Baseball Stadiums in the movies

[Chevy114]

I think you missed his sarcasm.....lol

Must have sorry.

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I don't get any of this debate, the original film was done at County Stadium in Mil. So clearly they didn't shoot for accuracy on this film franchise.

It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't use ballparks that were so obvious looking. County Stadium was pretty generic, so they could use it for just about anything, but Camden Yards is immediately recognizable. Everybody knows what OPCY looks like, and trying to pass another ballpark off as that one is an obvious fail.

It'd be like filming inside Yankee Stadium and telling everyone it's Fenway Park.

[Lucas718]

I was an extra in the crowd at Camden Yards during the filming of one of the scenes in Major League II. At the time I was working only a block away so me and a few others wandered over one night after work. The scene they were filming was one in which Sheen's character was walking in from the bullpen, "Wild Thing" playing over the speakers, etc. Well they didn't have enough people to fill the stadium so they kept asking everybody to change seats depending on the angle of the camera. They also used a lot of cardboard cutouts of people to help fill in the crowd.

Went back another night when they were filming a scene where Sheen and the blonde were walking to her car after a game. They talked, then she gives him a hug and gets into her car, says something and drives away. They must have run through it a dozen times, but it never made it into the movie.

[Matt The Hammer]

I was an extra in Mr. 3000. They had all kinds of prizes for those that stuck around the longest. It was cool to see the rapid pace that the actors got right into the game play scene.

They had bused in some seat fillers and had a whole free meal thing for them too. Then these fine folks started taunting us suckers who actually bought Brewers tickets for the game that night and were sticking around for the movie filming. Thus our exit.

My Dad said he now "knew what prison felt like"... ha ha ... you know the scene when the new prisoner is walked through the main section of the prison and all the inmates yell and throw things down at him. Same thing from the upper deck.

[PeteU]

It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't use ballparks that were so obvious looking. County Stadium was pretty generic, so they could use it for just about anything, but Camden Yards is immediately recognizable. Everybody knows what OPCY looks like, and trying to pass another ballpark off as that one is an obvious fail.

It'd be like filming inside Yankee Stadium and telling everyone it's Fenway Park.

Probably falls into this catagory:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...yJustDidntCare

[Paul W]

...Well they didn't have enough people to fill the stadium so they kept asking everybody to change seats depending on the angle of the camera. They also used a lot of cardboard cutouts of people to help fill in the crowd...

the same happened (except for the cutouts) for moneyball, there were about 1k extras and we were moved all over the mausoleum throughout the night.
the el-cheap-o box lunch wasn't much either, a'z all the way!

[Paul W]

It wouldn't be so bad if they didn't use ballparks that were so obvious looking...It'd be like filming inside Yankee Stadium and telling everyone it's Fenway Park.

99.9% of audiences wouldn't know or care