Aww, poor negelcted blog. If only I had the energy to update you more often. But then I could put that energy to better use...like revamping the webpage or something...make a buffer...

Anyhow, I'll make it up by giving some of my thoughts about the movies I've seen recently. This certainly would make a good update for the forum, except that seems pretty much dead now. :'( I did make a request for a Keenspace forum, so when the time comes, I'll shift the attention to there. And hopefully some of my fellow Keenspace fans will make the effort to make some comments. Not like it's all that hard right now. *glare* hehe

So, on to the reviews:

- Fever Pitch

When this movie was released around the same time as Opening Day for baseball, I noticed it was quite heavily marketed during the Red Sox games at the time. And I wondered if the movie was being as heavily promoted in other baseball markets other than Boston. I don't know how well the movie ended up doing, but I'm pretty sure it did fairly well in the Northeast.

As for the movie itself, well...I left disappointed, like it was missing something. Like more Red Sox...they could have easily substituted any team in there. Which I know they did; that it was adapted from a story involving a British soccer team, and they picked the Red Sox because the Farrelly brothers directed it. I suppose I was still yearning to relive a bit of that playoff magic, and they just quickly glossed over it at the end. I guess I'll just have to get one of those DVDs =P (not the official MLB World Series one...one of the "local" ones, with a little more emphasis on the ALCS mwahahaha).

The other problem was...actually, I've found that Bill Simmons, aka The Sports Guy of espn.com fame was able to better articulate what I couldn't quite put my finger on. (I've been reading a lot of his stuff there, lately.) In this article, he finds that instead of being the blend of sports movie and chick flick the movie marketed itself as (he calls that a "spork flick"), Fever Pitch is really just a chick flick. And when you're going in expecting Red Sox stuff...or even simply Boston stuff...it left me empty.

Plus, Jimmy Fallon is a known Yankees sympathizer. Despite what he may have done on SNL, there's still that tidbit floating in the back of my mind...like "he's only acting like he really cares", or "is he secretly rooting for the Spankees?"



Ugh... I look at the time, and I realize I need to get up early tomorrow. I will finish this, hopefully soon...there are at least a couple more movies I want to talk about.
posted by Tim at 2:43 AM