I enjoyed this documentary. I will admit, at about 30 minutes in, I was wondering/worried if they were going to avoid talking about McGwire and Sosa's use of steroids. Long story short, they do, but only in the last 15 minutes, which several other reviewers have a problem with. Personally, I thought it was handled well enough and both McGwire and Sosa both discussed it in their interviews for this film. But this film is not about steroids in Baseball. It's about reliving a period in America's Favorite Pasttime - the home run race between two National League players, who couldn't be more opposite (even to this day - McGwire has admitted to using 'roids, while Sosa still denies it) - and during a time when it was needed most, soon after the 1994 strikes. I didn't find this documentary boring at all. It's a fun ride.
4 Reviews
AWESOME DOC!! MUST SEE!
roweshowsports30 August 2021
I loved it. Took me back to the glory days. I am a HUGE Sammy Sosa fan and I enjoyed it. Sad Sammy and Mark have become the face of the steriod era. Hard to say who was, who wasn't. Both should be in the HOF, esp when there was no testing and they weren't illegal until they were.
Long Gone Summer (2020) - 6.7
Bonnell716 August 2020
Warning: Spoilers
Act 1 - 6.4
Act 2 - 6.3
Act 3 - 7.4
Todd McFarlane collection is insane
Hype about breaking Madrid's Hr record
PED's and HR race brought people back to baseball
Fans trained to be excited for fly balls, different way of viewing the game
Maris treated poorly for breaking the record
During the season McGwire admits he was doing PED's, everyone really unsure of how to treat this info, not sure if it was illegal or not
Supplements got big and people just thought they were working out harder
Nobody really seemed to care as it is all entertaining
Griffey fell off the race
Fans respected both
Jack Buck moment was awesome
Mainly focused on McGwire
Moments with the Maris family are really good
62nd record breaker moment was great to see
The Hr race helped save baseball
The fame that came after the season for the two
Talk about steroids and PED's at the end of the film and tainting the game and purity of the records
A lot of people upset that they cheated to get ahead
So much uncertainty about he did and didn't
Players knew that almost everybody didn't and don't want all the blame
McGwire came clean while Sosa didn't, neither in HoF
No regulations then, shouldn't be punished
Baseballs own fault, players that cheat after regulations should be punished
Interesting film that puts things into perspective
Not deep enough
.
Act 2 - 6.3
Act 3 - 7.4
Todd McFarlane collection is insane
Hype about breaking Madrid's Hr record
PED's and HR race brought people back to baseball
Fans trained to be excited for fly balls, different way of viewing the game
Maris treated poorly for breaking the record
During the season McGwire admits he was doing PED's, everyone really unsure of how to treat this info, not sure if it was illegal or not
Supplements got big and people just thought they were working out harder
Nobody really seemed to care as it is all entertaining
Griffey fell off the race
Fans respected both
Jack Buck moment was awesome
Mainly focused on McGwire
Moments with the Maris family are really good
62nd record breaker moment was great to see
The Hr race helped save baseball
The fame that came after the season for the two
Talk about steroids and PED's at the end of the film and tainting the game and purity of the records
A lot of people upset that they cheated to get ahead
So much uncertainty about he did and didn't
Players knew that almost everybody didn't and don't want all the blame
McGwire came clean while Sosa didn't, neither in HoF
No regulations then, shouldn't be punished
Baseballs own fault, players that cheat after regulations should be punished
Interesting film that puts things into perspective
Not deep enough
.
Ignores the main issue. STEROIDS
davidnimmons20 April 2021
How do you do a documentary on this summer and ignore steroids. Honestly a complete waste of time. And what is worse it just puts them up on a pedestal. If everyone was doing them, that is fine. Let's at least talk about it. Don't make a documentary and tall half the story. It was incredibly disappointing.
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