If you're watching this as a biography, you're in the wrong theater!
The Babe is just a great story based on a great baseball player. It has some inaccuracies, that's true, but Goodman pulls off a performance equal to or better than the best of character actors!
Goodman was born to play the Babe and while it's a bit over the top, he captures the cadence and presence of that time in America...
This movie was made in 92. It was a totally different America; we still went to the theaters in droves. The internet was still a decade from exploding...Nobody had cell phones...This movie was panned in that era because there was lots of competition and the schmaltzy Hollywood fare was put on the back burner for movies like Stroker's Dracula, Reservoir Dogs, Last of the Mohicans, A few Good Men, etc...In that class, Babe is sitting the bench!
This recently watched movie made me appreciate the life work of J. Goodman and his larger than life screen presence... Sit back and choose your poison...A very entertaining movie!
The Babe is just a great story based on a great baseball player. It has some inaccuracies, that's true, but Goodman pulls off a performance equal to or better than the best of character actors!
Goodman was born to play the Babe and while it's a bit over the top, he captures the cadence and presence of that time in America...
This movie was made in 92. It was a totally different America; we still went to the theaters in droves. The internet was still a decade from exploding...Nobody had cell phones...This movie was panned in that era because there was lots of competition and the schmaltzy Hollywood fare was put on the back burner for movies like Stroker's Dracula, Reservoir Dogs, Last of the Mohicans, A few Good Men, etc...In that class, Babe is sitting the bench!
This recently watched movie made me appreciate the life work of J. Goodman and his larger than life screen presence... Sit back and choose your poison...A very entertaining movie!