MONEYBALL
Written by Steve Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin Directed by Bennett Miller Starring Brad Pitt, Johan Hill and Philip Seymour Hoffman Billy Beane: There are rich teams; there are poor teams; then there’s fifty feet of crap; and then there’s us. These days, it seems that when it comes to conversations about the American economy, the focus is on the increasing divide between the rich and the poor. In MONEYBALL , that same gap is affecting America’s favourite pass time, baseball. How can a team that only has $40 million to pay its players possibly compete with teams that have three times that amount at their disposal? The answer is simple. Input everything you know about the players into a computer and let it do all the thinking for you. And once you have all your algorithms in place, you can apply them to the sport and rob it of all spontaneity and excitement. Unfortunately, some of the fun and excitement that usually spills over from the sport itself into the baseball movie genre, has also di...