http://smiley.vox.com/library/posts/tags/the+sandlot/page/1/ Sad Songs on a Broken Ukelele en Vox Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:34:42 +0900 Copyright 2007 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss the sandlot http://smiley.vox.com/library/post/the-sandlot.html?_c=feed-rss-full nobody@vox.com(Smiley) http://smiley.vox.com/library/post/the-sandlot.html?_c=feed-rss-full http://smiley.vox.com/library/post/the-sandlot.html?_c=feed-rss-full Sun, 21 Oct 2007 11:34:42 +0900 <div at:enclosure="asset" at:xid="6a00c2251e70a18e1d00e398b50a190005" at:format="medium" at:align="left" class="enclosure enclosure-left enclosure-medium video-enclosure" style="text-align: center; float: left;"> <div class="enclosure-inner" style="padding: 9px; border: 1px solid; width: px; margin: 0 20px 20px 0;" > <div class="enclosure-list"> <div class="enclosure-item video-asset last"> <div class="enclosure-image"> <a href="http://smiley.vox.com/library/video/6a00c2251e70a18e1d00e398b50a190005.html"><img src="http://a1.vox.com/6a00c2251e70a18e1d00e398b50a190005-200pi" alt="The Sandlot" title="The Sandlot" /></a> </div> <div class="enclosure-meta"> <div class="enclosure-asset-name"><a href="http://smiley.vox.com/library/video/6a00c2251e70a18e1d00e398b50a190005.html" title="The Sandlot">The Sandlot</a></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div><!-- end enclosure --> <div>Back in college my roommates and I performed the most exacting sort of scientific experiment to determine the greatest guys&#39; movie of all time.&#160; We sat down in a closed room with several young men and women and watched a selection of several films.&#160; Among them, Top Gun, Unforgiven, Tombstone, and the Sandlot.<br /><br />Reactions were varied, of course, but when we compiled our data we learned one thing:&#160; Men love this movie, women think it&#39;s cute.&#160; Men think this movie represents everything that was best about childhood, friendship, overcoming adversity, the triumph of imagination, and baseball.&#160; Women think it&#39;s about a bunch of boys playing baseball.<br /><br />Conclusion?&#160; The Sandlot is the greatest guys&#39; movie of all time.<br /><br />And it&#39;s finally on DVD.<br /><br />My sister, who understands me, even if she doesn&#39;t always get me, sent me a copy for my birthday.&#160; My wife, who gets me, even if she doesn&#39;t always understand me, sat down with me last night to watch the movie.<br /><br />She thought it was cute; it was a nice movie about little boys and baseball.&#160; I laughed until I couldn&#39;t breathe, and then I laughed some more, thinking about the movie, and about where I grew up and about my friends, back then and now, and the things we bond over and the idiot things we do in the name of adventure.<br /></div> <p style="clear:both;"> <a href="http://smiley.vox.com/library/post/the-sandlot.html?_c=feed-rss-full#comments">Read and post comments</a> | <a href="http://www.vox.com/share/6a00c2251e70a18e1d00e398b50a750005?_c=feed-rss-full">Send to a friend</a> </p> fun cool review dvd movies the sandlot funstuff coolstuff mini-review