Brad Pitts spends more time eating than he does at an actual baseball game in this movie, which goes down as a positive in my book.
I don’t know why but Moneyball has The Social Network vibes to me. I couldn’t tell you at all why and maybe I’d change my mind at rewatch. But just putting it out there.
If you have someone in your life who hates sports, this is a great gateway drug to sports movies.
If I had a a dollar for the every time I was asked if I was related to Michael Jackson while on my mission in Mexico, I might have been able to spot the ticket for everyone at my showing tonight.
But atlas, no Jackson royalties have made their way to me so I had to pay my own way to see my namesake dance and hee hee his way around the screen.
I do love Michael and his…
After watching this again, I have to do it.
Officially moving Wonka into my top 4 movies.
That’s right, point and laugh. I can’t hear you over the joy and happiness I’m experiencing in this magical land of sweets.
And you would be fair to point out that I now have 2 musicals in my top 4 movies. Does this mean I am a closet theater kid? Maybe.
Point is, this is my list, and I choose to submit to my guilty pleasure that is Wonka.
For all the funny bells and whistles of Ocean’s Eleven, it is the closing scene of the crew quietly gazing at the Bellagio fountain that really stood out to me. A wonderful visual depiction of awe, relief, and happiness laid out before the audience, undiluted by clever dialogue or tiny sunglasses.
Also, have to say that as an LDS man who occasionally says four letter words that I shouldn’t, I felt very seen by the LDS characters in this movie. I’m still spiritual, damn it!
