Moneyball

mjmcneese

mjmcneese

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No thread on this one yet, eh?!

I'm a baseball fan, so I enjoyed it, of course. Didn't read the book cuz I hate reading.

Nothing really to analyze. Pretty typical Hollywood feel to it. But the one thing that REALLY stuck out to me was how much Brad Pitt looks like Robert Redford. I mean, even some mannerisms.
 
I saw it and thought I'd enjoy it more because the rave reviews said it wasn't about baseball and it was a story about heart...and it was, but to me it just felt superficial. Perhaps its because I'm not a baseball fan, I just couldn't immerse myself in the story and felt there were a lot of intricacies that one had to know (the players that were being traded and their value, etc).

Performances were what I expected - nothing more, nothing less.

Kegan
 
I enjoyed it, but I felt it dragged a bit too long.
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Also did you guys notice how much shifting around there was with the focus? it was like DSLR style, in and out and in and out...
 
I thought this was a pretty good movie. It does take a while to get going, with a lot of quiet, understated scenes that aren't very exciting, but it snuck up on me, and I was pretty involved by the time the big moments came. Good performances all around but I was actually most surprised by Jonah Hill. I thought he gave a sensitive, earnest and truthful portrayal of a personality type that spends most of his time in the shadows, quietly observing. Maybe I know that personality type a little too well. Not a great film, but very, very solid, with a few great moments.
 
I'm surprised that given this community no one mentioned the cinematography - I thought the film looked absolutely gorgeous.
Overall I was impressed by it... I have zero interest in baseball (in fact, I would say I have negative interest in it) and yet I was engaged all the way through.
I thought it was solid, well written, and moved at a good pace.
I would have rather seen it in Soderbergh's hands, but overal I thought it was a great movie.

And yes, Pitt is looking quite a bit like Redford these days... I never noticed it before but now that you mention it, it's uncanny.
 
It was a good-looking film -- about as Pfister as it gets -- and I appreciated all the things done to make it look like convincing, full-blown MLB games. Classic photography technique rather than CGI.
 
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