The first 40 minutes go something like this: long, lingering shot of a dark Oakland A's stadium with deep, thoughtful music being played; cut to Brad Pitt as Billy Beane sitting in the Oakland A's stadium thinking; you can tell he's thinking because of the music; now cut to some flashbacks of A's games; they are losing Johnny Damon, some other juicehead and another guy I've never heard of; you can tell this is bad by the somber look on Billy Beane's face and the music that's being played...what's that you say, it's been 10 minutes without any dialogue; now we get dialogue, a bunch of men fighting with zippy one-liners; 1 minute of dialogue is enough, let's get more shots of the stadium, Billy Beane working out, and Billy Beane walking down a long hallway, and add in some really pensive music; okay now let's get to Jonah Hill and sure, we'll throw in a couple of minutes of dialogue between Jonah and Billy Beane, but only TWO MINUTES; here's Jonah waddling down the long hallway to the A's offices he is pensive and so is the music; a little bit more dialogue ending with a zippy one-liner; and now Billy Beane and Jonah looking at clips of baseball players.
This shit was more boring than all of Gram's scenes on Dawson's Creek COMBINED. I was tortured while watching it. For any of you who haven't yet seen it, just wikipedia it and save yourself the 2 hours and 20 minutes that it will take to watch it. It's not that awesome of a story, the performances are nothing spectacular and the music isn't as good as the Facebook movie. So, there Moneyball, I thought you sucked.
For the record, the snacks above clockwise from top are: a mix of Sno-Caps and Whoppers; Zen Party Mix from Target; microwave popcorn.
5 comments:
It being really boring actually makes a lot of sense because if it's a movie for baseball fans -- they're really used things being extremely boring and slow - aka baseball. I actually liked the movie though I have to say.
The only thing worse would be a movie about golf.
Am I a dork because I LOVED this movie. But, maybe it is because it had a lot to do with what I do for a living - just not with baseball players. :)
Am I a dork because I LOVED this movie. But, maybe it is because it had a lot to do with what I do for a living - just not with baseball players. :)
Christina
My big problem with it was that my expectations were too high. It was nominated for so many awards and I thought it would be a little bit more like the movie Miracle.
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