I’m here for it if you want to argue the film doesn’t start getting good until Terrance Mann stands in the path of the Volkswagen van in Boston. That’s not to say I think ‘Field of Dreams’ is immune from criticism. Well, that says more about you than it does the “Field of Dreams.” To which I say, “( Yawn).” If your first instinct after seeing John Kinsella play catch with his dad while the sun sets and the music soars is “meh?” In fact, I’m certain there are others working on similar pieces as I write this. Those results will likely only grow this week as the baseball world returns to the Dyersville, Iowa farm for the MLB game between the White Sox and Yankees.
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Google “Why Field of Dreams actually sucks” and you’ll get a full page of results from contrarians and cranks. Some people out there don’t like “Hoosiers.” Others like to mock “Rudy.”īut the movie that far and away draws the most digital scorn is “Field of Dreams.” Indeed, bashing the 1989 Kevin Costner baseball cornfield fantasy has become a cottage industry for baseball bloggers over the past decade. The type that enjoys watching a good sports movie and cheers at the end.Īnd the type that watches the same movie and writes an article on the Internet two decades later that you were an idiot for cheering at the end. There are two kinds of people in this world. This piece originally ran on Midway Minute, a daily newsletter about Chicago sports.
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