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Moneyball

15 Ratings: 3.9
A 2011 movie directed by Bennett Miller.

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (ISBN 0-393-05765-8) is a book by Michael Lewis, published in 2003, about the Oakland Athletics baseball team and its general manager Billy Beane. Its focus is the team's … see full wiki

Director: Bennett Miller
Genre: Drama
Release Date: 23 September 2011 (USA)
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review by . September 25, 2011
posted in Movie Hype
The Men Behind The Oakland A's History-Making Season
Oakland A’s fans would be right at home with “Moneyball” as they would be very familiar with the amazing historic run of the team during the 2002 baseball season. Well, I am currently a “retired” baseball fan but even I remember that record-breaking season, when an underdog team actually went on to make history. Non-Athletics fans wouldn’t be lost either since while this is indeed a film about baseball and about the A’s, the film’s focus isn’t …
review by . January 21, 2012
posted in Movie Hype
Baseball is a game of spitting, crotch scratching and often interminably long innings. Moneyball is a movie that deconstructs the myths of America’s home-style game and shows how it becomes an exemplar of big business. By the time Moneyball is over, baseball’s traditions are as quaint as long underwear, the players have become work units, and computer analysis is still unknown by the fans as they munch their expensive hot dogs, slosh beer on their neighbors and scream joyously for the …
review by . October 14, 2011
posted in Movie Hype
Is it more surprising that a movie was made of Moneyball, Michael Lewis's great account of how Billy Beane made the A's a winning baseball team by finding undervalued players, or that it took so long to do because of Hollywood's sausage-making machinery?  Perhaps what is most surprising is that the result is really, really good.      First, this isn't really a movie about baseball (yes, that's the second time I've used that phrase today--see my review …
review by . October 19, 2011
posted in Movie Hype
  Moneyball is not a conventional sports movie that ends with a team winning the big game.  It is a film that shows the highs and lows of the game of baseball.  Brad Pitt stars as Billy Beane.  He is the general manager of the Oakland Athletics.  His task is to rebuild the team after three star players leave in 2002.  A statistics expert. named Peter Brand. helps him do this.  He is played by Jonah Hill.    Both actors give the best performance …
review by . September 25, 2011
posted in Just Baseball
Billy Beane won, you know. He would hate to hear anyone say that since he never picked up a Pennant, but he won. He changed the way baseball is played. Well, maybe not so much played as constructed, but his method proved to win a ton of games in the end. Most teams are emulating his model now, and as the Boston Red Sox say at the end of the movie Moneyball, those not using it are old dinosaurs. Beane's biggest foe, Joe Morgan, is an old trudging dino these days whom I could probably beat up, and …
review by . September 23, 2011
posted in Movie Hype
There is a tendency in Hollywood for their movies to have a deeper meaning. If a movie were just about zombies it may be tough to get a broad audience into the theater. So what people tend to do is add a metaphor like zombies that really stand for consumerism or lack of individuality or some B.S. like that. Or they will put in a handsome lead to attract women who may otherwise not want to see a monster movie. Moneyball has every opportunity to do these things as well and while it may touch …
review by . December 19, 2011
posted in Movie Hype
   Moneyball was one of my most anticipated movies of this year. The simple combination between Miller, Sorkin, Pitt, Hoffman, and Pfister projected the prospect of a bomb movie. The clock was ticking faster and faster and as soon as I hit the comfortable seat in my theater I decided to let myself caught in this movie's bliss. Did I get caught in that web? Ehh... not really. Sadly, I was too hyped over this project that I left in a way disappointed even though I thought the movie was …
review by . September 23, 2011
posted in Movie Hype
A third base hit
MONEYBALL Written by Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin Directed by Bennett Miller Starring Brad Pitt, Johan Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman   Billy Beane: There are rich teams; there are poor teams; then there’s fifty feet of crap; and then there’s us.   These days, it seems that when it comes to conversations about the American economy, the focus is on the increasing divide between the rich and the poor. In MONEYBALL, that same gap is affecting America’s favourite …
review by . September 22, 2011
posted in Movie Hype
'Moneyball' 'Two Jews On Film' Only One Says This Hits A Home Run (Video)
   First thing I must say is...I basically know nothing about sports. I do watch the Super Bowl but only for the commercials. That said, I absolutely loved 'Money Ball'. Which goes to prove, that you don't have to be a baseball fan, to think that this film, written by Aaron Sorkin and Steve Zaillan and directed by Bennett Miller, is absolutely wonderful.      Brad Pitt portrays real life Baseball legend, Billy Beanne. I'm sure there are many people …
Quick Tip by . October 08, 2011
Brad Pitt leaves his pretty boy roles behind and plays up his acting chops. Overall good story and strong acting by everyone, especially Philip Seymour Hoffman. It has Oscar written all over it as a movie and for various members of the cast and crew. However, I could have done without so many cutesie kids and the lighting in the guitar store scene was more distracting than mood setting.
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