Fever Pitch

Post by jb » Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:29 pm

Not completely unwatchable. But it treads the line.

C-

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Sat Apr 09, 2005 5:16 pm

Book is very very good - movie doesn't really do much for it.

raisedbywolves · Post by **raisedbywolves** » Sun Apr 10, 2005 3:57 pm

C- from me too. Sooo flat and chemistry-free. Jimmy Fallon is definitely a TV star.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 5:35 am

raisedbywolves wrote:C- from me too. Sooo flat and chemistry-free. Jimmy Fallon is definitely a TV star.

Wow! Saw this comment and thought "Who is freaking Jimmy Fallon?" - I Googled and discovered that you guys are talking about an American version of Fever Pitch! About baseball!?! WTF!?!

Nick Hornby would be turning in his grave - if he were dead (or more likely laughing all the way to the bank)

Why must American film makers always fiddle with things like this? I've never forgiven Hollywood for what it did to The Lord of the Flies.

HeuristicsInc · Post by **HeuristicsInc** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:10 am

That's too bad, I was hoping there would be a Fallon movie worth seeing sometime. My fiancee went to elementary school with him, was good friends with his sister. She says she can still see the little kid in the way he acts. I've never seen him in anything because people always pan his movies. Have been curious tho.
-bill

c.layne · Post by **c.layne** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 10:58 am

Caravan Ray wrote:Why must American film makers always fiddle with things like this?

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raisedbywolves · Post by **raisedbywolves** » Mon Apr 11, 2005 6:49 pm

Caravan Ray wrote:Why must American film makers always fiddle with things like this? I've never forgiven Hollywood for what it did to The Lord of the Flies.

I'm certainly not the biggest baseball fan, but an adaptation of Hornby's story centered around the Sox seems like a great idea to me. It just doesn't work on the screen, thanks, I think, mostly to the hack-errific screenwriters of "Mr. Saturday Night" and "Father's Day" fame.

Post by jb » Mon Apr 11, 2005 7:28 pm

They are truly hack-licious.

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 6:25 am

raisedbywolves wrote:
Caravan Ray wrote:Why must American film makers always fiddle with things like this? I've never forgiven Hollywood for what it did to The Lord of the Flies.
I'm certainly not the biggest baseball fan, but an adaptation of Hornby's story centered around the Sox seems like a great idea to me. It just doesn't work on the screen, thanks, I think, mostly to the hack-errific screenwriters of "Mr. Saturday Night" and "Father's Day" fame.

(I suppose that this should be in the book thread, but...)

Have any of you guys read the book? I was really impressed by it. I'm not a soccer fan at all, and I'm not English - so I know nothing about Arsenal or what being an Arsenal fan implies - but I was really engrossed by the book and it's presentation of obsession. The book made me interested in Arsenal - which I though was pretty cool.

Anyway - as I said earlier - the English movie was pretty crap - and it sounds like the American version was too - so - read the book.

(just don't ever watch the American version of Lord of the Flies, the 1963 English version is much better - and Till Death Us Do Part is much better than All in The Family)

Caravan Ray · Post by **Caravan Ray** » Wed Apr 13, 2005 6:29 am

c.layne wrote:
Caravan Ray wrote:Why must American film makers always fiddle with things like this?
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Freddielove · Post by **Freddielove** » Fri Apr 15, 2005 1:11 am

I'm reading the book right now, well have been off and on for the last six months. Remaking that into a baseball movie sounds bad. And with Jimmy Fallon? who does he play? He's to old to be the main character and too young to be his father. Hey, at least the title translates, kind of.