Visible crew/equipment: On some shots which look back at Ray when he's driving his pickup, it can be clearly seen at the bottom of the picture that the front wheels of the pickup are sitting on a trailer, which is itself being towed by the camera vehicle.
Field of Dreams (1989)
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Directed by: Phil Alden Robinson
Starring: Kevin Costner, Ray Liotta, Burt Lancaster, James Earl Jones, Amy Madigan
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I watched this movie on Netflix.
This movie is good, but I don't get the absolute love people seem to have for it. It's good, but I didn't find it amazing. It was cheesy and sappy as hell. And I kinda wish they explained what was actually going on with that cornfield more.
Good performances, good writing and intrigue... but kinda just good to OK. I sort of feel this movie is overrated.
So a man hears voices when in his corn field to build a baseball field, and after he does the ghosts of old players start appearing there to play baseball. And sends the main guy on a quest to help an author and some other characters. Interesting idea on paper... but I kinda think this one needed more time in the oven to really have that hook.
Again not a bad movie, I liked it plenty fine. I just don't understand why it seems to be so loved.
Mistake Status: No plans to do this one.
More mistakes in Field of Dreams
Shoeless Joe Jackson: Ty Cobb wanted to play, but none of us could stand the son of a bitch when we were alive, so we told him to stick it.
Trivia: During the filming of the cornfield scenes where Ray first hears the voice, the filmmakers had problems with the corn growing. When they initially wanted to film the scenes the corn was too short, so they waited a couple of weeks. When they were ready to shoot, the corn was too tall. Kevin Costner had to walk on wooden planks, so he could be seen in the cornfield (Director Phil Alden Robinson discussed this in the 10th anniversary edition of the film).
Question: At the end of the movie, the Voice is credited as Himself. Who was really responsible for doing the voice that sent Ray on his journey?
Answer: It was actually his own voice (Kevin Costner) that sent him on the journey. At the end of the movie there's even the part where Ray is recalling the voices he heard and turned to Shoeless Joe Jackson and says, "It was you". At which point Joe Jackson turns around and says, "No Ray. It was you".