Romanticism & Capitalism

I'll be honest, I'm not a sports guy. Like, really not a sports guy. The only sport I really care about is swimming, and even then I only really follow it when the Olympics rears its head. I just never really enjoyed sports. Never really enjoyed playing it competitively, and never really enjoyed watching it. Sure, I'll go to a baseball game, but I'm not going for the actual game. I'm going to for the environment, to be with friends, and, not gonna lie, to enjoy a ballpark frank. Seriously, I don't know what they put in those things, but it's über addicting. It's like crack, if crack were a long, tubular, slab of beef.
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Anyway, I've enjoyed a pretty healthy relationship with sports movies over the years. I got all chocked up and inspired with Miracle, enjoyed Rocky immensely, and relived some Indiana pride with Hoosiers (I was born in Indy, so, you know...). But, I gotta say, the sports movies I've enjoyed the most are the ones that that push the sport to the sidelines and use it as a springboard to deal with more interesting things. I probably enjoyed Coach Carter a lot more than I should have because it didn't really deal with a basketball team's rise prominence so much as it dealt with one man's struggle to reform a group of kids in a community that would be happy to see them stay the way they are. The Fighter was amazing because it dealt chiefly with the relationship between Mickey and Dicky, and how boxing effected that relationship. Hell, even Glory Road, which is a film where the sport is center stage, takes time away to deal with race issues in NCAA basketball. These types of movies aren't just great sports movies, they are great movies in general. (Ok, maybe not Glory Road.) Moneyball is that type of movie. Moneyball is a great movie!

Sure could use some Cracker Jacks right about now.

Rub The Furry Wall

YES!!! We finally have a comedy worthy of standing in the halls of hysterical gold for 2010. After a slew of allegedly funny rom-coms, indecisive action-comedies, and stupid sex-comedies, we have Get Him to the Greek. If you may remember, a few weeks ago, I filed this one under the category of The Ones to Watch (With Reservations). I should have listened to Aiden from Cut The Crap, and gotten rid of the "(With Reservations)" part for this one, because, if there is a funnier movie this year, I will be seriously surprised! This is quite simply one of the funniest movies I've seen in a good while, one that single handedly rescues the Judd Apatow factory from the sinkhole it was falling into. Get Him to the Greek is crude, vulgar, disgusting, offensive, and immature as all holy hell! But since when is that a bad thing?

His stage presence is off the charts!