95% Moneyball

Sports is a business. Fans cheer for their team out of a sense that that team represents their city in the sport they love. But it is a business first and foremost. Moneyball focuses on the business aspect of baseball, but it does it in a way that is fascinating, easy to follow, and gets its audience to understand how team management may work.Brad Pitt plays Billy Beane, a failed baseball player now general manager for the Oakland Athletics. The first scene of the film shows the A's against the Yankees in the final game of a World Series. Instead of showing the score, the budgets of each team are pitted against each other, with the Yanks' whopping 100 million outdoing Oakland's 39 million. With a tight budget, Beane attempts to reinvent how the A's do business in the coming season, making controversial decisions and picking up players who nobody else wants, all based on theories from Peter Brand (Jonah Hill).Like his previous film Capote, Bennett Miller directs with a confident, direct approach. His style is subtle yet focused, ambitious and well paced. The screenplay by Aaron Sorkin and Steve Zaillan is loaded with great dialogue as we've come to expect from them. Brad Pitt, Jonah Hill, Philip Seymour Hoffman are flawless in subdued but complex performances that always straddle the line between drama and comedy. Moneyball is simply a well made film. It works on every level, from the performances, the writing, the directing, the pacing, the subject matter, and in how it tells its story. It's one of the best films of the year, and a great "economics of sports" movie that can appeal to people who hate either of those things.

November 19, 2011

Source: http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/moneyball/

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