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I don\u2019t want to talk about the offseason. Not today anyway. For whatever reason, when I sat down to think of what to write, I wanted to make a fun post. I actually wanted to list my five favorite baseball movies, but I don\u2019t have five favorite baseball movies. I have three very clear favorites. I won\u2019t share what they are because I may one day write that post. More importantly though, I\u2019m the kind of person who needs to make sure he\u2019s watched every baseball movie that could potentially be on my list before making such a list. And to rewatch ones that I haven\u2019t seen in a long time.<\/p>\n
Now, that\u2019s not as many movies as you\u2019d think. I\u2019m going to make the calculated guess that I won\u2019t put For Love of the Game in my top 5, which I\u2019m sure is a perfectly fine movie, but I feel confident that Kevin Costner\u2019s third best baseball movie is safe from my top 5. I also feel safe not rewatching The Natural \u2013 sorry dad \u2013 just because I am pretty sure it\u2019s a little too cheesy to be among my favorites. And rest in peace Bernie Mac, I don\u2019t need to rewatch Mr. 3000 either. But it\u2019s at least 5 movies and maybe as many as 10, and that\u2019s a project.<\/p>\n
But once that movie itch hit me, or at least something pop culture related, I just couldn\u2019t write about anything else. But if I won\u2019t write about baseball movies, how exactly do I connect it to baseball? And I found an answer: I\u2019m just going to list the best movie \u2013 period \u2013 that I\u2019ve seen from each year the Cardinals were in the World Series. I\u2019m a movie geek as much as a baseball geek so this might be more fun for me than you. Hopefully, you enjoy my answers and participate in the comments if you want.<\/p>\n
1926<\/strong><\/p>\n The General <\/em><\/p>\n Easy. I hope every pick is this easy. I would argue this is the first action movie ever. Buster Keaton is on a moving train for most of this movie, doing insanely unsafe stunts. Tom Cruise has nothing on Keaton when it comes to stunts. I legitimately think the genre for this movie should be action and not comedy. It\u2019s an action movie with elements of comedy. In other words\u2026.every action movie ever.<\/p>\n This is not the consensus best Buster Keaton movie, but this is my favorite. I honestly did not know they could do some of the things they did in this movie in 1926. I mean the camera has to follow a moving train for the majority of the movie \u2013 I\u2019m glad sound came obviously, but as far as what a camera was capable of filming \u2013 they were pretty far ahead and it took a while for the industry to be able to film with sound the way they filmed without sound towards the end of the silent era.<\/p>\n 1928<\/strong><\/p>\n The Crowd<\/em><\/p>\n This year has some good competition \u2013 Steamboat Bill Jr., The Circus, and Passion of the Joan of Arc \u2013 but for me, King Vidor\u2019s classic wins my top prize for 1928. Now this movie is a very good example of how far camera shots got by the very end of the silent era. Compare how this movie was shot to something from 1933 and it\u2019s astonishing how much they had to start from scratch because it was hard to film with sound. I mean there is a shot in this movie where it at least seems like the camera goes up a building, pauses, and then zooms into that building and then it fades inside that building with a seemingly endless supply of men at their desks. And then from above, it zooms in on our main character. Just incredible.<\/p>\n It\u2019s honestly just a portrait of a relatively normal family. It\u2019s a man trying to live the American Dream and he mostly gets sucked into.. the crowd. It\u2019s a relatively realistic movie with less than subtle acting, but Eleanor Boardman (the wife) really impressed me. And I say less than subtle, but it\u2019s actually not that over the top in comparison with other silent movies, so it was probably actually subtle for the time. From modern eyes, the husband doesn\u2019t treat his wife that well, but I\u2019d also say that\u2019s certainly realistic for the time.<\/p>\n 1930<\/strong><\/p>\n All Quiet on the Western Front<\/em><\/p>\n Another easy one. A movie that certainly couldn\u2019t have been made just five years later when the Hays Code was enacted. Luckily there was a brief period where there was no censorship and a movie could portray war as it really was (though The Big Parade set the groundwork, so it wasn\u2019t the only one). For example, the older teacher essentially guilt tripping the students into going to war, either lying about the glamour of it or maybe he never went to war, had my blood boiling before we even saw a battle scene. And it helps to know it was World War I \u2013 maybe the worst war to serve in ever.<\/p>\n And because it was 1930, there were no special effects and there were really no rules, so you get to see actual explosions. It\u2019s convincing. Pretty depressing anti-war movie. Maybe there aren\u2019t many World War I movies because they did a pretty good job with them between wars.<\/p>\n 1931<\/strong><\/p>\n Frankenstein<\/em><\/p>\n I do like Frankenstein well enough, but I am relatively sure that M, The Smiling Lieutenant, or Monkey Business would be here if I had seen those movies. Just being honest. I wish the Cardinals had made the World Series in 1932 instead, because I absolutely love both Freaks and Trouble in Paradise. Would have had a hell of a time picking between the two.<\/p>\n 1934<\/strong><\/p>\n It Happened One Night<\/em><\/p>\n I do love The Thin Man, however I have to pick the romcom that started all romcoms. This is the template folks. It\u2019s kind of amazing this works at all, because every romcom in existence has inadvertently copied this movie. Man and woman do not like each other, find themselves forced together, opposites attract, I mean you\u2019ve seen a variation of this movie, but rarely done as well as this movie. If you want to see the appeal of Clark Gable, watch this movie.<\/p>\n Critic Mike D\u2019Angelo puts it best: \u201cIt\u2019s every goddamn romantic comedy you\u2019ve ever seen. They can all be traced back here, virtually without exception, for eight straight decades now. Technically, the film has never been remade, but that\u2019s largely because, in spirit, it has never stopped being remade.\u201d<\/p>\n 1942<\/strong><\/p>\n Casablanca<\/em><\/p>\n I hate to be a normie on this one, but if you\u2019ve never seen this movie, you know 10 quotes from this movie without actually knowing they are from this movie. Well maybe you do know. It\u2019s a fun experience hearing a very famous quote\u2026 and then another\u2026 and then another, and it really doesn\u2019t stop. And it is a love story, but it\u2019s also a much, much more engaging plot than you\u2019d expect. It\u2019s ridiculously timely considering it\u2019s about the occupation of France by Nazis in 1942. The churn of movies back then is hard to wrap my head around, there are quite a few anti-Nazi movies made from 1939 to 1945 (my other contender, To Be or Not to Be, is also extremely timely). The first Iraq War movie was, what, The Hurt Locker in 2008?<\/p>\n It\u2019s shocking this was supposed to be a run-of-the-mill movie that was just accidentally great. Endlessly quotable, you don\u2019t really know what you\u2019re rooting for, and some really fun and funny side characters.<\/p>\n 1943<\/strong><\/p>\n The Ox-Bow Incident<\/em><\/p>\n You are probably familiar with 12 Angry Men, and I would argue this is essentially 12 Angry Men, but don\u2019t lynch. Henry Fonda is in both and is the voice of reason in both. And yes, apparently in 1943, it was somewhat necessary to make the point that mob justice is bad and maybe wait to see if they are found guilty in a court of law instead of taking matters into your own hand. They did get away with this because it is a Western movie and I don\u2019t know if they specify when it is set, but usually it\u2019s the late 1800s. I was a little surprised to see this movie was allowed (by the Hays Code) to go where it goes.<\/p>\n 1944<\/strong><\/p>\n Double Indemnity <\/em><\/p>\n This was not the first film noir, but this is probably the definitive film noir. I believe film noir was the genre that got me hooked into older movies. I always seemed to like them. This was adapted from a book by James Cain and written by Raymond Chandler. You really can\u2019t pick two better writers for a film noir. Billy Wilder also co-wrote it and directed the movie, so just fully of heavy hitters. Between the three of them, they are probably responsible for something like 10 classic film noirs. Also Barbara Stanwyck. If you know, you know.<\/p>\n 1946<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s a Wonderful Life<\/em><\/p>\n I kind of hope to stumble into a year where I pick an unusual movie cause\u2026 I mean I\u2019m just picking the obvious right now. But hey classics are sometimes classics for a reason. I feel like most people reading this have seen this and I\u2019m getting a little wordy, so you probably know why it\u2019s here and I don\u2019t need to expound further.<\/p>\n 1964<\/strong><\/p>\n A Fistful of Dollars<\/em><\/p>\n This is a movie begging for a rewatch from me. I haven\u2019t seen it in at least 10 years. So I do feel a bit weird putting this here, just because I wish I had a better memory of it. I also feel weird because I like two Sergio Leone Westerns more than this \u2013 you can probably guess which. But nothing else is all that close to me, so it wasn\u2019t a particularly hard choice.<\/p>\n 1967<\/strong><\/p>\n Wait Until Dark<\/em><\/p>\n I feel like I just watched this at the right time, because I do feel a bit insane picking this over an absolutely stacked year of movies. So I would not be surprised if this pick does not hold up for me later on in my life. But I actually loved this movie in a way I didn\u2019t necessarily love other possible picks. Part of that is that Alfred Hitchcock could have directed this movie. It\u2019s very much like a Hitchcock film. Might be the best Hitchcock film not directed by Hitchcock honestly. And it has the most effective jump scare. I don\u2019t like jump scares, but it is both well utilized and well earned in this one.<\/p>\n You know that Hitchcock saying that if you put a bomb under the table, there\u2019s more tension. That\u2019s most of this movie honestly. You\u2019re rooting for Audrey Hepburn \u2013 very likable in this movie as a blind woman \u2013 to somehow survive against some potentially violent criminals. But here\u2019s the kicker: she doesn\u2019t know they are criminals and in some cases, doesn\u2019t even know they\u2019re in the room. It just itches that part of your brain that sometimes wonders if there\u2019s someone in the house with you.<\/p>\n 1968<\/strong><\/p>\n Once Upon a Time in the West<\/em><\/p>\n I know The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly gets all the love, but this one is my favorite Leone Western. It takes its time, but I\u2019m never bored. You\u2019ll know if this is your type of movie immediately. Barely any dialogue is spoken in the first scene, just setting the stage and the mood. Just three men waiting at a train station who seem up to no good. And then the standoff and one of the most badass lines in cinema: \u201clooks like we\u2019re shy one horse.\u201d \u201cYou brought two too many.\u201d SOLD<\/p>\n And then, Claudia Cardinale, I mean need I say more?<\/p>\n 1982<\/strong><\/p>\n The Thing<\/em><\/p>\n You know what\u2019s funny? I don\u2019t consider myself a horror fan, and yet horror is pretty well-represented here. I don\u2019t specifically like the idea of intentionally trying to get scared. I don\u2019t personally understand that. But I do like tension and thrillers and a well-done story. Also, probably the best practical effects ever seen on film are in this movie. It\u2019s more convincing than it has any right to be.<\/p>\n 1985<\/strong><\/p>\n Back to the Future<\/em><\/p>\n I watched this too many times as a kid for this not to be answer. Are there better movies from 1985? Probably. Do I have a better time with those other movies? Certainly not.<\/p>\n 1987<\/strong><\/p>\n Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye Children)<\/em><\/p>\n This deeply affected me in a way I don\u2019t know that any other movie has. It is a fairly normal, slice-of-life coming of age story for the vast majority of its tenure. How much you appreciate what it might be like to live in a religious boarding school in France may dictate how much you like it. It is written and directed by Louis Malle based on his memories as an 11 or 12-year-old boy. I went into this blind, realized about halfway through why this particular story might be getting told, and let\u2019s just say I was right.<\/p>\n 2006<\/strong><\/p>\n The Host<\/em><\/p>\n Another horror movie, this time from Boon Jo Ho, otherwise known as the guy who made Parasite 13 years later. To be more specific, this is a monster movie inspired by what is known as the McFarland incident, which is when an American civilian employed by the US military in South Korea illegally dumped 24 gallons of formaldehyde into the Han River. He imagined that would create a deadly monster. Little bit of an an environmental message in that one.<\/p>\n But it is highly entertaining and surprisingly funny.<\/p>\n 2011<\/strong><\/p>\n Drive<\/em><\/p>\n I don\u2019t think this was an especially strong year in movies, so this was not a hard pick. I\u2019m halfway convinced this movie only really works because of the soundtrack, because Nicholas Windin Refn has not made anything near this good in the rest of his career. If there\u2019s a one-hit wonder for movies, he qualifies. 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