Paul Thomas Anderson on The Bad News Bears

Paul Thomas Anderson reacts to Michael Ritchie's 1976 classic The Bad News Bears.

Source: Turner Classic Movies
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[kamuelalee]

The 1970's Bad News Bears is so real and so good, one of the best.

[OhanaFilms]

I don't even think of it as a kid's movie. One of my favorite films from the 70s.

[seththomas]

1970 Gen-X. This is our movie about our time.

[ForcesInMotion]

Five Easy Pieces, Nashville, The Last Detail, Paper Moon, Jaws, Annie Hall... Yes. The 70s was the great decade of American movies. And I really think this original Bad News Bears deserves to be listed alongside the other classic films of that decade. This film is absolutely a masterpiece.

[trhansen]

The original Bad News Bears is the best baseball movie ever made.

[bobabooey]

2024 and just showed this to my boys and they loved it

[ChachiTelevision]

The Bad News Bears is hands down one of my all time favorite movies. My dad showed it to my siblings and me when were were very little, we watched the sequels and the very short-lived TV series, and I plan on showing this to my kids when they're old enough to appreciate it (which would be at least age 5).

[cgh]

"Don't jump into the pool Engelberg, you'll flood the Valley" 😆

[RoofDoctorsJoanne]

Bad News Bears was awesome. The casting was excellent. Growing up in the 1970's it really captured the essence of that era.

[YouTube-tied]

I saw this at least a dozen times in the theater and drive in that summer.

[noodleify]

Such a highly underrated movie about kids sports in America, the way parents live vicariously through their kid's experiences. Everything about it feels simultaneously very real and larger than life

[slammajamma]

Fully agree, will watch it anywhere at any time and at any age.

[HankBukowski]

Guess it's time to watch this one again.

I get the urge once every couple years since I've been about 7.

[mikegarrens]

If you grew up in the '70s as a young teenager the bad news bears will always be king! way better than the sandlot.

[ryeguy]

I still remember what appealed to moviegoers at the time and it was “kids swearing like sailors”.😆

[johng]

Easily the best baseball movie, at least for me. It has such a great cast and Vic Morrow played a perfect prick. Talk about leaving us too soon

[mrnobodyz]

Saw it as 14yo at the time (I loved Walter Matthau as an actor), I rewatched it bout 5 years ago and couldn’t help thinking it was one of the most accurate films if you wanted to see what 70’s LA looked like especially the style of clothes, I may be wrong as I’m not from USA. I loved Liquorice Pizza for a similar reason, it looked and felt authentic.☺️I wrote this comment before watching the above review.

[elvisisalive]

as a ball playing kid in the 70's, I loved that film. Our entire team went to the movies to see it

[Jimmietwotimes]

It's funny he says it's like he grew up. I grew up in Nashville in 1975 playing little league and my experience was EXACTLY like this. My uncle and his buddy at the taxi stand were coaches, beer in a cooler in the dugout-it was awesome. #JessNeely

[davidmitchell]

If you're of a certain age the scene with the whole team riding in the convertible is spot on. More so with pick up trucks but still accurate.