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Despite strictly following this sacred arc or iron law of baseball films I really enjoyed Moneyball. Brad Pitt has decided to age like Robert Redford, that is, rapidly and all at once but its added character to his face and as in The Tree Of Life he turns in a first rate, thoughtful performance here. Jonah Hill is great as the soft spoken geek, Philip Seymour Hoffman is his usual fantastic self, Kerris Dorsey the girl playing Pitt's daughter, is charming and does a nice job with the song over the end credits. Spike Joynze shows up in a funny cameo as Robin Wright's new husband and as a little nod to Bull Durham they even cast Arliss Howard as John Henry at the end.
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Fine acting, a tight script, both Giambi brothers as villains, lots of baseball, what more do you want in a movie?
16 comments:
I liked the book and think Michael Lewis a very worthwhile non-fiction author.
I've not seen the movie, but would expect to be disappointed.
Speedskater
I think thats a good philosophy for life.
Philip Seymour Hoffman is always good. He was good in Spike Lee's The Eleventh Hour, and he and Laura Linney were great as a brother and sister in a movie called Savages. People underestimate Brad Pitt; he was really good in Babel.
Kate
Philip Seymour Hoffman elevates everything he's in, except maybe The Big Lebowski which couldnt really be elevated anymore than it is.
It must suck to be Brad Pitt getting underestimated like that all the time.
I think I'd like this one. Even though I don't really enjoy sports, I like movies about sports. Kind of like how I don't really like wearing jewelry, but for some reason I like watching jewelry television.
I was impressed by that short article that Lewis did on Ireland. He's a good, lucid writer.
Seana
I havent read Moneyball but I might after watching the film. I was under the impression that there would be lots of Yankee bashing but there wasn't.
I just listened to Mark Kermode's review on BBC Radio 5 and he said it liked because there was so little sports actually in it.
It's funny, but I don't mind actually watching sports in movies either. I get the contest and the suspense of it all.
In real life, though, I have some problems with the intensity that comes with fandom.
I saw a trailer, and I thought having Billy Bean's stats-obsessed-sidekick look like such a typical high school nerd did not bode well. On the other hand, Tony La Russa did not like the movie, which does bode well.
Don't give me any of your honkey BS, McKinty!
As a San Francisco Giants fan, I'm supposed to hate the A's, but I don't. Brad Pitt is Just a pretty face, but he isn't. Nor has he been for a long time. Besides, baseball managing has become such an arcane practice, that this movie sounds really interesting. I will see it.
Seana
Fear of intensity may be your Scottish heritage.
Peter
Yeah I read that. He felt that the scouts had be dissed a bit which in the movie they were.
Matt
Moneyball is such a peculiar film that even David Justice gets to play the hero.
Lil
The science only seems arcane but actually its pretty simple. OBP (on base percentage) is king.
Maybe, but I think it has more to do with my aversion to team spirit.
Good movie. It sort of mirrors baseball, as there is not a ton of action. When it comes, it is meaningful, but it's not really what the movie is about. It's about strategy (again - like baseball) and believing in a new and different way of doing things. Brad Pitt's acting was convincing and the story had a not fast but not too sluggish pace. Good flick overall - I thought.
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