Moneyball

Not all, but like a great deal of strangely patriotic Americans out there, I say I like baseball purely because it's an American pastime, but in reality I have practically no idea what goes on in the sport.  From what I gather is that all the players in the field chew and spit out tobacco in an "i'm going to kill your firstborn" fashion, and at the same time get in trouble for taking that juice that makes your muscles tougher.  It's odd for there to be a movie about baseball and yet at the same time have not very much to do with the game.  Brad Pitt stars as the General Manager for the Oakland A's, which is a team that's prestigious for being incredibly craptacular, and so with the help of the pervy-now-turned-scholar kid from "Superbad", he finds ways to change how the game is played; he brings the A's out of the toilet right before they were about to be flushed down to their poopy doom!

This was a very pleasant movie to watch, and it even helped me forget my traumatic days playing little league where the popular pretty boy from Elementary school acted like a backstreet boy and batted the baseball right to my heart... So I did the right thing by being a man and quitting the sport for good, hmm.   The acting from Pitt was outstanding (as always), but the person I was really impressed with was Jonah Hill's character who took me and C completely by suprise by showing us he can be a VERY effective serious actor.  One last thing I liked about this movie was the soundtrack, that although it was simple, it is what gave the movie it's finishing touches of serenity

4 out of 5