It is my fault. I should have remembered how boring the actual game was before my girlfriend persuaded me to watch Moneyball. Then again, I remember telling myself “how bad could it be” right before I clicked to rent. Yeah it is actually that bad. Here is the summary:
Moneyball is the story of Oakland A’s general manager Billy Beane’s successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
This movie is like getting into an operation room to help out the doctors without knowing anything about human biology and/or general surgery. There is a constant flow of baseball terms thrown around while Brad Pitt aggressively turns tables upside down and throws cans to walls and Jonah Hill looks even more chubby and miserable. Why angry? Why sad? Why is everyone cheering? What the heck is going on? You got me. If only the movie was an average 90 min. the whole alien language would be somewhat bearable, but two-hours of anything is enough to put anyone in a coma. Watch this movie only if you can take on an actual baseball game with less than 3 hotdogs and a pint of beer (I certainly couldn’t).
