Shea's Last Big Budget Film Role

[G-Fafif]

Was watching 2009 remake of "Taking of Pelham 123" earlier, which was terrible EXCEPT for a cameo by a certain big blue stadium in the background of a speeding elevated train. Never mind that it was supposed to be the 6 roaring from 34th St. to Coney Island (which couldn't happen either, come to think of it). It was Shea, alive!

[Frayed Knot]

I saw the quickie Shea-shot too.
So many things in that movie were out of place, passing Shea on a Manhattan to Brooklyn train ride was merely one of them.

[bmfc1]

"Old Dogs", one of the worst reviewed movies of '09, has a Shea scene:

http://blog.nj.com/mets/2009/11/disneys_old_dogs_features_an_o.html

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Have we ever created a list of Shea moments on film?

I happened to have been in attendance while they shot scenes from Small-Time Crooks and Two Weeks Notice. Chop Shop practically starred the big girl.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Bang the Drum Slowly probably gave the yard the most screen time.

Then you have Men in Black.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I don't know if it's ever been an official list we've kept

Bang the Drum Slowly (1973)
Chop Shop (2007)
Men in Black (2007)
Odd Couple, The (1968)
Old Dogs (2009)
Small Time Crooks (2000)
Taking of Pelham 123, The (2009)
Two Weeks Notice (2002)

Feel free to copy and add. Also, if you see fit, include the Mets who appeared. Let's stay away from TV shows and telefilms for now, I think.

[soupcan]

'Kiss Of Death' - the remake, with Nicolas Cage and David Caruso.

Jimmy winds up in prison after doing a fateful favor for Ronnie, whose garage near Shea Stadium doubles as a chop shop for stolen cars.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Can't leave out The Odd Couple, where a Mets triple play is incorporated into the story line.

I was also at Shea for the game when Small Time Crooks was filmed (Dominican Heritage Night against the Cubs) but was unaware of the filming until JCL alerted me so, on this forum last year.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Bang the Drum Slowly (1973) metsguyinmichigan
Chop Shop (2007) John Cougar Lunchbucket
Kiss of Death (1995) soupcan
Men in Black (2007) metsguyinmichigan
Odd Couple, The (1968) Edgy DC
Off Jackson Avenue (2008) Edgy DC
Old Dogs (2009) bfmc1
Rosemary's Baby (1968) Edgy DC
Small Time Crooks (2000) John Cougar Lunchbucket
Taking of Pelham 123, The (2009) G-Fafif
Two Weeks Notice (2002) John Cougar Lunchbucket

[Guest Edgy DC]

A point of order --- in Game Six (2005) and Frequency (2000), Shea appears on television in the film. Count? No count?

[soupcan]

Counts! And in the same vein I believe there may have been a shot of Strawberry playing in a game at Shea on a TV at some point in 'Bad Lieutenant' during the fictional Mets-Dodgers playoff series that was a running them throughout that movie.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

Don't forget "The Wiz." Many have tried.

[batmagadanleadoff]

Rosemary's Baby (1968) Edgy DC

[Guest Kong76]

I liked the 123 movie for what it was ... my first blue-ray disc.
That Shea thing, I stopped three times and told KB that it made
no m f sense along with bunch of other things.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I'll be honest, I was looking for Chop Shop, And I found Rosemary's Baby on a list of films at IMDB tagged with Shea-Stadium-New-York-City. I don't remember it either.

[batmagadanleadoff]

I thought I was going senile: Rosemary's Baby is one of my favorite movies -- I've watched it many times.

[Guest Edgy DC]

I liked the 123 movie for what it was ... my first blue-ray disc.
That Shea thing, I stopped three times and told KB that it made
no m f sense along with bunch of other things.

[ashie62]

Bang the Drum Slowly probably gave the yard the most screen time.

Then you have Men in Black.[/quote:2l3o2gmx]


Bernard Gilkey had a ball drop on hid head in Men in Black

[ashie62]

DVD only the Beatles at Shea Stadium 1965 10 songs

[G-Fafif]

"Pelham," I guess, was Shea's second-to-last studio role, chronologically, with "Old Dogs" released later (and, judging on the "making of" for "Pelham," filmed a bit later). Outside the Big Budget realm, "Last Play at Shea," the Billy Joel concert film/Shea documentary is still in production, reliable sources tell me.

A point of order --- in Game Six (2005) and Frequency (2000), Shea appears on television in the film. Count? No count?

There was a wide shot of modern-day Shea plopped down in the middle of "Game Six," a small movie that deserved to be minuscule.

In the underrated "BASEketball" (1998), an empty Shea is shown as an example of how fans have deserted professional sports.

Despite displaying all kinds of wrong allegiances, Lord Tariq's music video "Deja Vu" (sampling Steely Dan's "Black Cow") filmed at Shea, available for viewing here.

[Guest metsguyinmichigan]

If TV-within-movies is fair game, then you have to include "Fever Pitch" with Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore. Favorite scene: Fallon's on a depression bender, and his buddies barge in to find him in a daze, watching a loop of the Buckner/Mookie moment, mutteirng "Stanley didn't cover first..."

[Benjamin Grimm]

Pardon the interruption, but...

What may be Shea's first comic book appearance was in 1971, in Fantastic Four 133:



The Thing was to fight Thundra at Shea, and the battle started there but quickly moved to the Unisphere.

The artist, Ramona Fradon, who later took over the art chores on the Brenda Starr newspaper strip, didn't spend any time trying to make her depiction of Shea look authentic.

And now, back to our movie discussion...

[Guest Edgy DC]

Maybe another thread. We can add my crappy "Amazin' Mets" comic to that one and the one or two "Spider-Man" books where Shea appears.

But I think it's best to not dump all media in one thread.

[G-Fafif]

At the risk of violating thread sanctity, I was given a pretty sweet Baseball Superstars Comics for my birthday. Cover is somebody drawn to kind of look like Darryl Strawberry. Been given Nolan Ryan, Dwight Gooden and, for reasons known best to my comic-collecting/baseball-oblivious brother-in-law, Los Angeles Dodger editions in the past. They're quite engaging, in their own semi-accurate way.

The Sign Man makes a cameo, even.

[Guest Edgy DC]

Not at all. Violate.

That kind of looks like Darryl crossed with Willie Mays.

[G-Fafif]

Spoiler alert...

The most important lesson of all, as Darryl now knows, is that all the superstar status in the world is only an empty honor -- unless you're also happy.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

Outside the Big Budget realm, "Last Play at Shea," the Billy Joel concert film/Shea documentary is still in production, reliable sources tell me.[/quote:2nml284t]

Weird that they're still chopping this together, while last summer's McCartney shows aired in slickly-produced fashion on ABC on Thanksgiving weekend.

[G-Fafif]

Outside the Big Budget realm, "Last Play at Shea," the Billy Joel concert film/Shea documentary is still in production, reliable sources tell me.[/quote:3ibfy6fo]

Weird that they're still chopping this together, while last summer's McCartney shows aired in slickly-produced fashion on ABC on Thanksgiving weekend.[/quote:3ibfy6fo]

That was slick. But the Joel film is really more a documentary about Shea/Queens-L.I. (Billy's old stomping grounds and the times that birthed him and the ballpark) than strict concert film.

[Guest attgig]

we should do our best to have a complete list and add it to shea's wikipedia entry

[Guest Edgy DC]

That's the sort of legacy work I'm talking about.