To be clear, William Friedkin's look at college sport recruiting is fine aside from the 90's gloss overwhelming the tone at times and the pitiful attempt at recreating the capital of an African country as a place you can only enter with a small rowboat with a hand-painted sign you give to unincorporated villages in Southern Louisiana.
Nick Nolte is perfect as a coach who wonderfully recreates Bobby Knight's anger and temper tantrums while being charming enough to get players…
This is as dumb as it looks, but as a cute pastiche to Airplane! parodies, there are much MUCH worse things. I've TRIED to watch Mr. Magoo. I know. This is also coming from a guy who finds bright points in Spy Hard (Andy Griffith as a megalomaniac Bond villain is naturally funny to me), so use whatever grains of salt you take with your reviews... unless you need to lay off the salt. Take care of yourself.
It's all…
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence by way of Ansel Adams urban photography with the fall of the Roman Empire as so much of a metaphor for New York City that it might as well be a simile. Annihilation Sim City, dommy auntie Aubrey Plaza, Vestal Virgin: The Eras Tour, Shia Lebouf as Donald Trump presented in a similar way The Grand Budapest Hotel introduced the Nazis (Well, Jason Schwartzman and Roman Coppola were involved here), and at all times…
I've had an interesting ride on this movie. It was my favorite movie of 2011 before everything Billy Beane crumbled into dust after how much he played up his role in the book and movie, either by villainizing or reducing the role of people who were equally as responsible (The scouts were better contributers than portrayed, and having one of the statistical best starting rotations in history essentially means nothing in a movie about baseball statistics).
Watching it again, it's…
