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Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 09-23-2011, 04:54 PM:

CINEMA: 13th Avenue Warren, Wichita, KS
AUDITORIUM: 14
PRESENTATION: Dolby Digital Cinema 7.1 DLP/THX
PRESENTATION PROBLEMS: None [Cool]

RATING: Three and one half stars (out of four)

THE PLOT: Cheap bastards field a team. Wackiness ensues.

I'm not a fan of baseball, but for some reason I always fall for baseball movies. At least the ones without Kevin Costner.

This one is two-plus hours of very little action (or baseball), yet it's engaging and never drags. Even though it's full of math. And whining.

Then you get to the end and read the follow-up and you think "Wow. What a fucking idiot."

Posted by Justin Hamaker (Member # 2165) on 09-23-2011, 05:14 PM:

quote: Sam Graham
Then you get to the end and read the follow-up and you think "Wow. What a fucking idiot."

For some people there is more to life than money. But that was a lot of millions.

Posted by Joe Redifer (Member # 3) on 09-23-2011, 06:25 PM:

I have not seen this movie, but I can assume:

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At the end of the movie, it is revealed that a character who is crazy-rich gives up a ton of money... to pursue life.

Posted by Ron Funderburg (Member # 4561) on 09-23-2011, 08:27 PM:

Well that ain't me the crazy rich part that is! Well Crazy works but not rich.

Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 09-24-2011, 04:22 PM:

quote:
I have not seen this movie, but I can assume:

Nope.

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He gets an offer that would ultimately make him rich AND make him a winner doing nothing more than what he and the stats dork were already doing. Instead, he kept doing what he was already doing for a crap team that never makes him the winner he really wants to be.

And don't give me any crap about being local for visitation with his daughter. He was CONSTANTLY picking her up at the airport. The girl knew how to travel.

Posted by Jonathan Goeldner (Member # 4854) on 10-09-2011, 09:25 PM:

well aside from the theater I saw it at where it was on the warm side resulting in my sleeping through the first ten minutes or so, I thought the rest of the movie was riveting. Well cast and great Aaron Sorkin script.

This was 7.1 audio, Sam?

Posted by Sam Graham (Member # 2889) on 10-10-2011, 02:39 PM:

It was a 7.1 capable auditorium (that showed the flashy 7.1 Dolby trailer). I don't know if the movie was rendered that way or not.

Posted by Tom Petrov (Member # 1534) on 10-13-2011, 11:53 PM:

Good movie, Brad Pitt is getting realy good as actor.

Kind of reminded me of The Social Network