Day: September 8, 2011

  • Moneyball

    Caught a free screening of a Moneyball tonight. Last year, I went to the filming at the Oakland Coliseum of the (spoiler, but not really) "Scott Hatteberg game-winning homer to extent the win streak to an AL record 20 games" scene. I sat next to a couple that had face-paint, so  I trying to look for them, but it didn't even matter cause they didn't even pan over to were I was sitting. Hopefully there'll be extra or deleted scenes on the blu-ray, which I'm definitely buying.

    Now, as for the movie itself. It was sorta long, almost 2 hours, and it had some slow parts. And it is about baseball, which isn't one of the more thrilling sports. And if it really means anything, it was pretty close to the book that it's based on. But I wouldn't recommend it to non-baseball fans. They were dropping names & stats all throughout  the movie, but I knew all of them since I followed all this back when it actually happened back in 2003, and I also had just finished reading the book a week prior. And of course, I loved the movie. Well, I am incredibly biased towards movie, since it's only about my favorite team of all-time, the Oakland A's. I loved seeing the green & gold on the big screen.