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The opening to BASEketball (1998) is oddly prophetic.
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god damn it! I swear you guys rip on me 13 or 14 more times, im outta here!
One of the landmark phrases ever uttered in cinema:
“…prisons, mental institutions, and Texas.”
Hey OP, I heard your Mom’s going out with Squeak!
1:36-1:51 has been in the back of my brain for years! Thank you for finally reminding me what it was from!
I think about this opening probably once a week. For the last 25 years.
No its not like HORSE
How is this prophetic? There are no intersports* leagues and professional sports are more popular than they’ve ever been (except for baseball)
*Your mothers deaf.*
After the death of Adam Johnson the idea of a decapitated head rolling into a hockey net does seem prophetic.
Just watched it again a couple months ago. Holds up really well and is hilarious throughout the whole movie.
This weekend I learned the Raiders now play in Las Vegas.
“The oilers moved to Tennessee where there is no oil”
As a former oilers fan, that hurt in particular.
Still one of the greatest movies ever made.
How to speak San Franciscan –
Bagina.
I really try to be okay with the new way of baseball…. Celebrating home runs with gimmicks… Flipping bats… Delaying running around the bases with celebrations… But I’m not.
*back in my day a bat flip would clear the benches*… shakes fist.
… roadkill caught on tape!
Dude you couldn’t get a chick if you had a hundred dollar bill hanging out of your zipper.
All of this stuff was happening when the movie was made. It was not prophetic, it was commentary on current events.
If satire from the past seems like an exaggerated version of today, it really just means these things have been happening longer than you think.
The lakers moved to LA, where there are no lakes and the jazz moved to Utah, where they don’t allow music.
Is it prophetic when it’s commentary on the current times?
Prophetic my ass. That was already happening.
That’s not prophetic? It’s literally what happened even back then…
This isn’t prophetic at all. The only thing you could argue has happened is selling the naming rights to stadiums but that was happening before this movie came out.
Raiders moved again to Las Vegas. LOL
Even the ice skater who got decapitated…
No. No it isn’t prophetic. It’s satire. That’s the fucking point. An exaggeration of trends that were already there. Some of those trends have gone away. Some have become endemic. It’s not prophetic. It’s a fucking movie. Stop enshrining your humor in some sort of virtue.
Are you a bot, a child or just stupid? This isnt prophetic, it’s just what has always been happening. This isnt a movie from 1898 its 1998.
Teams that move cities should be required to rename themselves.
You know Remer, someday I’m gonna be a big sports star.
STEEEEEEEEVE PERRY!
Your title makes zero sense. I love Baseketball though.
Lol wow I never even heard of this movie
Remember, those warts on your dick aren’t gonna go away until you start using topical cream every day
Being completely honest here OP, which exact part of that was prophetic of something that had NOT yet happened when Baseketball came out?
The naming of arenas was already a long standing institution, money was already huge. Are you missing the point that half of this intro is merely stating what had already happened in the past before adding 1 or 2 humorous satiric possibilities?
Wake up bitch you’re my new best friend
Of course we graduated… ^(Cock) beer?
They were making zero predictions. They were lampooning the status quo of the day. Nothing has changed.
Trey and Parker can write a hook
I swear I saw NFL players do the river dance last year.
> “Continued expansion diluted the talent pool, forcing owners to recruit heavily from prisons, mental institutuions, and Texas.”
It is one of the most disappointing thing now how few stadiums have their own name instead of just a corporation.