A comedy on the field The Brewers will have an addition to their lineup in July - Bernie Mac. The comedian and actor will wear Brewers blue for the feature film "Mr. 3,000," which starts filming at Miller Park and other Milwaukee locations in July. Mac will play a fictitious Brewers player who retires with 3,000 career hits, only to return to baseball a few years later when a statistical error reveals he is three hits short of the milestone. The film's production crew has told team officials it hopes to film live baseball and crowd scenes on July 23 and 24, when the Brewers play the Astros. Do you guys think the Astros even try to go after oppurtunities like these? I know that usually teams that suck end up in the movies, but the publicity couldn't hurt. Maybe the team will make into the movie though. I like sports comedies though, so I hope this will be a good one.
Oski-As much as you make me want to pound your face with a brick with most of your repetitive & frustrating rhetoric it would be unfair for me not to admit that I love a lot of the threads on which you start and/or comment. This is one of those threads. WE tend to agree on most things sports and entertainment. Now get back in a political thread so I can go back to wanting to beat you down.
Wow, I don't know what to say, I'm touched. . . wait, "repetitive & frustrating rhetoric?" Hey, screw you pal, even if I had some cash to spare, I still wouldn't buy a Pulltab CD. You can take that brick and stick it up your[?B]. . . and I think you have good taste in entertainment and sports too, I mean, Astros and a Rockets fan, you can't go wrong with people like that. When is a subliminal message too obvious? Hey, I wonder if Bob Ueker is gonna be in this one?
If they are filming "live baseball," then it seems likely. Incidentally, I guess you never heard of Murder at the World Series! http://us.imdb.com/Title?0076424 I don't remember much about it (wish the Astros would offer it on Video or DVD) except that it was terrible - even for a "made for TV" movie. I have heard that there was a fair bit of Astros / Astrodome footage. The other thing is that a couple of local media types (primarily a very young Bob Allen) got a chance to show off their "acting chops" I always thought it was kind of cool the Toros show up at the very end of "Bull Durham."
Man, this movie just reminded me of another one I saw late on tv once with a strikingly similar plot. It's called Night Game and Roy Schieder was in it. http://us.imdb.com/Title?0097971 It was filmed entirely in Houston and on Galveston Island. I think the only reason I liked this movie was because the Astros and the city were a big part of it.
"The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training" aka "LET - THEM - PLAY!" http://us.imdb.com/Title?0075718 ...and it also features Bob Allen From this, I think we have learned: (1) Fewer movies centered around the Astros is okay. (2) If you do decide to do a baseball project, make sure it isn't a Drama / Thriller / Mystery type and (3) Keep KTRK's sports director as far away from your film as humanly possible.
Either way... "Bad New's Bears.. Breaking Training" STILL has the best footage of that spectacular scoreboard in the Astrodome! A MUST SEE movie for those who were too young to see it before b*stard Adams tore it down.
