Magnus wrote:
oh yeah the text at the end of the movie. That completely changes everything. I was so convinced about everything because some letters appeared at the end of the film. If only all films were able to convey their themes through text at the end.
I guess you misread what I wrote, so here it is again.
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It shows the A's 20 game win streak and them getting into the playoffs. That and the entire last act, including text. How did the scene with Beane meeting the Red Sox brass not show how it affected it at a sport-wide level? Or how the scouts first reacted to Beane?
The Social Network was about the actual programs that were used to create Facebook? That's odd because I thought the movie was about how the founder's ego inflated causing him to lose everyone around him while creating the most popular website on the planet that lead to him earning billions of dollars. You know, "the man who has everything really has nothing"?
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In fact, both Social Network and Moneyball are similar in that they actually don't really do a good job of showing the effects of the main subject they are dealing with. TSN doesn't dive that deep at all into actual social-networking, particularly after the beginning.
And neither tried to because Sorkin and Zaillian both were able to recognize that audiences wouldn't give a shit about the main subjects alone. Otherwise both films would've been made into documentaries.
And I just want to be clear. I never said the film did a great job of showing how sabermetrics
works. I said that it showed how implementing sabermetrics changed the way baseball has been run for the past decade. I probably could've put this in a more clearer way, but that's what I was getting at.
Johnny Dollar wrote:
And Citizen Kane did a terrible job of showing the effects of publishing a daily newspaper. Awful movie.