Purely Joyful Movie!

While it doesn't offer any answers, it both thrills and makes you think.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

Like the great film, it's made with a great deal of visible affection both in front of and behind the camera.

This movie was a great baseball movie. It is probably the best I have seen. The story is about a guy that wants to win the last game of the season. I thought the movie was done great. Brad Pitt played a huge part in this movie. He was the producer and an actor. Christ Pratt was also in this movie. This was one of his first. It was probably one of his best though. His charter in many scenes made you feel like you where going to cry because you where so happy for him. The story was pretty much the same as of what really happened. The score in this movie made you get really involved. That is what a score needs to do.This is one of my favorite movies and one of the best baseball movies. This is also one of the best documentaries ever..

I don't like baseball. I don't like math. However, I still liked Moneyball. They could have easily shaved off a half-hour from this film and it's completely inaccessible for those who don't have a fundamental understanding of baseball, but it has solid writing, solid acting and even though it's primarily a crash course in statistics, it's still interesting.

Moneyball's greatest aspects: an adapted screenplay written by Aaron Sorkin, based off of a Michael Lewis book.The film is incredibly well written, with each scene reliving the story of general manager Billy Beane (played by Brad Pitt) struggling to rebuild an unfortunate, low budget Oakland baseball team. The screenplay allows for excitement and attentiveness, somehow changing a slow moving sport into an enjoyable, dramatic motion picture.The attention to detail throughout the film, like the fit of the baseball pants and the design of the locker room, truly shows the hard work and effort put in by the production crew. Despite the simplicity of baseball uniforms relative to usual film attire, the costume design for Moneyball is still impressive. The well designed set for the baseball team's locker room and offices allows for long shots through hallways that show characters' moods and general ambiance.Additionally, the film crew did a fantastic job of understanding and breaking down the data-oriented system that is used in baseball today to rate players. Director Bennett Miller successfully delivers comprehensive scenes to teach the audience about this complicated concept, all the while incorporating drama and baseball action into the film.Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill are both fantastic in Moneyball. Both of them grow into their characters extremely well, and the film successfully manages to get the audience to become attached to them. Brad Pitt wonderfully depicts inner frustration and pain on the screen, all the while smiling externally to his character's coworkers and family. His performance is further enhanced by the personalities of his supporting cast, specifically Jonah Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman.Director of Photography Wally Pfister has a great sense for a scene's look and feel, and he proves that to us throughout the film. For a baseball movie, Pfister shoots scenes with aspects of ingenuity and reality, sometimes shooting scenes the way a person would view a baseball game through their TV. His use of both natural light and artificial light is nicely done — specifically, Pfister's shots tend to have certain lights turned off, whether in a room or in a stadium, to project a dramatic feel onto the scene.Additionally, the editing was superb. By going back and forth between the 2001/2002 baseball video montages with the film footage, the film is able to tie together 2001/2002's exciting commentary with slow motion pitches and swings.Ultimately, Moneyball is able to successfully fulfill and translate the beautifully written story told by Michael Lewis.

I watched a movie Moneyball yesterday. I barely got last night because it made me think lots of things.The main character of this movie, Billy, (Brad Pitt acting) is a cruel boss. He fired a lot of players and workers for reconstructing team. Anyone could understand why he is so notorious and selfish about managing the baseball team. Actually while watching this scene in this movie, I reminded some incident two months ago in my working place. My company had a huge reconstruction that time, so many attendant had to leave their previous position. I also could not escape from this human resources part. So I had to my working time and my paycheck was thinner than before. I blamed my boss : "This reconstruction is so pathetic and ridiculous! It is like one soccer player made play the baseball!" But yesterday, through this movie, sometimes this kind of exchange can make positive conclusion. And some people can overcome his own trouble through this sudden change.In this movie, Billy was a great promising player when he was a high school student. He was great intellectual student, too. But he gave up his learning opportunity, and he became a baseball player in Major League. However, he did not make up people's expectation. Billy realized that some professional people cannot see who is good or bad in the baseball. Billy have believed only statistics and his belief started working after 3 months of reconstruction of team. Sometimes I have thought : "My decision is right in the past? For example, if I found my own job earlier instead of studying in graduate school, how much I get money now?" Billy is a lucky guy in a broad sense, I think. When he realized he could not success as a baseball player, he threw up all his career. I envy him his courage. To be honest, I also gave up my learning in school and I started my working life. Well, I really trusted my ability about study when I entranced into a graduate school. I thought wrong I was a prodigy before.Whenever I see Oakland's T-shirt, I would like to remind this movie.