…awesome! Hear me out on this one. I loved the Moneyball book. I loved that Billy Beane (portrayed by Brad Pitt in the movie!) modernized baseball’s archaic scouting system. I loved that a lot of baseball people misunderstood and dismissed what Beane was doing with the Oakland A’s; they thought he was all about buying on-base percentage when he was actually all about buying whatever was undervalued at the time. I lost respect for the legendary Joe Morgan for flipping off Moneyball without even reading it. Billy Beane truly revolutionized the way baseball teams are made, the way players are scouted, and how stats are used acquire players.
I’m so ready to love this movie. While I don’t think it will be as big as The Social Network, I think it will be The Social Network movie for sports fans. Anyone with me on this one?
it looks very interesting. I think i'll check it out for an early matinee or a $6 movie when Showplace adds it to their list.
Can't wait. Complex math ftw
This actually looks really good, despite Jonah Hill. I'm actually interested in seeing this when it comes out.
Jonah Hill > Nic Cage
I find Jonah Hill's characters unbearable to watch or listen to on screen.
The same can be said about Cage. Hill actually showed nice range in Cyrus. He's also a good writer.
Hill's characters focus on getting laid, yelling, cursing, being awkward for no reason, etc. Cage's characters have personality and good interaction with other on screen characters. Haven't seen Cyrus, and I know nothing about his writing background so I can't comment on that.
I never understood the fascination with Denzel Washington. The man has 2 characters.
Nice Denzel (like he is in interviews).
and mad as hell Denzel (like in Training Day).
That is all.
Jonah Hill is alot like that, but comedic. The same could said for Seth Rogan and Danny McBride though. In reality, all they do that we notice is deliver lines from a script. Therefore you want to look at screenwriters and directors instead of the actors.
You're the only person I've met that believes Cage is a good actor.
I never said that. I believe the conversation was:
R2P2: I expect bad movies whenever Nic Cage is involved.
N8R: He was in Fast Times at Ridgemont High… can’t disrespect that. I was also down with Con Air.
(gotta love copy and paste)
I was mainly referring to the integrity of the films as opposed to him as an actor. The right director and good writing (example: Coen Brothers i.e. Raising Arizona) can make a world of difference in any actors case. I also made 2 criminal omissions of his films:
He was in Birdy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086969/). That movie totally rocked, granted… Mathew Modine stole the show.
And… He was in The Rock with Sean Connery… if you didn't ever watch movies Cage was in because he was in it… you would have never see The Rock… and that would suck.
I missed the reply you had made until I was copying and pasting the conversation. So, I went through his list of films. In MY OPINION his average is 13 for 66 which gives him an average of .197.
Granted… that's my opinion of the movies he was in… and I've never done that before with anyone else (it was kinda fun) so I don't know if that's better than most or not. If I get bored enough through the night… I'll do it with more actors. I'll start with Chuck Norris first and Robert DeNiro next to get a good basis.
We may have started a whole new fantasy sport.
You didn't follow the threading. I was replying to bsukenyan.
doh!
hilarious
so scientific nate…i actually dig your new "sport", but the scoring is based solely on opinion
i dont think nic cage is a horrible actor, hes made some decent movies..i think that he suffers from the same ailment as samuel L jackson, they just dont know how to say "no" to a script
I actually did that same thing before, just didn't have a laptop to post it with. But I came up with about 25% for Nick Cage movies. I took off the top six from the list because they are all unreleased so far, so I never have even had the chance to see them. From there I found about 15-16 movies I liked. I think Thundercracker is on to something though, coupled with him having difficulty paying his taxes for several years and needing the money, he doesn't say no even when it may be a bad role—Similar to Mr. L. Motherfuckin Jackson.
@iceman and N8
You can use % profit as the rubric for if it was a hit or a miss. Maybe consider rotten tomatoes scores above 75% but lower profit or none a hit.
Baseketball comes to mind in these rules