April 15, 2005
Fever Pitch
Fever Pitch (2005), The Farrelly Brothers:
So I didn't really plan on watching this, but Look at Me seemed so heavy and it did look pretty entertaining, which Mahnola Dargis pretty much said it was sublimely endearing, if not particularly good.
So I think without the 2004 season of the Red Sox, this movie probably wouldn't even be that endearing. Drew Barrymore still has a really great screen presence for some reason, though Jimmy Fallon should have, too, but besides a few moments, he's utterly dead on screen. It's a shame, too, because when they do click (I think for maybe two scenes), they're really great together.
The movie starts off terribly. The first twenty minutes, it sounded like they were acting in a warehouse, it seemed that dead, and the rest of the movie develops in stops and starts.
So what's notable? First and foremost, there's the Boston Red Sox. Not matter how gimmicky it might be, it's still pretty cool seeing them on the field after game four in St. Louis. There's an Ione Skye sighting, too.
6/15
Posted by bing at April 15, 2005 03:05 PM