Trailer: Moneyball

[Buscemi]

A feel-good version of The Social Network? And Jonah Hill can act?

[Chienfantome]

Damn, I need subtitles, or to know what they are talking about
It looks like it could be a good film anyway.

[Buscemi]

You may need a Bill James book.

[undeadmonkey]

the first half of the trailer looked really good. the second half seemed a bit too schmaltzy for me. Nevertheless, i would probably watch it now.

[Chienfantome]

I don't even know who Bill James is Boosch !

[Buscemi]

Bill James is the father of Sabermetrics, the method that Billy Beane used to build quality teams on a low price. His opinions and statistics are very interesting and after Beane began using James's method, other teams began using it and James got a management position with the Boston Red Sox.

[Chienfantome]

Well I most of all need a dictionnary to understand the base ball vocabulary

[BanksIsDaFuture]

the first half of the trailer looked really good. the second half seemed a bit too schmaltzy for me. Nevertheless, i would probably watch it now.

Yeah, it's weird how quickly it changes tones halfway through.

And for some reason, I thought this movie was supposed to be set in the 80s?

[Buscemi]

No, it's the early 2000's. It's based on the book of the same name.

[Chienfantome]

I'm surprised they don't mention Philip Seymour Hoffman's name in the trailer.

[undeadmonkey]

the first half of the trailer looked really good. the second half seemed a bit too schmaltzy for me. Nevertheless, i would probably watch it now.

Yeah, it's weird how quickly it changes tones halfway through.

And for some reason, I thought this movie was supposed to be set in the 80s?

yea, there's a complete change of tactics halfway through, but maybe non-movie buffs wont notice it so much. and i also thought it was supposed to be set in the 80s or 70s.