Comments on: Brad Pitt (Finally) Speaks About Moneyball

By: goldsac

goldsac — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 06:00:57 +0000

@ allen: Solaris was ambiguous, sure, but not confusing. It wasn’t hard to come up with interpretations of the overall meaning, yet it was be difficult to decide upon which one is right. I thought it was a great flick, and enjoyed it more than the original Tartovsky version.

Onto the topic, Brad Pitt can walk. Not that I’m glad to see him go, but a baseball movie doesn’t need such a high level actor to be successful. Baseball fans are gonna go see this even if Kevin Costner has to step up and extend his baseball movie appearance record further. Hopefully it’s not just baseball fans that check it out, but it is the fans themselves that will contribute most to the box office charts, and last time i checked, baseball people weren’t preoccupied with flash and sensation unless they come from the south side of Chicago

By: allen

allen — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 01:05:03 +0000

i honestly dont care about Brad Pitt’s involvement, what I want to know more about is Steven Soderbergh vision for this movie. He is a stylistic director that has had my expectations high with Sex, Lies, And Videotape, Out Of Sight, Traffic (a movie I can watch over and over), and the Ocean trilogy.

Full Frontal was horrible. Solarus was confusing and George Clooney’s worst movie since Batman & Robin.
The Informant! with Matt Damon looks very different (I’m trying not to say stupid). I will have to give it a look when it comes out. But I’m just not sure Soderbergh is the right guy for a baseball movie

By: Lyn

Lyn — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 04:07:50 +0000

I love Brad Pitt whatever movies he made I made a it a point to watch it and buy a dvd for my collection. He’s acting seem to be getting better every movie he made and I like that.

By: PTMaatta

PTMaatta — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:22:43 +0000

Brad Pitt has been doing this his whole career. What arrogance he has (and tremendous power) where he can allow months of prep to go on for projects that he walks away from just days before shooting. Costing studios lots of money.

I remember the first such instance being back in 1999, when just two weeks before shooting, Pitt dropped out of “Almost Famous”, nearly killing that project before they delayed it a month and cast Billy Crudup.

He did the same on “Dragonfly” in 2000. Plus, of course, “The Fountain”, “State of Play” and “The Fighter”, “The Bourne”-series as well, even “Marching to Valhalla” with Oliver Stone back in the late 90′s, but this makes you question why he didn’t feel that way when it came to crap like “Snatch” or “The Mexican” or “Ocean’s”-movies…

Who knows. But it’s pretty impressive when most every other actor on the planet, if they were to drop out of projects last minute like this, would probably suffer career damage, Brad Pitt and his twelve pack abs, gets away scott free, every time.

Only if you look like Brad Pitt, can you get away with it.

By: RastaZen

RastaZen — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:49:12 +0000

this sounds like a dull movie to me but I’ve been wrong before ( well , actually I THOUGHT I was wrong once but I was mistaken ).

Jacob , your use of the word fakakta made me laugh , so thank you for that (and the rest of the article was good too ).

Fakakta………good word

By: Gary

Gary — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:32:11 +0000

It depends on the humor .
And with Sorkin doing the rewrites Humor is what they are going for.