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Oh man. Poor DePo. How would you like it if they made a movie about you and your buddy and they cast Brad Pitt to be your buddy and Jonah Hill to be you.
I was about to say, is Jonah Hill going to lose a lot of weight? Or does Paul DePodesta look NOTHING like I imagine him to look.
Jonah Hill
Stunt casting?
I had a long streak going of not falling for one of those.
Did you not read the introduction?
That's "Oscar winner Mo'Nique" to you.
out of those two, I'm not sure which I've never heard of more
At first glance I read this as Dmitri Young. I cannot explain how or why, but it did lead to a closer reading that made a little more sense.
ummm..no and no
Agreed. I did not care for Superbad, and I typically love stupid comedies. That movie was awful.
Data point: I don't think I've heard it except in direct reference to the film.
Only the greatest game of all time.
Hatteberg was definitely the hero of game 20.
I was at the 18th game of the streak. Oakland led 4-2 going into the top of the 9th. Art Howe was weary of using Billy Koch* at that point, so he stayed with a clearly tiring Mark Mulder. Mulder proceded to give up back to back home runs, blowing the win and his lead. Billy Koch then came in and was ... Billy Koch. He got two outs, gave up a bomb and blew the save. But Miggy won the game for the A's in the bottom of the 9th with a 3-run walk-off piece off of Everyday Eddie Guardado.
*Koch was really streaky. I think it was mental with him. When he had it going, he was a decent closer. But when he had a poor outing, he'd lose his confidence and just look terrible for his next 3-4 appearances. In other words, you really didn't want Koch and his ugly goatee as your closer. Yet despite him, that club won 103 games.
since when? i've never heard it. but to be fair i've never seen superbad. i have seen napoleon dynamite.
I rarely disagree with Shooty, but THIS is the greatest game of all time:
http://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/OAK/OAK200704150.shtml
Especially since 11 should have warned you off.
You really can't complain. The movie is called Superbad. Anyone who watches a movie that says right there in the title that it's awful deserves what they get.
Heh, it is one of the more appropriately titled films I've seen.
Agreed. (with the never heard of part)
I'd imagine that pretty much anyone on the planet could be cast as Depodesta and wouldn't ruin the movie going experience, in terms of "that dude doesn't look like the dude he's portraying". I mean, outside of this website, I'm guessing there aren't too many people who could pick DePo out of a lineup. Hell, I'm not even sure I could.
Come on, even this one?
True, but casting Jonah Hill seems like it's playing a little too much to the silly notion that DePo is a big nerd who never played the game. The guy played college baseball and football--he may not have had pro talent, but he was an athlete (probably significantly better than most of the guys who criticized him).
It's seeped enough into the pop culture that Kanye referenced it in his verse in Forever.
Granted, there is a good chance that you haven't heard that song either (other than maybe on the radio), but it did peak at #8 on the Billboard Hot 100, #1 in Rap and #2 in Hot Hip Hop/R&B;.
Because otherwise, yeah, that Kanye verse is confusing.
Verse:
Good point. I'm a white 31 year-old. One time, I mentioned the tragic murders of Tupac Shakur and Biggie Smalls and it ripped a hole right through the racial space-time continuum.
But that's a direct reference to the movie. Rich seems to think McLovin has taken on a life of its own, as a way to describe a loser.
When listening to it, I didn't pick up the "super bad" part of the line -- "McLovin" is definitely given most of the emphasis in that line. YMMV.
FWIW (and I would say "not worth much"), a young Mormon colleague of mine (who is no longer a believer, but still he worships at the feet of all great Mormon athletes and insists Dale Murphy belongs in the HOF) knew Jared Hess in elementary school in Utah, though insists he has never seen Jon Heder's magic underwear.
How many here actually listen to the radio? I don't mean this as a challenge to the quoted post, I'm just curious, because I have never heard (or heard of) this song, but I never listen to the radio. I've lived where I live for nine months, and I've never bothered to learn the stations. I just plug the iPod in when I get in the car.
That's not true. Napoleon Dynamite was interesting. Napoleon Dynamite was quotable. But Napoleon Dynamite was not good.
Napoleon Dynamite is what made me finally realize I'm just not in sync with my generation. I want my good movies to be good. The silly, so bad it's good stuff is great for a 5 minute comedy sketch but it's a joke that doesn't really last for an hour and a half.
(That being said I did like Superbad, in a guilty pleasure, reminds me of my high school experience kind of way)
It really, really is. It's my favorite comedy in a decade. (Since Wag the Dog and The Big Lebowski.) I liked Napoleon Dynamite all right, though at times it had a Where's Waldo? feel to it. "There are three jokes in this scene. Can you spot them?"
As for this Moneyball...thing, I suspect our occasional threads about changes to the movie will be far more entertaining than the movie itself. Multiple changes to the writer, director and lead actors are rarely the harbingers of a good movie.
I feel exactly the opposite. Jonah Hill and Michael Cera were great. The cops were much less interesting.
Some pointless Mila Kunis anagrams: Anus I Milk; A Milk In Us
Superbad is amazing. Napoleon is great in 5 minute pieces and has great quotes, but is painful (for me) to watch beyond that.
I listen to a lot of pop radio. It's the only radio station I can get at work, and I'm burned out on my CDs (no Ipods allowed). And I'm about 95% an indie rock snob. So I know about every crappy pop song in the world. And crappy pop songs are better than the inane ######## my coworkers talk about all day.
I listen to sports on the radio, but I doubt I've listened to music on the radio for at least ten years.
Can you stream online stations at work?
Yeah...kinda. I listen to XM Radio if I don't have my iPod with me, but the kind of radio that is local? Uh, I guess I hear it for 9 seconds when my alarm goes off.
I heard Lady Gaga for the first time about a month ago. Never was it so possible for a 23 year old to be so out of touch!
Now that's what I call a forced rhyme.
I'm not an Apatow fan, although there are some hilarious moments in his films. My criticism is that his work doesn't fit the movie medium either visually or storywise. He's a television writer who is great at that.
Mila Kunis is ####### hot as ####.
Oh yes.
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