tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047872200068694467.post8298667745142295062..comments2024-02-10T06:19:58.016-05:00Comments on Petrified Fountain of Thought: Recent Movies: 50/50, Moneyball, The Ides of MarchStephenMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16588260639227694557noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047872200068694467.post-10656948039234818582012-01-12T20:06:18.469-05:002012-01-12T20:06:18.469-05:00I'm sorry to hear that. As you can see from m...I'm sorry to hear that. As you can see from my post, I pretty much completely disagree with you, but different strokes for different folks I guess.<br /><br />Better luck next time and thanks for the comment!StephenMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16588260639227694557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047872200068694467.post-80630756370103945542012-01-12T02:10:27.335-05:002012-01-12T02:10:27.335-05:00I went and saw Moneyball last night and I have to ...I went and saw Moneyball last night and I have to say that it might be the worst movie I have seen in years!!! Pitt's character had no substance, even with the cheesey flashbacks. Don't get me started on the very very very cheesey (and not sappy) scenes with his daughter singing. Jonah Hill has spent his whole acting career playing dopey stupid characters. So, now he shows up in Moneyball and we are to believe that he has graduated from Yale with a degree in econimics... And just because he says he did and they show him sitting in front of a computer 3 times. At no time in the movie do I think he shows even the slightest amount of intellegents. I am not sure his character graduated junior high, much less Yale.Espanahttp://acall4change.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047872200068694467.post-52295458420681045482011-11-20T21:45:55.858-05:002011-11-20T21:45:55.858-05:00Yeah, I really liked that story, too. "It...Yeah, I really liked that story, too. "It's hard not to be romantic about baseball." I agree with the statement, even though I don't follow it and think all the doping scandals have severely tarnished the sport. But when you look back at the major figures of baseball's past--Babe Ruth, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Satchel Paige, Jackie Robinson, Ty Cobb--they're more than just sports heroes; they've become folk heroes, creatures of legend. Baseball has a beautiful connection with American history and the American soul that no other sport quite has. Football has a connection, too, but it's to a different strand of Americana--the working man in a steel-driving town, the blue collar tough guys, the violent test of manhood, a Vince Lombardi winners never quit ethos, and a later era of greatness in the '50s, '60s, and '70s. Baseball is far more romantic --there is a purity to it that football doesn't even aspire to.StephenMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16588260639227694557noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7047872200068694467.post-16134677795347578132011-11-16T20:25:30.300-05:002011-11-16T20:25:30.300-05:00We just saw Moneyball last week and enjoyed it a l...We just saw Moneyball last week and enjoyed it a lot, especially the parable at the end about the big guy who thought he was out at first when actually he'd hit it out of the park.Mark Notesshttp://www.learningux.comnoreply@blogger.com