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free2131
03-09-2010, 02:50 AM
http://espn.go.com/blog/sweetspot/post/_/id/2647/monday-mendozas-44

Really?

http://nymag.com/daily/entertainment/2008/05/19/images/jonah.jpg VS http://eatsleepmoneyball.files.wordpress.com/2009/10/depodesta1.jpg

I hope plans on losing A LOT of weight... I personally can't see it.
Jeffy25
03-09-2010, 03:01 AM
no way can he play a serious role.
200tang
03-09-2010, 03:04 AM
no way can he play a serious role.

It's a comedy. Which is probably for the best, to be honest.
Jeffy25
03-09-2010, 03:19 AM
this is true....it probably is for the best.

I have a feeling this movie won't live up to the hard core baseball fans expectations, while being too in depth for the non baseball fans.
free2131
03-09-2010, 03:44 AM
It's a comedy. Which is probably for the best, to be honest.

Really? I hadn't heard that. Definitely won't be watching it now.
gRYFYN1
03-09-2010, 08:40 AM
no way can he play a serious role.

in the moneyball world, wouldn't Depodesta be the comic relief anyways?
StreetMedic
03-09-2010, 09:05 AM
Really? I hadn't heard that. Definitely won't be watching it now.

Yeah, Moneyball a comedy?

I read the book, and loved it (both times ;) ).

But, honestly, I was having a hard enough time trying to get my head around it somehow working as a movie, period. Now, as a comedy? That's even harder to imagine.

Possibility one: the writers brilliantly adapted the book into a screenplay, and it will be great. :eek:

Possibility two: Hollywood got a hold of, and subsequently screwed up, a perfectly good book. :rolleyes:

Don't know about anyone else, but my money's on the latter.

Bleh. Too bad. :(

Oh, yeah, and, either way...


I have a feeling this movie won't live up to the hard core baseball fans expectations, while being too in depth for the non baseball fans.

this.
rschusta24
03-09-2010, 09:27 AM
I heard they have a lot of people playing as themselves, like Scott Hatteberg. I can't remember the other names.
Alloutwar
03-09-2010, 10:00 AM
Seth Rogen will be playing Adam Dunn

Elliot Gould will play commissioner Bud Selig

Adam Sandler will play Jason Giambi, with lots of makeup and weight pads

Michael Cera will play Billy Beane's teenage son

And other non-funny comedy people will play parts, to ensure this movie sucks to high heaven
boomboom
03-09-2010, 11:04 AM
I think that Mathew Fox could play Paul Depodesta,

29592
Wassit3
03-09-2010, 11:08 AM
I was hoping for a musical....
YEAH DAAAAWG
03-09-2010, 12:28 PM
And Brad Pitt as Billy Beane.

http://www.gossipcheck.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/bradpitt01.jpg

http://houston.mlblogs.com/Billy%20Beane.jpg

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.......
etothep
03-09-2010, 12:44 PM
Seth Rogen will be playing Adam Dunn

Elliot Gould will play commissioner Bud Selig

Adam Sandler will play Jason Giambi, with lots of makeup and weight pads

Michael Cera will play Billy Beane's teenage son

And other non-funny comedy people will play parts, to ensure this movie sucks to high heaven

Since you left James Franco & Danny McBride off this list, I will look the other way as you lie about the funny brought by Seth Rogen
TheNamelessPoet
03-09-2010, 01:02 PM
since you left james franco & danny mcbride off this list, i will look the other way as you lie about the funny brought by seth rogen

+1
Alloutwar
03-09-2010, 01:05 PM
danny mcbride! I should have included him. Totally unfunnny.

Can we get Rob Schnieder and some of the guys from Blue Collar Comedy tour in there too? preferably the huge stupid one, but Engvall will do.

James Franco is the only thing that made Pineapple Express almost slightly, in the tiniest bit redeemable. Him crying while choking down a cheeseburger was the best part of that movie, hands down.

Who can Dane Cook play? Maybe that other unfunny guy from Employee of the Month.

Whats Jamie Kennedy doing, can he play Adam Kennedy?

oh and if we could include this guy as well
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/12/DJQualls.jpg

then it would just be the most suck-tastic movie of all time. Jon Heder can cameo as Doc Halladay?

WAIT - if it was rewritten by the people that made Epic Movie and Disaster Movie and Meet the Spartans and Superhero Movie and Date Movie and all that trash? Then we'd have a suckfest of unprecedented ginormousness
OregonDuck1989
03-09-2010, 02:17 PM
James Franco was hilarious in Pineapple.
Jeffy25
03-09-2010, 02:28 PM
go to hell you douche sandwich!
tdk1984
03-09-2010, 05:02 PM
This movie is going to be llllaaaammmmeeee.
Arctic Blast
03-09-2010, 06:51 PM
This was a failure from the start. How the Hell do you make a compelling movie out of Moneyball? It simply wasn't EVER going to work.
200tang
03-09-2010, 08:45 PM
This was a failure from the start. How the Hell do you make a compelling movie out of Moneyball? It simply wasn't EVER going to work.

It hasn't even been made...

I agree it doesn't look great by just looking at the actors, but...really? We're already going to declare this movie as terrible?
Arctic Blast
03-10-2010, 12:38 AM
It hasn't even been made...

I agree it doesn't look great by just looking at the actors, but...really? We're already going to declare this movie as terrible?

How is it possibly going to work? Seriously? Any movie just following the book is going to sell about 327 tickets in total and lose a fortune. So they have to make it funnier or whatever else they can do to try to amp it up, and that's just going to collapse the entire thing. This had mess written all over it the instant it was optioned by a studio.
free2131
03-10-2010, 01:37 AM
It seems to me this would have been a whole lot better as an HBO series or mini-series. Kind of like a T.V. version of a Mogul Dynasty.
michaelg123789
03-10-2010, 02:18 AM
James Franco was hilarious in Pineapple.
yes indeed he was
Arctic Blast
03-10-2010, 02:32 AM
It seems to me this would have been a whole lot better as an HBO series or mini-series. Kind of like a T.V. version of a Mogul Dynasty.

Actually...yeah, it may have made for a decent HBO/Showtime type production.
filihok
06-15-2011, 04:33 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-l3IXTQDsDg
ragecage
06-15-2011, 05:32 PM
And like the real Oakland A's no one will go see it. :p
filihok
06-15-2011, 05:35 PM
And like the real Oakland A's no one will go see it. :p

The Oakland Athletics are one of the five major league teams that I have not seen in person
ragecage
06-15-2011, 05:57 PM
The Oakland Athletics are one of the five major league teams that I have not seen in person

You're not missing much this year.
Kobie
06-15-2011, 06:24 PM
You don't mess with the Johan.
haveacigar
06-16-2011, 06:02 PM
You guys do realize that Jonah Hill isn't ACTUALLY playing Paul DePodesta, right?
free2131
06-16-2011, 06:17 PM
You guys do realize that Jonah Hill isn't ACTUALLY playing Paul DePodesta, right?

He was until DePodesta refused to allow his name to be used. (http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news?slug=ti-depodestamoneyball080510)
haveacigar
06-16-2011, 06:23 PM
Considering the version is highly fictionalized, I don't even think that they could really be seen as the same person. Which is probably why they were so willing to change the character name.
haveacigar
06-16-2011, 06:43 PM
Anyway, looking at the trailer, I can see it working. Keep in mind, a movie just won Best Picture despite being solely about a dude talking.
etothep
06-16-2011, 06:58 PM
would work better if Oak made the postseason more than once in the past 7, soon to be 8, seasons
actionjackson
06-16-2011, 07:12 PM
I see where Royce Clayton is playing Miguel Tejada...So, the natural question is...Who's gonna be his hitting extra?

Also haven't seen who's playing J.P. Ricciardi, if he shows up in the movie, but there can only be one choice:

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20100109192652/miamivice/images/3/34/Johnturturro.JPG

John Turturro. He certainly has the schnozz and the heritage for it.
OregonDuck1989
06-17-2011, 11:51 PM
From the trailer, I'm actually pretty excited for the film.
YEAH DAAAAWG
06-19-2011, 02:14 PM
Saw a preview for it when I went to see Green Lantern the other night. Actually looks pretty good.
Kobie
06-19-2011, 04:56 PM
Saw a preview for it when I went to see Green Lantern the other night. Actually looks pretty good.

I heard the Green Lantern was the cinematic equivalent of a partial-birth abortion.
YEAH DAAAAWG
06-19-2011, 05:11 PM
I heard the Green Lantern was the cinematic equivalent of a partial-birth abortion.

It's been getting slammed by critics, but most fan reviews I've read have been good. And everyone of my friends who has seen it enjoyed it. I don't really see where there were any glaring issues. Overall it was put together very well and the acting was good. There were a few moments where if you didn't at least have a working knowledge of the Green Lantern you'd be like "wtf", but it didn't really hinder the movie too much. I'd recommend seeing it, if for no other reason than so you can pass judgment yourself.
OregonDuck1989
06-19-2011, 08:23 PM
It's certainly no X-Men First Class. That movie effing ruled.