A Sports movie that avoids a lot of the clichés

Rating: Null/10 (12 January 2012)

Yes, thats what it is - A Sports movie that avoids a lot of the clichés - and its good.
The IMDb official storyline says it all, thats the complete story.
Brad Pit, has grown up into a mature good actor, and he is very believable at the GM of a big team.
Jonah Hill was surprisingly good, in fact even more than Brad Pit. He has that subtleness that is normally seen in great actors like Tom Hanks.
And the cast is relatively large, and they have all been carefully chosen and in a movie like this it makes all the difference.
One thing I realized while seeing the movie was, its just a giant money making machine. The ball players are traded like animals. And there is lot from where they came. They are discarded at will.
They keep calling it romantic. Yes it is when we are watching it in a giant stadium with 50,000 people chanting and cheering, but when I see the behind the scenes, not so much.
Go see this movie for a more relatively realistic look at sports.
I saw this movies seeing its 8+ rating, and because of that I was a little disappointed.