Soul of the Game
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Movie Reviews of Soul of the Game
Movie Review: Vintage Baseball
Summary: 4 Stars
This film was well acted. The actors is this film did a wonderful job representing the characters in which they played, considering all the main characters are baseball legends. This movie keeps you watching especially if you are a student of the game of baseball. In a nut- shell very heart warming performances from the cast.Movie Review: Vintage Baseball
Summary: 4 Stars
This film was well acted. The actors is this film did a wonderful job representing the characters in which they played, considering all the main characters are baseball legends. This movie keeps you watching especially if you are a student of the game of baseball. In a nut- shell very heart warming performances from the cast.Movie Review: Real Baseball History
Summary: 4 Stars
A great look at Black baseball in the early days before blacks where accepted into the league. It shows how special these players where and how important it was to break the color barrier and make baseball as it is today! A absolutly great DVD!Movie Review: A Nice Baseball/History Story but.....
Summary: 3 Stars
I have personally read several bios about Robinson and Paige, yet have no recollection of their closeness with each other or the unfortunately disturbed Gibson. This movie partrays them as an inseparable trio. Paige was, to say the least, a free spirited party animal who marched to the beat of his own drummer, constantly walking away from his teams to play for others. He was an elusive loner and the single biggest gate attraction of Negro League baseball. He knew it and went wherever the money took him, on his own terms and at his own pace. Punctuality, or reliability for that matter, was never a priority in his life. The extreme bitterness and resentment he displayed toward Robinson in this movie was nowhere to be seen in Paige's autobiography. Paige didn't even claim to know Robinson very well. In fact, Paige was making more money on his own, marketing himself in Negro Baseball than most big leaguers earned at the time; his problem was hanging onto his pay.
Likewise, Robinson didn't claim Paige as a mentor, consultant or confidante in his memoirs. The movie is an attempt to entwine the lives of these three men in a convenient package to tell the story about the integration of Major League Baseball, an event that should never have been necessary in the first place. It scores higher in the category of entertainment than that of historical accuracy.
Near the end of the film, the start of an eventually rained-out game between the white Major Leaguers and the Negro League All Stars is shown, with a lady lip-syncing the words to American the Beautiful. Old Glory, the Stars and Stripes of the U.S. is proudly displayed flapping in the breeze. Unfortunately, it's the flag bearing the 50 stars, indicative of 50 states. At the time of this game, about 1946, the U.S. consisted of 48 States. The flag appropriate to that era would have been better.
The authentic uniforms supplied for the movie by Ebbet's Field Flannels of Seattle were great.
Larry Wood, Bowmanville, Ontario, Canada
Movie Review: Well acted, wholly inaccurate.
Summary: 3 Stars
This movie was very well acted and very entertaining. However, being a huge baseball fan who has done extensive research and is very interested in Negro League history, this movie is very inaccurate. The portrayal of jackie Robinson is closest, but Josh and Satch are way off, even if you go by their legends rather than accounts. Satch was a renowned carouser and was not close friends with Jackie or Josh. Also, they don't even mention Larry Doby (the first black player in the American League, a couple months after Jackie). All in all, an entertaining movie, unless, like me, you're interested in learning about Jackie breaking the famed "color barrier" and what the Negro Leagues were really like.