As much as Spielberg can be credited for some of the success of Transformers and Super 8 and even Falling Skies, it can be argued that he over saturated the market and thus the thud that seems to be the opening weekend of what I think is a sweet blockbuster, Cowboys and Aliens. Creatively it's like he hasn't missed all summer but one of the legacy issues with him is something like over-ambition or just plain greed which maybe doesn't work out so well once again after this summer.
Moneyball, the movie, doesn't look like the next great baseball movie. If you want you can think about David Fincher's non-existent version with Mr. Pitt but the real one does look like a fun watch. The next sport movies, notably the ESPN one, could surely have dealt with the two big issues in Moneyball, small markets and stat driven scouting. A movie about the LaRussa book, 3 Nights in August, is more dramatic than Moneyball though Billy Beane is a great kind of anti-hero and the themes of the book and movie kind of counterbalance The Blind Side, which is written by the same author, surely enough.
On the subject of the ESPN movie, I think it should run no more than 2 and 20, should be directed by Sophia Coppola, start at the start of the book, end during the Big Show(Olbermann and Dan Patrick) and finish with Animal House like story titles about what they all do after the story ends. To spell it out, this version would be another contemporary take on the "cowboys" that are so Hollywood. I know, "you're welcome" and "hello" in Spanish.
No comments:
Post a Comment