Money Ball the movie

I can't imagine dragging my wife to see this.

Law is right that it's boring as shit to watch anybody talk on the phone.

 

It's going to be an underdog character story. She'll like it. I'm not dragging her anywhere.

 

re: Hoffman....

Can't believe no one brought up him as Brant in The Big Lebowski.

 

The last "hit" baseball movie was likely "Bull Durham."

And PSH - arguably the best actor of my generation - starred in the best movie of the last decade*, 'Synecdoche, New York."

*According to Roger Ebert http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2009/12/the_best_films_of_the_decade.html

 

I don't agree. You don't determine a "hit" movie by comparing it to "Titanic." You compare it to its own expectations.

 

Define "hit," please.

 

How about you define it?

Since the following outgrossed "Bull Durham," many by a large, large margin:

"A League of Their Own"
"Field of Dreams"
"Rookie of the Year"
"The Rookie"
"Major League"

 

That's why I used the word "likely."

You can check your list here:

http://boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?view=main&id=baseball.htm&p=.htm




typo

 

"Winter's Bone" is a character study. This is a movie about someone in upper management whose job wasn't in jeopardy in 2002, and the movie works hard to suggest that. I tried to keep an open mind about it, but this sounds like it will be a pretty dismal movie experience, just hearing about some of the baseball stuff that got f-ed up.

 

I didn't realize that Miguel Tejada is played by Royce Clayton

 

Yes, this is called Hollywood taking the facts and tweaking some to turn it into a character study. That's what this will be. A character-driven narrative. Sabermetrics is just the engine. Compare it to "The Social Network," I suppose. It's not really a "Facebook movie." It's a story about a businessman.