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Wednesday, August 08, 2012
‘Trouble With The Curve’ Trailer: Clint Eastwood’s ‘Moneyball’
The Dead Talent Pool.
Thanks to “Trouble With the Curve,” at least one more. Warner Bros. released the first trailer for the baseball drama, and it looks like an amalgam of “Gran Torino” and “Moneyball,” without the racism of the former and the Moneyball techniques of the latter. In “Curve,” Eastwood stars as Gus, an aging baseball scout with failing eyesight who goes out on the road with his estranged daughter (Amy Adams) to find one last top prospect. (Eastwood’s Gus has previously unearthed Dusty Baker, Dale Murphy and fake baseball player Johnny Flanagan, who is now a young scout and faux-rival. He’s played by Justin Timberlake.) Along the way, Gus and his daughter bond again, she falls for Johnny, and Matthew Lillard shows up as a Billy Beane-type who thinks scouting should be done inside a computer. (“Gus can’t even turn on a typewriter,” he snarls.)
It’s doubtful “Trouble With the Curve”—directed by Eastwood protege Robert Lorenz from a script by Randy Brown—will dive as deeply into the scout-statistic divide that “Moneyball” did, but that’s not the worst crime. After all: Eastwood. Timberlake. Adams. Phil Phillips’ “Home.” The whole thing just looks good. Perhaps that’s one of the reasons why Warner Bros. moved “The Great Gatsby” to 2013: The studio has an Oscar campaign to mount.
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This is like saying it's an amalgam of nothing and nothing.
Even with Justin Timberlake?
For a porno.
No idea why Amy Adams took this role. Jenna Fischer, maybe, but not Adams.
an unseemly number of baseball metaphors are rattling around in my brain pan.
the high hard one?
I would draft Amy Adams in the first round, if you know what I mean.
13. Gonfalon Bubble Posted: August 08, 2012 at 06:32 PM (#4203749)
Does it have something to do with sex?!?
Me: Oh, you won't disturb me. I'll be in my room masturbating.
Me (to myself): They won't disturb me. I'll be masturbating.
Because Clint gave her a big pile of money. Which is a lesson to those of you having masturbatory tendencies at the moment.
Peter Gibbons: What would you do if you had a million dollars?
Lawrence: I'll tell you what I'd do, man: two chicks at the same time, man.
Peter Gibbons: That's it? If you had a million dollars, you'd do two chicks at the same time?
Lawrence: Damn straight. I always wanted to do that, man. And I think if I were a millionaire I could hook that up, too; 'cause chicks dig dudes with money.
Peter Gibbons: Well, not all chicks.
Lawrence: Well, the type of chicks that'd double up on a dude like me do.
At least no one has said they'd give her the Dirty Harry.
My favourite version of that bit is:
(the attractive sister of a tv star has introduced herself to Jay and Marty)
Marty's brain: Wow, she called me handsome!
Jay: I wonder what she looks like naked.
Jay's brain: You idiot, you said that out loud. Better cover.
Jay: I mean uh, I wonder what she cooks like... uh, naked?
Jay's brain: (sarcastically) Oh, nice going.
Me (to myself): They won't disturb me. I'll be masturbating.
Joe Montana, SNL, right?
/ edit - Second only to Gretzky as Elvis leading the waiter's hockey team to victory over the rich kids in Hawaii.
I'd throw her a belt-high heater, if you catch my drift.
Hey, Peter. Watch out for the cornhole, man.
Last time my wife and I tried to go to the multiplex, the choices were superhero movie (more than one), animated (more than one), Katy Perry. That's it. How much competition is there?
A damn good lesson. All I gotta do is come up with more money than Clint Eastwood did, and just see what happens THEN, my friend.
Exactly.
And always looks 10% sad
Exactly. Her character in "Julie and Julia" was incredibly annoying, but I didn't care much. She's a cutie.
goes out on the road with his estranged daughter
Doesn't Clint have an estranged daughter in every movie he does these days? Indeed, doesn't everybody? Why can't movie characters have good relationships with their kids? "Hey, Dad, you wanna go out on the road with me to find one last prospect? That sounds awesome! Love ya!"
Who goes completely blind and then realizes his lifelong dream of becoming a major league umpire
Who's the bald "that guy" who appears to be interviewing Amy Adams for a law firm job?
In other words, yeah, if she dug in I'd come up and in on her.
But this movie looks horrible.
That's George Wyner, of Hill Street Blues fame. (He was the Asst. DA that had the hots for Joyce Davenport.) Also American Pie 2, Fletch, etc. Good to see him again!
George Wyner. He's in the "bald guy Hall of Fame" with Wallace Shawn, Jeffrey Tambor, and Stephen Tobolowsky.
Amy Adams is nice looking in a broad, generic way that appeals to everyone, but is not exceptional, like Jay Leno's comedy, or TGI Friday's food. She's better looking than your average woman, but if she wasn't famous, you could flip through 100 Hollywood headshots and completely skip over her.
"Soon."
Spaceballs is no Galaxy Quest, but it had its moments.
I'm in the wheelhouse, but I found Galaxy Quest utterly forgettable. I realize that's not the prevailing opinion.
That's funny - I was just looking at that picture and thinking how much she resembled Jenna Fischer from the first season of The Office.
Spaceballs is no Galaxy Quest, but it had its moments.
Hell yeah. Brooks was pretty hit and miss once the 1970s ended, but Spaceballs was a definite hit.
She has a lot of movies lined up for the next few years and really only this and Man of Steel (which could end up being good, I suppose) look like paycheck movies. On the Road comes out this year and looks like it might be decent. She's in the next Paul Thomas Anderson movie, the next Spike Jonze movie and the next David O. Russell movie.
It will be interesting to see how those projects turn out for her. It think she's a very good actress (and, yes, cute).
And Talladega Nights
Missed that one. I don't really dig Will Ferrell in wacky man-child mode. Speaking of which, I still need to check out his Raymond Carver adaptation on Netflix...
Ditto. I've liked him a lot in other things - Stranger than Fiction was terrific, as was Winter Passing, and he did a more than passable job in Melinda and Melinda. But most of his over-the-top, wildly comedic stuff I don't really care for.
I will say this - he seems to genuinely enjoy what he does. Have people here seen the series of beer commercials he did that ran only in the Midwest? They're terrifically weird, and not the sort of thing you'd expect a true A-list type guy to be doing. I think, in terms of never knowing where he might show up next, he's the heir apparent to Bill Murray. I hope he adopts Murray's late career stance of taking on more serious but often supporting roles, because I think he could really do some good work.
Better buckle up, sir.
Wyner played a film editor in the 1972 Columbo episode Double Exposure (starring Robert Culp, in one of Culp's four Columbo appearances). But he's more well known as Murray from Matt Houston. (Or perhaps as an ADA in Hill Street Blues, though I never watched the show.)
I have only a vague idea who Amy Adams is. I thought the girl in the above captioned still shot was Isla Fisher.
With all due respect, Lassus, you may be too far in the wheelhouse.
* I guess I mostly know him from Bad News Bears. He was the manager that had only 8 players, and had to forfeit.
Touche!
EDIT: Or a reach-around slide, if you know what I mean!
Hey, wait, that doesn't sound right...
Yeah I can understand that. If you've seen one of those movies, you've seen them all. Anchorman stands out, but the rest are interchangeable.
I agree with #62, I enjoyed Ferrell in Stranger than Fiction than any of his high profile comedies. Haven't seen the other 2 movies cited though.
Fred Bob says, Check it out.
That doesn't make for very compelling drama.
- I'd just as soon watch a syringe drain me of all my bone marrow and replace it with lighter fluid.
To be fair though, I think a lot of people would watch that, because it sounds awesome.
You're overestimating the number of people who know who I am.
Stranger than Fiction is a great movie. I also loved the Truman Show (which I think is fairly similar). All that may say more about me than the movies though.
And I think you're underestimating how many people would set a match to your lighter fluid filled body whether they know you or not...
Whoah, she was born in '74? I really haven't seen her in much outside of that appearance on The Office, but I was under the assumption she was around my age (27) or younger. That fact just blew my mind.
I always get Amy Adams confused with Anna Kendrick for some reason.
Endless family relationship agita has become unbelievably boring to me, and has been for decades. There isn't a word I enjoyed of two and a half Franzen novels for this reason.
Hang 'Em High was really more of a Pat Hingle movie to me.
As for Ferrell, yes he plays man-children most of the time, but the man-child is the dominant character trope of our age. They probably germinated with the Animal House movie and its descendents. The man-child would have made no sense in the 1950s and 1960s.
I am distinguishing the man-child from the child-man. Jerry Lewis played a child-man. Steve Carrell's Michael Scott was mostly a child-man. The difference between the man-child and the child-man mostly has to do with the sexual desirability of the characters. Child-men can get the girl if they are the lead, but they usually need to do some degree of work-transformation to get her. Man-children usually have to do little or nothing to get the girl. The triumph of the man-child can probably be linked to all manner of social decline for the armchair sociologists.
I can see that. The only thing I remember Kendrick from is Up in the Air, but I could see Adams in that role or Kendrick in, say, Adams' role in Charlie Wilson's War.
Kendrick is 27 (today, in fact). I'm surprised she doesn't show up in more stuff - I thought she was really good in Up in the Air. Though I guess she's done that Twilight stuff, none of which I've seen.
Old School was good wacky-Ferrell, probably because he was the second or third banana.
I agree with this - it's the most palatable of his comedies to me, because you get him in relatively smaller doses. Even then, though, a little goes a long way.
I can't believe he's only in his early 40s. It feels like he's been around forever.
She was fine in Up in the Air though I didn't like the movie itself much.
She was good in Scott Pilgrim v. The World, though I like that film in general.
Mid 40's (45). But I was under the impression he was a bit older than that.
I saw Leap Year on a plane ride about two years ago, and I thought the main actress was Jenna Fischer. It wasn't until I looked the movie up on imdb a few months later that I realized it was Amy Adams.
Endless family relationship agita has become unbelievably boring to me, and has been for decades. There isn't a word I enjoyed of two and a half Franzen novels for this reason.
And I had to stop short, forget the rest, and say thank you for saying that. I feel like I should like his work, but I just don't, and that's precisely why.
I'm surrounded by ########.
In other Franzen news, Kevin Frandsen is having a nice little run replacing Placido "Faberge Egg" Polanco: .355/.405/.430 in 117 PAs for a tasty 126 OPS+. His fielding at 3B has been inconsistent with a mix of nice stops and bouncing throws.
If were talking cute redheads in their mid-30's, I'll pass on Amy Adams and take Isla Fisher. She is adorable.
It's my fantasy, so why do I have to choose?
Mission accomplished?
Also "Trouble with the Curve" with someone at Eastwood's age sounds like a movie about an old man with a prostate issue.
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