Originally Aired: 7/21/2014 The Cinema Snob reviews The Babe Ruth Story. While he was busy being a baseball legend, Babe Ruth still found the time to cure cancer, save animals, and cause a crippled boy to walk! What a guy!
Fun fact: the guy who plays Babe Ruth here, William Bendix, had previously been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the 1942 war drama "Wake Island"
This movie is more like the 3 Stooges crossed with Medaka Box minus the whole mystery aspect of the latter to me. Who knew that a 3 Stooges sketch needed a Mary Sue/Marty Stu protagonist
this movie is so squeaky clean about Babe Ruth that it's almost insulting. Its makes the babe seem so inhumanly innocent and outright dumb and make up so many things that he didn't do. It also never shows him playing baseball...aka the thing that made him famous. its like patch adams, completely ignoring what made patch adams a great doctor and completely simplifying it to stupidity .
"The only disease Babe Ruth doesn't cure in this movie is Louis Gehrig's." Most underrated joke of the episode, judging by the comments. ...Also the darkest.
Funny you bring it up because the kid with the dog sounded a lot like a child Tommy Wiseau when he said, "He won't die Babe will he he won't die." (lack of punctuation: mine). He may as well have added, "Oh hi, Mark!" at the end.
When I was 9, I read a biography about Babe Ruth... and oddly enough, I was a lot like this movie... but even at that age, i knew a pile of bull when I saw it.
I don't know jackshit about baseball, but even I know that Babe Ruth was not a combination of the dumb guy from Of Mice and Men, Forrest Gump, and Jesus.
Potential Dark Sports Comedy Opening: Scene: Pastoral, short angry man in foreground, visibly frowning. “Hi I’m John McGraw, you may know me as the legendary manager of the New York Giants. But what you wouldn’t know is that I have a tendency to lose loved ones to typhoid. That’s why I’m here to prescribe Connie Mack Life Insurance, because sometimes the world is a bitch.” If it warrants a sequel, I demand that Sam Rice’s story be told.
The saddest thing about these kinds of documentaries is that they scrub out & change what's already a legitimately interesting story into something incredibly milquetoast and bland.
CenetaurmanE52 I find it interesting that this film essentially represents a very unique aspect of Hollywood at a very different time, that they would go out of their way to cover up any aspect of salaciousness in a biopic, but now it seems they will go out of their to make a life story that contains elements of salaciousness even more salacious.
Our society has changed, we used to try and pretend we're crystal clean, "Good Ol' US of A, the Free People!" We've realized we can't hide the dark part of our world anymore... so we've decided to embrace it and in some cases, even invite it.
12:53 So I take it this was that scene Seinfeld was satirizing in the episode where Kramer had to get back that birthday card signed by all the Mets? Credit to Thomas Dekker, who played the infirmed child in that episode, because it takes some quality acting for the audience to recognize something based on seeing the satire first, let alone from a child actor.
This is what happens when you have Babe Ruth be played by William Bendix, who was best known for playing the funny goofball particularly his role as Chester A Riley in the Radio and TV sitcom Life With Riley.
13:56 His son died not long after meeting the Babe, leading the old gentleman to become the tight-fisted, shout-happy house of horrors owner Mr. McDougal.
13:27 TFW you find your son getting up from his chair, because he forgot he was supposed to fake this degenerative bone disease in order to get both of you into the baseball game for free.
That guy playing an 18 year old version of Bade Ruth reminds me of that scene in the disaster artist where Tommy Wiseau tells Greg Sestero's mom that he's 19.
So, that light was the cause for his death? Patrick in the corner: Life, death, Life, death, Life, death, Life, death, Life, death, Life, death, Life, death, Life, death!
CaptainMarvell92 Returns Yeah, me too. That Dean Cain was one hell of a host. Oh wait, you mean the...theme song for...the Cinema Snob--oh, in that case, never mind.
CaptainMarvell92 Returns Nothing gets me in the mood for some Cinema Snob like listening to a cheesy 80s sitcom theme song while watching clips of people getting hacked to bits.
This movie is terrible for the opposite reason that Wired is. This depicts Babe Ruth with too much praise while pointing out nothing negative about him whereas Wired only depicts John Belushi's downfall and points out very few positive things about his life.
There was the movie that tried to show all sides of him call the babe but for some reason they cast John goodmen in it and I don’t like they don’t show him struggling to get to where he was that could’ve made him relatable .
To be honest, I don't really know all that much about Babe Ruth. But I can tell when a ""Biopic" takes liberties, and this movie basically makes out Babe Ruth to not only being one of the all time baseball greats, but also makes him out to be "Jesus". I really need to tune up my "American History" sometime. lol
Yes! So glad this is finally uploaded it's still one of my favorite Snob episodes I watched over and over again on ThatGuyWithTheGlasses years back. Classic :)
It's Hollywood. "I know I'm just a proctologist, but I'll take care of this shrapnel in your horses heart quick like and he'll be just fine!" Or my favorite. "Look, I'm a weapon smith and engineer, you're also a mechanical/electrical engineer, but between the two of us in this dank cave with limited supplies and lacking anesthesia, surely we can create new technology to save my heart.
There are deleted scenes in the movie that make it more believable. There is a one hour montage of 150 billionaires being kidnapped, having the same exact plan and dying before it finally gets to Robert Downey Jr.
It never ceases to dissapoint me that there's no "Breath for me" reference when Babe is asking that guy to play for him. Would that have been one too many Wired references?
I just got back from a trip to the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown. I got to see Babe's jersey and locker. I also got to see the jersey and locker of the man who surpassed him. Hank Aaron.
I had heard it referrenced in other episodes, but never actually saw this episode. I'm surprised that it seems to be a more recent episode than Wired (seeing all the allusions to this movie Snob makes here) though, but mostly cause I had seen this review way before it was on here (actually I think it was fully uploaded on League of Super Critics, and I mean the full episode, not a 7 minutes clip show).
SuperShanko: Oh, no no no. I meant "Don't get spoiled for weekly double uploads, it's just a random re-upload". I later realized he was double uploading regularly.
"If you could send an autographed ball, it might be the incentive the youngster needs, to live". Kid must really hate his parents, if they're not enough of an incentive for him to live, but a baseball is.
This movie was from 1948, it was following the passing of a baseball legend. It was a pretty good movie, and I used to taped it off of one of the movie channel like Movie Plex. There were other great baseball movies besides this, is another classic "Pride of the Yankees" with Gary Cooper as Lou Gerrig. (aka the Iron Horse).
I had a feeling you'd post this review on RU-vid, 'cause it's one of my favorite 2014 Snob reviews. 11:18- And that joke would get dated 2 years after this review was first released.
