This movie will appeal to jocks because of the subject matter, but yet they're going to sit around and grunt out baseball stats, policy, rules, and whats possible and whats not possible in this sport, completely missing the point that this movie isn't about baseball at all, but about mental illness and the stresses associated with fame, and people who unintentionally enable bad behavior of those with mental illness.
shareYou're kidding, right? You got that from a Brendan Fraser movie? You think Encino Man, Dudley Do-right himself signed up for a comedy and it had a deep hidden meaning about mental illness, and the people who enable them?
I love baseball (and baseball movies) and could complain about policies, etc. like the DH, but I think my BIGGEST complaint was Fraser's inability to PRETEND to play baseball. They cut away from his pitches and swings throughout the entire movie. Rarely do you get to actually see him swing a bat or let go of a pitch. When you do, the director didn't even bother to make sure that he knows how to stand next to home plate.
I found the movie to be hopeless. Poorly done, low-budget crap that was churned out by someone that didn't care about baseball OR the movie in general, much less about mental illness and the stresses associated with fame, and enablers.
Good for you for pulling all that out of this schlock.