jim wrote:So am I the only person that thought Fever Pitch was an ok movie?
I haven't seen it, but the thought of Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore in a movie about the Red Sox makes me want to puke. Any three of those ingredients individually make me want to puke, really.
And now that I've seen Jim Caple's sweater, I think I need to run to the bathroom and vomit right now.
I have to admit, I can't watch it. I hate Fallon. AND he's a Yankee fan. And on top of all of that, they filmed the last shot on the field after they clinched, essentially ruining the best moment in 86 years for Red Sox fans.*
*best moment for Red Sox fans that aren't also Cardinal fans
jim wrote:So am I the only person that thought Fever Pitch was an ok movie?
I haven't seen it, but the thought of Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore in a movie about the Red Sox makes me want to puke. Any three of those ingredients individually make me want to puke, really.
And now that I've seen Jim Caple's sweater, I think I need to run to the bathroom and vomit right now.
--P--
It's really not bad, except at the end when she jumps off the green monster. You know it's supposed to be a silly movie, but at that point it just goes too far.
But there really are some funny scenes. There is one where she coaxes him away from the TV to go out to dinner with her parents with the Red Sox playing an away game. He's taping the game, and in the middle of his lobster dinner someone next to him starts talking about the game and he freaks out like a 3 year old because he can't put his hands over his ears.
The other one that comes to mind is when she surprises him with a weekend to Paris. He's figuring it's in a month or so, but it turns out it's the upcoming weekend. Weird evil music plays and he looks at the schedule which the camera zooms in on showing a home series that weekend.
Really, for what it was supposed to be I think it was pretty good.
jim wrote:So am I the only person that thought Fever Pitch was an ok movie?
I haven't seen it, but the thought of Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore in a movie about the Red Sox makes me want to puke. Any three of those ingredients individually make me want to puke, really.
And now that I've seen Jim Caple's sweater, I think I need to run to the bathroom and vomit right now.
--P--
It's really not bad, except at the end when she jumps off the green monster. You know it's supposed to be a silly movie, but at that point it just goes too far.
But there really are some funny scenes. There is one where she coaxes him away from the TV to go out to dinner with her parents with the Red Sox playing an away game. He's taping the game, and in the middle of his lobster dinner someone next to him starts talking about the game and he freaks out like a 3 year old because he can't put his hands over his ears.
The other one that comes to mind is when she surprises him with a weekend to Paris. He's figuring it's in a month or so, but it turns out it's the upcoming weekend. Weird evil music plays and he looks at the schedule which the camera zooms in on showing a home series that weekend.
Really, for what it was supposed to be I think it was pretty good.
Let me try again.
IT HAS JIMMY FALLON IN IT. Jimmy Fallon is not funny. He is the exact opposite of funny. I change the channel any time he comes on the TV. He annoys the ever living crap out of me.
IT HAS DREW BARRYMORE IN IT. OK, that isn't terrible, but I don't care for her.
IT IS ABOUT THE RED SOX. And add to it what RC said about the scene shot on the field. I almost kicked my TV when I saw that happen live. The only reason I didn't was because it wasn't my TV--it was my buddy's.
Bonus: IT'S A CHICK FLICK ABOUT SPORTS. I hate these movies when they try to get chicks to watch sports movies, or get guys to watch chick flicks. Those genres are best suited to stay seperate, and with their specific gender audiences.
jim wrote:So am I the only person that thought Fever Pitch was an ok movie?
I haven't seen it, but the thought of Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore in a movie about the Red Sox makes me want to puke. Any three of those ingredients individually make me want to puke, really.
And now that I've seen Jim Caple's sweater, I think I need to run to the bathroom and vomit right now.
--P--
It's really not bad, except at the end when she jumps off the green monster. You know it's supposed to be a silly movie, but at that point it just goes too far.
But there really are some funny scenes. There is one where she coaxes him away from the TV to go out to dinner with her parents with the Red Sox playing an away game. He's taping the game, and in the middle of his lobster dinner someone next to him starts talking about the game and he freaks out like a 3 year old because he can't put his hands over his ears.
The other one that comes to mind is when she surprises him with a weekend to Paris. He's figuring it's in a month or so, but it turns out it's the upcoming weekend. Weird evil music plays and he looks at the schedule which the camera zooms in on showing a home series that weekend.
Really, for what it was supposed to be I think it was pretty good.
Let me try again.
IT HAS JIMMY FALLON IN IT. Jimmy Fallon is not funny. He is the exact opposite of funny. I change the channel any time he comes on the TV. He annoys the ever living crap out of me.
IT HAS DREW BARRYMORE IN IT. OK, that isn't terrible, but I don't care for her.
IT IS ABOUT THE RED SOX. And add to it what RC said about the scene shot on the field. I almost kicked my TV when I saw that happen live. The only reason I didn't was because it wasn't my TV--it was my buddy's.
Bonus: IT'S A CHICK FLICK ABOUT SPORTS. I hate these movies when they try to get chicks to watch sports movies, or get guys to watch chick flicks. Those genres are best suited to stay seperate, and with their specific gender audiences.
I never had a huge problem with them in the past. My hatred for them is recent. I actually rooted for them in the playoffs in 1999. My route to pure hatred of that team developed in the following order...
2003: Came back to beat the Oakland A's (my 2nd favorite team) after being down 2 games to none. That was when the whole "evil empire" thing was at its peak. The Red Sox fans liked to act like they were "doing it the right way" and the Yankees were the bad guys. It always left a bad taste in my mouth that they just never admitted that they had the 2nd highest payroll in baseball.
2004: Ruined my Cardinals dream season by sweeping them in the World Series (no brainer)
2004-2005: This was the real clincher. Dated a girl from 2003-2005 whose entire family loved the "Sawx". They came from Boston. From the time we got together there was some ribbing back and forth, but it actually got annoying after the World Series. I may have been being sensitive at the time, but her dad kept making sure to rub my nose in the fact that the Sox swept my team every time I saw him. That went on until June of 2005. I actually went down to St. Louis with them to watch the Cards/Sox interleague matchup. I just wanted to watch some baseball, but the guy was a total jerk to me from the time the car left omaha until the time we got back. He was also being a typical loud and obnoxious new englander at Busch and getting into it with basically every cardinals fan sitting in our section. He kept loudly talking about the "inferior" st. louis cardinals and how they were irrelevant because the red sox made them into jokes and how all the "losers" at busch were beating their chests about winning a meaningless june series. It was so embarrasing having to sit with this dude who was getting into shouting matches with dozens of Cardinals fans. He made no friends there. Also, I like ST. Louis in and of itself and he kept walking around talking about how boring it was and how I should come out to the east coast to see what a real city is like. I was so annoyed with him but couldn't tear into him because I was with his daughter. When we got home we basically never spoke again. Just a loud, arrogant, ugly person. His daughter and I broke up a month later. I could have never been a part of that family.
2007: The Sox are about to ruin yet another good season by a fun team with their huge payroll and even bigger egos.
So, yeah. the 2004 world series was a huge part of it, but it's been quite the evolution for me to hating the Sox. At this point, I think I would have preferred the Cubs winning the series this year to what's about to happen this week.
