{"id":11022,"date":"2016-04-23T20:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T01:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=11022"},"modified":"2016-04-21T16:56:14","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T21:56:14","slug":"moneyball-2011-bennett-miller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/11022","title":{"rendered":"Moneyball (2011, Bennett Miller)"},"content":{"rendered":"

A baseball movie perversely set in quiet, underlit offices and locker rooms (Mom: “Can you make the TV brighter?”). 2002 Oakland A’s manager Brad Pitt becomes impressed with nerdy Jonah Hill’s stats theories, hires him to create a low-budget team of effective\/undervalued players. Strange idea for an underdog sports movie, because their ideas don’t actually work. Pitt can’t get coach Philip Seymour Hoffman to play the roster that Hill intended to maximize wins, so Pitt trades away Hoffman’s favorite players to force the issue… and they set a league winning streak and make the postseason, but the year still ends disappointingly. Meanwhile we get backstory of Pitt’s unimpressive early career as a player and his current home life (ex-wife Robin Wright and a daughter he’ll be able to see less often if he takes a different job) and a side plot with no payoff feat. Chris Pratt as a washed-up catcher turned fledgeling first baseman. But it’s got appealing actors and an Aaron Sorkin script, so it’s mostly a good time (memorable scene: Jonah Hill having to inform a player twice his size that he’s been traded) – and it made me care enough about Pitt’s Billy Beane to look up the real guy (still with the A’s through 2019).<\/p>\n

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Pitt makes most key decisions while driving:<\/em>
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Film Quarterly wrote a joint article about this and Margin Call<\/em>, which made me realize that these two Autumn 2011-opening financial films with rhyming titles are the reason I still get Bennett Miller and JC Chandor confused.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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