John Goodman as THE BABE

[skeletor]

Just picked up the John Goodman film on Babe Ruth, called
the Babe..new for under 5 bucks..Never saw it ,until now
and can see why it flopped at the box office..Terrible script,
tin plated acting..and paints Ruth as an animal..Was`he
really as bad as that film painted him ? or is this another
film that does revisionist history, a'la 'Cobb' ?

[The Real McCoy]

No, you nailed the review. The best thing about this flick was Goodman's remark: "It's a sad day when you have to lose weight to play Babe Ruth."

[SHOELESSJOE3]

Just picked up the John Goodman film on Babe Ruth, called
the Babe..new for under 5 bucks..Never saw it ,until now
and can see why it flopped at the box office..Terrible script,
tin plated acting..and paints Ruth as an animal..Was`he
really as bad as that film painted him ? or is this another
film that does revisionist history, a'la 'Cobb' ?

One of the worst films ever on Ruth. I say one of the worst only because it would be hard to match that William Bendix bomb for the worst.

Ruth and his wife attended the premier of that Bendix stinker and were so disgusted by it that they left the theater before it ended.

With no doubt the best movie on Ruth was a movie made for TV in the 1990s. I don't recall the exact title or the actor. I do have it on a VHS but can't locate it at this time. I would imagine Amazon Books might have this one.

[Yankeebiscuitfan]

Indeed this movie stinks. Almost everything is bad, the acting, the story and most of all the settings. It is so clear that some of the so called stadiums are made of cupboard or something like it.

Though it has cost you only 5 bucks, it is a waiste of money and of time (watching it).

[Captain Cold Nose]

There are better baseball films. Most of them. The film SHOELESSJOE mentioned appears from time to time on one of the Encore movie channels.

The Babe might be one of the reasons Kelly McGillis doesn't appear in films so much anymore. Which is a shame.

[skeletor]

The Babe DVD

Though it has cost you only 5 bucks, it is a waiste of money and of time (watching it).[/QUOTE]

yeah, all in all, it was a giant waste of time..But I ended up getting
my five bucks back..Someone else snagged it..and they thought it
was pretty good ! (huh?) now only if I could get back the time
spent to watch it...Jeez O'petes, did it blow chunks..Poor Goodman
hope he got paided well...one of the all time worst baseball films
ever..Bet Ruth is spinning over in his grave over it...whew !!

[wamby]

One of the worst films ever on Ruth. I say one of the worst only because it would be hard to match that William Bendix bomb for the worst.

Ruth and his wife attended the premier of that Bendix stinker and were so disgusted by it that they left the theater before it ended.

With no doubt the best movie on Ruth was a movie made for TV in the 1990s. I don't recall the exact title or the actor. I do have it on a VHS but can't locate it at this time. I would imagine Amazon Books might have this one.

I don't remember the title, but Stephen Boyd played the Babe. The outdoor scences from the orphange in Baltimore were filmed at a school in Cleveland that is a few blocks from where I grew up. The same school was also featured in A Christmas Story.

[Lindseynelson]

John Goodman as THE BABE

No movie has ever been more of a disgrace than the Babe. My nephew and I were talking about baseball one day and he asked how Ruth could have played so well as fat as he was. I asked him where he got the idea that Ruth was so grossly overweight and he said" I saw that Bio-Pic with John Goodman". This piece of wasted film does such a major disservice to baseball history and the memory of one of the greatest athletes of all time. The only and I mean only time Ruth ever looked close to fat in a uni was as coach of the Bums after his retirement.During his career up until 33 or so he was a barrel chested man with rather skinny legs.He was also a fine baserunner whereas I doubt if Goodman could reach first without paramedic help. To see that slob Goodman , with his gut hanging over his pants and his ill fitting uniform purporting to be Ruth is sad. Ruth was always , among other things , neat as a pin in his uni and had physical talents and abilities shared by very few. I wish someone would gather up all the real footage of the Babe and put together an hour or so showing this great athlete as he should be remembered not as a cartoon figure.Oh well that feels better. I think I'll go watch Eight Men Out

[Brian McKenna]

horrible movie - they have him as a fat little kid

[johnny]

john goodman

although john goodman had a great line about the role. he said you know you got a weight problem when you have to lose weight to play the Babe.

[Melottfan]

John Goodman as the Babe

I couldn't agree more Lindsey. When the movie came out, I remember watching the opening when the camera scanned the seats of Yankee Satdium and hearing the cheering, thinking perhaps they got it right. Not true. The movie went down hill from there. I stopped counting after 15 errors. And Goodman he did a terrible job as the Babe. A year later my parents gave me a copy of the movie on video. I threw it away after Christmas. Don't know if you remember Steven Lang did a tv movie as the Babe based on the Robert Creamer book. It was a better job of acting and details. Other than Pete Rose as Ty Cobb, heh, not bad.

[Melottfan]

Worst Baseball movie

Have a slight correction for you. Stephen Lang played the Babe in a TV movie based on the Robert Creamer book.Far better then the two Ruth stinkers. Stephen Boyd was a good looking actor of the fifties/sixties, known for his role in Ben-Hur.

[Brad Chadford]

Though it has cost you only 5 bucks, it is a waiste of money and of time (watching it).yeah, all in all, it was a giant waste of time..But I ended up getting my five bucks back..Someone else snagged it..and they thought it was pretty good ! (huh?) now only if I could get back the time spent to watch it...Jeez O'petes, did it blow chunks..Poor Goodman
hope he got paided well...one of the all time worst baseball films ever..Bet Ruth is spinning over in his grave over it...whew !!

I too found it somewhere for $5. I put it on a few weeks ago and couldn't even get through the opening scene. Even though it was only on for 5 minutes, I also wish I could get back the time I spent watching it! What a stinker...

[Lindseynelson]

You've got some seriously screwed up values.

HUH?:noidea

[Lindseynelson]

here's a few ideas for Hollywood...ReRun as Jack Johnson,Buddy Hackett as John L Sullivan,Louie Anderson as Bobby Jones.