Fever Pitch (movie) (2005)

Fever Pitch Wri: Lowell Ganz (based on screenplay and book by Nick Hornby); Dir: Farrelly Brothers Date: 1997   —   DVD product page Rating:

Ok, so I can't even make it up to 15 minutes without talking about what's wrong with this movie - so this is a live one. He's supposed to be obsessed with baseball, and so far every spare minute he has he's playing around with a football. WTF?

Rock climbing doesn't work that way. If someone is pulling you up the climbing wall with a rope, IT'S NOT CLIMBING NOW IS IT!?!? 

14mins 36secs, still super-lame.

What? Super-lameness continues - line about the protagonist (who has so far only had one tiny mention about baseball) : "something's not quite right." Yes. Because apparently this lady's special sports-team-obsession sense it tingling! Isn't it obvious?

Thank god. 21 minutes: finally getting better.

28:40 - lame again.

still lame.

not getting any unlamer.

Drew Barrymore says, "I've never really been good at servicing myself..." It wasn't supposed to be funny. BTW, it kinda looked like it was getting better, but it's still lame.

There's no real bonding. They don't bond. It's all just like they're reading off cue cards and trying not to pronounce any of the words wrong.

Still lame. 45:12. I can't believe there's an hour to go... :-(

It's so uphill and downhill. The gameday scenes are great. The scenes of the game being played and the atmosphere of the stadium crowd are very entertaining and lend a great feel to movie, but every non-game scene just totally loses it. The story's focus isn't in the right place.

Around and hour and it's starting to get better. Better now. Still has some lingering lameness occasionally.

They do a good job on the ending, but movie watchers just shouldn't have to sit through an hour to get something good.

It's got a cheery tone, which is not inherently a bad thing, but I think there needs to be more angst or anxiety around the protagonist to show the depths of his obsession. He doesn't sell it, and I don't buy it.

The soundtrack is good, but then you can't go wrong with songs about Boston. "Dirty Water" is an all-time favorite.

Only 2/5 stars

It's a phone-in. It had promise, but every time it showed through, the script would turn around and start talking about something else.