Fever Pitch

[hopeless]

Has anyone seen the movie yet? I saw it today & I thought it was a sweet & funny plot and how they involved the Red Soxs into it. It was that they filmed at Fenway & other areas of Boston. I didn't realize that the Farrelly Brothers directed it & Drew Barrymore is one of the producers as well. Definitely a good movie date, & it's weird I'm not that into baseball, but yet I liked it. Plus Jimmy Fallon cracks me up, so sweet & funny!!

[wordsmith]

I saw the trailer for this at a movie last night, and haven't had a chance yet to read the whole EW article, but I'm intrigued.

Mainly because it's a very loose adaptation of a Nick Hornby novel (he wrote High Fidelity and About a Boy, and other stuff that hasn't been adapted for film), the novel is about soccer, not baseball. When they made High Fidelity into a movie, it actually worked fine to switch the setting from London to Chicago, but still...it made no real changes other than that...it's practically word for word the book. I'm not sure about Fever Pitch in this regard. I love Nick Hornby, so I'm skeptical about "loose adaptations."

[mishl982]

Hehe the AOL City Guide guy was on the radio today and he gave it a "quadruple nay latte." He thought there wasn't any good reason to see this and that the movies that Jimmy Fallon (although great on SNL) plays in are sucky. But I guess you can decide for yourself :)

[wordsmith]

See, that's what I fear. I don't put Jimmy Fallon and the Farrellys in the same category (though admittedly funny in their own element) as Nick Hornby.

[LakeJay]

Yeah...I can't see myself watching this film for several reasons:
1. I'm a Yankees fan.
2. I can't stand Jimmy Fallon. I'm sure he's a nice guy and all but I just can't stand him. Even on SNL.
3. This movie was made already. I think it was made in the late 90's and Colin Firth stars in it. And it's based on soccer not baseball.
4. I'm a Yankees fan.

[Skulljockey]

Yankee's fan hm?

That must've been rough last year when the Red Sox made history.

Course you guys have the Red Sox best contributor don't you? Mariano Rivera.

So maybe it wasn't that hard when the Sox stepped on the Yankees to get to history - Was it.

[wordsmith]

3. This movie was made already. I think it was made in the late 90's and Colin Firth stars in it. And it's based on soccer not baseball.


Yup... and actually IS a NON-"loose adaptation" of the book.

[maxwell78]

3. This movie was made already. I think it was made in the late 90's and Colin Firth stars in it. And it's based on soccer not baseball.
Yeah it was. I love the movie. It's about an obsessed soccer fan in London that lives and dies with a team there called Arsenal. I have the book, but haven't gotten very far into it yet though. Pretty good so far, but I've developed quite a soccer habit over the last few years so that's probably why. :D

[LakeJay]

Yankee's fan hm?

That must've been rough last year when the Red Sox made history.

Course you guys have the Red Sox best contributor don't you? Mariano Rivera.

So maybe it wasn't that hard when the Sox stepped on the Yankees to get to history - Was it.

Thanks. I'm guessing you liked Fever Pitch?

[MetFanL]

I will not be seeing this movie. The fact that the Red Sox victory will forever be tarnished by allowing Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barymore on the field during the celebration is just not right.

[lawya girl]

I will not be seeing this movie. The fact that the Red Sox victory will forever be tarnished by allowing Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barymore on the field during the celebration is just not right.


You really think it's tarnished? I'll take it - tarnished or not! :)

[RockTheGlobe]

Ugh, another "interpretation" (translation: rip off) of a book that's already been made into a movie. Can't anyone come up with anything creative and original anymore?

I'll probably end up seeing it because I love Nick Hornby's stuff (as bad as I feel knowing that it's probably been perverted) and I'm a diehard Sox fan, but...

[Skulljockey]

Thanks. I'm guessing you liked Fever Pitch?


:)


I did actually. I'm a Cubs fan so other than the happy ending the movie could've been about me.

[MetFanL]

The Sports Guy on 'Fever Pitch' (http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/050420)

I was right to not see this movie... all the stuff that bugged him would have annoyed me, too.

[bostongirl]

the main reason I want to see this movie is the fact that they filmed a scene right outside my old place in Boston... and I want to see that scene... guess I should wait 'til it comes out on DVD... haha

[RockTheGlobe]

the main reason I want to see this movie is the fact that they filmed a scene right outside my old place in Boston... and I want to see that scene... guess I should wait 'til it comes out on DVD... haha

Where'd you used to live? I spent four years in Brookline.

[bostongirl]

Newbury Street ...
I lived in Brookline for awhile too, out on Beacon b/t Washington Sq. / Cleveland Circle

[RockTheGlobe]

I wasn't too far away from you! I used to live just off Beacon Street a few blocks east of Washington Square, and then I moved to Coolidge Corner.

You lived on Newbury Street? That's way cool. I had a friend who lived on Newbury down near Clarendon.

[aj030201]

Yeah...I can't see myself watching this film for several reasons:
1. I'm a Yankees fan.
2. I can't stand Jimmy Fallon. I'm sure he's a nice guy and all but I just can't stand him. Even on SNL.
3. This movie was made already. I think it was made in the late 90's and Colin Firth stars in it. And it's based on soccer not baseball.
4. I'm a Yankees fan.

I hear ya man, I'm a Cardinals fan and would never see this movie just based on that. Oh well, when you hear it from the Red Sox fans just bring up history, you guys have owned them for 90 years and the Cardinals have beat them in the WS 2 out of 3 times.

[Drufus]

This pretty much sums it up:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/050420