Re: What Did You Watch? 2025-07-13 (Sunday)

Major League (4K disc) - 1989 comedy starring Charlie Sheen as a washed
up professional baseball player who is on a team where the owner is
doing everything she can to make sure they lose.  This was almost a
blind buy, but technically, I know I saw it once before on TV when it
first came out.  Watching it again after all of these years, I
remembered more than I was expecting.  It was OK.  I had the commentary
track on closed captions.  The director had some interesting bits of
trivia like in the original ending it was revealed that the owner was
secretly trying to motivate the team to win, but test audiences hated
that and wanted her to just be evil for evil's sake.  The director
almost mentioned this was one of Wesley Snipe's first movie roles and
while he was a good athlete he couldn't run very fast.  The reason the
scene early in the movie where Snipe's character is running faster than
everyone else is in slow motion is because it was the only way to make
it realistically look like Snipes was faster.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH3I-IE0Xhw