Sports movie mistakes/inaccuracies that drive you nuts
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Google the deleted scene... Buudy asks back on Hoosiers. I thought they should have kept it in the movie.
Starters actually finished games in the 1980s, no matter the pitch count.
I know it shouldn't matter but in 'Field of Dreams' Ray Liotta playing Shoeless Joe and batting right handed always makes me mad.
He (Ray) also threw left handed in the movie and Joe was right handed in the field.
He (Ray) also threw left handed in the movie and Joe was right handed in the field.
The movie came out in 1990 and was in production for years prior to that. This had just happened 10 years earlier at Daytona. You dang right they bashed and banged back then. How you think Dale Earnhardt got his nickname?
It gets worse. LaRusso was competing in the All Valley Under 18 Karate Tournament. Mr. Miyagi had given him a car just a few days earlier...when Daniel turned 18!!!
Lots of rules were broken in that tournament.
I’ll give the age one a break tho - lots of youth sports allow partipating if your birthday was before a specific date.
Perhaps...but he competed again the next year in KKIII. 😮
Not to mention that Bobby gets disqualified for a dangerous and intentional kick to the knee against Daniel, but Johnny catches and holds Daniel's leg and has him in a vulnerable positions and chooses to perform an elbow drop to the knee and isn't disqualified. Johnny's was much more obviously intentional and clearly more dangerous.
I remember that scene. How was it said/shown to be Sunday?
(“Hayden’s really got the boys playing today!”).
I could very well be wrong it's been quite awhile since I've seen it but I thought it was his 16th birthday...I thought he turned 16 because earlier when he went on the date with Allie his mom had to drive him and I thought this was because he wasn't 16 yet.
God yes I want to throw things at my TV everytime that comes on. By far the dumbest commercial on TV
Yes, although I’m not sure there was anything unrealistic from a sports standpoint. Was there?
Hoosiers also had some screw ups when the scoreboard was shown. For example, early in the game the scoreboard might show a score of something like 25-20 and then later in the game the score might be like 17-13. Pretty good defense I guess.
Although it wasn't a sports movie, there was also a scene in Oppenheimer where they had a rally at Alamosa where some people were waving little American flags that had 50 stars on them instead of the 48 stars of that time.
I knew a guy that was wrestling ten or more under in the same time frame (also a three time Minnesota state champ, one time All American - so not a scrub)
Can't believe i missed that in Oppenheimer. That is something I would generally notice and then annoy my wife by pointing it out.
Are you serious? The blocking the kid off the field is the obvious one but then add in the practice scenes and portraying Hugh Freeze as an incompetent coach and it's awful.
Go to 13:45 or so minute mark of this video for explanation and scene. Last scene cut to get movie under 2 hours long.
I had to pause it to verify it. At full speed it wasn't really noticeable.
