Brits Discover The Sandlot: A Classic American Tale 🇺🇸🇬🇧 | First Time Reaction
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British Guys hilarious The Sandlot Reaction. This is the first time we've seen this movie and it was a brilliant watch!
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The fourth of July scene is one of the most American things ever.
I miss block parties.
Its one of the best scenes ❤❤
@@touchstoneaf Need to bring back our sense of community
@@TisforTerror makes me sad to think how many kids wont have their own sandlot-esque memories
Ray Charles’ rendition of America the Beautiful is by far the best version of this song ever made
“You’re killin’ me Smalls” such a classic. Glad you liked it! 😊
People say it to me all the time. Because I’m 4’11 and sorta sassy. 😅😂
@@DahliaOlive 😂😂
i have a t-shirt with that on it and i always get comments every time i wear it, heh... classic...
According to my dad life was really like this. All he and his friends did as kids was play ball in a lot.
What a time to be alive! Love this
Yup, grew up hearing these stories from my dad. Every day, wake up and go to the diamond. Lots of adventuring too, in the woods or wherever else, but mostly just wake up, play ball.
It was
I mean, i was born in 97 and that's all we did. Play outside, roam the small town, fishing swimming, hunting etc. You were just outside with your friends growing up. Tough for kids now to have thoe experiences, due to the popularity of online gaming and internet use in general. Sad. I feel like we had a major split in "normal" childhood around 2005 or so, as they are the first generation growing up with this technology in their hands from the day they can remember, and let it dominate and control their lives far more than past generations had to deal with. I sound like some baby boomer but that's just how I feel.
@MiddleAgedPlumber same but I was born in 91. But literally until I was about 15 or 16 and got into playing guitar really heavy, it was nonstop playing sports, fishing, roaming the woods, and whatever else we could get ourselves into. I feel like although it probably Still does happen, us 90s kids were possibly the last generation to do all that without a million screens to steal all our attention
Remember kid, heroes get remembered, but legends never die.
As a 33 year old American who played baseball my whole life, this movie is just so nostalgic for me. Even though my childhood was 30 years after the setting of the movie it was so similar, me and my buddies playing baseball whenever and wherever we could. The Sandlot just gives me so many good memories. One of my favorite movies ever
ik man good times
Me too man. I was 10 when this movie came out. Such a classic
I don't know if anyone else explained this yet, but I saw you looking it up on your phone when Babe Ruth asks if he can keep the Henry Aaron card in Benny's dream. Henry "Hank" Aaron played in the MLB from 1954 to 1976, and he is best known for breaking Babe Ruth's MLB record for Career Home Runs. He hit 755 HRs in his career and held the record until Barry Bonds broke it in 2007.
Bonds record will never be considered legit.
Is that why Babe Ruth wanted his baseball card? 😂
@@Serenity113 That was a Hank Aaron, not Barry Bonds.
Barry Bonds would have been -2 years old in '62, the year the movie was set in. Do your homework before you make yourself look silly.
@@douglascarter2078 that wasn't who i was talking about. I clearly know that the OP was talking about Hank Aaron. I never mentioned Barry Bonds. In the movie Babe Ruth said his name, Hank Aaron and said " i don't know why but can i keep this?" Which is why I asked that question. Given that the timeline in the movie, Hank Aaron was in the MLB and according to the OP broke Babe Ruth's records on home runs. So chill the eff out, on the name calling, fan boy.
When Darth Vader is your neighbor.
and your mom used to bang Indiana Jones 😂
And your mom used to bang Indiana Jones 😂
I'm 68 years old and this movie pretty accurately describes my life as a kid, with the embellishment lenses we would have looked through.
I can remember when every town had a vacant lot or field where all of the kids played baseball.
Even as an adult coaching baseball when I drafted a team I went to the sandlot and picked the kids I saw out there playing. They were always the best players in town because they were out there playing all day while other kids were playing video games in their bedrooms.
This is awesome, love this! Thank you for the comment 🙏
I count my blessings for being just old enough for sandlot ball to still be a thing when I was a kid. Nothing better than all the neighborhood kids just hopping on their bikes, meeting at the park and playing ball until dark with no adults around. When I turned 13 or 14 the bureaucrats took over and you couldn’t play at a city diamond “without a permit” 😑
You always knew where your friends were because the bikes would be laying in the front yard 😂
I grew up in the 60s and this was part of my childhood, wouldn't trade it for any other time!
I didn’t grow up in this time but my parents did. And they can confirm that this was a pretty accurate depiction of life as school age kids. No social media, you were brought up how you were brought up. That it.
Ahhh the movie that defined so many of our childhoods!👏🏼👏🏼
I love that you guys know enough about baseball now that it makes sense to you who Babe Ruth is and why Smalls swiping that ball is such a big deal. It's basically like if a kid was playing with his dad's ball that was signed by Pele.
Me too! It definitely adds to the movie knowing how valuable that ball is!
Pele? Oh soccer? In America we have real sports….how people watch soccer anymore is crazy. The US is apparently hosting the World Cup in a few years, not sure what year because 80% of us could care less. They brought Messi to whatever Miami soccer team, nobody cares. We have 4 traditional sports, professional and collegiate, but soccer isn’t one. Rugby is closer to being a “US give a shit” sport than soccer.
@@rlciii6182 Most people actually do care. Football in the US is getting more traction than NHL. More people in the US have been following European Football for quite awhile now. 2014 World Cup has seen dramatic increase in interest.
I'm sorry to tell you but Football is still the most popular sport in the world, where the UCL Final has 450 million viewers and the NFL's Superbowl had 130 million viewers. Sorry to tell you, but no US sports is bigger than Football. Heck, even cricket is more popular than your 4 major US sports. Oh, and just because you don't care, doesn't mean people in your country is not going to attend and watch football games, and the World Cup. Cheers.
@@rlciii6182what an all-time bad comment lmao
This is a horrendous take from start to finish 😂
Aww, I'm glad y'all watched this! I was 13 when this came out and despite it being set in the 60's, most things translated to my youth in the 80s.
Its a very nice nostalgia film. Even if you didn't play baseball growing up(we played football instead) its very relatable to a few generations of kids. Just hanging out with your buddies rounding them up before cell phones was a thing. Just messing around neighborhood trying to make your own fun. The pool thing is a very real thing in summer with everyone going there.
5:24 The streets in America often don't count by ones. You usually have odds on one side and evens on the other. The numbers often jump forward to the next 100s place when you pass a crossroad into another block. You can also have houses right next to each other jumping 4, 6, 8 or 10 places. If you're on a rural road with lots of space in between they may jump up by a lot. I think it's in case they ever want to subdivide the lots they can assign numbers in between without reindexing or using decimals.
To be more specific, the first two numbers are probably the street number. Not that it's necessarily named 15th street, but it would be 15th street. The 56 means it's 56 yards from the top of the street.
The addresses work differently in America, 1556 doesn't mean that there's that many houses on the street, the farther away you get from the middle of a town, the higher the numbers go up, so that would be a mile and a half from the center of town since the address is 1556
That’s really interesting! I didn’t know that, thank you 🙏🏼
@@DNReactsLost in the Pond aka Lawrence Brown did a good video about this.
Yeah it’d be on 15th st or 15th Ave I’m having a brain fart rn but one goes north south the others go east west. Mainly for metro areas at least where I’m from. Makes it super easy to get around until they start throwing names on roads lol
Yeah, in Salt Lake it's all dependent on how far you are from Temple Square, which is where this was filmed. The house is on the eastside @ 1556 South. Which is 15 and a half blocks south, and it's 2000 East, so 20 blocks east of Temple Square.
The house next door is 2001, because it's on a road that goes from north-south and turns into going east-west and it's 2001 East. That might confuse some people.
We lived a few blocks from the city ballfields when I was a kid. We practically lived there. If not, we turned our corner lot into a baseball field. It was life for us at the time. My heart still jumps when I hear the crack of a bat.
the scene when the kids beat the other kids with uniforms reminds me of back to playing soccer and we were playing a local Engineering college soccer team. we had no uniforms either & the rich kids seemed confident til our striker yelled to them just before kickoff... "you all might have better jobs than us 1 day, but we're going to kick your asses today!
Heroes get remembered, but legends never die 👊
Best line ever in a movie,(You're killing me Smalls).
Amazing!
Another forgotten movie: Mr. Baseball. Tom Selleck plays baseball in Japan.
Appreciate the suggestion, thank you 🙏
@@DNReacts Major League is a great comedy/realistic baseball movie. Charlie Sheen WILD THING!
Oh yeah, they have to watch that one, keep the baseball vibes going into summer@@user-wr9ej6xe4j
I'm your age and this is the most nostalgic movie of my childhood. Classic classic classic. 😊
Sandlot is one of those movies where when you learn more about baseball, the better everything gets.
In Benny's dream with Babe Ruth, Ruth takes with him a Henry "Hank" Aaron rookie card.
Hank Aaron would eventually break Babe Ruth's all time homerun record.
definitely epitomizes american childhood, also darth vader saving the day at the end 😂
We rode bikes, play jump rope, and play marbles, hopscotch and baseball when I was a little girl. and we had so much fun with our friends, I still once in a while think about those days now!
I do too! Miss those care free days!
Pogs?
This is a great film, classic even. Field of Dreams is the quintessential film for baseball and only the coldest of hearts escape without shedding a tear. Would be great to see a reaction if that response is because of the relationship between young boys and their fathers in America regarding the game of baseball or if that response transcends sport and is something everyone can relate to without an upbringing in the sport.
We’ve watched field of dreams on our Patreon. Really really enjoyed it!
@@DNReacts Awesome, going to have to check that out!
My favorite movie to this day. Reminds me of when I was young and we used to be outside all day playing baseball or football. Riding our bikes around and getting into trouble. I was 10 when this movie came out as well.
This is my all time favorite sports movie cuz it has little to do with the professional aspect of baseball, it’s just a bunch of kids going down to the sandlot to play ball like I used to do as a kid
Benny's plan was to become immortal. A legend that never dies.
You're killing me, smalls. That's what I remember from this movie.
Love that 😂😅
This movie is such a classic. I never get tired of it.
One of my favourite watches. Appreciate the comment, thank you 🙏
My favorite movie to reminisce. My first home we purchased after getting married was near the scrappy baseball field. I also played little league baseball (WBBA) at the baseball field where they played the snotty kids. My wife lived near, and went to, the malt shop (Vincent Drug) when she was a kid.
A bit off topic but what other athlete has sustained such fame and is held in such high regard still like Babe Ruth? Over 100 years.
Kobe
RE: paper routes. I had one as a kid, and I did throw papers, and got pretty good at it. But... it's not a thing anymore. Adults do it now, and it's laid on the porch.
This was filmed near my home when I was a kid. The actors come back once a year for a Sandlot night at our triple A team field in Salt Lake City. Its a fun time
Knock on the door and ask for the ball?!?
Blasphemy!
so glad yall watched this classic, every kid i grew up with and myself remembers this as an all timer that never gets old
This film is so good. We all still quote from it.
It was such a fun watch!
That dog the beast scared me as a kid during the upclose of the owner putting him in his dog house in its backstory.
I totally believe that the sandlot kids would beat the rich kids with the uniforms. If you were to pick a team of kids to play football (soccer), would you pick the American kids with their youth soccer league uniforms or the South American kids playing with an old ball in an abandoned field?
When I was about 8 or 9 years old there was a summer where every day I would wake up with a bowl of frosted flakes and watch the Sandlot. Sometimes I would watch it twice and then I would go outside and play all day until the streetlights came on. This is a very American movie and makes me proud to be one.
The Boy who played Scott Smalls', little league coach, didn't like the part of the boy playing like he didn't know how to catch and throw. But I wonder how many takes it took for Tom Guiry to make it seem like he never played baseball before.
Here proof For an 11-year-old, you really couldn't ask for a better movie to be in. It was like summer camp." Incidentally, the coach on set taught Guiry how not to play ball, because in reality he was far more athletic than Smalls. "They coached me a lot on how to look like I didn't know how to throw," he said."I know my Little League coach was pretty upset when he saw the movie."
That’s crazy, thanks for the info
one of the most quoted movies in movie history.
My dad grew up in Juarez when the roads were still dirt. His stories were always fun to listen to. Just a pack of kids running around rampant playing games.
The thing I taught my daughter (and a couple of her friends) is that throwing isn't that hard - just step and point the other foot (the one opposite the throwing hand) where you want the ball to go. Boom, get a few practice reps in, you're a natural. As with pretty much any sport, it starts with the legs. Get that, the rest will follow.
I'm 77, and yes, it really was like that.
That’s awesome, what a time 💪
You guys should watch Hoosiers. It is a movie about a basketball team in the 50s. Great movie.
Appreciate this suggestion too, thanks
Hoosiers is a fantastic movie! I believe it was directed by the same director who did Rudy.
It (and also Rudy) are truly good sports movies.
Oh. The Longest Yard. The original Burt Reynolds version not the icky Adam Sandler remake.
Nice, this is definitely a classic for most kids around here, and that love tends to stick around as you grow up despite being a kid's movie. I'm not sure how it'd hit seeing it for the first time as an adult and without as much nostalgia, but I'm glad ya'll enjoyed it!
One of my all time favorite childhood movies ❤❤
So nostalgic. This really was how kids were back in the burbs in the day. I miss the 80's.
We used to play ball in a field. Home plate was an electrical cover, and 1st, 2nd & 3rd were whatever we brought with us or could find. We never had a full team, and the age range was diverse. It was more like batting practice than anything, but we had fun. After, we would go swimming or look at Playboys in the tree fort. On weekends we'd have sleepovers and play video games until late. I guess life was kinda like the Sandlot now that I think about it...
One of my all time FAVORITE MOVIES ever created. Nice Post.
Love this, was such a great watch! Such a fun loving movie. Thank you for the comment 🙏
My dad and I would always watch sand lot on opening day of The MLB season.
I'm sure you know by now but when they showed babe ruth in the kids room, the card he picked up and said "henry Aaron, idk why but can i take this kid?". Hank Aaron was the one to go on to break Ruth's homerun record. It was later broken again by bonds but since he cheated, Aaron will always be the true record holder. He's a Braves legend and was a legendary human being as well.
Back in the day our imaginations were way beyond reality, it was scary, it was fun, it was us.
One of my favorites. The pool that was used in this film is in my hometown. Looks a little different but it is definitely recognizable.
That’s awesome it’s your hometown! Appreciate the comment! 🙏
Since you guys love sports, if you haven't, need to check out the baseball movie "Field of Dreams" or "Bull Durham"
Field of dreams is on our Patreon! Loved it!
I'm 37 now and this movie was my childhood. It holds a special place in my heart since I was 7 or 8 when I first saw it. Definitely watch what you want to watch, but there is another movie called, "A League of Their Own." Has Tom Hanks and is a fictional story based on a real all women's baseball league that occurred from 1943 to 1954. Enjoyed the reaction and sending good vibes from the US.
Growing up in the 70s my friends and I did find a local park that we played baseball in all summer pretty much like that, group of the same kids everyone took turns batting. Most remembered by me because on two occasions my older brothers got involved. One hit the ball so hard it went the full length of the park, across the road and hit the fence which freaked us all out and we ran away.
The second major memory was me pitching against my other older brother and hit the ball and it went straight at my head knocking me unconscious. I woke up in his arms about a block away from home.
In the winter we would play road hockey in a back alley, we always had a problem where the tennis ball we used would go under the neighbour's fence. None of us knew them so we were always trying to be sneaky to get it back before getting caught... at the same time our "sneaky" was then jumping on their adult bench swing and rocking back and forth almost every time. I legitimately wonder if they knew all along but just let us get away with it.
For me this movie hits all those points so well.
So this movie always kind of fit.
Bad News Bears is another good baseball movie.
Appreciate the suggestion, thank you 🙏
@@DNReactsMake sure it is the original Bad News Bears from the 70's though
With Walter Matthau and Jodie Foster. Little kids cussing is always funny.
FINALLY a good suggestion. Elsewhere people are suggesting "Mr Baseball". Ugh. But yes, make sure its the ORIGINAL not the crappy remake.
@@JeffTaylor-tr7my Tanner Boyle is such a great character in the movie
This was one of my favorite movies when I was a kid. back in the 90's all my favorite movies were about baseball. and there were no shortage of them to choose from. I loved "Angels in the Outfield" and "Rookie Of the Year". Ahhh being a kid watching other kids play baseball...those were the days
This movie is exactly how me and my friends were in the 90s... at the park from sun up to sun down playing sports.
I grew up in 70's and it was like this then. Hang out at ballfield all day.
This was filmed in my home state. There’s an anniversary thing they do each year about it.
I'll love this movie for-ev-errrr, for-ev-errrr, for-ev-errrr.
Love this movie. The house that Smalls lived in is about 5 minutes from my home here in Salt Lake City. It's a different color now but you can tell it's the same place. I take all my friends that love the movie and baseball by it and all the other locations that were filmed here.
My childhood with everyone meeting at the field and just playing ALL DAY!
This was genuinely one of my favorite movies when growing up. The juxtaposition of how kids create monsters and urban legends and an actual future legend forming in Benny, with all the random childhood things in between, is so perfect. This movie perfectly captures the lazy summer days I'd spend riding around the neighborhood with my friends. And, fun fact, the guy who plays older Benny in the baseball game in the end is actually the older brother of Mike Vitar, the kid who played young Benny.
Y'all are reacting to the perfect stuff. Keep up the great work
Thank you so much!
This was definitely a pretty legit scenario for my father and I as kids, playing outside with friends and playing baseball was a good time😂
This movie shaped my entire childhood ❤
Amazing movie!
This so much reminds me of my youth in the late 50's and 60's. No internet, very little TV, and the best times with the best friends imaginable. Summer days were spent outside on our bikes or playing baseball in any sandlot or empty field we could find. One of my all-time favorite movies, especially when I saw it for the first time with my sons and was able to relate to them what growing up in my era was like. They both played Little League baseball and I coached for 5 years. Best times ever are times spent on a baseball field, regardless of age! “At some point in your childhood, you and your friends went outside to play together for the last time and nobody knew it. ”“At some point in your childhood, you and your friends went outside to play together for the last time and nobody knew it”
My 3 brothers were always playing baseball with the neighborhood boys. My Dad would teach my brothers a lot as he played semi pro ball way back in the early 1900’s. I tried but was terrible at it. I grew up in the 1950’s.
That pool scene is funny every single time. Atta boy Squints!!!
Best baseball movie ever
I grow up in the 60s and this movie reminded me of the things me and my friends did. Baseball wherever we could play, the local school or in the street. Also going to the local high schools in the summer to swim for 10 cents! Making forts in fields and just doing whatever we could think of. Those were the days!
Need more of these, you guys are the absolute best reactors on CZcams!
I highly recommend Remember the Titans with Denzel Washington, great football movie
Thank you so much! Really nice of you to say! We’ve seen Remember the Titans!! It’s on our Patreon, such a great movie!
patreon probably already told you guys but you have to try smores there was nothing like eating a smore while camping as a kid even as an adult it still hits pretty hard
One of my favorite movies of all time, let along sports movies.
I watch this movie every 4th of July. It’s so nostalgic for me, I’m 32 now and I grew up watching it all the time. I had a huge crush on Squintz as a kid. His scene with Wendy in the pool was always my favorite 😂 And I’ve always wanted P.F. Flyers like Benny The Jet Rodriguez had. To this day people in America say “You’re killin’ me Smalls” and everyone knows exactly what they’re referencing. It’s truly a timeless film. FOREVER, FOREVER! lol
Younger Benny and older Benny were played by real-life brothers, Mike and Pablo Vitar.
Love that, a nice touch!
Baseball, football, basketball, kickball, warball, and occasionally you’d end up at the riverbank swimming. This was set in the 60’s but in the 70’s and 80’s a game was being played somewhere. A pop and a snickers…simple times were the best times.
Oh, to watch the Sandlot for the first time again 🥹😅
The second Sandlot movie is my personal favorite. It's essentially a remake with new characters made for the newer generation.
One of my favorites and I love major league too. The 80s kids movies are my favorite types. I'm 32 and grew up in the country so I didn't get to run around town like this with my friends.
Thank you, is a great movie. We just watched Major League on our Patreon too and that was awesome. We have uncut and cut reactions on there. Thank you for the comment! 🙏
Can’t remember the first time I seen this, pretty sure it was either VHS or at the drive-in… This is the closest thing to all a Time Machine to my childhood
Lol I love mallow scene such a classic movie
Forever forever forever and you’re killing smalls 😂 classic quotes and the pool scene just such a perfect movie
Literally one of the best movies, I've watched it so many times especially every time the anniversary comes around.
You're killing me smalls being a slightly improved line is amazing... Also guys it's the only sandlot that matters every other sandlot movie that came afterwards was garbage lol but it was just the way they directed it and wrote this movie it was such a hit soon after it came out.. also a fun fact majority of these kids never really played baseball in the real life or understood the game lol besides Benny he was an All-Star / high School baseball player he was really good the pitcher knew a little bit and can't forget about him he was playing baseball in leagues before the filming of this movie but the rest of the other guys I guess they weren't familiar with baseball or very athletic
I watched this so much as a kid
I love that the story is told through a child's imagination.
My god… not in,y is this movie extremely nostalgic for him just based on watching it a lot as a kid. The contents of the movie is extremely nostalgic to me, me and my 2:older brothers and a group of other neighbors kids were all friends and would play sports all the time throughout the summer. A church in out neighborhood had a baseball field/diamond we’d play at all the time
This was so awesome watching yall enjoy a movie that's in my top 5 all time movies
Okay today is the day I fully support and finally click subscribe. Love the both of you and this movie
When Benny got out the new PF Flyers shoes. The marketing campaign back then was literally "makes you run faster, jump higher"
Also, When the ghost of Babe Ruth asks to keep the Henry Aaron card, Hank Aaron was the guy who would eventually break Ruth's career home run record, thought to be unbreakable.
I would watch this all the time with cousins. Reminds you of the simple times. Great reaction!
This is a perfect movie
"You play ball like a girl!" - The Great Hambino
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I’m glad you enjoyed one of my childhood faves! 🍻
I auditioned for the role of "yeah yeah" when I was like 9. They said my east Texas accent was too strong for a kid in California. They ended up picking a kid that had a strong New York accent instead. Oh well lol.... My kids love to tell their friends about it.
In the mid-70s from the age of 10 to 15 or so, summers were mostly about playing baseball with the neighborhood kids. We had a ball field in the neighborhood and because we only had a out 9 or 10 kids total, we played four per side with right field out. Going to the community pool was a welcome treat, or riding bicycles to the nearest penny candy store. And we scraped up enough money, we also made one or two bike rides to a mobile home on the ridge where the folks sold illegal fireworks. This movie takes me back and I chuckle every time I watch it
I have a comedic dramas and an action comedy to recommend from the late 1980's.
Tin Men starring Richard Dreyfuss and Danny De Vito as competing aluminum siding salesmen in 1960's Baltimore. A simple car accident ignites their rivalry. Directed by Barry Levinson (Diner).
Midnight Run starring Robert DeNiro and Charles Grodin. Deniro is a former cop turned bounty hunter transporting mod accountant Charles Grodin from. NYC to LA while evading the FBI, his old mob boss, and a rival bounty hunter. Directed by Martin Brest (Beverly Hills Cop).