Director: Bennett MillerStars: Brad Pitt, Robin Wright and Jonah Hill
Genres: Biography | Drama | Sport
Release Date: 17 November 2011
Memorable quote:
(I like two sorry)
(I like two sorry)
Billy Beane: Would you rather get one shot in the head or five in the chest and bleed to death?
Peter Brand: Are those my only two options?
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Peter Brand: I wanted you to see these player evaluations that you asked me to do.
Billy Beane: I asked you to do three.
Peter Brand: Yeah.
Billy Beane: To evaluate three players.
Peter Brand: Yeah.
Billy Beane: How many you'd do?
Peter Brand: Forty-seven.
Billy Beane: Okay.
Peter Brand: Actually, fifty-one. I don't know why I lied just then.
Peter Brand: Are those my only two options?
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Peter Brand: I wanted you to see these player evaluations that you asked me to do.
Billy Beane: I asked you to do three.
Peter Brand: Yeah.
Billy Beane: To evaluate three players.
Peter Brand: Yeah.
Billy Beane: How many you'd do?
Peter Brand: Forty-seven.
Billy Beane: Okay.
Peter Brand: Actually, fifty-one. I don't know why I lied just then.
What?
Let’s start with the fact that this movie is based on a real story. This can be the base for a good or shitty movie, well let’s see. Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's is the guy who needs to assemble the new line up for the season of 2002, the problem is he has no money and all the other teams have lots of it. All the good players he had were just bought by richer teams and he is left over well with left overs. He decides to turn the game and the conventions to find new players around. No more huge and expensive stars that can do everything but, as I call it specialist in one thing, most of the time those “specialists” are seen as flawed players by baseball scouts and just ignore them. Beane teamed up with Peter Brand decide to go on a mission without knowing what will happen at the end.
Let’s start with the fact that this movie is based on a real story. This can be the base for a good or shitty movie, well let’s see. Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland A's is the guy who needs to assemble the new line up for the season of 2002, the problem is he has no money and all the other teams have lots of it. All the good players he had were just bought by richer teams and he is left over well with left overs. He decides to turn the game and the conventions to find new players around. No more huge and expensive stars that can do everything but, as I call it specialist in one thing, most of the time those “specialists” are seen as flawed players by baseball scouts and just ignore them. Beane teamed up with Peter Brand decide to go on a mission without knowing what will happen at the end.
Yes?
This movie is what I call special; I wasn’t sure what to think about it. For me if falls somewhere in the middle between OK and good. It has all the elements for a good movie, but it lacks a couple of things to become really good. But just let’s start with the good.
This movie is what I call special; I wasn’t sure what to think about it. For me if falls somewhere in the middle between OK and good. It has all the elements for a good movie, but it lacks a couple of things to become really good. But just let’s start with the good.
From one side you can look at the movie and say this is a sports movie about baseball and who doesn’t like baseball is screwed, he just entered the wrong theater. On the other side this is a story of someone who stands in front of a big decision to go against all the known conventions and succeeds in the doing the impossible. The will to go with an idea to the limit not knowing if it’s good is seen from my part as heroic. Other will just call it stupid, but sometimes it just works out. That’s what I mean; imagine the movie or even reality would go the other way Beane would have been hanged out to the dry or even buried alive. (No this wasn’t a spoiler). This decision I would say makes this good.
Brad Pitt is a good actor, sometimes we forget it, but in this movie he showed us that he can pull it off, all the way. Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill were great together they formed this kind of team against the baseball world and they were awesome. Seymour Hoffman is as always a hero for me he can be everything you throw in his direction, as he also did with this part.
Baseball is a sport for connoisseurs; if you don’t know it it’s difficult to start loving it. There is so much behind this sport that we the people who are not used to it just have no idea. Same thing with the Baseball Jargon, drafts, runs, pitchers etc, I just don’t know those terms and the movie tried to give you as much as possible tools so you wouldn’t feel as an outsider to this world.
No?
The movie kind off succeeded in making it interesting for everyone, but still the fact is that if you like baseball it’s much more interesting for you than for others. I don’t like baseball, so this movie needed to catch me with the drama or amazing story, It didn’t enough. I believed it would but it didn’t.
The movie kind off succeeded in making it interesting for everyone, but still the fact is that if you like baseball it’s much more interesting for you than for others. I don’t like baseball, so this movie needed to catch me with the drama or amazing story, It didn’t enough. I believed it would but it didn’t.
I stayed interested in this movie because I was wondering if Beane could pull his idea of or not, you had some dry moments where I almost fell asleep, what can I say Baseball is lame, at least for me.
The last scene actually pissed me off, maybe I’m materialistic but I just didn’t understand this!
Well…
So the actors were great, the story was medium – well and again baseball is boring, maybe this movie will get an Oscar, but from my part it wasn’t good enough. If you like baseball this is definitely for you, if you like Brad Pitt it’s for you, if you don’t belong to those groups I wouldn’t watch it, at least not at the movies, if you have time at home, maybe. Because of all the above I grade this…
So the actors were great, the story was medium – well and again baseball is boring, maybe this movie will get an Oscar, but from my part it wasn’t good enough. If you like baseball this is definitely for you, if you like Brad Pitt it’s for you, if you don’t belong to those groups I wouldn’t watch it, at least not at the movies, if you have time at home, maybe. Because of all the above I grade this…
Grade: 6.5 out of 10
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