i haven’t seen liar liar!! i think freaky friday definitely counts. feels like this category is maybe distinct from but overlapping with magical realism?
wait that’s amazing lol. i love those random movies kids get stuck on. my little brother had a phase where he was obsessed with while you were sleeping
every sports fan has wished they could either magically fix their team or magically play in the league themselves. it comes out of desire and longing imo
LMAO this is so true. i’m realizing the genres of this movie seem to be “fantasy of love” “fantasy of sports victory” “kids wanting to be grown up” “adults wanting to be young” lol
This is interesting because I had privately come to the conclusion that sports movies are secretly arts movies (we need to put on a show/we need to field a team/we have to show that this scrappy dancer/hockey team can do it etc.). However I can't think of an arts movie that embraces magic like this.
20yo is a Classical Studies major and wants to make a case for the Odyssey and Iliad (apparently a movie of the former came out but didn't include the gods?)
SOMEWHERE IN TIME. i was obsessed w that movie in high school when i watched it for the first time while stuck at home with a three week long bout of influenza lol
i have a few days of housesitting next week and maybe it’s time to queue it up! i thought of it recently bc some friends of mine went to mackinac island
field of dreams (and maybe the golfing movie?? legend of bagger vance?? i haven’t seen it, just googled) is supporting the theory @goodkid-saadcity.bsky.social pointed me to that this trope is very active in sports films
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“how can you not be romantic about baseball?”
Me: Why not?
[20yo talks herself into it counting.]
That silly Will Smith golfing movie?
Somewhere in Time?
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh might fit here thought that’s more about astrology than magic I guess haha
rookie of the year, too (premised on an unexplained miracle, although not attributed to magic in the movie)