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If you're a baseball fan go see this movie right fucking now /10
Saw it last weekend. it's not as bad as Klaw made it seem but I agree with a lot of his concerns. I still enjoyed it but it's hard to tell if being a baseball fan and having read the book helped or hurt my experience. My girlfriend doesn't like baseball but she liked it a lot, and lot of people in the audience who I did not take to be baseball fans were eating it right up.
Baseball-wise, they nail a lot of the minor details and miss a lot of major details. Movie-wise, it's kind of a weird watch because there's really no dramatic tension; yet Pitt and Hill are hilarious together and it is slickly produced throughout. It has the sheen of a good movie, even if it's just an okay movie.
Saw it last weekend. it's not as bad as Klaw made it seem but I agree with a lot of his concerns. I still enjoyed it but it's hard to tell if being a baseball fan and having read the book helped or hurt my experience. My girlfriend doesn't like baseball but she liked it a lot, and lot of people in the audience who I did not take to be baseball fans were eating it right up.
Baseball-wise, they nail a lot of the minor details and miss a lot of major details. Movie-wise, it's kind of a weird watch because there's really no dramatic tension; yet Pitt and Hill are hilarious together and it is slickly produced throughout. It has the sheen of a good movie, even if it's just an okay movie.
You nailed it.
I loved the attention to minor detail (people like Terrence Long and Barry Zito having no role but meandering about the lockerroom), but hated that they pretended Jeremy Giambi was a new acquisition, and hated that Hill played a fictional composite of several people. But 99% of the audience wouldn't notice or care about any of that.
The movie had no dramatic peaks for anyone who follows baseball, but I would imagine the 99% of everyone else found some drama in whether the team would ultimately win the World Series, or if Beane would take the Red Sox job.
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