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Post by _ on Aug 2, 2021 17:28:43 GMT
3. Moneyball. Somewhat factually based, often heavily dramatised. Take out the whole daughter plot line, and focus on the baseball aspects - it has some very well scripted and very well acted scenes. Hill and Hoffman are fantastic and I think Chris Pratt played his role perfectly - given many actors would overact that part into oblivion. I love Moneyball as a movie. It's entertaining, Pitt and Hill are both great in it as you said, but it completely ignores the fact that this particular A's team, despite losing Giambi, Damon and Isringhausen, had an MVP of its own in Miguel Tejada, a HR hitting, slick fielding 3B in Eric Chavez, quality lineup cogs in Ray Durham, Jermaine Dye and Mark Ellis, a rotation consisting of Tim Hudson, Barry Zito, Mark Mulder and Corey Lidle and All-Star closer Billy Koch. Not one of those guys is even mentioned in passing once during the movie, instead the movie attributes the team's success to the likes of Scott Hatteberg and Chad Bradford. 
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