i enjoy baseball even that i dont understand much... i am from Brazil ,,and this game is pure art,,,, wonder be in Olymp...... Robert Redford is amazing, as always..
I remember watching this a few times when I was kid, when it was first released on VHS. I haven't seen since 1986. The baseball moments caught my attention back then and that's the only reason I remember liking it. But after watching it tonight as an adult, after going through my own personal struggles, losses, and dealings with manipulative people, I see what a great movie it is for so many more reasons.
As much as I enjoyed the novel, I REALLY enjoyed this movie. The novel was depressing and more about a traumatized victim... This movie is about a hero.
I remember when our dad used to bring us out to Rizal Baseball Stadium in the Philippines and watch local baseball team the Canlubang Team played against the American team the Clark Field team and the US Navy team " Cubi Point ". Usually smell the Cigars and pipes tabacco and there will be fights and rumbles inside the diamond field. That's back in the 60's. Love it! Mabuhay!
I carved me a bat I got from a tree in my front yard. I blame that bat for me never making it to the major leagues. Should of used a store bought aluminum bat.
Your wrong, Hobb's came up to bat, the pitcher threw two balls in a row, Pittsburgh put in a new pitcher, Hobb's fouled one back threw the glass where Max was sitting, then swung and missed, then fouled one past the right field foul pole (can't be called out on an out of play foul ball), then he hit the homer into the lighting. Dummy!
Your wrong, Hobb's came up to bat, the pitcher threw two balls in a row, Pittsburgh put in a new pitcher, Hobb's fouled one back threw the glass where Max was sitting, then swung and missed, then fouled one past the right field foul pole (can't be called out on an out of play foul ball), then he hit the homer into the lighting. Dummy!
@13igGaming first pitch ball high, second pitch ball inside, third pitch foul ball. So far counts 2-1. Then he swings and misses so the counts 2-2 then he hits the ball just foul down the line, count still 2-2, then homerun. He doesn't strike out. Even though in the book he does strike out to end the story.
I don't know of another sport that has this kind of elegant simplicity to it. It is the game of fathers and sons in a way that, I think, no other is. But there is something else about it too. It draws from something "American." And not in any narrow or exclusive sense. I mean in the best sense. It is a sport of young dreamers who spend hours outside, with their fathers or on their own, working away at a craft in the hope that someday their dream will lead them to play ball with other dreamers.
"I believe we have two lives . . . the life we learn with and the life we lived with after that." Great quote. Great movie that expressed how wonderful the ideologies of baseball could be in the character of Roy Hobbs. Though not believable at all, it is a movie that expressed the love of the game.
Major kudos for posting what I consider the greatest baseball film of all time. It's almost metaphysical in it's content, gracefully walking that gray area between sports and fantasy. With so many memorable scenes, it's a snippet lover's paradise, and it's now a mainstay on my Playlist...Thank you again...
I love this film. I was 10 when I saw it in the theater with my dad. I believe that year marked our first trip to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. God I loved baseball. But I loved my dad so much more...I just didn't realize how much. Time has a way of making things clearer, although sometimes painfully.....My dad is gone now, and so is my youth. But I can't help but feel somewhere down the road, perhaps in an amber field under a golden sun, I'll play catch with him one more time....
@Jonwood74 well said,my dad passed away too and now I realize my love of him was immeasurable.I am sure you will see your dad again someday,just keep the faith.
1984 Detroit Tigers World Champs the year of The Natural!!! This stadium was in Buffalo, New York if memory serves me correctly and was later decommissioned in 1988. I believe it served more as a football field than a baseball field. Anyways I have always felt that The Natural was a one of a kind film that is the epitome of a boyhood dream. I grew up in the 80's and I never can forget how much baseball meant for me. Nowadays - I live in the past because of all the lies, cheating, and excuses.
@DetroitLove4U : The Knight's home field was indeed played by War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo, affectionately known as "The Rockpile." Built in 1935-38, the stadium was a hybrid design, hosting both football and baseball (the various incarnations of the Bills and Bisons), and many other events. In later years, and during the filming The Natural, it was used almost exclusively for baseball. It was mostly demolished c.1990, after the Bisons moved to a new baseball-only stadium downtown in 1988.
my favorite movie ever
VagabonTribe 2 weeks ago
Brilliant !!! idid not know it was you tube . have typed natural several times could not find it . Great Whippeee whoo !1
peterpetersbng 2 weeks ago
the movie is actually up great
peterpetersbng 2 weeks ago
i enjoy baseball even that i dont understand much... i am from Brazil ,,and this game is pure art,,,, wonder be in Olymp...... Robert Redford is amazing, as always..
007Lurosa 3 weeks ago
I remember watching this a few times when I was kid, when it was first released on VHS. I haven't seen since 1986. The baseball moments caught my attention back then and that's the only reason I remember liking it. But after watching it tonight as an adult, after going through my own personal struggles, losses, and dealings with manipulative people, I see what a great movie it is for so many more reasons.
JessioChalleno 3 weeks ago
As much as I enjoyed the novel, I REALLY enjoyed this movie. The novel was depressing and more about a traumatized victim... This movie is about a hero.
ImSeeFly 4 weeks ago
WHY DID SHE SHOOT HIM!
bbbgun23 1 month ago
@bbbgun23 because she wanted to kill THE BEST
ImSeeFly 4 weeks ago
BEAUTIFULL !! Tanks
BM3Wsub 1 month ago
Why did she shoot him?
Skeptomenosellinas 1 month ago
0 dislikes, the way it should be.
TheNaterz 1 month ago
thanks,I''ve never seen this movie,but I like roberts" other movies.
coolbreeze161 1 month ago
Thank you
kny3twalker 2 months ago
I remember when our dad used to bring us out to Rizal Baseball Stadium in the Philippines and watch local baseball team the Canlubang Team played against the American team the Clark Field team and the US Navy team " Cubi Point ". Usually smell the Cigars and pipes tabacco and there will be fights and rumbles inside the diamond field. That's back in the 60's. Love it! Mabuhay!
r2ro43 2 months ago
I could have been the best there ever was....
haywood16 2 months ago
Great great movie...
yosraz1 2 months ago
Wrigley doesn't have a second deck in right field...
bballshawty6304 2 months ago
I carved me a bat I got from a tree in my front yard. I blame that bat for me never making it to the major leagues. Should of used a store bought aluminum bat.
alblmfld 2 months ago 2
This is a classic, Greatest baseball movie ever!
JOE11096 2 months ago
Your wrong, Hobb's came up to bat, the pitcher threw two balls in a row, Pittsburgh put in a new pitcher, Hobb's fouled one back threw the glass where Max was sitting, then swung and missed, then fouled one past the right field foul pole (can't be called out on an out of play foul ball), then he hit the homer into the lighting. Dummy!
UnsilencedMajority 3 months ago
Its odd, Roy struck out at that last at bat. He had a strike looking, a foul ball, and then a swing and a miss... just noticed that.
13igGaming 3 months ago
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Your wrong, Hobb's came up to bat, the pitcher threw two balls in a row, Pittsburgh put in a new pitcher, Hobb's fouled one back threw the glass where Max was sitting, then swung and missed, then fouled one past the right field foul pole (can't be called out on an out of play foul ball), then he hit the homer into the lighting. Dummy!
UnsilencedMajority 3 months ago
@13igGaming first pitch ball high, second pitch ball inside, third pitch foul ball. So far counts 2-1. Then he swings and misses so the counts 2-2 then he hits the ball just foul down the line, count still 2-2, then homerun. He doesn't strike out. Even though in the book he does strike out to end the story.
TheDJDAB 2 months ago
that's prendergast from falling down.....
mfde7 3 months ago
did you ever playe ball Max?....punk ass journalist
Jaime2019 3 months ago
"I thought I could rely on your honor, Hobbs."
"You're about to."
dsSLAY3R 3 months ago
And Randy Newman's score! I mean, could it be any more beautiful and expressive?
Trudeau7900 4 months ago
I don't know of another sport that has this kind of elegant simplicity to it. It is the game of fathers and sons in a way that, I think, no other is. But there is something else about it too. It draws from something "American." And not in any narrow or exclusive sense. I mean in the best sense. It is a sport of young dreamers who spend hours outside, with their fathers or on their own, working away at a craft in the hope that someday their dream will lead them to play ball with other dreamers.
Trudeau7900 4 months ago
"I believe we have two lives . . . the life we learn with and the life we lived with after that." Great quote. Great movie that expressed how wonderful the ideologies of baseball could be in the character of Roy Hobbs. Though not believable at all, it is a movie that expressed the love of the game.
pinkyrusty007 5 months ago 3
i m a basket ball player but i love this movie for the rest of my life thank you
mp6020 love misterinside aka a.j
misterinside 5 months ago
Major kudos for posting what I consider the greatest baseball film of all time. It's almost metaphysical in it's content, gracefully walking that gray area between sports and fantasy. With so many memorable scenes, it's a snippet lover's paradise, and it's now a mainstay on my Playlist...Thank you again...
nickellicker 5 months ago 3
The novel was wretched. But the movie is well-done.
JeffersonDinedAlone 5 months ago
I love this film. I was 10 when I saw it in the theater with my dad. I believe that year marked our first trip to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. God I loved baseball. But I loved my dad so much more...I just didn't realize how much. Time has a way of making things clearer, although sometimes painfully.....My dad is gone now, and so is my youth. But I can't help but feel somewhere down the road, perhaps in an amber field under a golden sun, I'll play catch with him one more time....
Jonwood74 6 months ago 23
@Jonwood74 well said,my dad passed away too and now I realize my love of him was immeasurable.I am sure you will see your dad again someday,just keep the faith.
mahagga 3 months ago
thank you for putting this up i love this film
redbaron932 6 months ago
lmfao at 33:06
thndrct218 6 months ago
I wish Dad could have............God, I love baseball
GeorgeBailey2 6 months ago 12
1984 Detroit Tigers World Champs the year of The Natural!!! This stadium was in Buffalo, New York if memory serves me correctly and was later decommissioned in 1988. I believe it served more as a football field than a baseball field. Anyways I have always felt that The Natural was a one of a kind film that is the epitome of a boyhood dream. I grew up in the 80's and I never can forget how much baseball meant for me. Nowadays - I live in the past because of all the lies, cheating, and excuses.
DetroitLove4U 6 months ago
@DetroitLove4U : The Knight's home field was indeed played by War Memorial Stadium in Buffalo, affectionately known as "The Rockpile." Built in 1935-38, the stadium was a hybrid design, hosting both football and baseball (the various incarnations of the Bills and Bisons), and many other events. In later years, and during the filming The Natural, it was used almost exclusively for baseball. It was mostly demolished c.1990, after the Bisons moved to a new baseball-only stadium downtown in 1988.
chuckbflo 2 months ago
@DetroitLove4U : Look up "War Memorial Stadium (Buffalo)" on Wikipedia.
chuckbflo 2 months ago
Dear Roy, your son is in the stands. But no pressure...
KneeJerkish 6 months ago 2
GREAT FLICK , VERY ENTERTAINING , THANKS
pininagacha 6 months ago
and the hoooooooome of theeeeeee braaaaaaaaaves !!!... Play Ball !!!
cheiminho 7 months ago
Well done for uploading this...thanks very much.
mart77scole 7 months ago
Play ball!
nergvol 7 months ago
this film shows how a baseball player can be portrayed as a hero
Dopeykid1794 7 months ago