by Kelly Bedard
I knew I would like Moneyball. I was hoping it wouldn't suck but I was fairly certain I'd love it either way.
The following are the reasons:
- My idol of all idols Aaron Sorkin worked on the script, even if it was rewritten for a third time before finally going into long-delayed production, and I've never not loved anything he's ever touched (yes, even Studio 60).
- I like Brad Pitt more than your average Joe, I suppose, and I can even get behind the unconventional casting of Jonah Hill.
- Chris Pratt as an unlikely hero baseball player? Has someone been reading my dream journal?
- I like a good true story. There's just something really great about life and its inherent cinematic quality.
but, most telling of all,
- I just love sports movies. All of them, even the crap ones like The Big Green and The Replacements. I love few things more than the metaphorically rich game of baseball, one of those things is movies about the metaphorically rich game of baseball.
So I was pretty sure they could completely screw up Moneyball and I'd still be all in.
But hey, they didn't screw it up.
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