The baseball movie that I had a little bit difficulty watching was the Babe with John Goodman. I don't think he did the old Sultan justice, and the movie seemed to me a collection of anecdotes and caricatures loosely strung together.
Very true. It was too much of a caricature to be believable. The same is true of "Pride of the Yankees" (which was a good movie despite its historical inaccuracies). The Babe Ruth movie with William Bendix was laughable as well.
"Cobb" is gritty. It doesn't paint Ty as a god (it rather sheds light on what a true bastard he was) but it DOES point out a side of him that may surprise you.
There's one scene in it thats almost hysterical (when Cobb disrupts a Vegas type show and gets onstage in a drunken moment). Sadly, a lot of his later years were spent in that mode.
