Fever Pitch


No Idea / Saturday, April 9th, 2005

I saw Fever Pitch last night and I’ll come right out and say that I don’t think it’s gonna become a classic sports movie. When we think about Field of Dreams, Rudy, Bull Durham, Rocky, Rocky II, Rocky IV, Dodgeball, we won’t ever group them with Fever Pitch. Maybe it wasn’t supposed to be a great baseball movie, actually, I highly doubt it. But what I do know is that they should have gotten a better writer because the movie could have been so much better. There was no continuity to the story at all, and it made the beginning of the movie, as well as the ending, not so hot. Normally I really like the comedies Drew Barrymore is in, but normally Adam Sandler plays her opposite. He is awesome. Jimmy Fallon should still be on SNL. He was good there. Movies not so good. Sandler wasn’t too good on SNL. Movies very good. There’s a difference. Anyway, I sat through the movie nauseous because through most of the story, Fallon was torn between the woman he loved and the team that he loved. I felt his pain. Not because I’ve ever really been there, but because I, as a man, just understood. You really have to see it to understand. It’s heartwrenching; especially the last 10 minutes. The movie was decent though. A really good date movie. Guys can relate and laugh a good bit, girls can relate and laugh a good bit. I was entertained the whole time. Everyone can be entertained the whole time. Jimmy Fallon is still a funny guy, and Drew Barrymore still has her looks and cuteness about her… that heroin/sex addict just waiting to come out sort of cuteness. And it’s still about baseball, so it can’t be that bad. I laughed… I cried (Well on the inside thinking about how the Phillies are never going to win a series.)… I will wait for HBO. And so should you.

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