I know you posted two years ago, but I just saw this piece of "work" three days ago when my wife's boss loaned us his DVD, knowing we are big baseball fans.
Roark, you summed it up nicely. Even if this film wasn't an almost complete fabrication from the poison pen of Al Stump, it is a wretched piece to sit through. They show, aside from the fictional "newsreel" only ONE SCENE depicting anyone playing baseball--we see one batter, Cobb, bat one time and steal two bases. That's it.
It is full of untrue rubbish that makes him not only look like a lunatic as a wretched old man, but even as a ballplayer. Here I refer to how in that one baseball scene, he waves his hands and smiles when the fans heave trash on him, as though that is something he enjoyed.
If you want to see what life was like in the early 20th Century--forget about this film. If you want to see what Ty might have been like as a youngster--we have two fictional scenes that reveal nothing--even if they did happen that way. About 98% of the time, we just see this old, old, man scaring everyone by firing his pistol everywhere he went.
I certainly saw no reason to care about Stump's character in this film. So it is a film about two individuals, neither of whom--as far as the film goes--is interesting at all to watch. We certainly don't learn any truths about Cobb's life.
From what I have learned about Stump--he was basically a cheap, sensationalistic writer who got lucky that Cobb chose him to help write his autobiography. Then Stump stole tons of Cobb belongings and forged hundreds of documents to sell 20 years later, becoming wealthy off his forgeries.
My wife politely thanked her boss for the loan and avoided saying anything about how much this piece of trash belongs in a landfill.
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rspahn-35561
7 years ago
I think it's quite using and entertaining when someone types angrily on here. Do you need a glass of water or a moist towelette?
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